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
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
The energy-efficiency drive at the information factories that serve us Facebook, Google and Bitcoin. | Continue reading
S. Alexander Haslam enjoys the tale of how a questionable personality quiz went global. | Continue reading
Henning Schmidgen praises a tome on Helmholtz, titan of nineteenth-century science. | Continue reading
Rates of radiative heat transfer between sub-wavelength planar membranes are experimentally and theoretically shown to exceed the blackbody limit in the far field by more than two orders of magnitude. | Continue reading
Team from the University of California, Berkeley, loses appeal over coveted gene-editing technology. | Continue reading
Mood state changes are decoded using human neural activity data from electrodes implanted in seven epilepsy patients. | Continue reading
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Maps of Jupiter’s magnetic field probe the planet’s interior. | Continue reading
Maps of Jupiter’s internal magnetic field at a range of depths reveal an unusual morphology, suggesting that Jupiter’s dynamo, unlike Earth’s, does not operate in a thick, homogeneous shell. | Continue reading
Zombie satellites, rocket shards and collision debris are creating major traffic risks in orbits around the planet. Researchers are working to reduce the threats posed by more than 20,000 objects in space. | Continue reading
Two methods for sorting atoms into arbitrary 3D arrangements. | Continue reading
A fully programmable two-qubit quantum processor with more than 200 components is demonstrated by using silicon photonic circuits. A two-qubit quantum approximate optimization algorithm and simulation of Szegedy quantum walks are implemented. | Continue reading
The ways in which lost vision might be restored are coming into focus as researchers move closer to recreating the eye’s most complex structure — the retina — in the laboratory. | Continue reading
Brain networks are characterized by nodes and hubs that determine information flow within and between areas. Bertolero et al. show that task-driven changes to hub and node connectivity increase modularity and improve cognitive performance. | Continue reading
European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free to read. | Continue reading
Polish codebreakers paved the way for Alan Turing to decrypt German messages in the Second World War. Joanne Baker commends a gripping tale. | Continue reading
Philip Ball revisits a book that crystallized key concepts in modern molecular biology. | Continue reading