Most detailed report yet about the impact of giant satellite clusters says damage to observations is unavoidable. | Continue reading
Proviruses in elite controllers are transcriptionally repressed. | Continue reading
Researchers are starting to understand the behaviour of insects ravaging parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This work must be furthered, funded and field-tested. | Continue reading
To celebrate the first 20 years of Nature Reviews Genetics, we asked 12 leading scientists to reflect on the key challenges and opportunities faced by the field of genetics and genomics. | Continue reading
Chinese court sends strong signal by punishing He Jiankui and two colleagues. | Continue reading
Here, Cox and Brokstad briefly discuss T cell- and B cell-mediated immunity to SARS-CoV-2, stressing that a lack of serum antibodies does not necessarily equate with a lack of immunity to the virus. | Continue reading
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative. | Continue reading
Nature’s pick of science images this month chronicles missions from the United Arab Emirates, China and the United States. | Continue reading
Governments should stop spending billions of dollars on weapons and protect citizens from the real threats they face. | Continue reading
Measures to crack down harder on falsified work look good on paper, but critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem. | Continue reading
The risks posed by plastic contamination of the ocean cannot be assessed as their amount and location remain largely unknown. Here the authors show that large quantities of microplastics exist below the ocean surface over the entire Atlantic in quantities greater than previously … | Continue reading
High variability in pipelines for neuroimaging analysis. | Continue reading
An aged-related metabolite linked to metastasis. | Continue reading
In the first of a series of editorials, we look back at some of the key findings from scientists’ race to demystify SARS-CoV-2. | Continue reading
Neuroscientists are scrutinizing huge piles of data to learn how brains create emotions and other internal states such as aggression and desire. | Continue reading
Paratek Pharmaceuticals successfully brought a new antibiotic to the market. So why is the company’s long-term survival in question? | Continue reading
From Earth to the stars and back again, John Emsley surveys the uses, occurrences and mysteries of an element that is playing an increasing role in human affairs. | Continue reading
In the face of metahuman science, humans have become metascientists. | Continue reading
Viral immunologists say that results so far have been predictable — here’s why that’s good news. | Continue reading
Despite COVID-19 infections running rampant in many states, nearly 1,000 academic institutions are welcoming people back to their campuses. | Continue reading
Radford et al. monitored cattle marked with artificial eyespots in non-commercial cattle farms in northern Botswana, and demonstrate that cattle with these eyespot markings were more likely to avoid predation by large carnivores. Their findings have applications as a cost-ef … | Continue reading
A qubit generated and stabilized in a superconducting microwave resonator by encoding it into Schrödinger cat states produced by Kerr nonlinearity and single-mode squeezing shows intrinsic robustness to phase-flip errors. | Continue reading
A composite material helps scientists to see the details in ‘acoustic images’ depicting numbers. | Continue reading
Anode-free batteries have emerged as a promising storage means to offer high energy density but still suffer from long-term reversibility. The authors analyse the cell failure mechanisms and present an optimized electrolyte to extend the lifetime of anode-free pouch cells. | Continue reading
The creation of spotless cephalopods hints that squid could make a good model organism for applying CRISPR to brain research. | Continue reading
It is unclear if rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses are elevated in transgender and gender-diverse individuals compared to cisgender individuals. Here, the authors use data from five different large-scale datasets to identify elevated rates of … | Continue reading
Glacier retreat is the main process behind Greenland Ice Sheet dynamic mass loss over the past three decades, according to an analysis of discharge variability and calving front positions. | Continue reading
The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner and Insoo Hyun. | Continue reading
Fired brick is a universal building material, produced by thousand-year-old technology, which throughout history has seldom served any other purpose. Here, the authors show that bricks can store energy after chemical treatment to convert their iron oxide content into conducting p … | Continue reading
Analysing >5,000 population abundance time series for insects and other arthropods from 68 sites within the US Long Term Ecological Research network, the authors find high variation but no overall trend in abundance and diversity among sites and taxa. | Continue reading
The immunization is the first approved for widespread use but could be dangerous because it hasn’t been tested in large trials, say researchers. | Continue reading
The concept of arrow of time expressing time asymmetric nature is intrinsically related to the second law of thermodynamics and increase of entropy. The authors show how a thermodynamic bath expected to add to entropy increase can be the key to time reversal for an unknown quantu … | Continue reading
Coscia et al. use a large dataset of business travel to show that, before they become competitive in new industries, countries receive visitors from places where that industry already thrives. | Continue reading
In a cohort of nearly half a million births in Ontario, Canada, maternal cannabis use in pregnancy was associated with an increased incidence of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the offspring. | Continue reading
Astrophysicist Katie Mack’s book explores all the ways the cosmos could destroy itself. | Continue reading
US rules forced an online neuroscience course to block people in Iran from signing up, but the organizers won a last-minute reprieve. | Continue reading
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years. | Continue reading
Understanding trends in ocean circulation and dynamics is hampered by a lack of long-term records. Here the author uses probabilistic reanalysis of available data to show that transport by the Florida Current has declined over the past 110 years, indicating a slowdown of Atlantic … | Continue reading
Researchers want to use this information to predict and stop future outbreaks. | Continue reading
The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States. | Continue reading
Giacomo Prando summarizes the troubled history of the radian, a unit with the odd property of appearing and disappearing seemingly at will in dimensional formulas. | Continue reading
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years. | Continue reading