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Why faces don’t always tell the truth about feelings

Although AI companies market software for recognizing emotions in faces, psychologists debate whether expressions can be read so easily.

Enter the twilight zone: scientists dive into the oceans’ mysterious middle

The vast, wild depths between light and shadow face increasing threats from climate change and overfishing.
Jeff Tollefson

News 27 Feb 2020
Unlock ways to share data on peer review

Journals, funders and scholars must work together to create an infrastructure to study peer review.
Flaminio Squazzoni
Petra Ahrweiler
Michael Willis

Comment 25 Feb 2020
Sex-specific adipose tissue imprinting of regulatory T cells

Visceral adipose tissue contains populations of regulatory T cells that exhibit sexual dimorphism, determined by the surrounding niche, and differ between male and female mice in terms of cell number, phenotype, transcriptional landscape and chromatin accessibility.
Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar
David Chisanga
Axel Kallies

Article 26 Feb 2020
Daily briefing: When a tiny lab accident almost leads to amputation

Accidental injection with a common organic solvent can lead to serious consequences. Plus, genome studies of pangolin coronaviruses deepen mystery over animal source, and Betelgeuse is brightening again.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 27 Feb 2020
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China bans cash rewards for publishing papers

New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive ‘publish or perish’ culture and may encourage questionable research practices.
Smriti Mallapaty

News 28 Feb 2020
Enter the twilight zone: scientists dive into the oceans’ mysterious middle
Jeff Tollefson

News 27 Feb 2020
Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus
David Cyranoski

News 26 Feb 2020
Open up research about Tutankhamun’s tomb

Editorial 26 Feb 2020
The archaeology of Armageddon
Andrew Robinson

Book Review 26 Feb 2020
Rats are New Yorkers, too! Genome study reveals how rodents conquered the Big Apple
Ewen Callaway

News 26 Feb 2020
Economists and scientists: solve big societal problems by working together

Editorial 26 Feb 2020

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Ahead of the curve in the evolution of human feet
  
  The longitudinal arch has long been considered a crucial structure that provides stiffness to the human foot. Now the transverse arch is stepping into the spotlight, with a proposed central role in the evolution of human foot stiffness.
  
  Glen A. Lichtwark
  Luke A. Kelly
  
  News & Views 26 Feb 2020
- Metallic glasses rejuvenated to harden under strain
  
  Metallic glasses are much stronger than conventional metals, but form certain instabilities under stress that lead to fracture. A process known as rejuvenation has been shown to solve this problem.
  
  Frans Spaepen
  
  News & Views 26 Feb 2020
- High-energy-electron scattering probes the strong nuclear interaction at close range
  
  The dense soup of matter in the core of neutron stars is hard to model, but particle-accelerator experiments in which energetic electrons scatter off atomic nuclei could help to explore this high-density regime.
  
  Alexandra Gade
  
  News & Views 26 Feb 2020
- DNA-repair enzyme turns to translation
  
  A key DNA-repair enzyme has a surprising role during the early steps in the assembly of ribosomes — the molecular machines that translate the genetic code into protein.
  
  Alan J. Warren
  
  News & Views 26 Feb 2020
- Tweaking the DNA of myeloid cells curbs cancer spread
  
  Blood cells called myeloid cells can facilitate metastasis — the spread of a tumour to distant organs. Taming these cells with drugs that alter the chemical structure of their DNA limits metastasis in mice.
  
  Ali Ghasemi
  Michele De Palma
  
  News & Views 26 Feb 2020
- From the archive
  
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- A decade of questions about the fluidity of cell identity
  
  Giacomo Masserdotti
  Magdalena Götz
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2020
- A self-activating orphan receptor
  
  Brian Krumm
  Bryan L. Roth
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- Biodiversity theory backed by island bird data
  
  Kostas A. Triantis
  Thomas J. Matthews
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- Fundamental symmetry tested using antihydrogen
  
  Randolf Pohl
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020

Latest Research

Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxic pks⁺ E. coli
Cayetano Pleguezuelos-Manzano
Jens Puschhof
Hans Clevers

Article 27 Feb 2020
Sex-specific adipose tissue imprinting of regulatory T cells

Visceral adipose tissue contains populations of regulatory T cells that exhibit sexual dimorphism, determined by the surrounding niche, and differ between male and female mice in terms of cell number, phenotype, transcriptional landscape and chromatin accessibility.
Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar
David Chisanga
Axel Kallies

Article 26 Feb 2020
Intraplate volcanism originating from upwelling hydrous mantle transition zone

The widespread intraplate volcanism in northeast China and the unusual ‘petit-spot’ volcanoes offshore Japan could have resulted from the interaction of the subducting Pacific slab with a hydrous mantle transition zone.
Jianfeng Yang
Manuele Faccenda

Article 26 Feb 2020
Lipid availability determines fate of skeletal progenitor cells via SOX9

Lipid starvation results in skeletal progenitors favouring commitment to chondrogenic over osteogenic fate, a process mediated by FOXO transcription factors and SOX9.
Nick van Gastel
Steve Stegen
Geert Carmeliet

Article 26 Feb 2020
Peripheral T cell expansion predicts tumour infiltration and clinical response

Large-scale single-cell sequencing of RNA and T cell receptors in samples from patients with cancer shows clonotypic expansion of effector-like T cells not only in tumour tissue but also in normal adjacent tissues and peripheral blood, which associates with clinical response to cancer immunotherapy.
Thomas D. Wu
Shravan Madireddi
Jane L. Grogan

Article 26 Feb 2020

Researchers are homing in on the myriad ways in which the bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit the human digestive system affect our health – and how they could point the way towards new therapies.

Nature Outlook 29 Jan 2020