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‘No one is allowed to go out’: your stories from the coronavirus outbreak

From laboratory closures to equipment shortages, researchers worldwide tell Nature how they have been affected by the epidemic.

Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI

Machine learning spots molecules that work even against ‘untreatable’ strains of bacteria.
Jo Marchant

News 20 Feb 2020
First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’

Thwaites Glacier’s collapse could raise sea levels worldwide by more than half a metre.
Jeff Tollefson

News 20 Feb 2020
Preindustrial ¹⁴CH₄ indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH₄ emissions

Isotopic evidence from ice cores indicates that preindustrial-era geological methane emissions were lower than previously thought, suggesting that present-day emissions of methane from fossil fuels are underestimated.
Benjamin Hmiel
V. V. Petrenko
E. Dlugokencky

Article 19 Feb 2020
Daily briefing: Radar survey sparks debate on Egyptian queen Nefertiti

Archaeologists detect hidden rooms next to Tutankhamun’s tomb, scientists question coronavirus case-counting and an introvert offers public-speaking tips
Emma Stoye

Nature Briefing 20 Feb 2020
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New Antarctic island spotted as mammoth glacier retreats

An uncharted island off Antarctica’s western coast could reveal how climate change is altering the continent.
Giuliana Viglione

News 21 Feb 2020
Has the UK science minister been demoted?
Nisha Gaind
Jonathan O'Callaghan

News 21 Feb 2020
China set to clamp down permanently on wildlife trade in wake of coronavirus
Smriti Mallapaty

News 21 Feb 2020
‘No one is allowed to go out’: your stories from the coronavirus outbreak
Emma Stoye

News 21 Feb 2020
Coronavirus latest: death toll passes 2,000

News 20 Feb 2020
Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI
Jo Marchant

News 20 Feb 2020
First look under imperilled Antarctic glacier finds ‘warm water coming from all directions’
Jeff Tollefson

News 20 Feb 2020

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- A self-activating orphan receptor
  
  The first 3D structure of a full-length G-protein-coupled receptor whose natural activator is unknown has been determined, providing insights into an unusual mode of activation and a basis for discovering therapeutics.
  
  Brian Krumm
  Bryan L. Roth
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- Biodiversity theory backed by island bird data
  
  Analysis of a unique global data set reveals how the species diversity of birds is affected by the properties of archipelagos and offers a way to test an influential theory. Has this improved our understanding of island biodiversity patterns?
  
  Kostas A. Triantis
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  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- Fundamental symmetry tested using antihydrogen
  
  The breaking of a property of nature called charge–parity–time symmetry might explain the observed lack of antimatter in the Universe. Scientists have now hunted for such symmetry breaking using the antimatter atom antihydrogen.
  
  Randolf Pohl
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- How plant cells sense the outside world through hydrogen peroxide
  
  The discovery of a sensor that detects hydrogen peroxide at the surface of a cell provides insights into the mechanisms by which plant cells perceive and respond to environmental stress.
  
  Christine H. Foyer
  
  News & Views 19 Feb 2020
- From the archive
  
  How Nature reported a stamp that celebrated the 150th anniversary of a learned society in 1970, and a call for nasal hair to be more widely appreciated, from 1870.
  
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- 30 years of the iron hypothesis of ice ages
  
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- Why surface roughness is similar at different scales
  
  Astrid S. de Wijn
  
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  News & Views 12 Feb 2020
- Transfer of ubiquitin protein caught in the act
  
  Raymond J. Deshaies
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- Quantum cascade laser lives on the edge
  
  Sunil Mittal
  Edo Waks
  
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Latest Research

Preindustrial ¹⁴CH₄ indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH₄ emissions

Isotopic evidence from ice cores indicates that preindustrial-era geological methane emissions were lower than previously thought, suggesting that present-day emissions of methane from fossil fuels are underestimated.
Benjamin Hmiel
V. V. Petrenko
E. Dlugokencky

Article 19 Feb 2020
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal somitogenesis in gastruloids

Single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics reveal that the somitogenesis clock is active in mouse gastruloids, which can be induced to generate somites with the correct rostral–caudal patterning.
Susanne C. van den Brink
Anna Alemany
Alexander van Oudenaarden

Article 19 Feb 2020
Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning

A closed-loop machine learning methodology of optimizing fast-charging protocols for lithium-ion batteries can identify high-lifetime charging protocols accurately and efficiently, considerably reducing the experimental time compared to simpler approaches.
Peter M. Attia
Aditya Grover
William C. Chueh

Article 19 Feb 2020
ILC2s amplify PD-1 blockade by activating tissue-specific cancer immunity

Tumour-infiltrating group 2 innate lymphoid cells prime CD8⁺ T cells and amplify the anti-tumour effects of PD-1 blockade in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
John Alec Moral
Joanne Leung
Vinod P. Balachandran

Article 19 Feb 2020
Gene expression and cell identity controlled by anaphase-promoting complex

WDR5 and TBP recruit anaphase-promoting complex to specific transcription start sites in mitosis, initiating a ubiquitin-dependent mechanism that preserves cell identity by linking gene expression and cell division.
Eugene Oh
Kevin G. Mark
Michael Rape

Article 19 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