Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

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Kári Stefánsson, who last month left the Icelandic genetics company deCODE, spoke to Nature about his legacy.

Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.

Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail.

Scientists are eyeing their legal options in anticipation of new immigration actions.

Cuts to US ‘foreign subawards’ will abruptly end hundreds of clinical trials abroad. Plus, an mpox outbreak is overwhelming Sierra Leone’s health system and a rock with a painted dot that just might represent a nose.

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Governments and institutions must shift from top-down approaches to collaborations with local communities.

Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions.

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on maintaining users’ privacy.

A clinical trial of CAR T cells is among the first to show that the treatment can work for solid tumours. Plus, humpbacks’ big eyes are nearsighted and how researchers are turbocharging ginseng.

Secret-key distillation from quantum states and channels is a central task of interest in quantum information theory, as it facilitates private communication over a quantum network. Here, we study the task of secret-key distillation from bipartite states and point-to-point quantum channels using local operations and one-way classical communication (one-way LOCC). We employ the resource theory of unextendible

This paper presents a model-agnostic search for narrow resonances in the dijet final state in the mass range 1.8–6 TeV. The signal is assumed to produce jets with substructure atypical of jets initiated by light quarks or gluons, with minimal additional assumptions. Search regions are obtained by utilizing multivariate machine-learning methods to select jets with anomalous substructure. A collection

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A novel two-qubit entangling gate for trapped-ion quantum processors is proposed theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. During the gate, double-dressed quantum states are created by applying a phase-modulated continuous driving field. The speed of this quantum gate is an order of magnitude higher than that of previously demonstrated rf controlled two-qubit entangling gates in static magnetic

The AdS/CFT correspondence stipulates a duality between conformal field theories and certain theories of quantum gravity in one higher spatial dimension. However, probing this conjecture on contemporary classical or quantum computers is challenging. We formulate an efficiently implementable multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz model of AdS/CFT, providing a mapping between a (1+1)-dimensional

We show that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a near-extremal Kerr black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to create a gravitational particle accelerator with center of mass energies at the tens to hundreds of teraelectronvolt range; in other words, a supercollider. Published

When a column of water drains from a vertical tube, it often leaves behind a trailing film that forms intricate, axisymmetric liquid structures. Using high-speed imaging and first-principles modeling, we investigate the formation and breakup of these fluted films and demonstrate that their diverse morphologies arise from the evolving balance of inertia, surface tension, gravity, and viscous forces

Plant scientist Johan Sukweenadhi uses ‘hairy-root culture’ to improve ginseng yields at the University of Surabaya in Indonesia.

Trial in China is one of the first times the immune therapy has worked against solid tumours.

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

The poles hold 70% of Earth’s fresh water and are crucial to science; what’s unfolding there as the planet warms deserves greater attention.

Academia relies on unpaid labour — but researchers should think carefully about what kind of work they’re willing to give to for-profit organizations for free, says Dritjon Gruda.

A computer scientist is struggling to trust their postdoctoral research adviser after negative experiences with the previous two. How do you find one that’s right for you?

The Artemis programme and others aim to send humans to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars. Innovations in health care that support the mission crew could also benefit people at home.

How the smells of outer space could lead us to extraterrestrial life. Plus, an ancient ‘ambidextrous’ protein that can function in both mirror-image forms and the month’s best science images.

We describe a quantum algorithm for the Planted Noisy kXOR Problem (also known as Sparse Learning Parity with Noise) that achieves a nearly (fourth-power) speedup over the best known classical algorithm while using exponentially less space. Our work generalizes and simplifies prior work of Hastings [], by building on his quantum algorithm for the tensor principal component analysis (PCA) problem. We

We address the challenge of incorporating non-Markovian electronic friction effects in quantum-mechanical approximations of dynamical observables. A generalized Langevin equation is formulated for ring-polymer molecular dynamics rate calculations, which combines electronic friction with a description of nuclear quantum effects for adsorbates on metal surfaces. An efficient propagation algorithm is

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.

Freeze–thaw cycles in an icy pond could let an enzyme copy RNA double helices indefinitely — suggesting one way in which evolution could have begun.

In warming coastal seas, a crucial ecosystem is being replaced by ‘turfs’ of red algae, which release chemicals that suppress kelp survival.

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Mutation in an enzyme leads to resistance to chronic and acute pain, according to research in mice.

A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

Seasoned negotiators share tips on how to handle conversations around pay, bonuses, benefits and contract length.

Modelling liver disease requires in vitro systems that replicate disease progression1,2. Current tissue-derived organoids fail to reproduce the complex cellular composition and tissue architecture observed in vivo3. Here, we describe a multicellular organoid system composed of adult hepatocytes, cholangiocytes and mesenchymal cells that recapitulates the architecture of the liver periportal region

Temporary device records eye movement and brain activity to monitor mental strain.

Reducing the number of copies of one gene in the pathogen could also make it more transmissible.

Specialized immune cells in mice can act as ‘spies’ that help the brain control behaviours such as pursuit of food. Plus, publishing outside of your research field comes with a ‘pivot penalty’ and AI tools that can ‘hear’ signs of illness in a person’s voice.

Hundreds of activists wearing gas masks took to the streets to call out their government for slashing science funding.

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Exotic quantum solids can host electronic states that spontaneously break rotational symmetry of the electronic structure, such as electronic nematic phases and unidirectional charge density waves (CDWs). When electrons couple to the lattice, uniaxial strain can be used to anchor and control this electronic directionality. Here, we reveal an unusual impact of strain on unidirectional “smectic” CDW

The discovery of multiple superconducting phases in UTe2 boosted research on correlated-electron physics. This heavy-fermion paramagnet was rapidly identified as a reference compound to study the interplay between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity with multiple degrees of freedom. The proximity to a ferromagnetic quantum phase transition was initially proposed as a driving force to triplet-pairing

The spin-1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnets are believed to host exotic quantum entangled states. Recently, the reports of 1/9 magnetization plateau and magnetic oscillations in a kagome antiferromagnet YCu3(OH)6Br2[Brx(OH)1−x] (YCOB) have made this material a promising candidate for experimentally realizing quantum spin liquid states. Here, we present measurements of the specific heat Cp in YCOB

We construct the first binary black hole solutions of Einstein-Maxwell theory in asymptotically anti–de Sitter space. The attractive force between the two black holes is balanced by the addition of a background electric field, sourced at the conformal boundary. There is a continuous family of bulk solutions for a given boundary profile and temperature, suggesting there is continuous nonuniqueness.

We propose a numerical method to estimate one-point functions and the free-energy density of conformal field theories at finite temperature by solving the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition for the two-point functions of identical scalars. We apply the method for the critical O(N) model for N=1, 2, 3 in 3≤d≤4. We find agreement with known results from Monte Carlo simulations and previous results for the