People with a specific variant had more active thymus glands, which produce immune cells that fight off infection.

Support staff should speak up more about how their skills drive scientific discovery, says glassblower Terri Adams.

Nobel laureates often receive the prize decades after their groundbreaking research — and that delay is getting longer.

A mechanism for equalizing gene expression between sexes.

When it comes to large language models, there’s one for every occasion. Find the most appropriate match for you in our AI speed-dating feature.

Respiratory syncytial virus is usually associated with babies, but the virus can also cause serious disease in older adults and people with chronic medical conditions.

Only a fraction of the planet’s surface will be habitable to mammals when the next supercontinent, Pangaea Ultima, forms.

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Incoherent new climate-policy messages by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will dissolve the UK’s climate leadership, stifle innovation’s momentum and cost consumers.

Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are of great appeal as they promise high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) at affordable cost. In state-of-the-art tandems, the perovskite top cell is electrically coupled to a silicon heterojunction bottom cell via a self-assembled monolayer (SAM), anchored on a transparent conductive oxide (TCO), which enables efficient charge transfer between the

The Anopheles mosquito is one of thousands of species in which sex differences play a central role in their biology, as only females need a blood meal in order to produce eggs. Sex differentiation is regulated by sex chromosomes, but their presence creates a dosage imbalance between males (XY) and females (XX). Dosage compensation (DC) can re-equilibrate the expression of sex-chromosomal genes, but

Synthetic diamond recovers from fracture when carbon atoms on both sides of the gap form bonds with each other.

People with an abundance of specific neurons are more likely to escape cognitive decline despite having signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains.

Models trained on large data sets of seismic events can estimate the number of aftershocks better than conventional models do.

With a few modifications, ChatGPT-like models could enhance the art of identifying future laureates.

Tens of thousands of federal researchers might have to stop work on 1 October — but the shutdown’s effects could ripple well beyond government.

Nuclear resonance in scandium-45 excited by X-ray lasers could provide the basis for a highly precise and stable nuclear clock.

Addition of particles to a viscoelastic suspension dramatically alters the properties of the mixture, particularly when it is sheared or otherwise processed. Shear-induced stretching of the polymers results in elastic stress that causes a substantial increase in measured viscosity with increasing shear, and an attractive interaction between particles, leading to their chaining. At even higher shear

Extracellular potassium concentration ([K + ] e ) is known to increase as a function of arousal. [K + ] e is also a potent modulator of transmitter release. Yet, it is not known whether [K + ] e is involved in the neuromodulator release associated with behavioral transitions. We here show that manipulating [K + ] e controls the local release of monoaminergic neuromodulators, including norepinephrine

The phenomenon of protein phase separation (PPS) underlies a wide range of cellular functions. Correspondingly, the dysregulation of the PPS process has been associated with numerous human diseases. To enable therapeutic interventions based on the regulation of this association, possible targets should be identified. For this purpose, we present an approach that combines the multiomic PandaOmics platform

Infants less than 1 y of age experience high rates of dengue disease in dengue virus (DENV) endemic countries. This burden is commonly attributed to antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), whereby concentrations of maternally derived DENV antibodies become subneutralizing, and infection-enhancing. Understanding antibody-related mechanisms of enhanced infant dengue disease risk represents a significant

Ozone recovery is predicted to shift westerly winds, which will reduce the amount of warm water flowing into the Southern Ocean.

Laurent Marivaux works to identify ancient mammals to understand evolutionary history in South America.

During nutrient stress, macroautophagy degrades cellular macromolecules, thereby providing biosynthetic building blocks while simultaneously remodeling the proteome1,2. While machinery responsible for initiation of macroautophagy is well characterized3,4, our understanding of the extent to which individual proteins, protein complexes and organelles are selected for autophagic degradation, and the underlying

Hours of footage of zebrafish embryos let researchers capture and study this key moment in development.

Using a metal–organic framework, researchers reduced the volume of a water-based mixture by 7%.

All-organic LED-driven laser.

Global-scale assessment of the effectiveness of a key conservation tool.

Higher-education campaigners fear that removing the option for job applicants to provide the statements will make the academic workforce less diverse.

How calcium waves organize and propagate across the developing heart.

The rise of AI-generated fakes, evidence of the earliest-known wooden structure, and how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid samples back to Earth.

The Wide Field Survey Telescope will scan the skies for stellar explosions. Plus, how to do science in a violent border region and how much we owe to earthworms.

Imaging shows that the marine arthropod had feasted on small shelly invertebrates.

A move from one sector to another isn’t a one-way street. Researchers who have pivoted between the two explain why.

Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades.

Small rubber suction cups filled with medication were better than tablets at delivering compounds into the bloodstream.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected valuable samples, but a new report says the plan to fetch them is unworkable.

New approach for analysing global patterns of biodiversity.

A data analysis shows that intense tropical cyclones are shifting earlier in the season all over the globe, owing mainly to anthropogenic climate warming.

Test shows antimatter is pulled by gravity.