Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…
Human haematopoietic stem cells remember inflammatory stress
Ethics statement Human CB samples were obtained with informed consent from Trillium Health, Credit Valley and William Osler…
Why AI can’t be trusted to write scientific reviews
Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the London-based…
Fermi-surface diagnosis for topological superconductivity with s-wave-like pairing symmetries
Fermi surface formulas In this work, we focus on s-wave-like pairing symmetries, formally defined by the symmetry properties…
Accurate and fast event-based shape measurement of mixed reflectance scenes
Principles In our proposed approach, we tightly integrate event-based triangulation and deflectometry to simultaneously scan all surface types…
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Experimental details Both coherent and quantum light sources are pumped with the same femtosecond laser pulse (790 nm, 28 fs,…
Agri-environmental policies have reduced cropland degradation globally
Quantifying cropland condition In this study, we defined cropland condition as a trend in biological productivity, measured using…
Genetic survey exposes flaws in widely used mouse models
C57BL/6 mice, such as the one pictured here, are commonly used in animal research. Credit: Dani Maver/Alamy Half…
Gaussian boson sampling with 1,024 squeezed states in 8,176 modes
Aaronson, S. & Arkhipov, A. The computational complexity of linear optics. Theory Comput. 9, 143–252 (2013). Article Google…
Homestead food production improves women’s dietary diversity in Bangladesh
GBD 2017 Diet Collaborators Lancet 393, 1958–1972 (2019). Article Google Scholar The State of Food Security and Nutrition…
Two-qubit logic and teleportation with mobile spin qubits in silicon
Bravyi, S. et al. High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory. Nature 627, 778–782 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed …
A brain reward circuit inhibited by next-generation weight-loss drugs in mice
Mouse lines All experiments were conducted in compliance with the Association for Assessment of Laboratory Animal Care policies…