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    Thermal imaging data obtained from the spacecraft Hayabusa2 reveal that the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu is an object of unusually high porosity.

    • Tatsuaki Okada
    • , Tetsuya Fukuhara
    • , Satoshi Tanaka
    • , Makoto Taguchi
    • , Takehiko Arai
    • , Hiroki Senshu
    • , Naoya Sakatani
    • , Yuri Shimaki
    • , Hirohide Demura
    • , Yoshiko Ogawa
    • , Kentaro Suko
    • , Tomohiko Sekiguchi
    • , Toru Kouyama
    • , Jun Takita
    • , Tsuneo Matsunaga
    • , Takeshi Imamura
    • , Takehiko Wada
    • , Sunao Hasegawa
    • , Jörn Helbert
    • , Thomas G. Müller
    • , Axel Hagermann
    • , Jens Biele
    • , Matthias Grott
    • , Maximilian Hamm
    • , Marco Delbo
    • , Naru Hirata
    • , Naoyuki Hirata
    • , Yukio Yamamoto
    • , Seiji Sugita
    • , Noriyuki Namiki
    • , Kohei Kitazato
    • , Masahiko Arakawa
    • , Shogo Tachibana
    • , Hitoshi Ikeda
    • , Masateru Ishiguro
    • , Koji Wada
    • , Chikatoshi Honda
    • , Rie Honda
    • , Yoshiaki Ishihara
    • , Koji Matsumoto
    • , Moe Matsuoka
    • , Tatsuhiro Michikami
    • , Akira Miura
    • , Tomokatsu Morota
    • , Hirotomo Noda
    • , Rina Noguchi
    • , Kazunori Ogawa
    • , Kei Shirai
    • , Eri Tatsumi
    • , Hikaru Yabuta
    • , Yasuhiro Yokota
    • , Manabu Yamada
    • , Masanao Abe
    • , Masahiko Hayakawa
    • , Takahiro Iwata
    • , Masanobu Ozaki
    • , Hajime Yano
    • , Satoshi Hosoda
    • , Osamu Mori
    • , Hirotaka Sawada
    • , Takanobu Shimada
    • , Hiroshi Takeuchi
    • , Ryudo Tsukizaki
    • , Atsushi Fujii
    • , Chikako Hirose
    • , Shota Kikuchi
    • , Yuya Mimasu
    • , Naoko Ogawa
    • , Go Ono
    • , Tadateru Takahashi
    • , Yuto Takei
    • , Tomohiro Yamaguchi
    • , Kent Yoshikawa
    • , Fuyuto Terui
    • , Takanao Saiki
    • , Satoru Nakazawa
    • , Makoto Yoshikawa
    • , Seiichiro Watanabe
    •  & Yuichi Tsuda

  • Technology Feature |

    Researchers are finally uncovering the truth about glycans — the sugar-based chains that coat cells and decorate many proteins.

    • Jyoti Madhusoodanan

  • Nature Briefing |

    Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most effective methods for people who want to give up drinking, finds a systematic review. Plus: All the Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible are fakes and how scientists map the hidden spread of COVID-19.

    • Flora Graham

  • Career Q&A |

    Rebecca Powles explains how increasing pressure to deliver energy-efficient buildings is creating opportunities for environmentally conscious scientists.

    • Sarah O’Meara

  • Research Highlight |

    Permanent magnets could help to optimize the geometry of a future fusion reactor.

  • Career News |

    Men outnumber and out-earn women, and white people take up more posts and are more likely to be in the highest pay grades than people from minority ethnic groups.

    • Chris Woolston

  • Obituary |

    Nuclear physicist, polymath, disarmament pioneer and government adviser.

    • Phillip F. Schewe

  • News & Views |

    A tiny skull trapped in 99-million-year-old amber suggests that some of the earliest birds evolved to become miniature. The fossil illustrates how ancient amber can act as a window into the distant past.

    • Roger B. J. Benson

  • Article |

    Oculudentavis khaungraae—a newly discovered theropod from the Cretaceous period of Myanmar—reveals a previously unknown bauplan and ecology associated with miniaturization, highlighting the potential for recovering small-bodied vertebrates from amber deposits.

    • Lida Xing
    • , Jingmai K. O’Connor
    • , Lars Schmitz
    • , Luis M. Chiappe
    • , Ryan C. McKellar
    • , Qiru Yi
    •  & Gang Li

  • Article |

    The cryo-electron microscopy structure of the yeast SWI/SNF complex bound to a nucleosome substrate provides insights into the chromatin-remodelling function of this family of protein complexes and suggests mechanisms by which the mutated proteins may cause cancer.

    • Yan Han
    • , Alexis A Reyes
    • , Sara Malik
    •  & Yuan He

  • Article |

    • David Ehrenreich
    • , Christophe Lovis
    • , Romain Allart
    • , María Rosa Zapatero Osorio
    • , Francesco Pepe
    • , Stefano Cristiani
    • , Rafael Rebolo
    • , Nuno C. Santos
    • , Francesco Borsa
    • , Olivier Demangeon
    • , Xavier Dumusque
    • , Jonay I. González Hernández
    • , Núria Casasayas-Barris
    • , Damien Ségransan
    • , Sérgio Sousa
    • , Manuel Abreu
    • , Vardan Adibekyan
    • , Michael Affolter
    • , Carlos Allende Prieto
    • , Yann Alibert
    • , Matteo Aliverti
    • , David Alves
    • , Manuel Amate
    • , Gerardo Avila
    • , Veronica Baldini
    • , Timothy Bandy
    • , Willy Benz
    • , Andrea Bianco
    • , Émeline Bolmont
    • , François Bouchy
    • , Vincent Bourrier
    • , Christopher Broeg
    • , Alexandre Cabral
    • , Giorgio Calderone
    • , