Why is flu so bad this year? Highly mutated variant offers answers
A person is vaccinated against influenza, which is causing high numbers of illnesses and hospitalizations in the United…
Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…
Direct observation of the Migdal effect induced by neutron bombardment
Theory For a gas mixture, the differential cross-section of Migdal effect from neutron–nucleus scattering in the soft limit…
JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy
Observations Circinus was observed (ID: 4611; PI: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.) on 20240715 and 20250427 using the Aperture Masking Interferometry…
Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears
Evolution and breeding have wrought a wide variety of ear lengths in our canine companions.Credit: Getty A gene…
A foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring data
Shilo, S. et al. 10 K: a large-scale prospective longitudinal study in Israel. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 36, 1187–1194…
Global subsidence of river deltas
Selection of global river deltas We selected 40 deltas globally, prioritizing 35 deltaic systems with the greatest exposed…
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
Database curation For prokaryotes, 75 million sequences were curated from 47,545 fully sequenced prokaryotic genomes obtained from the NCBI…
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
Morgan, D. Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing (Academic Press, 2010). Hashimoto,…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays
Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat.…
why some people die from typically harmless germs
Michael Levin had just started working as a paediatric infectious-disease doctor in London when he received an urgent…