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A study in Nature Human Behaviour provides age- and sex-specific population reference charts for sleep duration and efficiency that can help guide personalized advice on sleep length and preventive practices.
Nature Human Behaviour
An open resource comprising chest computed tomography images and clinical features of patients with pneumonia, including COVID-19 pneumonia, facilitates the prediction of morbidity and mortality outcomes via deep learning, according to a Nature Biomedical Engineering paper.
Nature Biomedical Engineering
The findings of a study in Nature Biomedical Engineering suggest that activity tracking and health monitoring via consumer wearable devices may be used for the large-scale, real-time detection of respiratory infections, often pre-symptomatically.
Nature Biomedical Engineering
A Perspective in Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers a road map of how neuroscientists can use deep networks to model and understand biological brains.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Migratory birds and mammals live faster paces of life — live shorter lives, develop faster, and produce more offspring, more quickly — than their non-migratory relatives, according to a global analysis in Nature Communications.
Nature Communications
“This sequestered period has given me an opportunity to reflect on how songwriting has influenced my ability to communicate science,” writes Saurja DasGupta. “I feel I’m more confident, and perhaps more creative, because of songwriting.”
Nature Careers
News & Views: Experiments conducted deep beneath a mountain and reported in Nature have provided the most precise measurements of a key nuclear reaction that occurred seconds after the Big Bang, refining our knowledge of the constituents of the Universe.
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Uneasy and insecure, postdoctoral researchers worldwide are experiencing great distress around their career prospects, workload and workplace culture, among other issues, finds Nature’s first-ever survey of postdocs.
Nature Careers
News & Views: As the COVID-19 pandemic rages globally, interest in antiviral treatments has never been higher. A Nature paper reports progress in efforts to aid antiviral responses by engineering human antibodies to enhance their antiviral activity.
Nature
A Nature Immunology paper reports elevated circulating concentrations of the long pentraxin PTX3 in patients with severe COVID-19. Within this cohort, early detection of high PTX3 concentrations emerged as a strong predictor of decreased survival.
Nature Immunology
A Nature paper demonstrates strain gauges suitable for soft machines that have both high sensitivity as well as high mechanical resilience. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/2UrB5bc
A paper in Nature dissects the molecular landscape of chronic kidney disease in humans.
Nature
A study in Nature shows an injectable drug used to reduce stubbornly high cholesterol levels appears to also enhance in mice the immune response of anti-cancer therapies known as immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Nature
A Perspective published in Nature Machine Intelligence seeks to distil how many of deep learning’s failures can be seen as different symptoms of the same underlying problem: shortcut learning.
Nature Machine Intelligence
A Perspective in Nature reviews how the presence of organized crime in the fisheries sector hinders progress towards the development of a sustainable ocean economy and highlights practical opportunities to address this problem.
Nature
Teresa Lambe speaks about working on a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with AstraZeneca. “The search for a vaccine took over my life. I’ve never worked harder.”
Nature Careers
Convalescent COVID-19 patients maintain a robust neutralizing antibody response after recovery, which, in some cases, includes antibodies that can neutralize other coronaviruses, according to a Nature Microbiology paper.
Nature Microbiology
A genetic disposition that plays a role in the development of the heart in the embryo also appears to play a key role in the human immune system, according to a study published in Nature Immunology.
Nature Immunology
This PrimeView from Nature Reviews Disease Primers reviews the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and patient quality of life of delirium, a severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by an acute change in attention, awareness and cognition.
Nature Reviews Disease Primers
News & Views: Research published in Nature sheds light on the factors that affect the recipe for human blood’s chemical brew.
Nature
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A paper in Nature describes Progressive Cactus, a method that allows computationally efficient alignment of several hundred whole-genome sequences.
Nature
Epidemiologists predicting the spread of COVID-19 should adopt climate-modelling methods to make forecasts more reliable, say computer scientists who have spent months auditing one of the most influential models of the pandemic.
Nature News & Comment
Less-intrusive, non-pharmaceutical interventions to limit the spread of COVID-19, such as effective communication strategies and government support, may be just as effective in slowing transmission as more intrusive solutions, such as lockdowns, according to Nature Human Behaviour paper.
Nature Human Behaviour
Gene products from the testis evolve more quickly than those from other organs but are also more tightly regulated, according to a study in Nature.
Nature
A Nature paper presents a whole-genome alignment of 240 phylogenetically diverse species of eutherian mammal from the Zoonomia Project, which provides data that support biological discovery, medical research and conservation.
Nature
A Review in Nature Reviews Genetics highlights discoveries enabled by analyses of cell–cell interactions from transcriptomic data and reviews the methods and tools used in this context.
