Gaia mission hints at Milky Way's turbulent life

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News | 19 September 2018

Top US science agency unveils hotly anticipated harassment policy

The National Science Foundation’s rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.
- Alexandra Witze
News & Views | 19 September 2018

Elimination of senescent cells prevents neurodegeneration in mice

Aggregation of the protein tau is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases in humans. It emerges that eliminating a type of damaged cell that no longer divides can prevent tau-mediated neurodegeneration in mice.
- Jay Penney
- & Li-Huei Tsai
News | 18 September 2018

Prominent palaeontologist loses £1-million grant following bullying investigation

Nicholas Longrich has been disciplined by the University of Bath, UK, for breaching its anti-harassment policy.
- Holly Else
Nature Briefing | 19 September 2018

Daily briefing: Why potentially useful human genes are being ignored by science

Why genetics research still focuses on the same old genes, a whole new level of quantum weirdness and lessons from a huge science scandal.
- Flora Graham

Current Issue | 20 September 2018

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Letter | 19 September 2018

Glider soaring via reinforcement learning in the field

A reinforcement learning approach allows a suitably equipped glider to navigate thermal plumes autonomously in an open field.
- Gautam Reddy
- , Jerome Wong-Ng
- , Antonio Celani
- , Terrence J. Sejnowski
- & Massimo Vergassola
Letter | 19 September 2018

Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

The diversity in the hydraulic traits of trees mediates ecosystem resilience to drought and will probably have an important role in future ecosystem–atmosphere feedback effects.
- William R. L. Anderegg
- , Alexandra G. Konings
- , Anna T. Trugman
- , Kailiang Yu
- , David R. Bowling
- , Robert Gabbitas
- , Daniel S. Karp
- , Stephen Pacala
- , John S. Sperry
- , Benjamin N. Sulman
- & Nicole Zenes
Article | 19 September 2018

T cells in patients with narcolepsy target self-antigens of hypocretin neurons

The detection of hypocretin-specific autoreactive CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells in patients with narcolepsy reveals the autoimmune aetiology of this disorder.
- Daniela Latorre
- , Ulf Kallweit
- , Eric Armentani
- , Mathilde Foglierini
- , Federico Mele
- , Antonino Cassotta
- , Sandra Jovic
- , David Jarrossay
- , Johannes Mathis
- , Francesco Zellini
- , Burkhard Becher
- , Antonio Lanzavecchia
- , Ramin Khatami
- , Mauro Manconi
- , Mehdi Tafti
- , Claudio L. Bassetti
- & Federica Sallusto
Letter | 19 September 2018

Superstructures generated from truncated tetrahedral quantum dots

Truncated tetrahedral nanocrystals can self-assemble into one-, two- and three-dimensional superstructures.
- Yasutaka Nagaoka
- , Rui Tan
- , Ruipeng Li
- , Hua Zhu
- , Dennis Eggert
- , Yimin A. Wu
- , Yuzi Liu
- , Zhongwu Wang
- & Ou Chen
Article | 19 September 2018

Tc toxin activation requires unfolding and refolding of a β-propeller

A high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of a complete Tc holotoxin complex reveals the precise mechanism of Tc toxin assembly, gate opening and release of the cytotoxic enzyme into the translocation channel.
- Christos Gatsogiannis
- , Felipe Merino
- , Daniel Roderer
- , David Balchin
- , Evelyn Schubert
- , Anne Kuhlee
- , Manajit Hayer-Hartl
- & Stefan Raunser
Letter | 19 September 2018

Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline

In a mouse model of tau-dependent neurodegenerative disease, the clearance of senescent glial cells prevents the degeneration of cortical and hippocampal neurons and preserves cognitive function.
- Tyler J. Bussian
- , Asef Aziz
- , Charlton F. Meyer
- , Barbara L. Swenson
- , Jan M. van Deursen
- & Darren J. Baker
Letter | 19 September 2018

