Little is known about the actual effects of electrification policies on carbon emissions. This study shows that, under current carbon intensities of electricity generation, electric cars and heat pumps are less emission intensive than fossil-fuel-based alternatives in 53 of 59 wo … | Continue reading
Parents who refused to vaccinate their children fostered the spread of a once-vanquished disease. | Continue reading
Ralph Baric, Vineet Menachery and colleagues characterize a SARS-like coronavirus circulating in Chinese horseshoe bats to determine its potential to infect primary human airway epithelial cells, cause disease in mice and respond to available therapeutics. | Continue reading
An estimation of the clinical severity of COVID-19, based on the data available so far, can help to inform the public health response during the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. | Continue reading
Permanent magnets could help to optimize the geometry of a future fusion reactor. | Continue reading
Extensive contact tracing has slowed viral spread, but some say publicizing people’s movements raises privacy concerns. | Continue reading
Some researchers see promise in planned reforms. | Continue reading
From papers published to carbon emissions to confirmed cases, these data reveal an unprecedented viral outbreak and its impacts around the world. | Continue reading
Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis applied theories of probability, randomness and dynamic systems to other areas of maths. | Continue reading
Three leading health officials talk about gauging the size of local outbreaks, and why containment strategies aren’t futile yet. | Continue reading
Nuclear physicist, polymath, disarmament pioneer and government adviser. | Continue reading
As scientific meetings are cancelled worldwide, researchers are rethinking how they network — a move that some say is long overdue. | Continue reading
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. | Continue reading
Public institutes are responding to allegations of interference in research by foreign governments, especially China. | Continue reading
An imaging study of planarian flatworm brains demonstrates that densely packed neural tissues seem to have packing configurations commensurate with a jammed state. | Continue reading
Graphene is shown to be impermeable to helium and several other gases, except for hydrogen, which is attributed to the strong catalytic activity of ripples in the graphene sheet. | Continue reading
After decades of slow progress, researchers are exploring better treatments for kidney failure — which kills more people than HIV or tuberculosis. | Continue reading
A NOT gate for magnetic racetrack memory. | Continue reading
Fossil of the miniature avian species Oculudentavis khaungraae. | Continue reading
Coherent quantum control of a single 123Sb nucleus using electric fields produced within a silicon nanoelectronic device is demonstrated experimentally, validating a concept predicted theoretically in 1961. | Continue reading
Ruthenium isotope compositions of the oldest preserved mantle rocks from Greenland imply that volatile-rich outer Solar System material was not delivered to Earth until very late in the planet’s formation. | Continue reading
For three years, part of DARPA has funded two teams for each project: one for research and one for reproducibility. The investment is paying off. | Continue reading
Research and reading helped Shipra Jain to gain confidence in her abilities. | Continue reading
When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it’s easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas. | Continue reading
The cerebellum is involved in reward-driven learning. | Continue reading
As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments. | Continue reading
Researchers have identified microscopic features that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus — and serve as drug targets. | Continue reading
The electronic structure of benzene has been a test bed for competing theories along the years. Here the authors show via quantum chemistry calculations that the wavefunction of benzene can be partitioned into tiles which show that the two electron spins exhibit staggered Kekulé … | Continue reading
The high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of a pre-fusion coronavirus spike trimer from mouse hepatitis virus is presented; the structure reveals architectural similarities to paramyxovirus F proteins, suggesting that these fusion proteins may have evolved from a dis … | Continue reading
These stellar remnants are some of the Universe’s most enigmatic objects — and they are finally starting to give up their secrets. | Continue reading
But researchers say the result is conservative, and that weather conditions that make fires more likely will continue to worsen. | Continue reading
A planetary alignment provides a window to visit Uranus and Neptune — but time is tight. | Continue reading
Repositories let researchers store, share and access life‑science images — and maybe even extract new findings. | Continue reading
A quantum dot device designed to host four electrons is used to demonstrate Nagaoka ferromagnetism—a model of itinerant magnetism that has so far been limited to theoretical investigation. | Continue reading
Three searchable databases provide information on global opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members. | Continue reading
Your paper has been accepted, reviewed and published. Now you need to get it talked about by journalists, the public, your peers and funders. | Continue reading
Despite recent defeats, activists are optimistic that courts will provide relief from climate change. | Continue reading