A fully connected quantum network is demonstrated in which one source of entangled photons distributes quantum states to four users, with the potential for many more users to be added. | Continue reading
Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy. | Continue reading
Gene therapy could one day be used for bodily enhancement, creating an ethical minefield for physicians, says Ellen Wright Clayton. | Continue reading
Mark Buchanan savours a study of the social effects that boost fame and recognition. | Continue reading
A therapy used until 1985 causes amyloid-β accumulation in mice brains. | Continue reading
Mouse tests confirm that sticky proteins associated with degenerative brain diseases can be transferred — but researchers say risks for humans are likely to be minimal. | Continue reading
Gene variants acquired through interbreeding give some people more elongated brains. | Continue reading
Gene targeted for its role in HIV is linked to increased severity of other infectious diseases — and could affect learning in mice. | Continue reading
Sea ice was thinner in late 2017 and much of 2018 than at any time in the last 30 years, while wild reindeer and caribou populations continue to decline. | Continue reading
A gel with therapeutic nanoformulation that can be sprayed at the tumour resection site after surgery activates immune response in the tissue microenviroment, inhibiting tumour recurrence and potential metastasis. | Continue reading
Studying the genetic underpinnings of physical activity and sleep duration can be confounded by self-reporting. Here, Doherty et al. use data from 91,105 UK Biobank participants, whose activity had been monitored for a week by a wearable device, for genome-wide association analys … | Continue reading
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet’s temperature. | Continue reading
Efforts to trace contacts of people with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been hampered by mistrust in conflict-ridden outbreak zone. | Continue reading
Second of NASA's epic long-distance probes sails beyond the Sun's influence. | Continue reading
Scientists are starting to piece together the evolution of a mysterious early human after a 20-year excavation. | Continue reading
Genetic circuits are important for synthetic biology, biochemistry and bioengineering. Now, the encapsulation of genetic circuits into liposomes has been shown to enable a more modular design, the selective isolation of reactions from the environment and from each other, and the … | Continue reading
Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor. | Continue reading
Complex imaging systems like super-resolution microscopes currently require laborious parameter optimization before imaging. Here, the authors present an imaging optimization framework based on machine learning that performs simultaneous parameter optimization to simplify this pr … | Continue reading
Lawsuits in India and Argentina seek to reduce drug costs by allowing generic versions of antiviral treatments. | Continue reading
Viral hepatitis is on the rise. Tackling hepatitis B in Africa is key to fighting back. | Continue reading
Vast ice sheet's dramatic transformation revealed by ice cores, satellite data and climate models. | Continue reading
Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to tear down journal paywalls — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt its policies. | Continue reading
Anemia has a global prevalence of over 2 billion people and is diagnosed via blood-based laboratory test. Here the authors describe a smartphone app that can estimate hemoglobin levels and detect anemia by analyzing pictures of fingernail beds taken with a smartphone and without … | Continue reading
Misleading terminology and arbitrary divisions stymie drug trials and can give false hope about the potential of tailoring drugs to individuals, warns Stephen Senn. | Continue reading
Early-life complications modulate the association of genomic risk and schizophrenia. | Continue reading
Iran’s capital city, home to 13 million people, is irreversibly sinking by 0.25 metres each year. | Continue reading
Auxeticity in synthetic materials is realised by geometrical design of porous structures rather than on a molecular level. Here the authors demonstrate auxeticity in a non-porous liquid crystal elastomer overcoming porosity related weakening of the material and opening a pathway … | Continue reading
While successful mentors tend to train successful students in academic career, it’s unclear how mentorship determines chances of a success in a trainee. Here, Liénard and colleagues analyze approximately 20 K mentor/trainee relationships in life sciences, and find that success of … | Continue reading
Startling human-genome editing claim leaves many open questions, from He Jiankui's next move to the future of the field. | Continue reading
The discovery pushes back the evidence of hominins in Algeria by 600,000 years, and suggests tool use arose in different parts of Africa independently. | Continue reading
Supersonic particle impacts can cause permanent damage to space vehicles and satellites, but how exactly remains unclear. Here, the authors visualise for the first time the high impact of single tin microparticles on a tin substrate and show erosion of ductile metallic materials … | Continue reading
Silicon-based contaminants are ubiquitous in natural graphite, and they are thus expected to be present in exfoliated graphene. Here, the authors show that such impurities play a non-negligible role in graphene-based devices, and use high-purity parent graphite to boost the perfo … | Continue reading
Using a double-aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope, intercalation of lithium between two graphene sheets is found to produce a dense, multilayer lithium phase, rather than the expected single layer. | Continue reading
He Jiankui gives talk about controversial genome-edited baby claim, but ethical questions remain. | Continue reading
Spatially resolved rotation of hot gas in a quasar. | Continue reading
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet’s temperature. | Continue reading
Herman et al. exploit the reliable effects of perturbing superior colliculus (SC) neuronal activity on perceptual choice behavior to demonstrate a plausible mechanism by which SC may contribute to perceptual judgments during covert attention tasks. | Continue reading
The gene for the amyloid precursor protein (APP) shows somatic gene recombination in neurons, and the abundance and diversity of APP variants is increased in neurons from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. | Continue reading
A crumpled sheet of paper is a common image in many contexts but crumpling dynamics are considered a complex problem. Using Mylar sheets the authors experimentally show that the evolution of the damage network in crumpling dynamics is largely history independent and the accumulat … | Continue reading
The startling announcement by a Chinese scientist represents a controversial leap in the use of genome-editing. | Continue reading
This perspective presents a primer on deep learning applications for the genomics field. It includes a general guide for how to use deep learning and describes the current tools and resources that are available to the community. | Continue reading
A transport study of overdoped cuprates reveals a resistivity that is linear as the temperature approaches 0 K, and is associated with a universal scattering rate. | Continue reading