Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.
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Why do obesity drugs seem to treat so many other ailments?
From alcoholism to Parkinson’s, scientists are studying the mechanisms behind the broad clinical potential of weight-loss drugs.
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Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates - Communications Biology
Shellard, A. & Mayor, R. Rules of collective migration: from the wildebeest to the neural crest. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 375, 20190387 (2020).…
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Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it
Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.
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The origins of the Guinness stout yeast
A genomic analysis of 22 S. cereviseae yeast strains used in beer brewing suggest that yeast used to brew Guinness form a distinct evolutionary sub-clade, and that the modern-day Guinness yeast is closely related to the 1903 Watling Laboratory Guinness yeast.
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Autonomous chemical research with large language models - Nature
Coscientist is an artificial intelligence system driven by GPT-4 that autonomously designs, plans and performs experiments by incorporating large language models empowered by tools such as internet and documentation search, code execution and experimental automation.
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How a dangerous stew of air pollution is choking the United States
Fires and droughts in the western states are getting worse — and they’re combining with industrial sources to threaten air quality and people’s health.
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The mutation that helps Delta spread like wildfire
A key amino-acid change might underlie the coronavirus variant’s ferocious infectivity.
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Ten computer codes that transformed science
From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
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Palaeolithic voyage for invisible islands beyond the horizon | Scientific Reports
Abstract How Palaeolithic maritime transportation originated and developed is one of the key questions to understand the world-wide dispersal of modern humans…
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‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.
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Scientists relieved as Joe Biden wins tight US presidential election
The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies — but he also inherits a nation divided.
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How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.
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Thirteen tips for engaging with physicists, as told by a biologist
Working alongside physicists made me a better science communicator, says Ken Kosik, and helped me to clarify knowledge gaps in my own field.
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
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Workflow systems turn raw data into scientific knowledge
How workflow tools can make your computational methods portable, maintainable, reproducible and shareable.
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Running in highly cushioned shoes increases leg stiffness and amplifies impact loading
Running in highly cushioned shoes increases leg stiffness and amplifies impact loading
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Manipulating type-I and type-II Dirac polaritons in cavity-embedded honeycomb metasurfaces
Manipulating the properties of artificial graphene systems without changing the lattice has proven difficult. Here, Mann et al. theoretically show that changing the photonic environment alone can modify the fundamental properties of emergent massless Dirac polaritons in honeycomb metasurfaces.
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Insights into pathophysiology of punding reveal possible treatment strategies
Insights into pathophysiology of punding reveal possible treatment strategies
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Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries
Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common elements such as iron and silicon, urge Kostiantyn Turcheniuk and colleagues.
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Why fake islands might be a real boon for science
The seasteading movement is getting close to building its first prototype, an artificial archipelago where people will live, play and do research.
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The energy expansions of evolution
Abstract The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five ‘energetic’ epochs, each featuring the evolution of life forms that can exploit a new…
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Out-of-Body Experience: Master of Illusion
Henrik Ehrsson uses mannequins, rubber arms and virtual reality to create body illusions, all in the name of neuroscience.
