Catching the coronavirus from surfaces is rare. The World Health Organization and national public-health agencies need to clarify their advice. | Continue reading
Charged particles wafting from Earth might help to keep the Moon hydrated. | Continue reading
Algorithm named after mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan suggests interesting formulae, some of which are difficult to prove true. | Continue reading
Scientists are starting to work out how the gut microbiome can affect brain health. That might lead to better and easier treatments for brain diseases. | Continue reading
By taking fringe ideas mainstream, the former US president taught new and dangerous lessons about manipulating social and mass media. | Continue reading
An approach called the Ramanujan Machine demonstrates the use of algorithms to find mathematical conjectures in the form of formulas of fundamental constants, some of which remain unproved. | Continue reading
Catching the coronavirus from surfaces is rare. The World Health Organization and national public-health agencies need to clarify their advice. | Continue reading
The coronavirus behind the pandemic can linger on doorknobs and other surfaces, but these aren’t a major source of infection. | Continue reading
The coronavirus behind the pandemic can linger on doorknobs and other surfaces, but these aren’t a major source of infection. | Continue reading
The authors describe a reverse genetic system that enables rapid synthesis of wild-type, mutant and reporter SARS-CoV-2 strains to study viral infection, transmission, pathogenesis, therapeutics and vaccines. | Continue reading
Consuming the milk of other species is a unique adaptation of Homo sapiens. Here, the authors carry out proteomic analysis of dental calculus of 41 ancient individuals from Sudan and Kenya, indicating milk consumption occurred as soon as herding spread into eastern Africa. | Continue reading
Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. | Continue reading
New studies knock down a controversial report observing phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere. | Continue reading
An unsolved fatal accident of 9 Russian mountaineers in the northern Urals in 1959 can be explained by a slab avalanche released due to a slope cut to install the tent and wind-blown snow accumulation affected by an irregular topography, according to analytical and numerical mode … | Continue reading
Fidelity control is important to quantum metrology and fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here, authors realize clock-controlled transfer of electrons through quantum dots and describe the statistics of accumulated charge by a random-walk model, achieving a benchmark for single- … | Continue reading
But Cao Xuetao will be barred from applying for grants for a year after investigators found ‘misused images’ in his group’s papers. | Continue reading
Nearly one year ago, the World Health Organization sounded the alarm about the coronavirus, but was ignored. | Continue reading
Modelling based on pooled data from 11 European countries indicates that non-pharmaceutical interventions—particularly lockdowns—have had a marked effect on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, driving the reproduction number of the infection below 1. | Continue reading
In macaque motor cortex, moment-to-moment fluctuations in neurally derived decision variables are tightly linked to decision state and predict behavioural choices with better accuracy than condition-averaged decision variables or the visual stimulus alone, and can be used to dist … | Continue reading
How can we know whether funding models for research work? By relentlessly testing them using randomized controlled trials, says Pierre Azoulay. | Continue reading
Evidence that a variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa might compromise immunity sparks concerns about vaccine effectiveness. | Continue reading
Scientists analysed chemical changes to the ancient humans’ DNA to reveal broad, Neanderthal-like facial features. | Continue reading
Intermittent and periodic fasting are emerging as important interventions with the potential to extend longevity and healthspan. This Review discusses how they affect longevity and healthspan in model organisms and humans, their connection to major nutrient-sensing signaling path … | Continue reading
Mutation. The word naturally conjures fears of unexpected and freakish changes. Ill-informed discussions of mutations thrive during virus outbreaks, including the ongoing spread of SARS-CoV-2. In reality, mutations are a natural part of the virus life cycle and rarely impact outb … | Continue reading
Colleagues with critiques want the same thing as you: to understand the world. | Continue reading
Nature's guide tracks the US president's appointees who matter most to science. | Continue reading
From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed. | Continue reading
Evidence is growing that self-attacking ‘autoantibodies’ could be the key to understanding some of the worst cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection. | Continue reading
US president-elect also elevates the position to the cabinet for the first time. | Continue reading
Reduced intake of branched-chain amino acids promotes longevity. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is a power-hungry cryptocurrency that is increasingly used as an investment and payment system. Here we show that projected Bitcoin usage, should it follow the rate of adoption of other broadly adopted technologies, could alone produce enough CO2 emissions to push warming … | Continue reading
Here, Veldhoen and Simas discuss why immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in populations may ultimately be driven by the endemic presence of the virus and not rely on continued mass vaccination programmes. | Continue reading
The technology could revolutionize efforts to immunize against HIV, malaria, influenza and more. | Continue reading
Analyses from the gut microbiome of over 1,000 individuals from the PREDICT 1 study, for which detailed long-term diet information as well as hundreds of fasting and same-meal postprandial cardiometabolic blood marker measurements are available, unveil new associations between sp … | Continue reading