Bounty includes second known example of a repeating burst. | Continue reading
Analysis of electrocardiograms using an end-to-end deep learning approach can detect and classify cardiac arrhythmia with high accuracy, similar to that of cardiologists. | Continue reading
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified at least eight planets, including a world with a mass more than 20 times that of Earth. | Continue reading
A phosphorus dopant qubit is positioned within a vertically gated single-electron transistor with <5 nm alignment precision and its spin is read with 97.9% fidelity. | Continue reading
Most machine learning approaches extract statistical features from data, rather than the underlying causal mechanisms. A different approach analyses information in a general way by extracting recursive patterns from data using generative models under the paradigm of computability … | Continue reading
Evidence of a limitation in certain machine-learning algorithms. | Continue reading
Deep-learning algorithm helps to diagnose conditions that aren’t readily apparent to doctors or researchers. | Continue reading
Hallucinations can occur in both healthy individuals and patients with psychiatric disorders. Garrison et al. here report that specific brain morphology differences in the paracingulate sulcus (PCS) can determine the occurrence of hallucinations in schizophrenia, irrespective of … | Continue reading
Expert presenters share advice on how to capture and hold the attention of a conference crowd. | Continue reading
LIGO’s Asian cousin will this year deploy ambitious technology to improve sensitivity in the search for these faint, cosmic ripples — but its biggest enemy could be snowmelt. | Continue reading
The scientific community’s response to the CRISPR twins should not pre-empt broader discussion across society, warns J. Benjamin Hurlbut. | Continue reading
Continuous-time computation paradigm could represent a viable alternative to the standard digital one when dealing with certain classes of problems. Here, the authors propose a generalised version of a continuous-time solver and simulate its performances in solving MaxSAT and two … | Continue reading
Detailed structures of a GABA receptor bound to different ligands. | Continue reading
Misaligned stacks of the wonder material exhibit superconductivity and other curious properties. | Continue reading
Latest images snapped by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal the contours of ‘Ultima Thule’ — the space rock 2014 MU69. | Continue reading
Genetic imprint from traumatic experiences carries through at least two generations. | Continue reading
California’s worst wildfires, cloned monkey twins, the world’s smallest house and more. | Continue reading
With sources of renewable energy spreading fast, all sectors can do more to decarbonize the world, argue Christiana Figueres and colleagues. | Continue reading
Stimulation of angiogenesis after stroke is not always an effective therapy. An injectable hydrogel with pro-angiogenic and immune-modulating factors is now shown to support blood vessel, axonal and functional recovery following stroke. | Continue reading
Developing new technologies for the neuromodulation of the vagus nerve can enable therapeutic strategies for body weight control in obese patients. Here, the authors present a battery-free self-powered implantable vagus nerve stimulation system that electrically responds to stoma … | Continue reading
Gene-editing, open access and a biosafety rethink are set to shape research. | Continue reading
Global production of scientific papers hit an all-time high in 2018, with emerging economies rising fastest. | Continue reading
Discovery of a brain adaptation underlying compulsive behaviour in mice. | Continue reading
Japanese science committee questions the project’s multi-billion-dollar price tag — but decision rests with the government. | Continue reading
High-pressure hydrogen materials could be a step towards a new era of superconductivity. | Continue reading
A quark–gluon plasma is produced in proton–gold, deuteron–gold and helium–gold collisions. Observing elliptic and triangular flow in this nearly inviscid fluid from these different initial geometries provides a unique benchmark for hydrodynamic models. | Continue reading
Randomly informing people that they had a high or low genetic risk of obesity changed their gene-related physiology and subjective experience in a manner consistent with the perceived risk, regardless of their actual genetic risk of obesity. | Continue reading
Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Picks include a rogue gene-editor, a wunderkind physicist and a DNA detective who helped catch a serial killer. | Continue reading
Wildfires, cosmic rays and ancient-human hybrids are some of this year’s top stories. | Continue reading
Computer-aided systems are helping researchers to create genetic circuits to order. | Continue reading
The attention received by cultural products—including scientific papers, patents, songs, movies and biographies—decays following a biexponential function, suggesting that collective memory follows a universal pattern. | Continue reading
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