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Attacks on scholars worldwide raise concern

Report details hundreds of violent attacks, sackings and imprisonments of academics and students in the past year.

‘Haptic skin’ creates virtual sense of touch

Researchers design flexible membrane to make virtual reality more tactile.
Geoff Marsh

Nature Video 20 Nov 2019
Stop the science training that demands ‘don’t ask’

It’s time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.
Jerry Ravetz

World View 19 Nov 2019
Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression

Imaging and sequencing approaches are combined to show that extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer is circular and has unique chromatin structure that amplifies oncogene output.
Sihan Wu
Kristen M. Turner
Paul S. Mischel

Article 20 Nov 2019
Daily briefing: Secretive Iran court sentences cheetah conservationists to prison

Case has prompted an outcry from the international community. Plus: promising antibiotic discovered in the guts of nematode worms and a global view of collaboration.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 22 Nov 2019
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Global 5G wireless deal threatens weather forecasts

Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapour.
Alexandra Witze

News 22 Nov 2019
Trump’s pick to lead US oceans agency withdraws
Jeff Tollefson

News 21 Nov 2019
Attacks on scholars worldwide raise concern
Alison Abbott

News 21 Nov 2019
Science funders gamble on grant lotteries
David Adam

News 20 Nov 2019
How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy
Alexandra Witze

News Feature 20 Nov 2019
A message for mentors from dissatisfied graduate students
Chris Woolston

Career Feature 20 Nov 2019
The art of rest, hive minds, and traversing Canada: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson

Book Review 20 Nov 2019

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Cell-tracking pipeline reveals how motor circuits are built
  
  A sophisticated imaging pipeline has been developed to track neurons in early-stage zebrafish embryos over time and space. It reveals how newborn neurons come together to build a spinal cord capable of locomotion.
  
  Kristen P. D’Elia
  David Schoppik
  
  News & Views 20 Nov 2019
- How a fly’s neural compass adapts to an ever-changing world
  
  Two studies in flies reveal the mechanism by which the brain’s directional system learns to align information about self-orientation with environmental landmarks — a process crucial for accurate navigation.
  
  Malcolm G. Campbell
  Lisa M. Giocomo
  
  News & Views 20 Nov 2019
- Extreme emission seen from γ-ray bursts
  
  Cosmic explosions called γ-ray bursts are the most energetic bursting events in the Universe. Observations of extremely high-energy emission from two γ-ray bursts provide a new way to study these gigantic explosions.
  
  Bing Zhang
  
  News & Views 20 Nov 2019
- Virtual and augmented reality enhanced by touch
  
  Conventional technologies for virtual and augmented reality simulate interactive experiences through visual and auditory stimuli. A technology that adds sensations of touch could find uses in areas from gaming to prosthetic feedback.
  
  Xiao-ming Tao
  
  News & Views 20 Nov 2019
- From the archive
  
  How Nature reported the hatching of a penguin chick at Edinburgh Zoo in 1919, and a golden age for astrophysics in the 1960s.
  
  News & Views 19 Nov 2019
- Trispecific antibodies offer a third way forward for anticancer immunotherapy
  
  Alfred L. Garfall
  Carl H. June
  
  News & Views 18 Nov 2019
- Wearable graphene sensors use ambient light to monitor health
  
  Deji Akinwande
  Dmitry Kireev
  
  News & Views 18 Nov 2019
- Temperature-dependent polarization in a non-polar crystal
  
  Gustau Catalan
  Beatriz Noheda
  
  News & Views 18 Nov 2019
- Microbial clues to a liver disease
  
  Martha R. J. Clokie
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019
- Link between antimatter and dark matter probed
  
  Gianpaolo Carosi
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019

Latest Research

Geochemical evidence for high volatile fluxes from the mantle at the end of the Archaean

Depletion of Archaean atmospheric xenon in ¹²⁹Xe relative to the modern atmosphere might indicate that a short burst of mantle activity took place around 2.6 to 2.2 billion years ago.
Bernard Marty
David V. Bekaert
Claude Jaupart

Article 20 Nov 2019
NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology

The authors show that NLRP3 inflammasome is activated in microglia of patients with fronto-temporal dementia and in a mouse model of tau pathology, and that the loss of NLRP3 inflammasome function decreases tau pathology and improves cognition in mice.
Christina Ising
Carmen Venegas
Michael T. Heneka

Article 20 Nov 2019
Generation of stable heading representations in diverse visual scenes

Two-photon calcium imaging and optogenetic experiments in tethered flying flies, combined with modelling, demonstrate how the correlation of compass and visual neurons underpins plasticity that enables the transformation of visual cues into stable heading representations.
Sung Soo Kim
Ann M. Hermundstad
Vivek Jayaraman

Article 20 Nov 2019
Skin-integrated wireless haptic interfaces for virtual and augmented reality

Interfaces for epidermal virtual reality technology are demonstrated that can communicate by programmable patterns of localized mechanical vibrations.
Xinge Yu
Zhaoqian Xie
John A. Rogers

Article 20 Nov 2019
PGRMC2 is an intracellular haem chaperone critical for adipocyte function

Progesterone receptor membrane component 2 is required to transport haem from the mitochondria to the nucleus, where, in adipose tissue, it has roles in regulation of thermogenesis and glucose metabolism.
Andrea Galmozzi
Bernard P. Kok
Enrique Saez

Article 20 Nov 2019

This supplement explores the effects of political instability and escalating trade tensions on US-China and UK-EU research collaborations, and highlights the most successful 'big science' players in high-energy physics, genomics and oncology.

Nature Index 20 Nov 2019