A better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will help predict the outcomes of future changes. This study explores past climatic fluctuations and shifts in the diversification rate of grasses and daisies, finding strong evidence for a simu … | Continue reading
Several teams hope to use pulsars in the Milky Way to detect ripples in space-time made by distant supermassive black holes. | Continue reading
OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them. | Continue reading
A hybrid algorithm that applies backpropagation is used to train layers of controllable physical systems to carry out calculations like deep neural networks, but accounting for real-world noise and imperfections. | Continue reading
If biological ageing can be slowed, halted or rewound, are the machine-learning algorithms the best way to measure it? Some experts are unconvinced. | Continue reading
Analysis of archival low-frequency radio data from the Murchison Widefield Array reveals a periodic transient with an unusual periodicity of 18.18 min, the source of which is localized to our Galaxy and could be an ultra-long-period magnetar. | Continue reading
A burning plasma, a critical step towards self-sustaining fusion, is achieved at the US National Ignition Facility, with a subset of experiments demonstrating fusion self-heating beyond radiation and conduction losses. | Continue reading
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Three-dimensional reconstructions of morphology and flight mechanics of the beetle Paratuposa placentis reveal adaptations that enable extremely small insects to fly at speeds similar to those of much larger insects. | Continue reading
Optimal control of complex dynamical systems can be challenging due to cost constraints and analytical intractability. The authors propose a machine-learning-based control framework able to learn control signals and force complex high-dimensional dynamical systems towards a desir … | Continue reading
Personalized immunotherapy is all the rage, but neoantigen discovery and validation remains a daunting problem. | Continue reading
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Evaluations of quantum computers across architectures need reliable benchmarks. A class of benchmarks that can directly reflect the structure of any algorithm shows that different quantum computers have considerable variations in performance. | Continue reading
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Archaeological and ancient DNA analyses of 35 individuals entombed at Hazleton North long cairn approximately 5,700 years ago are used to reconstruct kinship practices in Early Neolithic Britain. | Continue reading
A Bell-like experiment that discriminates between real-number and complex-number multipartite quantum systems could disprove real quantum theory. | Continue reading
As the fallopian tubes come to the fore as the source of the most common form of ovarian cancer, researchers and clinicians are devising strategies to prevent the disease. | Continue reading
In a prospective study, a smartwatch-based alerting system was able to detect pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in a high percentage of cases. | Continue reading
As cases spread and countries plan their response, researchers await crucial data on the severity of the disease caused by the coronavirus variant. | Continue reading
Nanotechnologist who built the first self-assembling DNA structures. | Continue reading
The extraordinary vaccination of more than four billion people, and the lack of access for many others, were major forces this year — while Omicron’s arrival complicated things further. | Continue reading
Researchers are rapidly sequencing the genomes of virus samples worldwide, but shortcomings in the global surveillance system make the task a challenge. | Continue reading
From Omicron to a Mars helicopter to an Alzheimer’s firestorm, our news editors choose the defining moments in science and research this year. | Continue reading
Jumping is an important locomotion function to extend navigation range, overcome obstacles, and adapt to unstructured environments. Here, authors demonstrate legless soft robot capable of rapid, continuous, and steered jumping based on a soft electrohydrostatic bending actuator. | Continue reading
The widespread intraplate volcanism in northeast China and the unusual ‘petit-spot’ volcanoes offshore Japan could have resulted from the interaction of the subducting Pacific slab with a hydrous mantle transition zone. | Continue reading
An analysis of three surveys of COVID-19 vaccine behaviour shows that larger surveys overconfidently overestimated vaccine uptake, a demonstration of how larger sample sizes can paradoxically lead to less accurate estimates. | Continue reading
A self-controlled case series using individual-patient-level data from over 38 million people aged 16 years and over, reveals an increased risk of myocarditis within a week of receiving a first dose of ChAdOx1, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines, which was further increased after a … | Continue reading
The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering data that will help scientists better understand stars. | Continue reading
Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield. | Continue reading
Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their most anticipated clinical trial for 2022, from CRISPR and psilocybin to oncolytic viruses. | Continue reading
Machine-learning algorithm predicts material properties using electron density. | Continue reading
Plasma from voluntarily running mice reduces baseline expression of neuroinflammatory genes and experimentally induced brain inflammation when infused into sedentary mice. | Continue reading
A massive field study whereby many different treatments are tested synchronously in one large sample using a common objectively measured outcome, termed a megastudy, was performed to examine the ability of interventions to increase gym attendance by American adults. | Continue reading
The potential origins and global spread of SARS-CoV-2, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and the importance of genomic surveillance for the control of the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed. | Continue reading
A species of swift lives up to its name as it migrates from southern Europe to central Africa. | Continue reading