Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation. | Continue reading
Researchers are trying to shift Mexico's oyamel firs to higher elevations to help them weather warming temperatures. | Continue reading
Neuroscientists tracked the activity of single neurons deep in the brain and suggest the findings could explain humans’ intelligence — and susceptibility to psychiatric disorders. | Continue reading
The surprise discovery of ancient crustaceans and a tardigrade emerged from a rare mission to drill into a lake sealed off by a kilometre of ice. | Continue reading
Scientists use a combination of x-ray video, computer modelling and robotics to reanimate 280 million year old fossil. | Continue reading
China’s Chang’e-4 lander has sent back pictures of a cotton seed sprouting in a miniature biosphere experiment on the craft. | Continue reading
Lieder et al show that individuals with dyslexia and individuals with ASD rely mostly on recent and earlier perceptual information, respectively, during perceptual tasks. This may explain the unique difficulties associated with the two conditions. | Continue reading
Two-photon microscopy is a powerful tool for studying neuronal activity but cannot easily image deeper cortical layers. Here, the authors design a custom microscope for three-photon microscopy and use it to reveal response properties of layer 5, 6, and subplate visual cortical ne … | Continue reading
Adolescents regularly use digital technology, but its impact on their psychological well-being is unclear. Here, the authors examine three large datasets and find only a small negative association: digital technology use explains at most 0.4% of well-being. | Continue reading
A microneedle skin patch with rapidly separable, biodegradable polymer needles continuously releases the contraceptive levonorgestrel for over one month in rats. | Continue reading
Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours. | Continue reading
A vast analysis tackles a defining question of the digital age. | Continue reading
In the United States, France and Germany, as peoples’ opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods becomes more extreme, their self-rated understanding of genetic modification increases, but objectively, their knowledge of the science behind genetic modification tends to be poor … | Continue reading
Deep neural networks have become very successful at certain machine learning tasks partly due to the widely adopted method of training called backpropagation. An alternative way to optimize neural networks is by using evolutionary algorithms, which, fuelled by the increase in com … | Continue reading
The complex tests that gauge mutation levels will pose a challenge in the clinic. | Continue reading
Evidence of paternal transmission of mitochondrial DNA. | Continue reading
Naming project aims to strengthen Indigenous connections to discoveries made at state’s many telescopes. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is beginning to be applied in the medical setting and has potential to improve workflows and errors, impacting patients and clinicians alike. | Continue reading
Students and junior investigators are more likely than senior scientists to secure crowdfunding for their research. | Continue reading
A cytokine mimic has been computationally designed from scratch. | Continue reading
A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week. | Continue reading
Lasers have long held allure for physics, the military and science fiction, finds Luke Fleet. | Continue reading
Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation. | Continue reading
Ageing telescope’s wide-field camera fails while key NASA employees are on involuntary, indefinite leave due to political impasse. | Continue reading
How pilot whales know who’s an insider and who’s an outsider. | Continue reading
A deep-learning algorithm, trained on over 17,000 real-world patient facial images, achieves high accuracy in identifying rare genetic disorders. | Continue reading
Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation. | Continue reading
Deep neural networks have become very successful at certain machine learning tasks partly due to the widely adopted method of training called backpropagation. An alternative way to optimize neural networks is by using evolutionary algorithms, which, fuelled by the increase in com … | Continue reading
Simple artificial-intelligence problem puts researchers up against a logical paradox discovered by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel. | Continue reading
Not all mathematical questions can be resolved, according to Gödel’s famous incompleteness theorems. It turns out that machine learning can be vulnerable to undecidability too, as is illustrated with an example problem where learnability cannot be proved nor refuted. | Continue reading
Simple artificial-intelligence problem puts researchers up against a logical paradox discovered by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel. | Continue reading
Any scientist publishing a claim should quantify their confidence in it with a probability, argues Steven N. Goodman. | Continue reading
Bounty includes second known example of a repeating burst. | Continue reading
Analysis of electrocardiograms using an end-to-end deep learning approach can detect and classify cardiac arrhythmia with high accuracy, similar to that of cardiologists. | Continue reading
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified at least eight planets, including a world with a mass more than 20 times that of Earth. | Continue reading
A phosphorus dopant qubit is positioned within a vertically gated single-electron transistor with <5 nm alignment precision and its spin is read with 97.9% fidelity. | Continue reading
Most machine learning approaches extract statistical features from data, rather than the underlying causal mechanisms. A different approach analyses information in a general way by extracting recursive patterns from data using generative models under the paradigm of computability … | Continue reading
Evidence of a limitation in certain machine-learning algorithms. | Continue reading
Deep-learning algorithm helps to diagnose conditions that aren’t readily apparent to doctors or researchers. | Continue reading
Hallucinations can occur in both healthy individuals and patients with psychiatric disorders. Garrison et al. here report that specific brain morphology differences in the paracingulate sulcus (PCS) can determine the occurrence of hallucinations in schizophrenia, irrespective of … | Continue reading
Expert presenters share advice on how to capture and hold the attention of a conference crowd. | Continue reading
LIGO’s Asian cousin will this year deploy ambitious technology to improve sensitivity in the search for these faint, cosmic ripples — but its biggest enemy could be snowmelt. | Continue reading
The scientific community’s response to the CRISPR twins should not pre-empt broader discussion across society, warns J. Benjamin Hurlbut. | Continue reading