Graphene-integrated photonics is a platform for wafer-scale manufacturing of modulators, detectors and switches for next-generation datacom and telecom systems. This Review describes how these functions can be achieved with graphene layers placed on top of optical waveguides, act … | Continue reading
A global model finds that the environmental impacts of the food system could increase by 60–90% by 2050, and that dietary changes, improvements in technologies and management, and reductions in food loss and waste will all be needed to mitigate these impacts. | Continue reading
Deep phenotype and genome-wide genetic data from 500,000 individuals from the UK Biobank, describing population structure and relatedness in the cohort, and imputation to increase the number of testable variants to 96 million. | Continue reading
Advances in law enforcement and consumer genetics databases raise pressing privacy issues. | Continue reading
Manipulating the properties of artificial graphene systems without changing the lattice has proven difficult. Here, Mann et al. theoretically show that changing the photonic environment alone can modify the fundamental properties of emergent massless Dirac polaritons in honeycomb … | Continue reading
A benchtop system for protein synthesis achieves purity and potency comparable to those of marketed drugs. | Continue reading
Advanced version of an optical gyroscope cuts noise from scattered light. | Continue reading
Perovskite LEDs that efficiently convert electrons into light. | Continue reading
Appeals court upholds earlier ruling that the government is accountable for efforts to combat global warming. | Continue reading
Availability of intense hard X-ray pulses allows exploration of multiple ionization effects in heavier elements. Here, the authors measure the complex charge state distributions of xenon and found a reasonable agreement by comparing with the model including the relativistic and r … | Continue reading
Beth Fowkes Tobin applauds a book on Martin Lister and his brilliant daughters Anna and Susanna. | Continue reading
A malfunctioning gyroscope has temporarily hobbled the aging space observatory. | Continue reading
Viral-mediated base editing in utero enables therapeutic editing of two metabolic genes in mice. | Continue reading
Neutron and X-ray scattering studies combined with first-principles calculations suggest that the large, liquid-like ionic mobility in the canonical superionic crystal CuCrSe2 is due to anharmonic phonon dynamics. | Continue reading
Integrating an optical Kerr frequency comb source with an electronically excited laser pump produces a battery-powered comb generator that does not require external lasers, moveable optics or laboratory set-ups. | Continue reading
A biocompatible device built from naturally dissolving components and controlled by wireless technology enables programmable electrical stimulation of injured rodent peripheral nerves to accelerate regeneration and recovery. | Continue reading
The placement of nanomaterials at predefined locations is a key requirement for their integration in nanoelectronic devices. Here, the authors devise a method allowing placement of solution-based nanomaterials by using structured graphene layers as deposition sites with the aid o … | Continue reading
A protocol for analysing commercially available graphene. | Continue reading
The 21-cm absorption profile is detected in the sky-averaged radio spectrum, but is much stronger than predicted, suggesting that the primordial gas might have been cooler than predicted. | Continue reading
Miniature instruments could help the European Union determine whether nations are meeting pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. | Continue reading
Researchers suggest tilting scatter plots by 45 degrees to make the viewer question assumptions about correlation. | Continue reading
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