Rapid antigen tests are designed to tell in a few minutes whether someone is infectious. Will they be game changers? | Continue reading
Ancient DNA analyses reveal that Viking Age migrations from Scandinavia resulted in differential influxes of ancestry to different parts of Europe, and the increased presence of non-local ancestry within Scandinavia. | Continue reading
A cold-war-era corporation targeted voters and presaged many of today’s big-data controversies. | Continue reading
NumPy is the primary array programming library for Python; here its fundamental concepts are reviewed and its evolution into a flexible interoperability layer between increasingly specialized computational libraries is discussed. | Continue reading
A low-frequency neuronal oscillation underlies dissociation. | Continue reading
Decades of data on the legacy of childhood experience for adult health and wealth should help policymakers plan for future well-being, shows a book by pioneers of cohort studies. | Continue reading
Recent policies to address wildfires mainly addressed risk-related challenges to conduct prescribed fires, but barriers related to resources and regulations need further action, according to a mixed-methods study. | Continue reading
Many countries that see themselves as distinctive have handled the pandemic badly. | Continue reading
Preclinical evidence suggests that a fasting mimicking diet (FMD) can make cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy, while protecting normal cells. In this randomized phase II clinical trial of 131 patients with HER2 negative early stage breast cancer, the authors demonstrate … | Continue reading
Open letter flags results that appear to be duplicated and calls for access to the underlying data on the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for widespread use. | Continue reading
The short observational record makes it difficult to gauge how unprecedented recent Arctic warming is. A multi-model large ensemble estimates a new Arctic climate has emerged for sea-ice extent. As the Arctic shifts from a primarily frozen state, temperature and precipitation fol … | Continue reading
The detection of ~20 ppb of phosphine in Venus clouds by observations in the millimetre-wavelength range from JCMT and ALMA is puzzling, because according to our knowledge of Venus, no phosphine should be there. As the most plausible formation paths do not work, the source could … | Continue reading
Genebanks hold comprehensive collections of wild species, wild relatives, and landraces that are useful for genetic improvement. Here, the authors report the genotype of nearly 80,000 wheat accessions using DArTseq technology to show the less explored genetic diversity. | Continue reading
Missing component found in the pathway that closes leaf stomata. | Continue reading
Parabon Nanolabs shot to fame using DNA and genealogy analysis to solve cold cases. Then it had to change tack. | Continue reading
Biologist Catherine Dulac netted one of four big life-sciences awards. Also announced were one for mathematics and two for physics. | Continue reading
Cooling system for electronic chips shows exceptional performance. | Continue reading
Scenarios that model a realistic phase-out of fossil fuels find no substantial near-term increase in the rate of warming, and suggest benefits for climate change mitigation and air quality at essentially all timescales. | Continue reading
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and low-cost, contactless sensors have given rise to an ambient intelligence that can potentially improve the physical execution of healthcare delivery, if used in a thoughtful manner. | Continue reading
Different SARS-CoV-2 strains haven’t yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but they might in future. | Continue reading
For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and their collaborations. | Continue reading
An exodus of foreign-born scientists would be a great loss for US science, say research leaders. | Continue reading
Manipulation of the effective gravity of an oscillating liquid creates stable buoyancy in the lower surface of a liquid layer levitating above air, allowing bodies to float upside down. | Continue reading
Concerns persist that COVID-19 vaccines could cause antibody-dependent enhancement, which can potentiate viral entry into host cells and worsen disease. | Continue reading
Observed ice-sheet losses track the upper range of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report sea-level predictions, recently driven by ice dynamics in Antarctica and surface melting in Greenland. Ice-sheet models must account for short-term variability in the atmosphere, oceans and climat … | Continue reading
Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers’ background causes concern about unfair accusations. | Continue reading
Second infections raise questions about long-term immunity to COVID-19 and the prospects for a vaccine. | Continue reading
A vanadium-based lithium-rich disordered rock salt oxide is shown to work as a low-potential anode with rapid intercalation kinetics for lithium-ion batteries. | Continue reading
Opsin 5 photoreceptors in the hypothalamus control thermoregulation. | Continue reading
Vibrational forces can induce upside-down floating. | Continue reading
The safety and efficacy of gene editing human embryos hasn’t been proven, researchers warn. | Continue reading
Water use may be a topic of increased research, but water theft remains understudied. This paper utilizes insights from three international case studies to inform on the systemic failures that sustain water theft. | Continue reading
In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent. | Continue reading
Results of an exploratory interim analysis from a phase I trial show that an RNA vaccine targeted towards four melanoma-associated antigens produces durable objective responses in patients with melanoma that are accompanied by strong CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell immunity. | Continue reading
Executable papers take transparency and openness in research communication one step further. In this comment, an early career researcher reports her experience of creating an executable paper as a journey through Open Science. | Continue reading
Coronavirus main protease is essential for viral polyprotein processing and replication. Here Vuong et al. report efficient inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication by the dipeptide-based protease inhibitor GC376 and its parent GC373, which were originally used to treat feline corona … | Continue reading
A slew of detailed studies has now quantified the increased risk the virus poses to older people, men, and other groups. | Continue reading
Infecting the insects with a bacterium to stop disease transmission produces ‘staggering’ reduction in cases. | Continue reading
Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli bounced ideas off each other, Paul Halpern’s book shows. | Continue reading