Campaigns to battle tuberculosis, measles and polio have all been set back. | Continue reading
Metre-scale folded structures that inflate into fixed 3D shapes. | Continue reading
The virus is spreading faster than ever before in India despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection. | Continue reading
Positron emission tomography measurements of nutrient uptake in cells of the tumour microenvironment reveal cell-intrinsic partitioning in which glucose uptake is higher in myeloid cells, whereas glutamine is preferentially acquired by cancer cells. | Continue reading
A generative approach called SliceGAN is demonstrated that can construct complex three-dimensional (3D) images from representative two-dimensional (2D) image examples. This is a promising approach in particular for studying microstructured materials where acquiring good-quality 3 … | Continue reading
University of Cape Town faces losing ‘irreplaceable’ historical material on anthropology, ecology and politics. | Continue reading
Sleep dysregulation has been linked to dementia, but it is unknown whether sleep duration earlier in life is associated with dementia risk. Here, the authors show higher dementia risk associated with short sleep duration (six hours or less) in a longitudinal study of middle and o … | Continue reading
How data restrictions shaped nuclear discovery, energy research and more. | Continue reading
Recordings of cells in the human dorsomedial prefrontal cortex identify a population of neurons that encode information about others’ beliefs and distinguish them from self-belief-related representations, providing insight into cellular-level processing underlying human theory of … | Continue reading
Complexity economics relaxes the assumptions of neoclassical economics to assume that agents differ, that they have imperfect information about other agents and they must, therefore, try to make sense of the situation they face. This Perspective sketches the ideas of complexity e … | Continue reading
The chimaeras lived up to 19 days — but some scientists question the need for such research. | Continue reading
The muon’s magnetic moment is larger than expected — a hint that new elementary particles are waiting to be discovered. | Continue reading
People tend to solve problems by adding features. | Continue reading
Hennig et al. study how changes in internal state interact with learning in primates. They report stereotyped activity fluctuations in the motor cortex that reflect the animal’s level of engagement and predict how quickly the animals learned. | Continue reading
A reinforcement learning experiment using a programmable integrated nanophotonic processor shows that a quantum communication channel with the environment speeds up the learning process of an agent. | Continue reading
A step towards ultra-precise measurements of antihydrogen. | Continue reading
More countries are pledging to achieve carbon neutrality. They must now show how they plan to do this. | Continue reading
Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read. | Continue reading
Most demonstrations of quantum advantages with optics rely on single photons, and are thus difficult to scale up. Here, the authors use coherent states to demonstrate a quantum advantage for the task of verifying the solution to a NP-complete problem when only partial information … | Continue reading
Direct tomographic imaging of every atom in a disordered solid. | Continue reading
The pandemic is not a competition between companies and will not end without more-equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines. | Continue reading
A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles, and upend fundamental physics. | Continue reading
New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work. | Continue reading
Elite athletes help to reveal the costs of intense physical activity. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to transform cancer therapies by accurately predicting the most appropriate drugs to treat individual patients. Here, the authors present an approach which uses omics data to produce ordered lists of drugs based on their effect … | Continue reading
This large-scale study tracing tens of thousands of university students in China, India, Russia and the United States finds significant differences in skill levels and gains among countries. | Continue reading
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues. | Continue reading
An ongoing global debate concerns effective and sustainable lockdown release strategies in the current pandemic. Here, the authors implement a network model at healthcare-relevant spatial scale to show that coordinated local strategies can be effective in containing further resur … | Continue reading
Critics say redundancies are being decided using unreliable measures related to funding and citations, highlighting broader unease about the use of metrics in science. | Continue reading
Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host's defences may offer a route to new pest-control strategies. | Continue reading
Clock comparison paves the way to a redefinition of the second. | Continue reading
Measurement(s) psychological measurement • anxiety-related behavior trait • Stress • response to • Isolation • loneliness measurement • Emotional Distress Technology Type(s) Survey Factor Type(s) geographic location • language • age of participant • responses to the C … | Continue reading
Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the 'paper mill' problem — and how editors are trying to cope. | Continue reading
To emulate nature biological processing, highly-integrated ultra-sensitive artificial neuromorphic system is highly desirable. Here, the authors report flexible sensor array of 1024 pixels using combination of carbon nanotubes and perovskite QDs as active … | Continue reading
Here, the authors present photonic resonator interferometric scattering microscopy, which utilises a dielectric photonic crystal as the sample substrate. The resonant near-field enhancement leads to improved signal to noise ratio without increasing illumination intensity. | Continue reading
Analysis of data from the COVID Symptom Study app reveals fatigue, headache, dyspnea and anosmia as key attributes of long COVID, with those experiencing five or more symptoms during the first week of being at increased risk of prolonged disease. | Continue reading
Mars becomes the first inner planet after Earth to have the size of its core estimated. | Continue reading
Six lessons from astronomy’s embrace of cloud computing. | Continue reading