Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex
Sex between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes lasts about 14 seconds.Credit: Jacopo Razzauti/The Rockefeller University Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue…
Google claims ‘quantum advantage’ again — but researchers are sceptical
Part of a cryostat in Google’s quantum-computing facility.Credit: Google Quantum AI Google researchers have made a fresh claim…
Clinical manifestations and severity of COVID-19 caused by Omicron among paediatric patients aged 0–17 years in Italy
Patient characteristics From January to December 2023, 30,243 SARS-CoV-2 tests were performed in paediatric subjects 0–17 years of…
Disconnecting part of the brain sends it into a deep sleep
Surgically severing part of the brain can send the area into a deep sleep.Credit: Peter Cade/Getty Slow, sleep-like…
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant
An electrical device implanted under the retina helps to restore some visual acuity to people with age-related macular…
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei
Leakey, L. B. New fossil skull from Olduvai. Nature 184, 491–493 (1959). Article ADS Google Scholar Leakey, L.…
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed …
Programmable diffractive deep neural networks enabled by integrated rewritable metasurfaces
Performance According to the numerical results, a five-layer English letters X, Y, and Z pattern recognizer and a…
Machine learning approaches overcome imbalanced clinical data for intraoral free flap monitoring
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized medical imaging, particularly in diagnosis and segmentation. Numerous studies have employed artificial neural networks…
Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US
Scientists volunteering their time have contributed to medical-society guidelines on vaccines for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus.Credit:…
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’
Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi identified regulatory T cells, which help to keep the immune system…
pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists
In the 1960s, scientists classed chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans as a distinct family (Pongidae), thinking that these…