d

Decoding Alien Senses

A linguist explains how limited our thinking about extraterrestrials can be




d

Flooding the Senses

Visualizing climate catastrophes may spur people to act




d

Artificial Wood

The synthetic material is both robust and versatile




d

Income Inequality and Homicide

Where financial disparities are greatest, the murder rate tends to be high




d

Dereliction of Duty

The U.S. Congress has not protected health or the environment. Time to make it step up




d

Coronavirus diaries: creature comforts




d

Philip W. Anderson (1923–2020)




d

Screams on a Zoom call: the theory of homeworking with kids meets reality




d

Coronavirus in context: Scite.ai tracks positive and negative citations for COVID-19 literature




d

Coronapod: What use are contact tracing apps? And new hopes for coronavirus drug remdesivir




d

Daily briefing: How desperate measures might shorten the coronavirus vaccine timeline — and at what risk




d

Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China




d

Rapid reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 using a synthetic genomics platform




d

COVID-19 mental-health responses neglect social realities




d

Urban sprawl overspreads Earth at an unprecedented speed




d

Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic




d

Daily briefing: Convalescent serum — the antibody-laden blood of survivors — lines up as first-choice treatment for coronavirus




d

This physicist-turned-economist is modelling the pandemic’s financial fallout




d

Going viral: how to boost the spread of coronavirus science on social media




d

New journal for reproduction and replication results




d

Editorial Expression of Concern: Exploring the quantum speed limit with computer games




d

Daily briefing: More than 1 billion people face unbearable temperatures within 50 years




d

Coronavirus in charts: historical funding for coronavirus research has been tiny




d

The sustained undermining of science by the EPA’s leaders is a travesty




d

Arab students thrive in Israel’s Technion




d

Let COVID-19 expand awareness of disability tech




d

Don’t be down on stratospheric observatory




d

The hidden links between mental disorders




d

Picking away at fossilized skeletons




d

Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation




d

Publisher Correction: Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon




d

Tunable correlated states and spin-polarized phases in twisted bilayer–bilayer graphene




d

Coronavirus: share lessons on lifting lockdowns




d

Determination of RNA structural diversity and its role in HIV-1 RNA splicing




d

Daily briefing: Closest black hole ever discovered was ‘hiding in plain sight’




d

Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort




d

Five courses on Ganymede




d

Detection of metastable electronic states by Penning trap mass spectrometry




d

BCR selection and affinity maturation in Peyer’s patch germinal centres




d

Formation of liquid-like cellular organelles depends on their composition




d

Mapping the twist-angle disorder and Landau levels in magic-angle graphene




d

Podcast: Galileo and the science deniers, and physicists probe the mysterious pion




d

Multilayered mechanisms ensure that short chromosomes recombine in meiosis




d

Unmasking the Tully Monster: fossils help to tackle a decades-old mystery




d

Statin therapy is associated with lower prevalence of gut microbiota dysbiosis




d

Millennial-scale hydroclimate control of tropical soil carbon storage




d

Basement membrane remodelling regulates mouse embryogenesis




d

Worm brain, ocean giant and soothing Jupiter — April’s best science images




d

China is promoting coronavirus treatments based on unproven traditional medicines




d

Precise test of quantum electrodynamics and determination of fundamental constants with HD<sup>+</sup> ions