Carbon dioxide can dissociate via different pathways depending on the amount of available energy. Here the authors investigate carbon dioxide collisions with metal substrates and observe a pathway producing molecular oxygen, which might explain the presence of oxygen in abiotic e … | Continue reading
Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapour. | Continue reading
A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly. | Continue reading
Skin-integrated wireless touch-based interfaces. | Continue reading
Imaging and sequencing approaches are combined to show that extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer is circular and has unique chromatin structure that amplifies oncogene output. | Continue reading
Researchers grapple with the meaning of the first objects entering our Solar System from distant regions. | Continue reading
Draft genomes of more than 800 species hint at the role of interbreeding in the animal’s evolution. | Continue reading
Some researchers have their manuscripts screened for errors before they go to journals. | Continue reading
It’s time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz. | Continue reading
Hergenrother and colleagues develop a web portal to help predict key permeation aspects of query compounds using the eNTRy rules they recently developed. They use this approach to screen antibiotics that are effective against Gram-positive bacteria and engineer a modified version … | Continue reading
A new class of CRISPR-based tools efficiently corrects point mutations in cell lines, animal models and perhaps the clinic. | Continue reading
Synthesis of MoS2 on a silicon surface pre-treated with phosphine enables the growth of one-dimensional MoS2 nanocrystals with tunable dimensions and optical properties. | Continue reading
16 out of 17 spectral observations of Europa, spanning from February 2016 to May 2017, did not see anything, but the one on 26 April 2016 shows evidence of a direct detection of water vapour, compatible with a column density of 1.4 ± 0.4 × 1019 H2O m−2. Whatever water activity th … | Continue reading
Cassini data reveal the geological diversity of Saturn’s largest moon. | Continue reading
By examining publication records of scientists from four disciplines, the authors show that coauthoring a paper with a top-cited scientist early in one's career predicts lasting increases in career success, especially for researchers affiliated with less prestigious institutions. | Continue reading
All anxiety disorders are characterized by sleep disruption. Ben Simon et al. develop a neural framework of sleep-loss-induced anxiety, one that emphasizes NREM sleep as a therapeutic target for anxiety amelioration. | Continue reading
Phill Cassey outlines one proactive step to support diversity in his workplace. | Continue reading
Japanese craft’s mission is the first to gather material from under an an asteroid’s surface. | Continue reading
In nuclear fusion, energy is produced by the rearrangement of protons and neutrons. The discovery of an analogue of this process involving particles called quarks has implications for both nuclear and particle physics. See Letter p.89 | Continue reading
Constraints on axion–antiproton interactions. | Continue reading
Short pulses of light shift the balance between two competing charge density wave phases, allowing the weaker one to manifest transiently while suppressing the stronger one. This shows that competing phases can be tuned in a non-equilibrium setting. | Continue reading
The bending stiffness of few-layer graphene is shown to decrease significantly with the bending angle due to shear and slip between the atomic layers, which culminate in superlubric behaviour as the bending angle further increases. | Continue reading
A multinozzle system for the 3D printing of voxellated objects. | Continue reading
Ultrasonic speakers steer tiny bead to generate displays that you can touch and hear. | Continue reading
Jing Xian Teo et al. used sleep tracking data from consumer wearables, together with phenotypic data from 482 volunteers to identify factors associated with habitual sleep duration and sleep efficiency. They identified sleep metrics associated with cardiovascular disease risk mar … | Continue reading
Activation of gene expression with chemical epigenetic modifiers | Continue reading
Anxiety and depression among graduate students seems to be on the rise. Systemic change is needed to halt an ongoing crisis. | Continue reading
Patients in intensive care units administered a bacterial probiotic had an elevated risk of bloodstream infection due to the probiotic strain. | Continue reading
Andy Greenberg’s book Sandworm is trenchant on the mounting capacity of malware to wreak havoc. Brian Nussbaum reviews. | Continue reading
The drug, which has already been given to hundreds of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, can now be distributed more widely. | Continue reading
The practice was probably used to improve the children’s chances of securing a university place. | Continue reading
Seawater electrolysis is a promising approach to produce hydrogen fuel and is also of great significance to seawater desalination. Here, the authors prepare 3D core-shell metal-nitride catalysts from earth-abundant elements for high-performance alkaline seawater electrolysis. | Continue reading
Researchers fear that plans to send tens of thousands of communications satellites into orbit will disrupt scientific observations of the Universe. | Continue reading
The insects show sophisticated learning for non-bee related tasks, and can even improve on what they are taught. | Continue reading
The mammalian vertebral column has become more complex over evolutionary time. Here, Jones and colleagues use phylogenetic modelling to show that this complexity increased in stepwise shifts likely driven by adaptations for increased aerobic capacity. | Continue reading
Modern humans and Neanderthals coexisted in the Levant for tens of thousands of years before modern humans spread and replaced Neanderthals. Here, Greenbaum et al. develop a model showing that transmission of disease and genes can explain the maintenance and then collapse of this … | Continue reading