The understanding and control of non-Hermitian phenomena is becoming every day more important. Here the authors establish the duality between non-Hermiticity and curved spaces. It unfolds a geometric root of non-Hermitian phenomena and provides a study and tailor non-Hermiticity … | Continue reading
Social-media impact, university rankings and online-aggregator metrics are broken — better ways to assess researchers are needed. | Continue reading
Certain acute infections (including SARS-CoV-2) are associated with an unexplained chronic disability in a minority of patients; this Review summarizes what is known about these understudied and complex illnesses. | Continue reading
Direct observation of the physical dual a.c. Josephson effect, a series of quantized current steps in a superconducting nanowire, is reported and may offer a way to establish new metrological standards for currents. | Continue reading
DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool has determined the structures of around 200 million proteins. | Continue reading
The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, or Danuri, has captivated scientists and the public. | Continue reading
DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool has determined the structures of around 200 million proteins, from almost every known organism on Earth. | Continue reading
The 2021 eruption in the Reykjanes Peninsula of Iceland was the first in 800 years and was supplied by melts from diverse mantle source domains with near-identical oxygen isotope ratios, providing a unique insight into the Icelandic mantle plume. | Continue reading
There have been many initiatives to combat the distorting effect of research assessment exercises. The latest looks like it might work | Continue reading
Archaeologists will increasingly have to rely on other techniques as emissions continue to alter the composition of carbon isotopes in air. | Continue reading
Archaeologists will increasingly have to rely on other techniques as emissions continue to alter the composition of carbon isotopes in air. | Continue reading
‘Data leakage’ threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn. | Continue reading
Global integrated reporting is essential if the planet is to achieve net-zero emissions. | Continue reading
Mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease show reduced, behaviourally driven gamma oscillations before the onset of plaque formation or cognitive decline; driving neurons to oscillate at gamma frequency (40 Hz) reduces levels of amyloid-β peptides. | Continue reading
Non-CO2 effects must be addressed for climate-neutral aviation but are currently ignored in international climate policies. The authors provide a framework with different definitions of climate neutrality, then show how technological and demand-side mitigation efforts can help to … | Continue reading
Nanophotonic biosensors exploit light’s properties to detect molecular interactions in real time at the point of need. | Continue reading
Andrin Caviezel runs alpine experiments to predict the destructive potential of tumbling rocks | Continue reading
The ability of aromas to bring back highly specific memories is becoming better understood, and could be used to boost and heal our brains. | Continue reading
Emissions data for different locations could help researchers to reduce the environmental cost of machine-learning experiments. | Continue reading
US scientists evaluate their options after failing to replicate record-setting experiment from 2021. | Continue reading
Catching an earlier version of SARS-CoV-2 — particularly Omicron — provides some immunity against the two fast-spreading lineages. | Continue reading
Ultraviolet radiation exerts differential effects in men and women. Parikh et al. reveal that solar exposure on the skin triggers food-seeking behaviour in males, but not females, through a mechanism dependent on ghrelin secretion from skin adipocytes. | Continue reading
The friar’s experiments laid the groundwork for genetics — and his understated approach to his work is inspirational. | Continue reading
As the physicist’s collected papers reach volume 15, Andrew Robinson sifts through the quotes attributed to him. | Continue reading
The maritime shipping industry is heavily energy-consuming and highly polluting, and, as such, is urgently seeking low-emission options. Here the authors examine the feasibility of battery-electric ships and show that the battery price declines could facilitate the electrificatio … | Continue reading
The European Gaia mission’s ever-improving catalogue has become astronomers’ standard reference for the Galaxy. | Continue reading
Analysis of the pulse profile of a fast radio burst showed sub-second periodicity, providing evidence for a neutron-star origin of the event and favouring emission arising from the magnetosphere. | Continue reading
People use roughly 50,000 plants and animals for food and income, but scientists say the estimate is conservative. | Continue reading
Making Bohmian mechanics fully compatible with special relativity is still an ongoing challenge. Here, the authors make a further step in this direction by providing a way of constructing the relativistic Bohmian-type velocity field of single photons which is operationally based … | Continue reading
With the United Kingdom ever more likely to leave the European Union's science-funding programmes, we look at the alternative. | Continue reading
A group including Native Hawaiians will now manage the mountain Maunakea, where Indigenous rights and astronomy have collided. | Continue reading
Non-reciprocal interactions in groups of starfish embryos. | Continue reading
Charity failed to provide adequate vaccines for the global south. Now, 15 countries are seeing whether an open-science model can end a dangerous legacy of dependency. | Continue reading
Schmidt Futures is creating the US$40-million Virtual Institute of Scientific Software to fund the maintenance of researcher-written code. | Continue reading
Topological insulator nanowires are interesting because, in the presence of superconductivity, they may host elusive Majorana fermions. Here, superconductivity in (Bi1−xSbx)2Te3 topological-insulator nanowires is realized by using palladium diffusion, providing a tunable platform … | Continue reading
Schmidt Futures is creating the US$40-million Virtual Institute of Scientific Software to fund the maintenance of researcher-written code. | Continue reading
The widespread disappearance of siliceous life sustained extreme temperatures in the wake of Earth’s most severe mass extinction event. | Continue reading
Science is riddled with stories of getting scooped, data glitches and funding crises. Five researchers share stories of how they rallied. | Continue reading