A monolayer WS2 membrane patterned as a photonic crystal sustains guided optical modes that propagate via total internal reflection. | Continue reading
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons — they will make better decisions. | Continue reading
Are people who know their own abilities better psychologically adjusted than people holding inaccurate views? This Registered Report by He and Côté finds no evidence of strong associations, calling this longstanding proposal into question. | Continue reading
Light is used to guide the behaviour of an engineered active-matter system, producing structures and properties that can be dynamically manipulated and controlled. | Continue reading
Identification of SFiNX, a complex of Nxf2–Nxt1, a variant of the mRNA export receptor Nxf1–Nxt1 and the Piwi-associated protein Panoramix, demonstrates an RNA export independent role for Nxf2 in piRNA-guided cotranscriptional transposon silencing. | Continue reading
‘Lokiarchaea’, previously known only from DNA, is isolated and grown in culture. | Continue reading
Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly connected quantum state. | Continue reading
Mouse incisor growth depends upon mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and transit amplifying cells (TACs). Here the authors describe a distinct population of MSCs that is maintained by TACs through Dlk1 ligand and that contribute to MTACs and mesenchymal lineages including dental pu … | Continue reading
The North Atlantic jet stream has become 15 per cent more sheared in the upper atmosphere since 1979, an expected consequence of climate change, and consistent with increased aircraft turbulence. | Continue reading
Variability in Earth’s thermal gradients, recorded by metamorphic rocks through time, shows that Earth’s modern plate tectonics developed gradually since the Neoarchaean era, three billion years ago. | Continue reading
The report on global land use and agriculture from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon. | Continue reading
At rush hour, immobilizing a small fraction of Internet-connected cars would bring Manhattan to a halt. | Continue reading
Bioethicists hope a national committee will help close loopholes in the country’s biomedical ethics regulations. | Continue reading
An artificial protein cage is readily assembled by metal ion coordination and disassembled by reducing agents, and displays excellent chemical and thermal stability. | Continue reading
Funds paved the way for rigorous tests of therapies, but unintentionally boosted a market for potentially dangerous fakes, says Jeanne F. Loring. | Continue reading
Protestors in Hawaii have prevented construction for more than three weeks, and there is no sign of a resolution in sight. | Continue reading
Wahl et al. present palaeoenvironmental, epigraphic and archaeological evidence that suggests that the Maya engaged in tactics akin to total warfare earlier and more frequently than previously thought. | Continue reading
A US national experiment showed that a short, online, self-administered growth mindset intervention can increase adolescents’ grades and advanced course-taking, and identified the types of school that were poised to benefit the most. | Continue reading
Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons. | Continue reading
Researchers are hunting for nuclear debris, mercury pollution and other fingerprints of humanity that could designate a new geological epoch. | Continue reading
A biomimetic culture system is developed by reverse engineering to replicate key features of the human ocular surface at cellular, tissue and organ levels, and is used as an in vitro model of dry-eye disease compatible with drug-screening approaches. | Continue reading
Local hunters help scientists to understand a generally silent creature’s loud ‘sobs’. | Continue reading
Three physicists honoured for theory that has been hugely influential — but might not be a good description of reality. | Continue reading
An easy method that promised to cut complications in surgery may not be so simple after all. | Continue reading
Confidence in researchers might be on the rise, but concerns about misconduct and potential conflicts of interest remain. | Continue reading
Phosphorus limitation can significantly reduce the response of the Amazon forest to CO2 fertilization, according to ecosystem-model ensemble simulations of a free-air CO2 enrichment experiment. | Continue reading
The quality and outcomes of meetings can improve drastically with a few simple steps. | Continue reading
Human-induced warming also made the hot spell up to 100 times more likely in some parts. | Continue reading
Algorithms based on diffractive wave propagation of light offer effective imaging of complex scenes hidden from direct view. | Continue reading
There is a lack of systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of geo-industrial clusters at the global scale. Here the authors use LinkedIn's employment history data to construct a global labor flow network from which they find that the resulting geo … | Continue reading
Small, high-performance imaging systems could be built using flat lenses made from specially arranged nanoscale pillars. Traditional lenses rely on the curvature and thickness of glass to focus light, but metalenses, which can be smaller, thinner, and more flexible, have surfaces … | Continue reading
Extraordinarily thick organic light-emitting diodes can be fabricated using hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites as the transport layers, thus relaxing fabrication constraints without affecting their efficiency, voltage requirement or durability. | Continue reading
A Review of advances in memory-editing techniques in humans suggests that these techniques are advancing beyond science fiction and could hold promise for translation into clinical practice. | Continue reading
The human placenta does not have a microbiota, suggesting that bacterial infection of the placenta is not a common cause of adverse pregnancy outcome, but group B Streptococcus is found in approximately 5% of placental samples. | Continue reading
Light emitters can be induced in transition metal dichalcogenides by defect engineering, but challenges remain in their controlled spatial positioning. Here, the authors irradiate monolayer MoS2 with a sub-nm focused helium ion beam to deterministically create defects, and obtain … | Continue reading
There is a lack of systematic approaches to identify and analyze the hierarchical structure of geo-industrial clusters at the global scale. Here the authors use LinkedIn's employment history data to construct a global labor flow network from which they find that the resulting geo … | Continue reading
The University of Alaska's governing board plans to consolidate campuses to cope with a 40% cut in state funding. | Continue reading
The experimental vaccine targets more strains of the virus than any other ― and seems to have longer lasting effects. | Continue reading
The Consistent Histories formalism can solve paradoxes in quantum mechanics, but finding such consistent sets of histories requires a computational overhead which is exponential in the problem’s size. Here, the authors report a variational hybrid algorithm solving this problem us … | Continue reading