Ionization cooling of muons has been achieved. | Continue reading
Pan-cancer analysis of whole-genome sequences from 2,658 tumours. | Continue reading
Research involves deep discussions between authors and reviewers. Starting this week, readers of some Nature Research journals will be able to see this up close. | Continue reading
Making changes to the molecular messengers that create proteins might offer flexible therapies for cancer, pain or high cholesterol, in addition to genetic disorders. | Continue reading
Genetic studies of mental illness have largely been conducted in people with European ancestry. | Continue reading
Gale Crater on Mars has been demonstrated to have once hosted water, but its chemistry is still under debate. Here the authors use mineralogical rock compositions and show the once saline character of Gale Crater—a result of warmer climate periods during the Hesperian period. | Continue reading
An evaluation of past climate-model forecasts. | Continue reading
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. | Continue reading
Butterfly wings have low thermal capacity and thus are vulnerable to damage by overheating. Here, Tsai et al. take an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the organs, nanostructures and behaviors that enable butterflies to sense and regulate their wing temperature. | Continue reading
Observations of cold solid hydrogen at extreme pressures. | Continue reading
Single-walled carbon nanotubes can restore phagocytotic properties of macrophages in artherosclerotic plaques to promote plaque clearance and combat artherosclerosis. | Continue reading
Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public. | Continue reading
Ex-smokers’ lungs have a large fraction of cells with few mutations. | Continue reading
Pollinators can persist in urban areas despite little natural habitat. Here the authors compare insect pollinators and pollination inside and outside of German cities, showing that urban areas have high diversity of bees but not other insects, and high pollination provisioning, r … | Continue reading
Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome — more-realistic baselines make for better policy. | Continue reading
Sympathetic inputs drive hair greying in stressed mice. | Continue reading
Although only a small number of PhD graduates become professors, most career guidance in PhD programmes centres on the academic career ladder. Adam Chekroud shares his experience of starting a company. | Continue reading
Flash Joule heating of inexpensive carbon sources is used to produce gram-scale quantities of high-quality graphene in under a second, without the need for a furnace, solvents or reactive gases. | Continue reading
Typically, ion conducting polymers exhibit a trade-off between mechanical robustness and ionic conducting performance. Here, the authors utilize supramolecular chemistry obtaining extremely tough electrolytes with high ionic conductivity and enabling stretchable lithium-ion batte … | Continue reading
Matoba et al. performed GWAS on 13 dietary habits in Japanese individuals, identifying ten new associations in eight traits and five dietary-trait-associated loci with pleiotropic effects on multiple human disease and clinical measurements. | Continue reading
Measures to contain a new virus’s spread have cut off the city's researchers. | Continue reading
Redox-switchable chelation is demonstrated for a carborane cluster molecule, leading to controlled chemical or electrochemical capture and release of uranyl in monophasic or biphasic model solvent systems. | Continue reading
Many aspects of polariton condensate behaviour can be captured by mean-field theories but interactions introduce additional quantum effects. Here the authors observe quantum depletion in a driven-dissipative condensate and find that deviations from equilibrium predictions depend … | Continue reading
Fonzo et al. found that brain activity during a form of emotional regulation predicted how well individuals with depression would respond to a common antidepressant. Brain function assays may herald a new era of precision medicine in psychiatry. | Continue reading
An in vivo approach to identify proteins whose enrichment near cardiac CaV1.2 channels changes upon β-adrenergic stimulation finds the G protein Rad, which is phosphorylated by protein kinase A, thereby relieving channel inhibition by Rad and causing an increased Ca2+ curren … | Continue reading
Researchers are racing to find out more about the epidemiology and genetic sequence of the coronavirus spreading in Asia and beyond. | Continue reading
A dust impact event detected by the ROSINA mass spectrometer towards the end of the Rosetta mission brings evidence of the presence of ammonium salts in comets. Ammonium salts can store enough nitrogen to explain the observed nitrogen depletion in comets and may have a role in am … | Continue reading
Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China. | Continue reading
These researchers tracked down mysterious sources of ozone-destroying chemicals in China and guard the planet against future illicit emissions. | Continue reading
Chinese officials have confirmed that the virus is spreading between people, but it’s still unclear how easily this happens. | Continue reading
Powerful terahertz pulses are generated during the nonlinear propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in gases. Here, the authors demonstrate efficient sub-cycle THz pulse generation by using two-color midinfrared femtosecond laser filaments in ambient air. | Continue reading
Biologists say they need clearer guidelines on funding rules for this nascent field. | Continue reading
The far north is heating up twice as fast as the global average. | Continue reading
The United States is no longer the ‘uncontested leader’ in science globally, the National Science Foundation says. | Continue reading
The biology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains unknown. We propose AD is a protein connectivity-based dysfunction disorder whereby a switch of the chaperome into epichaperomes rewires proteome-wide connectivity, leading to brain circuitry malfunction that can be corrected by nov … | Continue reading
To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on our screens. | Continue reading