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
A new virus, wafer-thin solar cells, gene‑edited squid and more. | Continue reading
It also plans to make reviews publicly available — for both accepted and rejected manuscripts. | Continue reading
Measurements of the nuclear forces between protons and hyperons. | Continue reading
Collaborations on AI-related papers in journals tracked by the Nature Index reveal country strengths. | Continue reading
The SARS-CoV-2 variant expressing spike(D641G) shows increased infectivity in human lung epithelial cells and in hamster and primary human upper airway tissues, but is more susceptible to neutralization by antibodies raised against SARS-CoV-2. | Continue reading
A variety of quantum programming languages have been developed over the past few years, enabling newcomers and seasoned practitioners alike. This Review gives a brief introduction to quantum programming, overviewing some of the existing languages and the ecosystem around them. | Continue reading
Lydon-Staley and colleagues examine intrinsic information seeking and find that individuals who tend to seek information that eliminates knowledge gaps move between similar concepts and tend to return to previously visited concepts. | Continue reading
The relative risk of COVID-19-associated death for younger individuals (under 65) is consistent across countries and can be used to robustly compare the underlying number of infections in each country. | Continue reading
Laboratory-grown meat has been stuck in the experimental stage. For it to become a commercially viable industry, tissue needs to be grown efficiently at scale. | Continue reading
From radio galaxies to robots, these trailblazers are at the forefront of AI advances. | Continue reading
Estimates of global total biomass (the mass of all living things) and anthopogenic mass (the mass embedded in inanimate objects made by humans) over time show that we are roughly at the timepoint when anthropogenic mass exceeds total biomass. | Continue reading
A steaming pile holds allure for giant pandas, especially at one time of year. | Continue reading
Why I put my political will behind knowledge to benefit the ocean and humanity. | Continue reading
An unusual reaction to mammalian meat is challenging the immunological understanding of allergies. | Continue reading
Some researchers worry that shifting priorities towards pandemic-focused science comes at the expense of other disciplines. | Continue reading
Treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected ferrets with a nucleoside analogue (MK-4482/EIDD-2801) reduced the viral load in the upper respiratory tract and suppressed the spread of the virus to untreated ferrets. Therapeutic administration of MK-4482/EIDD-2801 may have the potential to bre … | Continue reading
Data haul from Gaia space observatory offers a glimpse of what Earth’s night sky will look like for 1.6 million years to come. | Continue reading
The Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine has passed safety and efficacy tests — but scientists still have many questions about how this and other vaccines will perform as they’re rolled out to millions of people. | Continue reading
Photon-based quantum computer does a calculation that ordinary computers might never be able to do. | Continue reading
Here, the authors investigate associations of vitamin D metabolites with gut microbiome in a cross-sectional analysis of 567 elderly men enrolled in the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Study and find larger alpha-diversity correlates with high 1,25(OH)2D and high 24,25(OH)2D … | Continue reading
‘Reprogramming’ approach seems to makes old cells young again. | Continue reading
Resetting the methylation clock rejuvenates old retinal ganglion cells. | Continue reading
Expression of three Yamanaka transcription factors in mouse retinal ganglion cells restores youthful DNA methylation patterns, promotes axon regeneration after injury, and reverses vision loss in a mouse model of glaucoma and in aged mice, suggesting that mammalian tissues retain … | Continue reading
Despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety. | Continue reading
Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists. | Continue reading
Direct experimental evidence of the carbon–nitrogen–oxygen fusion cycle in the Sun is provided by the detection of neutrinos emitted during this process. | Continue reading
Measurements of neutrinos produced by the Sun’s secondary fusion cycle. | Continue reading
The tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus. Here’s what it learnt. | Continue reading
The PREDICT 1 trial shows large inter-individual variations in postprandial metabolic responses to standardized meals in over 1,000 participants, demonstrating potential for development of personalized nutrition strategies. | Continue reading
The viruses, both found in bats stored in laboratory freezers, are the first SARS-CoV-2 relatives to be found outside China. | Continue reading
SARS-CoV-2 has emerged recently and may still adapt to the human host. Here the authors show that none of the so far identified recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2 are significantly associated with increased viral transmission. | Continue reading
Cosmologists suggest that an exotic substance called quintessence could be accelerating the Universe’s expansion — but the evidence is still tentative. | Continue reading