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How cells’ ‘lava lamp’ effect could make cancer drugs more powerful

Discovery that synthetic compounds form concentrated droplets inside cells could shake up drug development — including the hunt for coronavirus treatments.

CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion super-collider

European particle-physics lab will pursue a 100-kilometre machine to uncover the Higgs boson’s secrets — but it doesn’t yet have the funds.
Davide Castelvecchi
Elizabeth Gibney

News 19 Jun 2020
Coronavirus breakthrough: dexamethasone is first drug shown to save lives

In a large trial, a cheap and widely available steroid cut deaths by one-third among patients critically ill with COVID-19.
Heidi Ledford

News 16 Jun 2020
Convergent antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent individuals
Davide F. Robbiani
Christian Gaebler
Michel C. Nussenzweig

Article 18 Jun 2020
Daily briefing: Some dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs

Intriguing fossil eggs challenge long-held tenets of reproductive evolution, a record-breaking heatwave in Siberia, and US coronavirus complacency worries scientists.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 18 Jun 2020
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CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion super-collider

European particle-physics lab will pursue a 100-kilometre machine to uncover the Higgs boson’s secrets — but it doesn’t yet have the funds.
Davide Castelvecchi
Elizabeth Gibney

News 19 Jun 2020
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
Davide Castelvecchi

News 19 Jun 2020
How cells’ ‘lava lamp’ effect could make cancer drugs more powerful
Elie Dolgin

News 18 Jun 2020
Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor — rushed but useful
Stephen Buranyi

Book Review 18 Jun 2020
The devastating history of Hurricane Katrina, the next wave of universities, and a personal memoir of the HIV epidemic: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson

Book Review 17 Jun 2020
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
Heidi Ledford

News Feature 17 Jun 2020
Coronavirus misinformation, and how scientists can help to fight it
Nic Fleming

Career Feature 17 Jun 2020

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Model system might reveal how coral cells take up and evict algae
  
  Global warming is threatening the survival of coral reefs. A laboratory model system has now been developed that should aid efforts to understand reef biology and the processes that underlie harmful bleaching events.
  
  Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
  
  News & Views 17 Jun 2020
- Unexpected emission pattern adds to the enigma of fast radio bursts
  
  Observations of millisecond-long radio bursts from beyond the Milky Way have revealed a repeat pattern with a roughly 16-day period — a finding that adds to the enigma of the origin of these bursts.
  
  Bing Zhang
  
  News & Views 17 Jun 2020
- Hard evidence from soft fossil eggs
  
  It is thought that dinosaurs laid hard-shelled eggs, whereas ancient marine reptiles gave birth to live young. However, new discoveries of fossilized soft-shelled eggs challenge these long-held tenets of reproductive evolution.
  
  Johan Lindgren
  Benjamin P. Kear
  
  News & Views 17 Jun 2020
- Incest uncovered at the elite prehistoric Newgrange monument in Ireland
  
  The huge, elaborate, 5,000-year-old tomb at Newgrange, Ireland, is thought to have been built for a powerful elite. DNA of a man buried there reveals a case of incest. Was this a strategy to maintain a dynastic bloodline?
  
  Alison Sheridan
  
  News & Views 17 Jun 2020
- T cells engineered to target senescence
  
  Senescence is a hallmark of cellular ageing and contributes to many diseases. A new method enabling immune cells to target senescent cells might offer improved therapeutic options.
  
  Verena Wagner
  Jesús Gil
  
  News & Views 17 Jun 2020
- Neutrophil ‘safety net’ causes cancer cells to metastasize and proliferate
  
  Emma Nolan
  Ilaria Malanchi
  
  News & Views 11 Jun 2020
- Flipping the switch on the body’s thermoregulatory system
  
  Clifford B. Saper
  Natalia L. S. Machado
  
  News & Views 11 Jun 2020
- Mountain height might be controlled by tectonic force, rather than erosion
  
  Kelin Wang
  
  News & Views 11 Jun 2020
- Quantum matter orbits Earth
  
  Maike D. Lachmann
  Ernst M. Rasel
  
  News & Views 11 Jun 2020
- Tumour metabolites hinder DNA repair
  
  Lei-Lei Chen
  Yue Xiong
  
  News & Views 03 Jun 2020

Latest Research

Convergent antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in convalescent individuals
Davide F. Robbiani
Christian Gaebler
Michel C. Nussenzweig

Article 18 Jun 2020
Imaging single glycans

An imaging method combining soft-landing electrospray ion beam deposition and low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy resolves the structures of glycans at sub-nanometre resolution, revealing the connectivity of glycan chains and the types of linkages.
X. Wu
M. Delbianco
K. Kern

Article 17 Jun 2020
Molecular basis of β-arrestin coupling to formoterol-bound β₁-adrenoceptor

A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the β1-adrenoceptor coupled to β-arrestin 1 and activated by the biased agonist formoterol, as well as the crystal structure of a related formoterol-bound adrenoreceptor, provide insights into biased signalling in these systems.
Yang Lee
Tony Warne
Christopher G. Tate

Article 17 Jun 2020
Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs

A turnkey regime for soliton microcombs is demonstrated, in which solitons are generated by switching on a co-integrated pump laser, eliminating the need for photonic and electronic control circuitry.
Boqiang Shen
Lin Chang
John E. Bowers

Article 17 Jun 2020
A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society

Skeletal remains from the Neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange (Ireland) represent the adult son of a first-degree incestuous union, suggesting that a politico-religious elite may have controlled the construction of Irish sites of this type.
Lara M. Cassidy
Ros Ó Maoldúin
Daniel G. Bradley

Article 17 Jun 2020

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2020 South Korea

A concerted government push to make South Korea an innovation leader, backed by strong investment and systemic reform, has brought rapid and long-lasting results.

Nature Index 27 May 2020