After a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, US biosecurity board revisits policies governing risky pathogen experiments. | Continue reading
Using a technique to block certain wavelengths of light, researchers hope to discover many more hidden pulsars. | Continue reading
Closed networks and ingrained biases can make women’s collaborations a balancing act. | Continue reading
To navigate the long road to net zero, energy researchers must grapple with the lessons of history. | Continue reading
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Creative thinking suffers online but it’s not all bad news for working from home. | Continue reading
Preclinical data and results from a phase 1 and 2 trial demonstrate preliminary safety and efficacy of topical gene therapy for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa | Continue reading
NASA and the German space agency ground the telescope on a plane, citing the astronomy community’s concerns over cost and productivity. | Continue reading
It is difficult to achieve spatiotemporal control over chemical cascade reactions. Here, the authors report on the generation of transient domains in an aqueous medium using sound induced liquid vibrations allowing for control of chemical gradients and patterns and use this to pa … | Continue reading
The endosymbiotic theory posits that chloroplasts in eukaryotes arise from bacterial endosymbionts. Here, the authors engineer the yeast/cyanobacteria chimeras and show that the engineered cyanobacteria perform chloroplast-like functions to support the growth of yeast cells under … | Continue reading
An analysis of spatial navigation in nearly 400,000 people shows, by measuring their performance in a video game, that individuals who grew up outside cities are better at navigation than those who grew up in cities. | Continue reading
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will be the first to produce and analyse hundreds of isotopes crucial to physics. | Continue reading
Data from more than 18,000 canines show that pedigree is not destiny. | Continue reading
All DNA/RNA nucleobases were identified in carbonaceous meteorites. Having been provided to the early Earth as a component in carbonaceous meteorites, these molecules might have played a role for the emergence of genetic functions in early life. | Continue reading
Hundreds of white-tailed deer in North America have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Here’s why scientists aren’t panicking, yet. | Continue reading
Videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas, but videoconferencing groups are as effective as (or perhaps even more effective than) in-person groups at deciding which ideas to pursue. | Continue reading
A comparison of the energetics of jumping between biological and engineered systems shows that engineered systems can greatly increase energy limits using the process of work multiplication, and this analysis leads to the demonstration of a 30-centimetre device jumping over 30 me … | Continue reading
Evolution of mathematics traced using unusually comprehensive genealogy database. | Continue reading
The subject has a history in heavy industry and fossil fuels, but teachers should focus on sustainability and climate science. | Continue reading
Videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas, but videoconferencing groups are as effective as (or perhaps even more effective than) in-person groups at deciding which ideas to pursue. | Continue reading
Hundreds of white-tailed deer in North America have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Here’s why scientists aren’t panicking, yet. | Continue reading
Geographer Gregor Luetzenburg uses the latest iPhone’s LiDAR scanner to create 3D models of cliff surfaces. | Continue reading
Rather than excitement, the discovery of the species set off a Latin American movement to stop colonial palaeontology. | Continue reading
Largest-ever study uncovers patterns of mutations that might pinpoint cancer’s causes. | Continue reading
A microscopic robotic device is remotely controlled in two dimensions in all three degrees of freedom independently by the interaction between unfocused light and four plasmonic nanoantennas. | Continue reading
Largest-ever study uncovers patterns of mutations that might pinpoint cancer’s causes. | Continue reading
Experiments in animals show that boosters customized for the fast-spreading COVID variant offer little advantage over standard jabs. | Continue reading
In this Review, the authors describe our current knowledge of the consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the urogenital system, discussing urological symptoms and damage to organs of the genitourinary tract induced by COVID-19 infection. Moreover, the effects of COVID-19 on male … | Continue reading
Health authorities in the dark as warnings go untranslated | Continue reading
A satellite will scour the Milky Way for exoplanets orbiting stars just like the Sun. | Continue reading
DeepMind software that can predict the 3D shape of proteins is already changing biology. | Continue reading
The antidepressant response to psilocybin in individuals with treatment-resistant depression is distinct from escitalopram and depends on a global increase in brain network integration. | Continue reading
Information about an individual’s mobility can leave traces embedded in the social network. The authors show that such traces are also present beyond the social network. Simple colocation contains predictive information about one’s mobility patterns even when the colocators have … | Continue reading
MRI data from more than 100 studies have been aggregated to yield new insights about brain development and ageing, and create an interactive open resource for comparison of brain structures throughout the human lifespan, including those associated with neurological and … | Continue reading
The authors use large, real-world guessing competition datasets to test whether accuracy can be improved by aggregating repeated estimates by the same individual. They find that estimates do improve, but substantially less than with between-person aggregation. | Continue reading
Scientists spot ice shoving rocks on Racetrack Playa in California, resolving a longstanding geological enigma. | Continue reading
For vaccine dosing decisions, past experience and best guesses won the day in the mad rush to beat back the pandemic. Modelling tools might have made a difference. | Continue reading
Escherichia coli sampled from pigs and other farm animals show a steep rise in antibiotic-resistance genes. | Continue reading
Human neuroscience methods (for example, electroencephalography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy and electrodermal response) are biased to exclude data from dark skin and coarse hair—traits common in Black people—and possibly people with racial trauma. We outline strategies … | Continue reading