Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The energy drink ingredient offers striking health benefits in mice, monkeys and worms. But more work is needed to investigate its link with ageing.

Goopy ‘biofilms’ normally serve as a protective shield, but Vibrio cholerae uses them to kill immune cells.

The high cost of ‘reformatting’ prompts a call for journals to change their requirements.

Decades of data show the widespread belief that morality is waning is an illusion. Plus, the first images of the tallest tree in the Amazon and a ‘lost world’ of previously unknown microorganisms that once dominated complex life on Earth.

Noninterferometric experiments have been successfully employed to constrain models of spontaneous wave function collapse, which predict a violation of the quantum superposition principle for large systems. These experiments are grounded on the fact that, according to these models, the dynamics is driven by noise that, besides collapsing the wave function in space, generates a diffusive motion with

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.239902

Using conformal invariance of gravitational waves, we show that for a luminal modified gravity theory, the gravitational-wave propagation and luminosity distance are the same as in general relativity. The relation between the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic-wave luminosity distance gets modified, however, for electromagnetism minimally coupled to the Jordan frame metric. Using effective field

All-perovskite tandem solar cells promise higher power-conversion efficiency (PCE) than single-junction perovskite solar cells while maintaining a low fabrication cost1–3. However, their performance is still largely constrained by the subpar performance of mixed Pb-Sn narrow-bandgap perovskite subcells, mainly due to a high trap density on the perovskite film surface4–6. Although heterojunctions with

Called MINFLUX, the super-resolution method allows researchers to track molecules under cellular conditions.

Entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into host cells depends on refolding of the virus-encoded spike protein from a prefusion conformation, metastable after cleavage, to a lower energy, stable postfusion conformation1,2. This transition overcomes kinetic barriers for fusion of viral and target cell membranes3,4. We report here a cryo-EM structure of the intact postfusion

After gulls switched their focus from southern right whale mothers to calves, scientists recorded a drop in calf survival.

Digits made of soft materials tap out a melody from the composer’s Ninth Symphony on a keyboard.

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