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
Supersymmetric quantum mechanics enables the description of phenomena exhibiting a supersymmetry only in the space domain. Here, the authors show an underlying time-domain supersymmetry exists in optics, acoustics, and elasticity, and study its properties and potential applicabil … | Continue reading
Psychiatrists have a dizzying array of diagnoses and not enough treatments. Hunting for the hidden biology underlying mental disorders could help. | Continue reading
Using high-resolution orbital imagery of the Martian surface, the authors Salese et al. here describe the first discovered stratigraphic product of multiple extensive fluvial-channel belts in an exposed vertical section at Izola Mensa in the northwestern rim of the Hellas Basin. | Continue reading
Using photosynthetic microorganisms may be a route to sustainable hydrogen production from solar energy, but hydrogen generation is typically short lived. Here the authors address this challenge by engineering cyanobacteria to construct photosystem I–hydrogenase fusions that prod … | Continue reading
Combination of biological membrane and artificial chemistry could power future synthetic organisms. | Continue reading
Small-angle twisted bilayer–bilayer graphene is tunable by the twist angle and electric and magnetic fields, and can be used to gain further insights into correlated states in two-dimensional superlattices. | Continue reading
SQUID-on-tip tomographic imaging of Landau levels in magic-angle graphene provides nanoscale maps of local twist-angle disorder and shows that its properties are fundamentally different from common types of disorder. | Continue reading
Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication. | Continue reading
Scientists have a responsibility to communicate effectively and compassionately, says Samantha Yammine. Here’s how. | Continue reading
Designing energy efficient and scalable artificial networks for neuromorphic computing remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate tree-like conductance states at room temperature in strongly correlated perovskite nickelates by modulating proton distribution under high spe … | Continue reading
High contiguity human genomes can be assembled de novo in 6 h using nanopore long-read sequences and the Shasta toolkit. | Continue reading
Spectacular alchemical scrolls record ideas of flux in times of massive upheaval — medical, social, economic and political. | Continue reading
Car owners underestimate total vehicle costs. Giving consumers this information could encourage the switch to cleaner transport and reduce emissions. | Continue reading
Escherichia coli bacteria and yeast cultures (representative prokaryotes and eukaryotes) have been tested under laboratory conditions in a 100% H2 atmosphere. They can reproduce normally, with lower growth rates, producing a range of biosignature gases. Exoplanets with a H2-domin … | Continue reading
Governments see coronavirus apps as key to releasing lockdowns. In exchange for people’s health data, they must promise to work together to develop the highest standards of safety and efficacy. | Continue reading
Carbon nanothreads are promising for applications in mechanical energy storage and energy harvesting. Here the authors use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and continuum elasticity theory to explore mechanical energy storage in carbon nanothreads-based bundles. | Continue reading
Scientists are piecing together how SARS-CoV-2 operates, where it came from and what it might do next — but pressing questions remain about the source of COVID-19. | Continue reading
A device that permanently switches spin-orbit coupling. | Continue reading
While the world focuses on the pandemic, the United States is adopting controversial policies at the Environmental Protection Agency. | Continue reading
Artificial-intelligence tool aims to reveal whether research findings are supported or contradicted by subsequent studies. | Continue reading
mRNA vaccines represent a promising alternative to conventional vaccine approaches, but their application has been hampered by instability and delivery issues. Here, Pardi and colleagues discuss recent advances in mRNA vaccine technology, assess mRNA vaccines currently in develop … | Continue reading
Researchers sift through data to compare nations’ vastly different containment measures. | Continue reading
Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 . | Continue reading
Luminescence is engineered in whole plants, without an exogenous substrate, using a fungal gene cluster. | Continue reading
The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk. | Continue reading
Analysis of Icelandic genomes reveals chromosome fragments of Neanderthal and Denisovan origin, the latter of which occurred through Denisovan gene flow either into ancestors of the Neanderthals or directly into humans. | Continue reading
At terahertz frequencies, link discovery by scanning is impractically slow. Here, the authors propose an alternative, single-shot link-finding method based on a leaky-wave device. | Continue reading
With politicians touting the potential benefits of malaria drugs to fight COVID-19, some people are turning away from clinical trials of other therapies. | Continue reading
Enhanced switchable ferroelectric polarization is achieved in doped hafnium oxide films grown directly onto silicon using low-temperature atomic layer deposition, even at thicknesses of just one nanometre. | Continue reading
Climate researchers are studying a fresh set of scenarios to model the future of the planet. | Continue reading
Support grows for a controversial ‘human challenge’ vaccine study — but no trial is yet planned. | Continue reading
A guided tour. | Continue reading
Anders Tegnell talks to Nature about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic. | Continue reading
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Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade, says Hetan Shah. | Continue reading
Presymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to account for a substantial proportion of COVID-19 cases. | Continue reading
The backpropagation of error (backprop) algorithm is frequently used to train deep neural networks in machine learning, but it has not been viewed as being implemented by the brain. In this Perspective, however, Lillicrap and colleagues argue that the key principles underlying ba … | Continue reading
A US county recorded 1,000 COVID-19 cases earlier this month, but blood tests suggest that more than 50,000 people there have been infected. | Continue reading
An analysis of the nitrogen-isotope composition of volcanic gases. | Continue reading
SARS-CoV-2 in patient samples is detected in under an hour using a CRISPR-based lateral flow assay. | Continue reading