Nature Reviews Genetics
A Nature Materials paper presents a biomaterial that significantly reduces scar formation after wounding, leading to more effective skin healing.
Nature Materials
“Babywearing has enabled me to pursue my career without compromising my research or my family,” writes Genoa R. Warner.
Nature Careers
Hard-won experience, changing demographics and reduced strain on hospitals are all possibilities of why COVID-19 death rates have dropped around the world. But scientists don’t know how long that change will last as case loads increase.
Nature News & Comment
A study in Nature Communications suggests that US President Donald Trump tweets about unrelated issues when the media reports on a topic potentially harmful to him. It also suggests that these tweets may also reduce subsequent media coverage of the harmful topic.
Nature Communications
Synthesizing robots via physical AI is a multidisciplinary challenge for future robotics research. A Nature Machine Intelligence Comment article argues an education methodology is needed for researchers to develop a combination of skills in physical AI.
Nature Machine Intelligence
A paper published in Nature describes whole-genome alignments of 363 bird genome sequences, 267 of which were newly generated, allowing more thorough investigations of conservation and selection.
Nature
News & Views Normally, tropical cyclones weaken after they reach land. But a Nature paper shows that storms are weakening more slowly in the North Atlantic basin as regional sea surface temperatures increase.
Nature
A Nature Neuroscience paper describes a new method that can analyse signals in the brain to assess how people control everyday behaviours.
Nature Neuroscience
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A Nature paper demonstrates strain gauges suitable for soft machines that have both high sensitivity as well as high mechanical resilience. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/2UrB5bc
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A painstaking investigation has reconstructed Philae’s final journey to comet 67P and discovered data that allows researchers to measure the strength of the ice inside the comet. It’s the first time this kind of direct measurement has been made. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3mPWx5X
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A Nature paper reports the observation of room-temperature superconductivity in hydride, a hydrogen-rich compound derived from organic components under high pressure. The discovery is a step towards creating electrical systems with perfect efficiency. https://go.nature.com/2H15GJJ
A study published in Nature Plants visualizes intracellular calcium concentrations in the Venus flytrap and demonstrates that its short-term memory can be explained by changes in calcium concentration. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/30N2rwa
A study in Nature proposes chemical reactors made up of concentric circles of liquids for both synthesis and separation as an alternative to common batch or flow processes. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/36kvQkY
A Communications Materials paper describes a fast-acting, soft-bodied robot that can be engineered to walk, swim, levitate and close itself around a living fly before it takes off. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3i1mxbQ
A given amount of warming will produce a predictable amount of melt from the Antarctic ice sheet, but a much stronger amount of cooling is required to return the ice sheet to a previous state, according to research in Nature. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3i0aYSb
A Nature Astronomy paper reports images of nanojets, bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal heating candidates: nanoflares. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/2FLEH4o
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A paper in Nature Machine Intelligence describes an algorithm that helps to ensure that autonomous vehicles drive safely. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/2E5o9n2
Liquid can levitate and boats can float upside down in this gravity-defying physics experiment. Researchers discovered a peculiar phenomenon that allows lightweight objects to float on the bottom surface of this liquid, with a kind of reverse-buoyancy.
A paralyzed individual is able to control a neuroprosthetic without daily recalibration in a study published in Nature Biotechnology. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/33fZ01n
Embedding the Magellanic Clouds in a corona of ionized gas allows the gaseous Magellanic Stream to be modelled accurately, according to a Nature paper. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3m8V3UI
Research published in Nature shows that electronic devices can be more efficiently cooled by co-designing microfluidics and electronics into the same semiconductor substrate. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3bFhqMK
A Nature paper reports of tiny boats that float upside down underneath a levitating layer of liquid, displaying unusual buoyancy forces. The observation challenges our understanding of liquid–air interfaces and could prompt future investigations. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/2Z1uvLj
A Nature paper describes the creation of an army of walking, microscopic four-legged robots. This achievement is the result of the development of a new class of actuator that is compatible with existing silicon electronics. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3b5DQqf
It’s been six months since the WHO announced the new coronavirus could spread between people. There are still many unanswered questions around the nature of immunity, whether the virus is mutating and how effective a vaccine may be.
Researchers have created the “branched flow” phenomenon in visible light, previously only seen in other types of wave like sound. Using nothing but a laser and a simple soap bubble, scientists caused light to twist and fork along its path. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3hw4bjt
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a fully autonomous mobile robot to assist them in their research. It’s been designed to work uninterrupted for weeks, using AI to analyse data and make decisions on what to do next. Read more here: https://go.nature.com/3fn8dcU
A trio of nations — the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates — will be sending robotic emissaries to Mars, hoping to start new chapters of exploration there. Read more here: https://go.nature.com/2ZLQMwb
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