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…
Vamp8 modulates cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury via the autophagy-lysosome pathway
Data download The rat cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury(CIRI) data were downloaded from the GEO database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) using the R…
Electrochemical and computational investigation of Tinospora cordifolia fractions as a novel corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel in seawater medium
Phytosubstances of TCFUV–Vis characteristics The results of the UV–Vis spectrum of the TCF are shown in Fig. 1. The…
These science prizes want to rival the Nobels: how do they compare?
How do science prizes such as the Breakthrough Prize and the Turing Prize compare with the Nobel science…