Cryptochrome protein has the properties needed to be a magnetosensor. | Continue reading
Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes. | Continue reading
Proof-assistant software handles an abstract concept at the cutting edge of research, revealing a bigger role for software in mathematics. | Continue reading
Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics? | Continue reading
Videos of the surprising phenomenon could help researchers to better understand natural ‘dust devils’ blowing across the red planet. | Continue reading
The ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis suggests that the rate of ageing tends to be constant within species. Here, Colchero et al. find support for the hypothesis across primates, including humans, suggesting biological constraints on the rate of ageing. | Continue reading
The southern hemisphere of Betelgeuse during its Great Dimming was an order of magnitude darker than usual, owing to a cool patch on the photosphere and associated dust formation. | Continue reading
A city that faced a public-health emergency shows how collaborations with neighbourhood advocates can advance health equity. | Continue reading
But a thriving relationship needs clearer rules around data ownership and intellectual property – and public trust in the process. | Continue reading
Postdocs and PhD students around the world require professional training to prepare them for a possible career outside academia, finds the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. | Continue reading
IT has been shown by Bothe and others that beryllium when bombarded by α-particles of polonium emits a radiation of great penetrating power, which has an absorption coefficient in lead of about 0.3 (cm.)−-1. Recently Mme. Curie-Joliot and M. Joliot found, when measuring the ionis … | Continue reading
Clinical evidence for long-lasting immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection | Continue reading
Team science suffers when junior researchers see their career-defining contributions to a paper downplayed. Here’s how to tackle disputes. | Continue reading
With late-stage trial success, venture funding and next-generation alpha emitters on the way, targeted radiotherapy drugs are finally “getting the attention they deserve.” | Continue reading
A highly invasive weed might owe some of its success to easier access to carbon, a key component of the weed’s toxin. | Continue reading
Machine learning tools are used to greatly accelerate chip layout design, by posing chip floorplanning as a reinforcement learning problem and using neural networks to generate high-performance chip layouts. | Continue reading
The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions. | Continue reading
Aerial images boast a level of detail that could help the rover navigate to features of scientific interest. | Continue reading
Researchers are thrilled with the level of detail in aerial images that could help plot the route of the rover to features of scientific interest. | Continue reading
A trove of new detections suggests that the bursts could be the result of at least two separate astrophysical phenomena. | Continue reading
The need for space between lenses in optical systems results in a trade-off between potential for miniaturisation and achieved resolution. Here, the authors demonstrate a device that propagates light longer than its thickness, a spaceplate, and can therefore replace space in opti … | Continue reading
Stress is a major risk for mental illness that is known to impact glutamate function in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy we find evidence for an adaptive mPFC glutamate response to stress in healthy adults that is notably impaired in pati … | Continue reading
The interconnectedness of the financial system is increasing over time, and modelling it as a network captures key interactions between financial institutions. This Review surveys the most successful applications of statistical physics and complex networks to the description and … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence can help the electronics industry to speed up chip design. But the gains must be shared equitably. | Continue reading
Machine learning excels at an early step in microchip design. | Continue reading
Non-Abelian topological charges and edge states in a PT-symmetric transmission line network are experimentally observed, and a non-Abelian quotient relation for the bulk–edge correspondence is found. | Continue reading
Scientists are impressed by China’s juggernaut of a vaccination drive, through which it is currently administering nearly 60% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses globally. | Continue reading
Nature examines arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them. | Continue reading
Aging is associated with increased frailty and disrupted energy homeostasis. Here, the authors show that SIRT6 overexpression extends the lifespan of male and female mice and demonstrate that SIRT6 optimizes energy homeostasis in old age, which delays frailty and preserves health … | Continue reading
Analysis of 215,000 people's DNA suggests variants that shorten life are being selected against. | Continue reading
Martin Edwards et al. use data spanning from 1958–2017 from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey of the North Atlantic Ocean to examine krill distribution and abundance in conjunction with sea surface temperatures and show a 50% decline in surface krill abundance with no assoc … | Continue reading
Researchers added 200 million DNA base pairs and 115 protein-coding genes — but they’ve yet to entirely sequence the Y chromosome. | Continue reading
Köbis et al. outline how artificial intelligence (AI) agents can negatively influence human ethical behaviour. They discuss how this capacity of AI agents can cause problems in the future and put forward a research agenda to gain behavioural insights for better AI oversight. | Continue reading
Green synthesis of graphite is a great challenge in the absence of the graphitization of amorphous carbon at high temperatures. Here, the authors report a green approach of synthesizing graphite from carbon dioxide at low temperature in seconds timescale. | Continue reading
Insights into how mutant stem cells outcompete normal stem cells. | Continue reading
Stakeholders in public health must lobby policy makers to make decisions based on evidence, not political expediency, particularly when the studies that hang in the balance are critical to understanding the origins of epidemics. | Continue reading
Ed Himelblau was a cartoonist before he learnt to write code. Now, the geneticist hopes his drawings will help others who embrace bioinformatics later in their careers. | Continue reading
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention. | Continue reading
Mind-altering drugs such as psilocybin and MDMA could transform the treatment paradigm for mental health disorders, says neuroscientist David Nutt. But trial design considerations, regulatory hurdles and economics still pose problems for psychedelic-assisted therapies. | Continue reading