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The quest to decipher how the body’s cells sense touch

From a painful pinch to a soft caress, scientists are zooming in on the pressure-sensitive proteins that allow cells to detect tension and pressure.

SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

Latest launch includes ‘DarkSat’ prototype to reduce reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites.
Alexandra Witze

News 09 Jan 2020
New virus identified as likely cause of mystery illness in China

The legacy of SARS has haunted the race to understand a respiratory infection that has affected 60 people.
David Cyranoski

News 08 Jan 2020
Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

An integrated analysis of several cohorts shows that clonal, antigen-experienced T cells are found in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that the adaptive immune system has a role in age-related neurodegeneration.
David Gate
Naresha Saligrama
Tony Wyss-Coray

Article 08 Jan 2020
Daily briefing: Russian Academy of Sciences recommends retraction of 2,528 papers

Independent commission tackles plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Plus: SpaceX tests a black satellite in response to fears it is ruining astronomy and scientists explore the parts of Notre-Dame exposed by fire.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 09 Jan 2020
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

Latest launch includes ‘DarkSat’ prototype to reduce reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites.
Alexandra Witze

News 09 Jan 2020
Canadian universities mourn researchers who died in Iran plane crash
Nidhi Subbaraman

News 09 Jan 2020
New virus identified as likely cause of mystery illness in China
David Cyranoski

News 08 Jan 2020
The quest to decipher how the body’s cells sense touch
Amber Dance

News Feature 08 Jan 2020
How to age well, a culinary journey, and why you’re not as gullible as you thought: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser

Book Review 08 Jan 2020
The huge scientific effort to study Notre-Dame’s ashes
Philip Ball

News 08 Jan 2020
Check for publication integrity before misconduct
Andrew Grey
Mark J. Bolland
C. K. Gunsalus

Comment 07 Jan 2020

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- A structurally unstable semiconductor stabilized and enhanced by strain
  
  Semiconductors known as halide perovskites have remarkable optoelectronic properties, but their structural instability limits practical applications. A solution has been found that involves squeezing the compounds’ crystal lattices.
  
  Jian Shi
  
  News & Views 08 Jan 2020
- An immune-cell signature marks the brain in Alzheimer’s disease
  
  A subpopulation of adaptive immune cells patrols the brain and cerebrospinal fluid in people who have Alzheimer’s disease. This discovery should broaden our understanding of how the immune system can influence neurodegeneration.
  
  Michael T. Heneka
  
  News & Views 08 Jan 2020
- From the archive
  
  How Nature reported the establishment of a wildlife sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean in 1920, and a wry analysis of whether procreation causes heart attacks.
  
  News & Views 07 Jan 2020
- Not all fast radio bursts are created equal
  
  Astronomical signals called fast radio bursts remain enigmatic, but a key discovery has now been made. A second repeating fast radio burst has been traced to its host galaxy, and its home bears little resemblance to that of the first.
  
  Matthew Bailes
  
  News & Views 06 Jan 2020
- AI shows promise for breast cancer screening
  
  Could artificial intelligence improve the accuracy of screening for breast cancer? A comparison of the diagnostic performance of expert physicians and computers suggests so, but the clinical implications are as yet uncertain.
  
  Etta D. Pisano
  
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- Galaxy cluster illuminates the cosmic dark ages
  
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- Infrared spectroscopy finally sees the light
  
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Latest Research

In vitro characterization of the human segmentation clock

Human presomitic mesoderm cells derived in vitro demonstrate oscillations of the segmentation clock, thus providing a window into an otherwise inaccessible stage of human development.
Margarete Diaz-Cuadros
Daniel E. Wagner
Olivier Pourquié

Article 08 Jan 2020
Rapid non-uniform adaptation to conformation-specific KRAS(G12C) inhibition

Populations of KRAS(G12C)-mutant cancer cells can rapidly bypass the effects of treatment with KRAS(G12C) inhibitors because a subset of cells escapes drug-induced quiescence by producing new KRAS(G12C) that is maintained in its active, drug-insensitive state.
Jenny Y. Xue
Yulei Zhao
Piro Lito

Article 08 Jan 2020
Strain engineering and epitaxial stabilization of halide perovskites

A method of deposition of mixed-cation hybrid perovskite films as lattice-mismatched substrates for an α-FAPbI₃ film is described, giving strains of up to 2.4 per cent while also stabilizing the metastable α-FAPbI₃ phase for several hundred days.
Yimu Chen
Yusheng Lei
Sheng Xu

Article 08 Jan 2020
Proton-assisted growth of ultra-flat graphene films

A growth process in which protons decouple graphene from the underlying substrate greatly reduces the number of wrinkles that usually degrade large graphene films grown by chemical vapour deposition.
Guowen Yuan
Dongjing Lin
Libo Gao

Article 08 Jan 2020
Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

An integrated analysis of several cohorts shows that clonal, antigen-experienced T cells are found in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that the adaptive immune system has a role in age-related neurodegeneration.
David Gate
Naresha Saligrama
Tony Wyss-Coray

Article 08 Jan 2020

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Materials science

The materials that will give rise to the industries of the future are taking shape in laboratories around the world, but how many of them will get to market?

Nature Index 11 Dec 2019