Uncertainty estimate for the carbon land sink. | Continue reading
Mechanism uncovered for how leukaemia evades therapy. | Continue reading
Three decades after it was conceived, Hubble’s successor is set for launch. Here’s why astronomers around the world can’t wait. | Continue reading
A study of mice exposed to cigarette smoke suggests that smoking-cessation-induced weight gain is associated with a dysbiotic state that is driven by smoking-related metabolites. | Continue reading
The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months. | Continue reading
The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months. | Continue reading
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world. | Continue reading
COVID’s evolution signals the importance of rational vaccine design based on broadly neutralizing antibodies. | Continue reading
The machine-learning techniques could benefit other areas of maths that involve large data sets. | Continue reading
Self-propelled nanoparticles may find medical applications. Here Mg–Fe3O4 based Janus nanoparticles powered by water are shown to efficiently capture cancer cells in serum and whole blood samples. | Continue reading
The image viewing and analysis software napari has filled a gap in the programming language’s scientific ecosystem. | Continue reading
Sediment supply to the Venice Lagoon is substantially reduced by flood barriers inhibiting storm-related sediment reworking and transport, according to observations through multiple storm events before and after barrier installation. | Continue reading
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world. | Continue reading
Collaborators are locked in a high-stakes dispute over which researchers should be named as inventors on a key vaccine patent application. | Continue reading
COVID researchers are working at breakneck speed to learn about the variant’s transmissibility, severity and ability to evade vaccines. | Continue reading
A new method quantifies the social makeup of online communities, and applying it to 14 years of commenting patterns on Reddit shows increased polarization in 2016, driven by new users to the platform. | Continue reading
Evaluation of mitigation actions often focuses on cost and overlooks the direct effects on well-being. This work shows demand-side measures have large mitigation potential and beneficial effects on well-being outcomes. | Continue reading
The machine-learning techniques could benefit other areas of maths that involve large data sets. | Continue reading
The trRosetta neural network was used to iteratively optimise model proteins from random 100-amino-acid sequences, resulting in ‘hallucinated’ proteins, which when expressed in bacteria closely resembled the model structures. | Continue reading
Kang and colleagues review recent advances and challenges in developing therapies for metastatic cancer and the clinical implications of ongoing and completed studies for metastatic disease. | Continue reading
Data collected by the Tianwen-1 mission and Zhurong Mars rover are offering insights into a previously unexplored region of Mars’s northern hemisphere. | Continue reading
Water and hydroxyl enrichment in the solar-wind-irradiated rim of an olivine grain from asteroid Itokawa suggests that its regolith could contain ~20 l m−3 of water from solar wind—a potential water source for airless planetary bodies. | Continue reading
Anthony Fauci on four decades of progress against HIV, and what’s needed for the future. | 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
The DART mission has launched. Next up, it will try out a manoeuvre that could one day deflect killer asteroids from Earth. | Continue reading
Evaluation of mitigation actions often focuses on cost and overlooks the direct effects on well-being. This work shows demand-side measures have large mitigation potential and beneficial effects on well-being outcomes. | Continue reading
Since NASA introduced a double-blind review system to reduce bias, more successful proposals are coming from astronomers who haven’t been awarded observation time before. | Continue reading
Climate data are often stored at higher precision than is needed. The proposed compression automatically determines the precision from the data’s bitwise real information, removing any false information and leading to a more efficient compression. | Continue reading
Lab-grown fish taste the same as their wild and farmed counterparts, offering an alternative to traditional seafood. But will it ever make economic sense to produce this kind of protein? | Continue reading
Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness. | Continue reading
Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain in vitro recapitulates SARS-CoV-2 variant emergence and produces an effective antiviral spike receptor-binding domain variant. | Continue reading
Intergenerational preconditions and historical conferment of opportunity play a role in social mobility. This study considers the geography of relative deprivation to show how different family groups across Great Britain experience different intergenerational outcomes. | Continue reading
A mechanism of mechanosensation and transduction in the presynaptic boutons is identified, in which sensing of fine pressure leads to enhanced neurotransmitter release. | Continue reading
A low-cost 3D printer is used to combine chemical reactions and the reactor to produce an active ‘reactionware’ system for organic and inorganic synthesis. Active elements such as catalysts can be incorporated into the walls of printed reactors, and other printed-in components th … | Continue reading
Neuroscientists want to understand how tangles of neurons produce complex behaviours, but even the simplest networks defy understanding. | Continue reading
A mechanism known as ‘original antigenic sin’ protects some people from flu; whether it helps immune reactions to coronaviruses is still unclear. | Continue reading