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
Design and discovery of catalysts to make clean energy and mitigate the harmful effect of greenhouse gases remains a massive challenge. Here the authors report a combustion-synthesised iron-based catalyst of high activity and selectivity for directly converting CO2 to aviati … | Continue reading
Childrens’ untrained immune response seems to be key to eliminating SARS-CoV-2. | Continue reading
Emergency Use Authorizations for two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines represent a turning point in the pandemic. They also herald a new era for vaccinology. | Continue reading
Polymerization at intersecting light beams enables rapid 3D printing. | Continue reading
Large volumes of true random numbers are needed for increasing requirements of secure data encryption. Here the authors use the stochastic nature of DNA synthesis to obtain millions of gigabytes of unbiased randomness. | Continue reading
A reinforcement-learning algorithm that combines a tree-based search with a learned model achieves superhuman performance in high-performance planning and visually complex domains, without any knowledge of their underlying dynamics. | Continue reading
Water levels in inland seas and lakes globally will drop, often dramatically, over the 21st century in response to climate change. Based on the case of the Caspian Sea, we argue for a concerted campaign to raise awareness of threats to people, biodiversity and geopolitical stabil … | Continue reading
Eye examinations could enable clinicians to detect early signs of neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions. | Continue reading
For the first time, the organizers of NeurIPS required speakers to consider the societal impact of their work. | Continue reading
Investigating whether facial expressions are preserved around the globe. | Continue reading
The speedy approach used to tackle SARS-CoV-2 could change the future of vaccine science. | Continue reading
An analysis of 16 types of facial expression in thousands of contexts in millions of videos revealed fine-grained patterns in human facial expression that are preserved across the modern world. | Continue reading
Scientists offer their views on what’s important for the coming year. | Continue reading
US wetlands are not well placed to remove nitrate from the environment. | Continue reading
Patients whose disease is diagnosed in its early stages have better outcomes. In this study, the authors develop a non invasive blood test based on circulating tumor DNA methylation that can potentially detect cancer occurrence even in asymptomatic patients. | Continue reading
DNN classifiers are vulnerable to small, specific perturbations in an input that seem benign to humans. To understand this phenomenon, Buckner argues that it may be necessary to treat the patterns that DNNs detect in these adversarial examples as artefacts, which may contain pred … | Continue reading
A flood of coronavirus research swept websites and journals this year. It changed how and what scientists study, a Nature analysis shows. | Continue reading
Combinatorial treatments have become a standard of care for various complex diseases including cancers. Here, the authors show that combinatorial responses of two anticancer drugs can be accurately predicted using factorization machines trained on large-scale pharmacogenomic data … | Continue reading
Scientists hope the dark grains from asteroid Ryugu will improve their understanding of the Solar System’s formation. | Continue reading