This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years. | Continue reading
Animals that can cause zoonotic disease flourish in human-altered areas. | Continue reading
Space debris laser ranging is a technique to measure distances to defunct satellites or rocket bodies in orbits around Earth which was only possible within a few hours around twilight. Here, the authors show the first space debris laser ranging results during daylight while corre … | Continue reading
Barry Simon linked a phenomenon that had shocked physicists to topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shapes. | Continue reading
A catalogue of the vascular flora of New Guinea indicates that this island is the most floristically diverse in the world, and that 68% of the species identified are endemic to New Guinea. | Continue reading
Post-crash fascism and horrific detention of refugees — a biography traces the forces that drove nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs to treachery. | Continue reading
Seventy-five years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a new treaty offers renewed hope for a nuclear-free world. | Continue reading
NASA's Perseverance rover will collect rocks from Mars for eventual delivery to Earth. | Continue reading
Sampling simulated data can reveal common ways in which our cognitive biases mislead us. | Continue reading
People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain. | Continue reading
Predicting how proteins fold enables inferring their function. Conversely, rational protein design allows for engineering novel protein functionalities. Recent improvements in computational algorithms and technological advances have dramatically increased the accuracy and speed o … | Continue reading
Protein-based materials for soft robotics that self-heal within a second while maintaining the high strength of the damaged area are reported. | Continue reading
In recent decades, the Arctic has warmed at over twice the global rate. This Perspective places these trends into the context of abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events in the palaeoclimate record, arguing that the contemporary Arctic is undergoing comparably abrupt climate chan … | Continue reading
The muscular and organismal response to exercise training is reduced in animal models associated with chronic hyperglycaemia, thus suggesting that chronic hyperglycaemia inhibits aerobic adaptation to exercise. | Continue reading
A transformative experiment is yielding fresh insights 40 years after the effect’s discovery — and energizing transdisciplinary collaborations. | Continue reading
Large and small areas of habitat have different patterns of species loss. | Continue reading
Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new theories for the frigid world’s birth. | Continue reading
In this manuscript, the authors address evolutionary questions on the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. They find that SARS-CoV-2 is not a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and that the bat and pangolin sequences most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 probably diverged sever … | Continue reading
As NASA prepares to launch the first spacecraft that will collect samples from Mars, Nature looks at back at missions that have grabbed extraterrestrial material. | Continue reading
Better understanding the synergy between radiation and corrosion is necessary to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. Here, the authors contradict the misconception that radiation always results in deleterious effects and show that proton irradiation slows the corrosion of Ni-Cr all … | Continue reading
Uncommon genetic variant dampens the response of uterine neurons that sense pain. | Continue reading
Scanning tunnelling microscopy is used to reveal a new topological kagome magnet with an intrinsic Chern quantum phase, which shows a distinct Landau fan structure with a large Chern gap. | Continue reading
Genetic research is rewriting the history of diseases. | Continue reading
Revised timeline for the initial occupation of the American continent. | Continue reading
It took a collaborative global effort to reveal the structures of key coronavirus proteins. That spirit is being tested as vaccine development gets under way. | Continue reading
Archaeologists say stone artefacts point to occupation more than 30,000 years ago — but not everyone is convinced. | Continue reading
The sudden deterioration of patients with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into critical illness is of major concern and early assessment would be vital. Here, the authors show that a deep learning-based survival model can predict the risk of COVID-19 patients developing … | Continue reading
Bias and the prospect of societal harm increasingly plague artificial-intelligence research — but it’s not clear who should be on the lookout for these problems. | Continue reading
European Union’s flagship research programme allocated €81 billion in latest negotiations — substantially less than earlier proposed. | Continue reading
The authors here use numerical simulations combined with a time-dependent model of Earth’s magnetic field spanning the last 100 kyrs. They identify field directional changes to be 10 times faster than previously thought. | Continue reading
A promising biomedical tool began life as part of efforts to answer a different question. | Continue reading
The COVID 19 pandemic and consequent lockdown has had a substantial impact on mobility and therefore fuel demand and it is not clear when demand will recover. Ou et al. use a machine learning model that integrates health recovery scenarios to project the near-term future of gasol … | Continue reading