Latest Research

  • Letter |

    In the ant genus Pheidole the growth of rudimentary wing discs—which influence developmental allometry to produce castes with distinct morphologies—is socially regulated to determine the worker-to-soldier ratio in Pheidole colonies.

    • Rajendhran Rajakumar
    • , Sophie Koch
    • , Mélanie Couture
    • , Marie-Julie Favé
    • , Angelica Lillico-Ouachour
    • , Travis Chen
    • , Giovanna De Blasis
    • , Arjuna Rajakumar
    • , Dominic Ouellette
    •  & Ehab Abouheif
  • Article | | open

    Deep phenotype and genome-wide genetic data from 500,000 individuals from the UK Biobank, describing population structure and relatedness in the cohort, and imputation to increase the number of testable variants to 96 million.

    • Clare Bycroft
    • , Colin Freeman
    • , Desislava Petkova
    • , Gavin Band
    • , Lloyd T. Elliott
    • , Kevin Sharp
    • , Allan Motyer
    • , Damjan Vukcevic
    • , Olivier Delaneau
    • , Jared O’Connell
    • , Adrian Cortes
    • , Samantha Welsh
    • , Alan Young
    • , Mark Effingham
    • , Gil McVean
    • , Stephen Leslie
    • , Naomi Allen
    • , Peter Donnelly
    •  & Jonathan Marchini
  • Letter |

    Simulations of commonly proposed forest-management portfolios for Europe show that no single portfolio would meet all the requirements of the Paris Agreement, and climate benefits from forest management would be modest and local.

    • Sebastiaan Luyssaert
    • , Guillaume Marie
    • , Aude Valade
    • , Yi-Ying Chen
    • , Sylvestre Njakou Djomo
    • , James Ryder
    • , Juliane Otto
    • , Kim Naudts
    • , Anne Sofie Lansø
    • , Josefine Ghattas
    •  & Matthew J. McGrath
  • Article |

    Lipopeptides secreted by Bacillus bacteria block quorum sensing by Staphylococcus aureus and thereby inhibit the growth of this opportunistic pathogen in the gut, suggesting why people in rural Thailand who are colonized by Bacillus are not also colonized by S. aureus.

    • Pipat Piewngam
    • , Yue Zheng
    • , Thuan H. Nguyen
    • , Seth W. Dickey
    • , Hwang-Soo Joo
    • , Amer E. Villaruz
    • , Kyle A. Glose
    • , Emilie L. Fisher
    • , Rachelle L. Hunt
    • , Barry Li
    • , Janice Chiou
    • , Sujiraphong Pharkjaksu
    • , Sunisa Khongthong
    • , Gordon Y. C. Cheung
    • , Pattarachai Kiratisin
    •  & Michael Otto
  • Letter |

    A strategy for managing the compositional distribution in metal halide perovskite light-emitting diodes enables them to surpass 20% external quantum efficiency—a step towards their practical application in lighting and displays.

    • Kebin Lin
    • , Jun Xing
    • , Li Na Quan
    • , F. Pelayo García de Arquer
    • , Xiwen Gong
    • , Jianxun Lu
    • , Liqiang Xie
    • , Weijie Zhao
    • , Di Zhang
    • , Chuanzhong Yan
    • , Wenqiang Li
    • , Xinyi Liu
    • , Yan Lu
    • , Jeffrey Kirman
    • , Edward H. Sargent
    • , Qihua Xiong
    •  & Zhanhua Wei
  • Article |

    A global model finds that the environmental impacts of the food system could increase by 60–90% by 2050, and that dietary changes, improvements in technologies and management, and reductions in food loss and waste will all be needed to mitigate these impacts.

    • Marco Springmann
    • , Michael Clark
    • , Daniel Mason-D’Croz
    • , Keith Wiebe
    • , Benjamin Leon Bodirsky
    • , Luis Lassaletta
    • , Wim de Vries
    • , Sonja J. Vermeulen
    • , Mario Herrero
    • , Kimberly M. Carlson
    • , Malin Jonell
    • , Max Troell
    • , Fabrice DeClerck
    • , Line J. Gordon
    • , Rami Zurayk
    • , Peter Scarborough
    • , Mike Rayner
    • , Brent Loken
    • , Jess Fanzo
    • , H. Charles J. Godfray
    • , David Tilman
    • , Johan Rockström
    •  & Walter Willett
  • Letter |

    Conditional deletion of Insm1 in mice demonstrates that INSM1 is the key switch that causes the maturation of outer hair cells in the cochlea, with its absence resulting in an increase in inner hair cells instead.

    • Teerawat Wiwatpanit
    • , Sarah M. Lorenzen
    • , Jorge A. Cantú
    • , Chuan Zhi Foo
    • , Ann K. Hogan
    • , Freddie Márquez
    • , John C. Clancy
    • , Matthew J. Schipma
    • , Mary Ann Cheatham
    • , Anne Duggan
    •  & Jaime García-Añoveros
  • Letter |

    A fundamental electronic noise—beyond electronic thermal noise and voltage-activated shot noise—that is generated by temperature differences across nanoscale conductors is demonstrated, with possible implications for thermometry and electronics.

    • Ofir Shein Lumbroso
    • , Lena Simine
    • , Abraham Nitzan
    • , Dvira Segal
    •  & Oren Tal
  • Letter |

    In human and mouse models of ovarian cancer, endoplasmic reticulum stress and the activation of the IRE1α–XBP1 pathway decreases the metabolic fitness of T cells and limits their anti-tumour functions.

    • Minkyung Song
    • , Tito A. Sandoval
    • , Chang-Suk Chae
    • , Sahil Chopra
    • , Chen Tan
    • , Melanie R. Rutkowski
    • , Mahesh Raundhal
    • , Ricardo A. Chaurio
    • , Kyle K. Payne
    • , Csaba Konrad
    • , Sarah E. Bettigole
    • , Hee Rae Shin
    • , Michael J. P. Crowley
    • , Juan P. Cerliani
    • , Andrew V. Kossenkov
    • , Ievgen Motorykin
    • , Sheng Zhang
    • , Giovanni Manfredi
    • , Dmitriy Zamarin
    • , Kevin Holcomb
    • , Paulo C. Rodriguez
    • , Gabriel A. Rabinovich
    • , Jose R. Conejo-Garcia
    • , Laurie H. Glimcher
    •  & Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz

Latest Reviews & Analysis

  • News & Views |

    Experiments reveal a previously unreported type of electronic noise that is caused by temperature gradients. The finding has practical implications, and could help in detecting unwanted hotspots in electrical circuits.

    • Elke Scheer
    •  & Wolfgang Belzig
  • News & Views |

    Light-emitting diodes made from perovskite semiconductors have reached a milestone in the efficiency with which they emit light — potentially ushering in a new platform for lighting and display technology.

    • Paul Meredith
    •  & Ardalan Armin
  • News & Views |

    A new technique, in which forebrain-precursor cells are ablated from early-stage mouse embryos and replaced with embryonic stem cells, promises to facilitate our ability to study the central nervous system.

    • Jimena Andersen
    •  & Sergiu P. Pașca
  • News & Views |

    UK Biobank contains a wealth of data on genetics, health and more from 500,000 participants. A detailed overview of the biobank and an analysis of its brain-imaging data show the value of this resource.

    • Nancy Cox
  • News & Views |

    What Nature was saying 50 and 100 years ago.

  • News & Views |

    The material graphene has a vast number of potential applications — but a survey of commercially available graphene samples reveals that research could be undermined by the poor quality of the available material.

    • Peter Bøggild

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