To navigate pandemic trade-offs, policymakers need syntheses. | Continue reading
A collection of research articles and related content from the gnomAD Consortium that describe and analyse human genetic variation. | Continue reading
Scientists at the US agency offer advice about remote working, social isolation and quarantine. | Continue reading
A catalogue of genetic variation in humans. | Continue reading
Brazil's scientists are battling anti-science sentiment alongside COVID-19. | Continue reading
Scientists in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and other places are using sequence data to track new infections as lockdowns ease. | Continue reading
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread. | Continue reading
The authors here present a 3D model that simulates the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater. Based on asymmetries in the subsurface structure of the Chicxulub crater, the authors diagnose impact angle and direction and suggest a steeply inclined (60° to horizontal) impact fro … | Continue reading
Radiation-induced segregation is widely observed in metals. Here it is discovered that radiation-induced segregation also occurs in a ceramic, with carbon atoms in silicon carbide segregating to the grain boundaries under irradiation. | Continue reading
Carefully-designed diffractive metasurfaces enable accurate logical operations for optical computing. Using photons instead of electrons to convey information could reduce energy consumption and increase computing speed. However, the light properties must be controlled with very … | Continue reading
Patterning of the human neural tube is modeled in a microfluidic device. | Continue reading
A sensory device that mimics the structure of the human eye. | Continue reading
Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers. | Continue reading
In individuals diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in one eye, a deep learning model can predict progression to the ‘wet’, sight-threatening form of the disease in the second eye within a 6-month time frame. | Continue reading
This Perspective argues that an approach called extreme value theory is appropriate for understanding the so-called tail risk of epidemic outbreaks, in particular by demonstrating that the distribution of fatalities due to epidemic outbreaks over the past 2500 years is fat-tailed … | Continue reading
Mechanically switchable materials made of supercooled fluids embedded in a polymer matrix reversibly shift between soft and hard solid states upon stimulation. | Continue reading
Researchers looking to make tests widely available worry as regulators freeze the team that first identified US community spread. | Continue reading
Microcombs provide many opportunities for integration in optical communications systems. Here, the authors implement a soliton crystal microcomb as a tool to demonstrate more than 44 Tb/s communications with high spectral efficiency. | Continue reading
Playful master of games who transformed mathematics. | Continue reading
Density-dependence is rarely accounted for in plant-plant facilitation studies. Here the authors develop a framework that incorporates density-dependence in the stress-gradient hypothesis, and test it first through modeling and then empirically on Arabidopsis thaliana along salt … | Continue reading
When the coronavirus pandemic struck, field ecologist Nicholas Herrmann adopted a perspective inspired by experiences earlier in his PhD. | Continue reading
Reported rates of influenza and other infections have fallen sharply, but some communicable diseases may see a rise. | Continue reading
Snow algae bloom along the coast of Antarctica and are likely to be biogeochemically important. Here, the authors produced the first map of such blooms, show that they are driven by warmer temperatures and proximity to birds and mammals, and are likely to increase given projected … | Continue reading
Restricting movement on the basis of biology threatens freedom, fairness and public health. | Continue reading
A long-anticipated recalibration of radiocarbon dating could shift the age of some prehistoric samples hundreds of years | Continue reading
Analysis of data from a smartphone-based app designed for large-scale tracking of potential COVID-19 symptoms, used by over 2.5 million participants in the United Kingdom and United States, shows that loss of taste and smell sensations is predictive of potential SARS-CoV-2 infect … | Continue reading
Geological samples must be archived for all if we are to solve the riddles of Earth’s complex history. | Continue reading
Early and accurate clinical assessment of disease severity in COVID-19 patients is essential for planning the allocation of scarce hospital resources. An explainable machine learning tool trained on blood sample data from 485 patients from Wuhan selected three biomarkers for pred … | Continue reading
A precise pattern of electrical pulses allows people who have lost their sight to identify individual letters. | Continue reading
Machine learning predicts Cu-Al electrocatalysts provide better efficiency and productivity than copper when using intermittent renewable electricity to convert carbon dioxide to useful chemicals and fuels. | Continue reading
The oceans probably remained well-oxygenated for millions of years after the Palaeoproterozoic Lomagundi–Jatuli Event, according to high concentrations and isotope signatures of redox-sensitive metals in the 2-billion-year-old Zaonega Formation, Russia. | Continue reading
The authors analyze a system of multi-layered hazes above Saturn’s hexagonal-wave cloud tops in the visual range. Analyses suggest the formation to be caused by condensation processes, and the vertical distribution of stacked layers by the upward propagation of internal gravity w … | Continue reading
It’s still unclear whether entanglement can be generated, survive, and be observed in hot environments dominated by random collisions. Here, the authors use quantum non-demolition measurement on a hot alkali vapor to put more than ten trillion atoms in a long-lived and spatially … | Continue reading
First large-scale ancient genome analyses from China chart migrations of early farmers. | Continue reading
Reduced abundance of immune-stimulating gut bacteria ameliorated the inflammatory and autoimmune phenotypes of mice with mutations in C9orf72, which in the human orthologue are linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. | Continue reading
Anita Thapar’s research team faced a barrage of calls and e-mails, some of them hostile, following the publication of their paper on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Here’s what she learnt. | Continue reading
Bird species with a higher propensity towards innovative behaviours are at a lower risk of global extinction and are more likely to have increasing or stable populations than less innovative birds | Continue reading
Studies of social networks show that opposition to vaccines is small but far-reaching — and growing. | Continue reading
Insights into the interactions between pro- and anti-vaccination clusters on Facebook can enable policies and approaches that attempt to interrupt the shift to anti-vaccination views and persuade undecided individuals to adopt a pro-vaccination stance. | Continue reading
Fasting diets are emerging as an approach to delay tumor progression and improve cancer therapies. Here, the authors show that the combination of fasting-mimicking diet with vitamin C decreases tumor development and increases chemotherapy efficacy in KRAS-mutant cancer. | Continue reading
Humans can easily uncover abstract associations. Here, the authors propose that higher-order associations arise from natural errors in learning and memory. They suggest that mental errors influence the humans’ representation of the world in significant and predictable ways. | Continue reading
By using data from electrocardiograms, a deep learning algorithm outperforms traditional risk scores in predicting death over the course of the next year and identifies at-risk individuals with seemingly normal electrocardiograms. | Continue reading