Affordable and easy-to-administer interventions such as cognitive training, cognitively stimulating everyday leisure activities, and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, are promising avenues to counteract age-related cognitive decline and support people in maintaining cognitive health into late adulthood. However, the same pattern of findings emerges across all three fields of cognitive intervention

From drivable bionic animals to machines made from muscle, biohybrid robots are on their way to a variety of uses.

Landmark approval of the first CRISPR therapy paves the way for treatments based on more efficient and more precise genome editors.

Suppressing errors is the central challenge for useful quantum computing1, requiring quantum error correction2,3,4,5,6 for large-scale processing. However, the overhead in the realization of error-corrected “logical” qubits, where information is encoded across many physical qubits for redundancy2,3,4, poses significant challenges to large-scale logical quantum computing. Here we report the realization

The western coast of Colombia can get more than 26 metres of rain a year, thanks to the influence of air jets hitting the Andes range.

Caleb Watney explains how the National Science Foundation’s ‘science of science’ programme will find efficiencies and support ‘high-risk, high-reward’ studies.

Combining electron spin resonance techniques with atomic force microscopy allows single spins to be manipulated for quantum computing and sensing applications.

Planet-altering climate ‘tipping points’ are looming — but positive behavioural and economic shifts could result in runaway benefits for the climate. Plus, scientists race to save ancient cave paintings and how the clumsy use of AI is fuelling the reproducibility crisis.

Researchers look ahead to the potential uses and benefits of a technology that has been more than 20 years in the making.

Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms link tumours to renal failure.

Updated gnomAD contains 76,156 whole genomes from diverse ancestries.

One organ in a person’s body can age faster than the rest — with implications for health and mortality.

Silicon engineered to confine light on a nanoscale.

Mindfulness apps have become popular tools for addressing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Since the publication of earlier meta-analyses evaluating the efficacy of mindfulness apps for depression and anxiety symptoms, over 20 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted. There is a need for an updated meta-analysis that quantifies the effects of mindfulness apps on these symptoms and

Two by two.

Polar ice, coral reefs and other Earth systems could cross irrevocable thresholds soon, but urgent action could stave off the worst effects.

Science is starting to recognize the movement to create mass-market products using local knowledge and materials to improve lives around the world.

Recently, several studies using cultures of human embryos together with single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) analyses have revealed differences between humans and mice, necessitating the study of human embryos 1-8. Despite the importance of human embryology, ethical and legal restrictions have limited post-implantation stage studies. Thus, recent efforts have focused on developing in vitro self-organising

Determining structure and phenotypic context of molecules detected in untargeted metabolomics experiments remains challenging. Here, we present reverse metabolomics as a discovery strategy, where MS/MS spectra are acquired from newly synthesized compounds and searched for in public metabolomics data to uncover phenotypic associations. To demonstrate the concept, we broadly synthesized and explored

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Computational model uses sea-surface temperatures to predict when whales and turtles are likely to get stuck in fishing gear.

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Electrodes placed inside the brains of five people with traumatic injuries improved their performance in attention and memory tests.

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Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.

Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.

Companies must be transparent about how they calculate their emissions goals. Researchers must help to clear up doubts about the system.

After unveiling a quantum computer with 1,121 qubits, IBM will now focus on smaller, more error-resistant systems. Plus, male mosquitoes once sucked blood and ‘wobbly spacetime’ could reconcile physics’ most incompatible theories.

One year after ChatGPT’s release, researchers reflect on how the chatbot has affected their work. Plus, how it feels to have a robotic octopus arm and image generation has the biggest carbon footprint of all AI tasks.

Specialists share how to make the experience more enjoyable and foster a sense of belonging.

Bespoke cryo-electron microscope reveals 3D details of cellular structures — and is an order of magnitude cheaper than its rivals.

The company announces its latest huge chip — but will now focus on developing smaller chips with a fresh approach to ‘error correction’.

Insects trapped in amber reveal that male mosquitoes, too, could once extract blood.

A prototype biosensor that is worn as a ring can detect tiny amounts of oestradiol in sweat. Plus, colliding black holes ring like bells and dolphins can sense electricity.

Despite important advances, gender-based discrimination continues to hinder women's career progress. This review examines the role that gender stereotypes play in promoting gender bias and discrimination. After reviewing what is known about the content of gender stereotypes and examining both their descriptive and prescriptive aspects, we discuss two pathways through which stereotypes result in discrepant

Religion and spirituality strongly influence how most people experience the world, and opportunities to integrate faith and work abound. Yet research on religion, spirituality, and the workplace continues to have somewhat limited impact on mainstream organizational psychology and organizational behavior research. We review the most recent generation of research in this area. We describe high-level

Remote work is typically characterized as work that is done at some physical distance from the office. Existing research has shown that the main elements of this characterization—physical distance and the office—are far more complex than most people realize. This review develops a framework that refracts the concept of remote work into four types of distance—psychological, temporal, technological,

Economic sources of stress are some of the most pervasive and significant in adults’ working lives. However, while the link between economic stress and health is well established, some forms of economic stress have received disproportionately less attention than they warrant in organizational psychology and organizational behavior scholarship. In this review, we identify five important domains of economic

In this article, I reviewed the literature on cross-cultural aging that was published in the recent 10 years. It is intended to be an update of my prior review on aging in culture published in 2013. In that 2013 review, I proposed that aging processes differed across cultures when (1) individuals in the cultures concerned defined different goals as emotionally meaningful and (2) they increasingly pursued

Insights into what governs whether hyenas cooperate to hunt lions.

Louis De Grandpré studies the traditional lands of Canada’s Pessamit people in the face of widespread logging.

Mahaletchumy Arujanan shares how she set up The Petri Dish, Malaysia’s first scientific newspaper, which is aimed at the general public.

COP28 started with the first cash pledged for countries devastated by climate change. Plus, penguins survive on thousands of microsleeps and how to finally end the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

We organize image types by their substantive relationship with textual claims and discuss their impact on attention, comprehension, memory, and judgment. Photos do not need to be false (altered or generated) to mislead; real photos can create a slanted representation or be repurposed from different events. Even semantically related non-probative photos, merely inserted to attract eyeballs, can increase

Physical geography offers a way to explain marine and plant biodiversity.

Disabled people with STEM PhDs earn less than their non-disabled colleagues.

RNA biologist Vivian Cheung accuses the institute of discrimination after it rejected her grant-renewal bid.

Tumours respond more readily to radiation and other therapies in mice without a specific protein in their dendritic cells.