Joelle Pineau is leading an effort to encourage artificial-intelligence researchers to open up their code. | Continue reading
A technology that delivers ultrasound images of living tissue without directly touching the target has undergone successful human testing for the first time. The need to contact a patient’s skin with conventional sound-sensitive piezoelectric devices can cause errors in ultrasoun … | Continue reading
The neural mechanisms that lead to a relative deficit in memory retrieval in the afternoon are unclear. Here, the authors show that the circadian - dependent transcription factor BMAL1 regulates retrieval through dopamine and glutamate receptor phosphorylation. | Continue reading
Theoretical modelling shows that elastic fluctuations can enable the tuning of metal-to-insulator transitions, potentially also explaining the dependence of the transition temperature on cation radius in perovskite transition-metal oxides. | Continue reading
Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the TniQ–Cascade complex encoded by the Vibrio cholerae Tn6677 transposon reveal the mechanistic basis of the functional association of CRISPR- and transposon-associated machineries. | Continue reading
Bayesian modelling of radiometric age estimates provides a robust chronology for Homo erectus at Ngandong (Java), confirming that this site currently represents the last known occurrence of this species. | Continue reading
Differences in MCT1 function among melanoma cells confer differences in oxidative stress resistance and metastatic potential. | Continue reading
Individual amino acids fused to a highly charged heptapeptide are discriminated in an aerolysin nanopore. | Continue reading
The pharmaceutical industry is in a drug-discovery slump. How much can AI help? | Continue reading
A promising field of research on social behaviour struggled after investigators couldn’t repeat key findings. Now researchers are trying to establish what’s worth saving. | Continue reading
The ergodic hypothesis is used to produce a statistical solution to the chaotic non-hierarchical three-body problem. | Continue reading
Technologies for acquiring explainable features from medical images need further development. Here, the authors report a deep learning based automated acquisition of explainable features from pathology images, and show a higher accuracy of their method as compared to pathologist … | Continue reading
Four scientists reveal their key lessons from the publication process. | Continue reading
Students and staff at two research institutes have tested positive to the Brucella bacterium, which can lead to serious complications. | Continue reading
Household income is used as a marker of socioeconomic position, a trait that is associated with better physical and mental health. Here, Hill et al. report a genome-wide association study for household income in the UK and explore its relationship with intelligence in post-GWAS a … | Continue reading
Cabinet greenlights US$600-million Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, which scientists hope will bring revolutionary discoveries. | Continue reading
Government spending deal includes $25 million for studies of firearm safety. | Continue reading
Powering through floods, exhaustion and tick bites is all in a day’s work for Jodi Rowley. | Continue reading
The properties of the thin meltwater layer found on the surface of ice. | Continue reading
Persistent mitochondrial DNA stress is shown to upregulate nuclear DNA damage and repair responses via activation of the cGAS–STING pathway and a subset of interferon-stimulated genes. | Continue reading
Researchers are finding links between people’s genes and complex attributes such as socio-economic status and the time spent in school. The worry is that their results will be misconstrued. | Continue reading
Indonesian rock art dated to 44,000 years old seems to show mythological figures in a hunting scene. | Continue reading
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The mass-authorship trend that began in particle physics is spreading to other fields. | Continue reading
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Leading thinkers choose past works illuminating crucial issues today. | Continue reading
Impulsive behaviour is common in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, the authors identify a pathway from the lateral hypothalamus to the ventral hippocampus and the role of melanin-concentrating hormone signaling in these neurons in specifically regulating impulsivity. | Continue reading
Conventionally, heat transfer occurs by conduction, convection or radiation, but has also been theoretically predicted to occur through quantum fluctuations across a vacuum; this prediction has now been confirmed experimentally. | Continue reading
NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected more than 300 quakes and traced some back to their source. | Continue reading
A high-resolution update of Antarctic bed topography using mass conservation reveals broad stabilizing ridges for glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains, and stabilizing slopes beneath Moscow University, Totten and Lambert glacier system. | Continue reading
Gut microbiota alterations, including enrichment of flagellated bacteria, are associated with metabolic syndrome and chronic inflammatory diseases. Here, Tran et al. show, in mice, that elicitation of mucosal anti-flagellin antibodies protects against experimental colitis and ame … | Continue reading
Report says that US science agencies should strengthen and coordinate their conflict-of-interest policies. | Continue reading
Mendelian randomization offers a simple way to distinguish causation from correlation. But are scientists overusing it? | Continue reading
Humanity’s supposed singular transition to modernity in the first millennium BC was much messier than previously thought, finds sweeping study of historical data. | Continue reading
Subtle economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces even when perceivers are warned that such cues are non-informative or are instructed and incentivized to ignore them. This bias puts low-income individuals at a disadvantage. | Continue reading
An overview of the effects of vaccines on global morbidity and mortality, vaccine safety issues, and the hurdles involved in proceeding from vaccine discovery to successful implementation. | Continue reading
The glass-forming materials exhibit dynamical slowing down together with spatial heterogeneity at microscales, but their origin remains debated. Tong and Tanaka show that this phenomenon can be unified based on a structural order parameter capable of detecting subtle ordering in … | Continue reading
High-energy-resolution spectroscopic measurements performed on the Kondo insulator SmB6 reveal the presence of correlation-driven heavy surface states—the heavy Dirac fermions—and shed light on the search for the correlated topological materials. | Continue reading