What causes migraines? Study of ‘brain blackout’ offers clues
About one-third of people who suffer from migraines experience a phenomenon known as aura before the headache.Credit: Tunatura/Getty For a
Blooming plants and sunken cities, Books in brief
The Lost Scientists of World War II David C. Clary World Scientific (2024) When Nazi Germany militarized after 1933, the
Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning
One set of neurons (artist’s illustration) encodes the meaning of the word ‘duck’; an overlapping set encodes the meaning of
Western scientists get rejected papers published faster
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Dirac mass induced by optical gain and loss
Wilczek, F. Origins of mass. Cent. Eur. J. Phys. 10, 1021–1037 (2012). CAS Google Scholar Anderson, P. W. Plasmons, gauge
Spike deep mutational scanning helps predict success of SARS-CoV-2 clades
Cao, Y. et al. Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution. Nature 614, 521–529 (2023). ADS CAS PubMed
mysterious ancient humans’ survival secrets revealed
An artist’s illustration of a male Denisovan, a group of ancient humans discovered in a Siberian cave in 2010.Credit: John
Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago
Rationale for development and application of LA-U-series imaging The use of the U-series disequilibrium method for rock art dating is
Targeting pericentric non-consecutive motifs for heterochromatin initiation
Allshire, R. C. & Madhani, H. D. Ten principles of heterochromatin formation and function. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 19,
Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated
In this study, we use the spaceborne GEDI6 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyse the extent