Loss of the protein OTX2 drives reproductive-cell fate. | Continue reading
Draft proposal permits gene-editing tools for research into early human development. | Continue reading
For the first time, the World Health Organization will recognize traditional medicine in its influential global medical compendium. | Continue reading
The University of Pisa and the European Research Council say they are also opening investigations into Alessandro Strumia’s conduct. | Continue reading
Graphics processing units aren’t just of interest to gamers and cryptocurrency miners. Increasingly, they’re being used to turbocharge academic research, too. | Continue reading
Donna Strickland, Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin share the prize for their work using beams of light to manipulate objects. | Continue reading
The object never gets closer to the Sun than 65 times the Earth–Sun distance. | Continue reading
Climate deterioration towards desertification in North Africa following the African Humid Period has previously been associated with the emergence of pastoralism. Here, using a climate-vegetation model, the authors show that pastoralism in fact likely slowed the deterioration of … | Continue reading
All sixteen qubits in an IBM Q cloud quantum computer can be fully entangled, a prerequisite for exploiting its quantum computational power. Entanglement is one of the resources that lead to quantum algorithms’ advantages over their classical counterparts. However, even when usin … | Continue reading
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough. | Continue reading
The immune system can be a powerful weapon against cancer — but researchers are still grappling with how to control it. | Continue reading
James Allison is enlisting the body’s own defenses to fight tumours. | Continue reading
Quantum mechanics is expected to provide a consistent description of reality, even when recursively describing systems contained in each other. Here, the authors develop a variant of Wigner’s friend Gedankenexperiment where each of the current interpretations of QM fails in givin … | Continue reading
Dull talks at conferences can feel interminable. | Continue reading
Investigation turns up evidence of misconduct in publications from troubled French laboratory. | Continue reading
With six months to go, uncertainty posed by the decision to leave the European Union is taking its toll. | Continue reading
A researcher explains how — and why — he spent a whole summer harvesting information from the platform, which is notoriously hard to mine. | Continue reading
Confusion about mesenchymal stem cells is making it easier for people to sell unproven treatments, warn Douglas Sipp, Pamela G. Robey and Leigh Turner. | Continue reading
Neural networks trained on data from about 130,000 aftershocks from around 100 large earthquakes improve predictions of the spatial distribution of aftershocks and suggest physical quantities that may control earthquake triggering. | Continue reading
In a mouse model of tau-dependent neurodegenerative disease, the clearance of senescent glial cells prevents the degeneration of cortical and hippocampal neurons and preserves cognitive function. | Continue reading
Seven researchers and campaigners tell Nature how Britain’s break-up with the EU is affecting research | Continue reading
Complete population collapse of malaria vector Anopheles gambiae in cages is achieved using a gene drive that targets doublesex. | Continue reading
In a human subject with chronic paraplegia, a combination of epidural electrical stimulation and long-term rehabilitative training have culminated in the first report of unassisted, voluntary independent stepping in a paralyzed individual. | Continue reading
Molluscs’ reaction to popular party drug echoes humans’ response. | Continue reading
Exclusive: Document shows that the astronomer toned down the claims that triggered science history’s most infamous battle — then lied about his edits. | Continue reading
In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim. | Continue reading
Fossils of ancient sea creatures answer a long-standing question about how animals became bigger and more complex. | Continue reading
Researchers from these continents are three to four times more likely to experience visa problems when travelling for work than are Europeans and Americans. | Continue reading
How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience. | Continue reading
Bones and artefacts suggest that kids laboured at skilled tasks thousands of years ago. | Continue reading
Water drops placed at rest on flat, hot solids are found to rotate and spontaneously propel themselves in the direction of their rotation. The effect is due to symmetry breaking of the flow inside the drop, which couples rotation to translation. | Continue reading
To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years. | Continue reading
A decade on from a worldwide financial meltdown, economics teaching is still stuck in the past, warns Maeve Cohen. | Continue reading
Nature talks to Rick Luettich, whose team in North Carolina is busy trying to predict the impacts of a powerful — and unusual — tempest. | Continue reading
Machine learning supports 20-year-old theory of bizarre electron behaviour in high-temperature superconductor. | Continue reading
A strategy developed to define off-target effects of gene-editing nucleases in whole organisms is validated and leveraged to show that CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases can be used effectively in vivo without inducing detectable off-target mutations. | Continue reading
Cross-hatched crayon on a rock shard suggests early humans indulged in abstract art. | Continue reading
Realisation of large-scale quantum computation requires both error correction capability and a large number of qubits. Here, the authors propose to use a CMOS-compatible architecture featuring a spin qubit surface code and individual qubit control via floating memory gate electro … | Continue reading