At industrial scales, chemical reactions are typically driven by applying continuous heat to the reactants. In this week’s issue, Liangbing Hu and his ...

Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical ...

Any attempt to improve an object, idea or situation involves a mental search for possible changes. In this week’s issue, Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin ...

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene sparked interest in the electronic properties of similarly distorted 2D crystal lattices. The ...

Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of ...

Complex life forms, from plants to animals, are eukaryotes: their cells feature internal compartments such as the nucleus that are themselves contained ...

In this week’s issue, John Martinis and his colleagues describe a significant step in the development of quantum computing. For the first time, the ...

Climate change is arguably the scientific and societal issue of our age. Unless drastic action is taken, Earth is likely to exceed 3 °C of warming by ...

There are two main approaches to developing artificial general intelligence. One is rooted in neuroscience, and attempts to construct circuits that closely ...

Root-associated microbial symbionts have a strong influence over the way forest ecosystems function. The identity of the symbionts can help determine how ...

A key limiting factor for successful liver transplants is the availability and quality of donor organs. In this issue, David Nasralla, Constantin Coussios, ...

The ubiquity of the optical laser means that it is easy to overlook its elder sibling, the maser. Essentially a 'microwave laser', the maser was ...