Ursula von der Leyen’s ambitions to strengthen carbon-cutting goals will need support from European Union member states. | Continue reading
Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope was supposed to start on 15 July. | Continue reading
Adjustments to measurements of sea surface temperature. | Continue reading
A fast, high-fidelity two-qubit exchange gate between phosphorus donor electron spin qubits in silicon is demonstrated by creating a tunable exchange interaction between two electrons bound to phosphorus atom qubits. | Continue reading
Microscopes that generate images by laser scanning could be miniaturized using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to replace the larger components currently required, allowing more-effective imaging of small structures in laboratory animals and humans. Researchers in the USA l … | Continue reading
Researchers combined sterilization with a bacterium in an attempt to stamp out the Asian tiger mosquito. | Continue reading
Quantum-mechanical band-to-band tunnelling can be used to create an energy-efficient ternary logic technology that can be fabricated on the wafer scale using complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) processes. | Continue reading
Nonlinear optical measurements in a two-dimensional electron system embedded in an optical cavity show enhanced polariton–polariton interactions in the fractional quantum Hall regime. | Continue reading
Systematic analysis of highly rearranged balancer chromosomes in Drosophila shows that extensive changes to chromatin topology affect the expression of only a subset of genes. | Continue reading
A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis —but is it legal? | Continue reading
Nearly a year after flames consumed Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, researchers are struggling to revive their work and resume their lives. | Continue reading
For some combinatorial puzzles, solutions can be verified to be optimal, for others, the state space is too large to be certain that a solution is optimal. A new deep learning based search heuristic performs well on the iconic Rubik’s cube and can also generalize to puzzles in wh … | Continue reading
On the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance icon’s death, Martin Kemp looks anew at his innovative experimental models for the motion of water and blood. | Continue reading
A combination of laboratory experiments and numerical modelling shows that a 2–3 cm-thick layer of silica aerogel deployed over the temperate regions of Mars could maintain a surface environment conducive to liquid water all year round. Such an approach would create a habitable s … | Continue reading
Devices detect dopamine as it ripples from one neuron to others nearby. | Continue reading
Sea-squirt larvae provide clues about the evolution of vertebrates. | Continue reading
Quantum gas microscopes provide high-resolution real-space snapshots of quantum many-body systems. Now machine-learning techniques are used in choosing theoretical descriptions according to the consistency of their predictions with these snapshots. | Continue reading
The kinesin-3 KIF1C transports dense core vesicles in neurons and delivers integrins to cell adhesions sites. Here the authors show that KIF1C's autoinhibitory interactions are released upon binding of protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN21 or cargo adapter Hook3 resulting in cargo- … | Continue reading
Tackling the energy efficiency of computing technology. | Continue reading
An enhancement of 28.5 times beyond the blackbody radiation limit is demonstrated between two plates 110 nm apart in a chip-scale device. | Continue reading
Long-lived, efficient organic light-emitting diodes based on a simple design of a single layer of an active light-emitting medium sandwiched between two contacts and no additional charge injection and transport layers are reported. | Continue reading
Ultra-fast hydrodynamic communication between cells emerges in colonies of Spirostomum ambiguum through the generation of long-ranged vortex flows that are sensed by neighbouring cells, leading to propagating trigger waves that coordinate the release of toxins. | Continue reading
Triumph over five human opponents at Texas hold’em brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world problems. | Continue reading
Li and Be isotopic measurements of calcium–aluminium inclusions (CAIs) in the Efremovka meteorite suggest that the solid and gaseous precursors of CAIs were irradiated by a superflare during the last stages of the pre-main-sequence evolution of the Sun. | Continue reading
Half a century after Apollo, Nature profiles five researchers who are shaking up lunar exploration. | Continue reading
Cryo-EM structures of the active Cas9–sgRNA–DNA complex in the presence of Mg2+ capture Cas9 in the pre- and postcatalytic states as well as in the product-bound state, and reveal coupled domain motions and interactions between the enzyme and nucleic acids. | Continue reading
Citizens and organizations have filed more than 1,300 cases worldwide since 1990. | Continue reading
As today’s tensions mount, it is salutary to recall that cooperation was on the table during the cold war, writes Roger D. Launius. | Continue reading
Altering the genomes of entire animal populations could help to defeat disease and control pests, but researchers worry about the consequences of unleashing this new technology. | Continue reading
The increasing demand for energy and clean water has become a grand global challenge. Here the authors develop a membrane-distillation device that exploits sunlight and the heat dissipated by an integrated solar cell unit, enabling simultaneous efficient production of electricity … | Continue reading
Full cosmological hydrodynamical simulations employing modified gravity find that disk galaxies can form and their stellar properties are only mildly affected. Modified gravity leaves signatures on large-scale structure observable with the Square Kilometre Array. | Continue reading
But the international scientific community continues to protest against the takeover, saying it will harm science. | Continue reading
The thermal comfort standards developed in the 1960s were based on the average male. Altering these standards to account for female metabolic rates could save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings. | Continue reading
The first interstellar object to be detected in the Solar System is asteroidal in nature and has a shape unlike any Solar System body, with a length about ten times its width. | Continue reading
A population bottleneck 5000-7000 years ago in human males, but not females, has been inferred across several African, European and Asian populations. Here, Zeng and colleagues synthesize theory and data to suggest that competition among patrilineal kin groups produced the bottle … | Continue reading
Wild plants anchor ecosystems and local economies. The iconic resin frankincense comes from Boswellia trees. This study documents the population collapse of B. papyrifera, the main frankincense source, throughout its range, suggesting conservation and restoration is vital. | Continue reading
The authors find that deletion from Schwann cells of an E3 ubiquitin ligase component called Fbxw7 leads to a phenotype reminiscent of myelination in the central nervous system where a single oligodendrocyte ensheaths multiple axons. | Continue reading
The directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) has shown great promise in fabricating customized two-dimensional (2D) geometries at the nano- and mesoscale. Here, the authors report the discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking and superlattice formation in DSA of B … | Continue reading
Here, the authors show that sequential treatment with long-acting slow-effective release ART and AAV9- based delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 results in undetectable levels of virus and integrated DNA in a subset of humanized HIV-1 infected mice. This proof-of-concept study suggests that … | Continue reading
Frequency modulation is used to create ‘Floquet polaritons’—strongly interacting quasi-particles that exist in a customizable set of modes. | Continue reading