PINK1 and parkin proteins prevent inflammation caused by mitochondria. | Continue reading
The therapy has been shown to improve symptoms of the condition in monkeys. | Continue reading
Programmable quantum simulation based on superconducting qubits. | Continue reading
Peer reviewers should not feel pressured to produce a report if key data are missing. | Continue reading
Genomic evidence of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father suggests that mixing among different hominin groups may have more been frequent than previously appreciated. | Continue reading
Device models quantum behaviour faster than ordinary computers, as predicted by Richard Feynman. | Continue reading
Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans. | Continue reading
The latest United Nations review leaves no doubt, countries need to step up efforts and act fast if they want to achieve the Global Goals by 2030. | Continue reading
The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. | Continue reading
Though memristors can potentially emulate neuron and synapse functionality, useful signal energy is lost to Joule heating. Here, the authors demonstrate neuro-transistors with a pseudo-memcapacitive gate that actively process signals via energy-efficient capacitively-coupled neur … | Continue reading
Manipulation of the transcription factor OsGRF4 can improve the efficiency with which some high-yielding cereal crops use nitrogen. This discovery has implications for sustainable agriculture. | Continue reading
The physical conditions that support a geometric interpretation of spacetime, such as the equivalence between rest and inertial mass, are shown not to be necessarily valid in the quantum regime, and a quantum formulation is provided. | Continue reading
An online search tool is developed to look for candidate materials by exploring chosen graphical patterns in their electronic band structure from a database. A team led by Alexander V. Balatsky from Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University present an on … | Continue reading
Change the funding system and approaches to international partnerships for US-led big science projects, urge Matt Mountain and Adam Cohen. | Continue reading
Permafrost carbon feedback modeling has focused on gradual thaw of near-surface permafrost leading to greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate climate change. Here the authors show that deeper, abrupt thaw beneath lakes will more than double radiative forcing from permafrost-soil … | Continue reading
Agent-based modelling offers opportunities to explore the complex social interactions at the heart of the addiction crisis. | Continue reading
Genome-wide polygenic risk scores derived from GWAS data for five common diseases can identify subgroups of the population with risk approaching or exceeding that of a monogenic mutation. | Continue reading
Contact with just one antibody molecule regulates current flow through a transistor. | Continue reading
Accurate near-term predictions of global temperatures are required to determine some of the key impacts of climate change. Here the authors develop a novel probabilistic forecast system that shows anomalously warm temperatures for the next years with increased risk of extreme war … | Continue reading
Researchers had high hopes for patient-derived xenografts. Now they are contending with limitations in the clinic and the lab. | Continue reading
Researchers have identified a molecule that increases plant growth while reducing the need for nitrogen. | Continue reading
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach. | Continue reading
Live-cell imaging reveals that type IV competence pili from naturally competent Vibrio cholerae are dynamic structures that bind to exogenous DNA via their tips. Pilus retraction pulls DNA to the cell surface and across the outer membrane to initiate DNA uptake. | Continue reading
Loneliness markedly increases mortality and morbidity, yet the factors triggering loneliness remain largely unknown. This study shows that sleep loss leads to a neurobehavioral phenotype of human social separation and loneliness, one that is transmittable to non-sleep-deprived in … | Continue reading
Obtaining dynamic information on atmospheric aerosol particle size and morphology is typically challenging. Here, the authors introduce holographic imaging of unsupported aerosol particles in air that are spatially confined by optical traps, allowing contact free observation over … | Continue reading
The world’s most powerful particle collider has yet to turn up new physics — now some physicists are turning to a different strategy. | Continue reading
Critics outraged over changes to chemical-safety review guidelines. | Continue reading
The polyoxoanion [P2W18O62]6− has been shown to reversibly accept up to 18 electrons upon reduction in aqueous solution. The resulting highly reduced solution can then be used either for the on-demand generation of hydrogen over a catalyst bed, or as a high-energy-density electro … | Continue reading
Analysis from global fisheries and the Brazilian Amazon elaborates the links between financial flows through tax havens and environmental degradation. | Continue reading
Long-term selective breeding has produced strains of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with different behaviours. Here, the authors sequence the genomes of tame and aggressive strains to uncover the genetic regions that have responded to selection for behaviour. | Continue reading
The isolated nation publishes less than 100 scholarly articles a year — but as political tensions ease, researchers hope for greater collaboration. | Continue reading
Holonomic quantum gates represent a promising route to noise-tolerant quantum operations. Here, the authors use polarised microwaves to implement nonadiabatic holonomic quantum gates at room temperature and zero magnetic field on NV centers, both on single-qubit and between elect … | Continue reading
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to unsolvable calculations in quantum physics. | Continue reading
The synthetic biology era has seen a rapidly growing number of engineered DNA sequences. Here, the authors develop a deep learning method to predict the lab-of-origin of a DNA sequence based on hidden design signatures. | Continue reading
A target of this review is soft 2D nanoarchitectonics because scientific views on soft 2D nanomaterials are not fully established as compared with rigid 2D materials. The presented examples are selected according to the following three categories on the basis of 2D spatial densit … | Continue reading
Multiple nanotechnologies are integrated on a single chip to realize a three-dimensional integrated circuit architecture that combines computing and data storage—a potentially transformative advance in computing. | Continue reading
Genome-editing technique enables researchers to trace lineage of cells in developing mice. | Continue reading
A universal vaccine might be some way off, but research into how the immune system responds to the virus will be crucial to achieving that goal. | Continue reading
Researchers provide more evidence for their landmark claim that gene editing rid embryos of a disease mutation — but scientists are still arguing over the results. | Continue reading
Economy-wide GHG emissions reductions may negatively affect food security. Stringent mitigation policies, modelled as carbon prices, are shown to lead to an increase in production costs, food prices and the population’s risk of hunger. | Continue reading
Ilya Kuzovkin et al. compare intracranial depth recordings from human subjects taken during a visual recognition task to activations of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). They find that signals in gamma frequency bands in the recordings are aligned with the hierarchical … | Continue reading