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 manoeuvres while controlling their vehicle ...

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Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of photons when illuminated above a threshold intensity. Until ...

Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. At a molecular level, disruption to patterns of gene expression caused by the accumulation of epigenetic ‘noise ...

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 researchers have demonstrated experimentally ...

Time to act 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 the end of the century, bringing ...

There are two main approaches to developing artificial general intelligence. One is rooted in neuroscience, and attempts to construct circuits that closely mimic the brain. The other is grounded ...

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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 ...