The discoveries could guide a new era of lunar exploration. | Continue reading
Sex-stratified medicine is an important and understudied field. Here the authors investigate in a systematic study of the Danish population differences in incidence, risk, and several aspects of diagnoses between sexes and find differences across all areas of disease. | Continue reading
The surprise finding that neurogenesis drops in diseased brains could throw open a new route to therapies. | Continue reading
Evelyn Lamb enjoys a rich study on number-crunching and its ubiquitous fruit. | Continue reading
Genetic studies of today’s tea plants are providing clues to how the plant was first domesticated. | Continue reading
Laser and particle system produces three-dimensional moving images that appear to float in thin air. | Continue reading
NASA mission finds asteroid Bennu littered with big boulders and spraying out particles. | Continue reading
White House policy will require universities to certify that they protect free speech to remain eligible for research funding. | Continue reading
White House policy will require universities to certify that they protect free speech to remain eligible for research funding. | Continue reading
Researchers are hijacking the cell’s protein-disposal system in the fight against Alzheimer’s and intractable cancers. | Continue reading
Researchers are hijacking the cell’s protein-disposal system in the fight against Alzheimer’s and intractable cancers. | Continue reading
The technique could help boys made infertile by cancer treatment to become fathers later in life. | Continue reading
Researchers are reaping the benefits of carefully built programmes and a surge in funding. | Continue reading
Belief in moralizing gods followed the expansion of human societies and may have been preceded by doctrinal rituals that contributed to the initial rise of social complexity. | Continue reading
A set of 355 self-assembling DNA ‘tiles’ can be reprogrammed to implement many different computer algorithms—including sorting, palindrome testing and divisibility by three—suggesting that molecular self-assembly could be a reliable algorithmic component in programmable chemical … | Continue reading
The primary causes of dramatic variations in volcanic flux and composition along strike in subduction zones remain largely unknown. Here we use a promising new approach to show that along-strike volcanic variability in the Quaternary Cascades Arc is primarily due to variations in … | Continue reading
The nation’s energy ministry expressed ‘deep regret’, and said it would dismantle the experimental plant. | Continue reading
Outflows of matter from the heart of the Milky Way. | Continue reading
The vast gender gap in Japanese science has leading women researchers calling for change. | Continue reading
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects. | Continue reading
A desperate plan to fight a citrus scourge has public-health advocates and scientists concerned. | Continue reading
To perform complex tasks, robots need to learn the relationship between their bodies and dynamic environments. A biologically plausible approach to hardware and software design shows that a robotic tendon-driven limb can make effective movements based on a short period of learnin … | Continue reading
Armoured ‘footballs‘ can be coaxed into cylinder and dumbbell shapes. | Continue reading
Software that uncovers suspicious papers will do little for a community that does not confront organized research fraud, says Jennifer Byrne. | Continue reading
‘Clean meat’ firms have drawn tens of millions of dollars in investment in recent years, but technical hurdles remain. | Continue reading
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals. | Continue reading
Analysing plant–pollinator interactions across all major land use classes in four cities, the authors show that residential gardens and community gardens are urban pollinator hotspots, with pollinator abundance positively associated with household income. | Continue reading
Scientific research on consciousness is critical to multiple scientific, clinical, and ethical issues. The growth of the field could also be beneficial to several areas including neurology and mental health research. To achieve this goal, we need to set funding priorities careful … | Continue reading
The once-wild idea that intestinal bacteria influence mental health has transformed into a major research pursuit. | Continue reading
Intense controversies surround studies of how many people perish in conflicts and disasters, but researchers are developing new ways to measure mortality rates. | Continue reading
Using precise distances to more than 1,300 classical Cepheids, Chen et al. have traced the warp of the Milky Way’s stellar disk to beyond 20 kpc. The Galaxy’s warp likely arose due to the torques exerted by its massive inner disk. | Continue reading
Our inventory of the molecular universe is continually progressing. Our understanding of the astrochemistry behind it will flourish if we are mindful of funding experimental and theoretical efforts as well as observational. | Continue reading
Scientific publishing is increasingly adopting the technology underlying cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know. | Continue reading
Tripling the yield in direct-drive laser fusion. | Continue reading
Temporal control over self-assembly processes is a desirable trait for discovering adaptable and controllable materials. Here the authors show that a chemical fuel driven system can not only self-assemble in a controlled manner, but can also result in precise control over the ass … | Continue reading
Rather than building objects layer by layer, the method creates whole structures by projecting images onto a resin that solidifies. | Continue reading
GWAS have previously found 24 genomic loci associated with chronotype, an individual’s preference for early or late sleep timing. Here, the authors identify 327 additional loci in a sample of 697,828 individuals and further explore the relationships of chronotype with metabolic a … | Continue reading
The iconic arrangement of elements assembled 150 years ago is about the future of chemistry as well as its past. | Continue reading
Revised dating information illuminates the excavations of Denisova Cave. | Continue reading