You’re unique just like everyone else. But when does such individuality appear? Laskowski et al. find that clonal fish show unique behavioral patterns on their first day of life, and these patterns predict their behavior up to at least 10 weeks later. | Continue reading
After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. | Continue reading
After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. | Continue reading
Controversy surrounding a study that involved modifying the SARS-CoV-2 virus has prompted researchers to call for better guidance from funders. | Continue reading
Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. | Continue reading
Scholars in PhD and master’s programmes struggle with securing work–life balance and support around career training and mental health, finds Nature survey. | Continue reading
A microcomb source based on a silicon nitride ring resonator is shown to support petabit-per-second data transmission over a multicore optical fibre. | Continue reading
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Controversy surrounding a study that involved modifying the SARS-CoV-2 virus has prompted researchers to call for better guidance from funders. | Continue reading
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An artificial neuron that detects dopamine using a carbon-based electrochemical sensor and then processes the sensory signals using a memristor with synaptic plasticity, before stimulating dopamine release via a heat-responsive hydrogel, can be used to trigger the controllable mo … | Continue reading
A guest-edited collection of features, comment and analysis examines researchers’ experiences of racism, the impacts of systemic racism and how science can and must change. | Continue reading
A matter-wave interferometer is demonstrated with an interferometric phase noise below the standard quantum limit, combining two core concepts of quantum mechanics, that a particle can simultaneously be in two places at once and entanglement between distinct particles. | Continue reading
Predicting patient-specific clinical drug responses from cell-line screens using machine learning is challenging. He and colleagues develop a deep learning method to predict patient-specific clinical responses from cell-line and other disease models for drug discovery and persona … | Continue reading
Physicist Jian-Wei Pan and his colleagues have achieved an important milestone towards redefining the second. | Continue reading
Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. | Continue reading
New type of large non-chromosomal element found in archaea | Continue reading
Samborska et al. trained mice on a set of problems with the same structure but different physical layouts to study generalization. Neurons in prefrontal cortex generalized across problems, whereas those in hippocampus were more problem specific. | Continue reading
An additive manufacturing method using a team of autonomous aerial robots allows for scalable and adaptable three-dimensional printing, and is used to deposit building materials during flight. | Continue reading
Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost. | Continue reading
In 2021, life expectancies returned to pre-pandemic levels in parts of western Europe but further worsened in eastern Europe, the United States and Chile. Life expectancy deficits were negatively correlated with vaccine uptake in later 2021. | Continue reading
The US National Science Foundation has decided to instead open an educational centre on the site. | Continue reading
Roads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants. | Continue reading
The charge related to how GNS Science communicated volcanic risk to the public in the lead-up to the 2019 eruption on Whakaari White Island. | Continue reading
Rat–human hybrid brains offer new ways to study human neurological disorders, but also raise ethical questions. | Continue reading
Human stem cell-derived cortical organoids transplanted into rats mature and integrate into sensory and motivation circuits to influence behaviour. | Continue reading
Cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence. | Continue reading
Ben Bernanke, Philip Dybvig and Douglas Diamond’s work explained how finance greases the wheels of capitalism – and why the system is inherently unstable. | Continue reading
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Global Ecosystem Typology has been developed to provide a systematic framework for data on all of Earth’s ecosystems in a unified theoretical context to support biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. | Continue reading
The hypothalamus controls systemic energy homeostasis. Here, the authors show that loss of microRNA-7 in hypothalamic neurons causes obesity, increased growth and endocrine dysfunction in mice, and report genetic evidence that links microRNA-7 to height and adiposity in humans. | Continue reading
Archaeogenetic study of ancient DNA from medieval northwestern Europeans reveals substantial increase of continental northern European ancestry in Britain, suggesting mass migration across the North Sea during the Early Middle Ages. | Continue reading
Age is a risk factor for many diseases, but the impact of aging on molecular phenotypes is not fully understood. Here, the authors quantify the relative contributions of genetics and aging to gene expression patterns across 27 tissues in humans, showing that age and genetics each … | Continue reading
Studies that scrutinized thousands of tumour samples provide the clearest link yet between cancer and fungi — but more research is needed. | Continue reading
The preparation of quantum silicon nanowires, materials with potential application in high-performance nanodevices, is challenging. Here, the authors synthesize vertically aligned sub-5 nm silicon nanowires via a vapor phase silicon etching process; the resulting material feature … | Continue reading
A multi-omic atlas of brain organoid development facilitates the inference of an underlying gene regulatory network using the newly developed Pando framework and shows—in conjunction with perturbation experiments—that GLI3 controls forebrain fate establishment through interaction … | Continue reading
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The CO2 fertilisation effect in forests remains controversial. Here, the authors disentangle the effect of CO2 on forest wood volume from other environmental factors, showing that elevated CO2 had a positive effect on wood volume in planted and natural US temperate forests. | Continue reading
Histone mimicry helps SARS-CoV-2 disrupt host-cell transcription. | Continue reading
Drug runners, gold miners and loggers are rapidly invading the remote Peruvian Amazon, home to isolated people and a wealth of biodiversity. Nature met the researchers and Indigenous communities fighting to stop the destruction. | Continue reading
Despite archaeobotanical evidence for domesticated cereals, organic residue evidence is scarce. Here, the authors identify cereal-specific markers in pottery from Scottish ‘crannogs’, revealing the presence of cereals in Neolithic pottery which might have been mixed with dairy pr … | Continue reading
A reinforcement learning approach based on AlphaZero is used to discover efficient and provably correct algorithms for matrix multiplication, finding faster algorithms for a variety of matrix sizes. | Continue reading
Massive SARS-CoV-2 sequencing project in Africa brings global benefits. | Continue reading