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
The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing. | Continue reading
Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations. | Continue reading
Long hours and a lack of job security, combined with workplace bullying and discrimination, are forcing many to consider leaving science, finds Nature’s inaugural survey of postdoctoral researchers. | Continue reading
Preliminary data suggest that the immunization was more effective in trial participants who received a lower dose. | Continue reading
Search engine’s tool for summarizing studies promises easier skim-reading. | Continue reading
Pioneering guidelines aren’t enough to prevent overseas militaries such as China’s from co-opting the country’s science, say some experts. | Continue reading
Large-scale population screening can provide insights to levels of ongoing SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Here, the authors report a citywide screening of ~10,000,000 residents of Wuhan and show that SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence was very low five to eight weeks after the end of lock … | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an accelerated development of applications for digital health, including symptom monitoring and contact tracing. Their potential is wide ranging and must be integrated into conventional approaches to public health for best effect. | Continue reading
Here, the authors study mentorship in scientific collaborations, and find that mentorship quality predicts the scientific impact of protégés post mentorship. Moreover, female protégés collaborating with male mentors become more impactful post mentorship than those who collaborate … | Continue reading
People without symptoms can pass on the virus, but estimating their contribution to outbreaks is challenging. | Continue reading
Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade. | Continue reading
Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem. | Continue reading
Growing use of surveillance technology has prompted calls for bans and stricter regulation. | Continue reading
A first-of-a-kind survey reveals discomfort among some researchers working in facial recognition and related fields. | Continue reading
Genetic underpinnings for thalamic regulation of short-term memory. | Continue reading
The analysis found the mutations probably won’t jeopardize vaccines, but scientists say the rampant spread means the animals still need to be killed. | Continue reading
Researchers re-analyse controversial phosphine data and find a fainter signal. | Continue reading
Trapped-ion systems are gaining momentum in the quest to make a commercial quantum computer. | Continue reading
The pandemic has temporarily closed mines, factories and borders and destabilized flows of cobalt, lithium and other metals that are crucial for batteries, wind turbines and solar panels. | Continue reading
Open science and 3D printing are making it easier than ever for researchers to embrace do-it-yourself lab tools. | Continue reading
Methods that are routine in computation-heavy fields could lead to more reliable pandemic predictions. | Continue reading
Metformin holds the potential to extend healthy lifespan in aged, insulin-resistant individuals. Using C. elegans, Espada et al. uncover a deleterious metabolic response to metformin treatment in aged worms with unaltered insulin signalling. | Continue reading
The antibody-dependent enhancement of disease is reviewed, with an emphasis on implications for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. | Continue reading
An optical sensing technique reveals an abundance of correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of moiré superlattices that are proposed to arise from a series of charge-ordered states. | Continue reading
US mobile data suggests restaurants, gyms and cafes can be COVID hotspots — and reveals strategies for limiting spread. | Continue reading
Intellectual-property laws imagine creatorship as white, a book argues. By Shobita Parthasarathy | Continue reading
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment is a new initiative towards constructing a multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope to expand our observable window of the Universe to the highest energies, and will be installed within the deep Pacific Ocean underwater infrastructure of Ocea … | Continue reading
Importing millions of tonnes of crops and meat each year undercuts farming standards in the European Union and destroys tropical forests. | Continue reading
Scientists welcome the first compelling evidence that a vaccine can prevent COVID-19. But questions remain about how much protection it offers, to whom and for how long. | Continue reading
Chang’e-5 has just one lunar day to collect lunar material from a previously unexplored region of the Moon’s near side. | Continue reading
Early fossils with guts, segmented bodies and other sophisticated features reveal a revolution in animal life — before the Cambrian explosion. | Continue reading