Absolute timing of the photoelectric effect

The absolute timing of the photoelectric effect has proved difficult to measure, but the delay between photon arrival at a tungsten surface and ejection of photoelectrons has now been determined.
- M. Ossiander
- , J. Riemensberger
- , S. Neppl
- , M. Mittermair
- , M. Schäffer
- , A. Duensing
- , M. S. Wagner
- , R. Heider
- , M. Wurzer
- , M. Gerl
- , M. Schnitzenbaumer
- , J. V. Barth
- , F. Libisch
- , C. Lemell
- , J. Burgdörfer
- , P. Feulner
- & R. Kienberger
Letter | 19 September 2018

Device-independent quantum random-number generation
- Yang Liu
- , Qi Zhao
- , Ming-Han Li
- , Jian-Yu Guan
- , Yanbao Zhang
- , Bing Bai
- , Weijun Zhang
- , Wen-Zhao Liu
- , Cheng Wu
- , Xiao Yuan
- , Hao Li
- , W. J. Munro
- , Zhen Wang
- , Lixing You
- , Jun Zhang
- , Xiongfeng Ma
- , Jingyun Fan
- , Qiang Zhang
- & Jian-Wei Pan
Letter | 19 September 2018

A dynamically young and perturbed Milky Way disk

An analysis of the motions of six million stars in the Milky Way disk reveals substructures such as snail shells and ridges, indicating that our Galaxy has been recently perturbed.
- T. Antoja
- , A. Helmi
- , M. Romero-Gómez
- , D. Katz
- , C. Babusiaux
- , R. Drimmel
- , D. W. Evans
- , F. Figueras
- , E. Poggio
- , C. Reylé
- , A. C. Robin
- , G. Seabroke
- & C. Soubiran

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News & Views | 19 September 2018

Elimination of senescent cells prevents neurodegeneration in mice

Aggregation of the protein tau is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases in humans. It emerges that eliminating a type of damaged cell that no longer divides can prevent tau-mediated neurodegeneration in mice.
- Jay Penney
- & Li-Huei Tsai
News & Views | 19 September 2018

A core problem in nuclear assembly

Chromosomes can exist outside the nucleus in rupture-prone structures called micronuclei. It emerges that micronuclei are fragile because their outer layer lacks some nuclear-envelope components.
- Matthias Samwer
- & Daniel W. Gerlich
News & Views | 19 September 2018

Timing the action of light on matter

Photoemission, the ejection of an electron from a material on the absorption of a photon, is one of the fastest processes in nature. An experiment demonstrates how the dynamics of this process can be captured in real time.
- Thomas Fennel
News & Views | 19 September 2018

Put to sleep by immune cells

The sleep disorder narcolepsy is linked to immune-system genes and is caused by the loss of neurons that express the protein hypocretin. Hypocretin-targeting immune cells have now been found in people with narcolepsy.
- Roland S. Liblau
News & Views | 19 September 2018

Short proton bunches rapidly accelerate energetic electrons

Experiments show that short bunches of protons can produce electric fields that are strong enough to accelerate energetic electrons compactly. This discovery could lead to miniaturized high-energy particle accelerators.
- Toshiki Tajima
News & Views | 18 September 2018

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Editorial | 19 September 2018

Filthy air is a global disgrace

Science can help to tackle air pollution with better models for monitoring and exposure.
News | 19 September 2018

African and Asian researchers are hampered by visa problems

Researchers from these continents are three to four times more likely to experience visa problems when travelling for work than are Europeans and Americans.
- Maina Waruru
News Feature | 19 September 2018

A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony

How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience.
- Giorgia Guglielmi
World View | 19 September 2018

Reboot undergraduate courses for reproducibility

Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come, says Katherine Button.
- Katherine Button
Comment | 19 September 2018

Don’t deploy negative emissions technologies without ethical analysis

Climate policy advice is being undermined by value-laden choices over risky mitigation strategies, warn Dominic Lenzi and colleagues.
- Dominic Lenzi
- , William F. Lamb
- , Jérôme Hilaire
- , Martin Kowarsch
- & Jan C. Minx
Editorial | 19 September 2018

Austrian agency shows how to tackle scientific misconduct

A decade on from a major academic scandal, officials there have got their act together.

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