Should genetically modified wildlife be banned? Scientists weigh the risks
A corroboree frog is tested for chytrid fungus. Introducing genetic changes to these frogs could help to make…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
First proposed blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome: what scientists think
Scientists have developed a blood test that analyses epigenetic changes in immune cells. They say it could be…
Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition
Ludlow, A. D., Boyd, M. M., Ye, J., Peik, E. & Schmidt, P. O. Optical atomic clocks. Rev.…
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
Credit: Malik Evren/iStock via Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged…
Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder
Sample collection Two epithelial brushes (2–3 cm2) from the bladder top (dome) and the bladder floor (trigone) were obtained…
Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments
Neurons (pictured) in a brain region called the parabrachial nucleus have been implicated in creating the sensation of…
Somatic mutation and selection at population scale
Cohort selection The TwinsUK study contains around 16,000 participants. From a preselection of 4,800 donors, we invited 1,796…
Chaos controlled and disorder driven phase transitions induced by breaking permutation symmetry
Solvable case of \(p=0\), generic initial coherent states It is both instructive and interesting to first examine the…
Experimental entanglement swapping through single-photon χ(2) nonlinearity
The SFG-BSA configuration Figure 1a shows a schematic of the SFG-BSA setup. A type-0 PPLN/W is incorporated in a…