Studies have revealed that infected immune cells prompt a massive inflammatory response. | Continue reading
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians. | Continue reading
Ultrasound pulses have been used to modulate a liver–brain autonomic nerve pathway to prevent or reverse the onset of hyperglycaemia in models of diabetes in several species. The ion channel TRPA1 was shown to be essential in transducing the ultrasound stimuli within the metaboli … | Continue reading
Thousands of electronic sensors with wings could be dispersed over huge areas. | Continue reading
Findings from Brazil, Sweden and the United Kingdom show that before the advent of Omicron, vaccination benefited even those who had had a bout of COVID-19. | Continue reading
Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air. That mistake and the prolonged process of correcting it sowed confusion and raises questions about what will happen in the next pandemic. | Continue reading
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Data on green technologies show China is working towards a greener world — but that it has a long way to go to become carbon neutral. | Continue reading
To avert privacy breaches, scams and environmental damage, governments and central banks need to know how best to regulate this financial frontier. | 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
A substantial proportion of the data generated in chemistry research is captured non-digitally and reported in ways that non-accessible to both humans and computers. A variety of tools do exist to capture, analyse and publish data in an open, reusable, machine-actionable manner — … | Continue reading
Data sharing can save important scientific work from extinction, but only if researchers take care to ensure that resources are easy to find and reuse. | Continue reading
As a result of the ongoing conflict, long-standing collaborations in astronomy and space are jeopardized and individual researchers are facing difficult choices that will have a long-term impact on the advancement of science. | Continue reading
Supply shortages and limits on research leave low- and middle-income countries struggling to access Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral. | Continue reading
It is an outstanding challenge to develop intelligent machines that can learn continually from interactions with their environment, throughout their lifetime. Kudithipudi et al. review neuronal and non-neuronal processes in organisms that address this challenge and discuss pathwa … | Continue reading
A chance meeting at a scientific retreat took Zoltán Kócsi from the electronics industry to the entomology lab. | Continue reading
Around the world, people with the disease are marginalized. Now, patients are finding a voice to push back and demand an end to discrimination and isolation. | Continue reading
Study suggests some 40% of horseshoe bats in the region have yet to be formally described. | Continue reading
The societal forces that drive people to join a belief system matter more than the specifics of what they believe. | Continue reading
Study suggests some 40% of horseshoe bats in the region have yet to be formally described. | Continue reading
A dandelion-inspired wireless solar-powered sensing device weighing 30 milligrams that transmits data through radio backscatter achieves dispersal over a wide area by travelling on the breeze, and successfully lands upright. | Continue reading
Giant icy volcanos (cryovolcanos) on Pluto are unique in the imaged solar system and provide evidence for unexpected, active geology late in Pluto’s history. | Continue reading
The relationship between social media use and well-being might change across adolescent development. Here, the authors use cross sectional and longitudinal data to show that distinct developmental windows of sensitivity to social media emerge in adolescence, dependent on age and … | Continue reading
Study suggests some 40% of horseshoe bats in the region have yet to be formally described. | Continue reading
An Italian-Swiss study shows that an educational action game can improve attention, literacy and overall school results in kids aged from 8 to 12. | Continue reading
Companies are scrambling to turn the greenhouse gas into useful products — but will that slow climate change? | Continue reading
Though strong-field induced carrier excitation allows for exploring ultrafast electronic properties of a material, characterizing post-excitation dynamics is a challenge. Here, the authors report linear petahertz photoconductive sampling in a solid and use it to real-time probe c … | Continue reading
Astronomers have sighted only a handful of odd radio circles, and are trying to pin down what causes them. | Continue reading
Researchers demonstrate a topological-cavity surface-emitting laser with a 10 W peak power and sub-degree beam divergence at 1,550 nm wavelength. The system is also capable of multiple-wavelength arrays. | Continue reading
A quantum-optical memristor is realized by means of a laser-written integrated photonic circuit. The memristive dynamics of the device is fully characterized. A memristor-based quantum reservoir computer is proposed as a possible application. | Continue reading
Analysis of wild orangutan calls demonstrates that different degrees of sociality across populations are associated with different ‘vocal personalities’. | Continue reading
E-mails show agency’s controversial response to astronomers concerned about past LGBT+ discrimination. | Continue reading
The authors record neural firing rates in a patient with ALS in completely locked-in state and show that the patient can modulate neural firing rates based on auditory feedback to select letters to form words and phrases to communicate his needs and experiences. | Continue reading
Galaxy formation reconstructed by dating subgiant stars. | Continue reading
Around 90% of deceased people tested at a Lusaka facility during coronavirus surges were positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting flaws in the idea of an ‘African paradox’. | Continue reading
Appreciating the phenomena they study helps scientists to persevere in the face of setbacks. | Continue reading
Companies are marketing polygenic risk scores as part of IVF well ahead of a full understanding of the potential benefits — or dangers. | Continue reading