Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in…
How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help
In the 30 years since exoplanets were first reported1, telescopes have revealed thousands of them. One of the…
Matrix-based imaging through dynamic scattering
Principle Here, we establish the mathematical foundation for our approach, deriving the mathematical analogy between a dynamic scattering…
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The chairs by the pharmacy counter are hard bioplastic and contoured — supposedly — to the human body.…
Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists
Physicists are questioning whether gravity can produce quantum entanglement between two masses.Credit: David Parker/Science Photo Library The nature…
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role – Nature
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role Nature Napoleon’s soldiers who died in…
The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch — from Interstellar to Spider-Man
Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics.…
This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines
An artificial-intelligence method that incorporates gene-expression data could help to speed up drug discovery.Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty An artificial…
Room-temperature ultrasensitive photon-level detection in the subterahertz frequency regime
Figure 1 shows the experimental setup for detecting frequency up-conversion of sub-THz waves. The pump light source was…
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification. Science 318, 1737–1742 (2007). Article …