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Ancient Greenlanders hunted huge whales — and little reindeer
Ancient Greenlanders hunted huge whales — and little reindeer
Genomic analysis hints that the island’s early residents had the technology and know-how to catch some of the biggest anim...
Structural principles of B-cell antigen receptor assembly
The B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) is composed of a membrane-bound immunoglobulin (mIg) of class M, D, G, E or A for antige...
Women physicists miss out on ‘first-mover advantage’
Women physicists miss out on ‘first-mover advantage’
A study of more than a century’s worth of papers helps to explain why women physicists get fewer citations.
Heat and bacteria recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals
Heat and bacteria recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals
Two-step process converts mixtures of plastic into small molecules, but could be challenging to implement at scale.
Omicron boosters could arm you against variants that don’t yet exist
Omicron boosters could arm you against variants that don’t yet exist
Worries that the immune system would get ‘stuck’ on the original SARS-CoV-2 strain are dispelled by laboratory experiments.
Publisher Correction: Distinguishing externally from saccade-induced motion in visual cortex
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which...
Publisher Correction: A brainstem map for visceral sensations
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which...
Do soaring energy costs mean we are using less?
Do soaring energy costs mean we are using less?
Behavioural scientists want to know how much energy people are conserving and for how long new habits will last.
Daily briefing: Faster MRI scan tracks groups of neurons as they fire
Daily briefing: Faster MRI scan tracks groups of neurons as they fire
How researchers mapped a mouse’s brain activity faster than ever before. Plus, how to recycle mixed plastics into useful c...
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption
The charge related to how GNS Science communicated volcanic risk to the public in the lead-up to the 2019 eruption on Whak...
Surprise! The UK is spending way more on research than it thought
Surprise! The UK is spending way more on research than it thought
New figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest previous estimates of business spending were off by £15 billion...
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
A UK study aims to find out whether artificial intelligence could ease the peer-review process for the country’s Research ...
Renowned Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt — and astronomers are heartbroken
Renowned Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt — and astronomers are heartbroken
The US National Science Foundation has decided to instead open an educational centre on the site.
Author Correction: Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma
Rahul KumarPresent address: Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana, India...
Shape memory in self-adapting colloidal crystals
Shape memory in self-adapting colloidal crystals
Reconfigurable, mechanically responsive crystalline materials are central components in many sensing, soft robotic, and en...
An optical innovation for metrology at the quantum limit of precision
An optical innovation for metrology at the quantum limit of precision
A frequency-comb laser can be programmed to change pulse timing with high precision, to improve the sensitivity of distanc...
Author Correction: The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, GermanyJoscha Gretzinger, Laura Lacher, Wolfgang Haak, Rita R...
‘Game-changing’ gender quotas introduced by Australian research agency
‘Game-changing’ gender quotas introduced by Australian research agency
From next year, the National Health and Medical Research Council will give half of its investigator grants for mid-career ...
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In patients with transthyretin amyloidosis, a progressive and fatal disease, amyloid fibrils of misfolded transthyretin (T...
Correction to: Early cancer diagnoses through BRCA1/2 screening of unselected adult biobank participants
Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USAAdam H. Buchanan, Kandamurugu Manickam, Michelle N. Meyer, Jennifer K. Wagner, M...
Correction to: Rare variants in KDR, encoding VEGF Receptor 2, are associated with tetralogy of Fallot
Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsDoris Š...
Correction: Phenotypic expansion of CACNA1C-associated disorders to include isolated neurological manifestations
Division of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USALance H. Rodan &am...
Expanded phenotype of AARS1-related white matter disease
Expanded phenotype of AARS1-related white matter disease
Recent reports of individuals with cytoplasmic transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase-related disorders have identified cases with...
A systematic literature review of disclosure practices and reported outcomes for medically actionable genomic secondary findings
A systematic literature review of disclosure practices and reported outcomes for medically actionable genomic secondary findings
Secondary findings (SFs) are present in 1–4% of individuals undergoing genome/exome sequencing. A review of how SFs ...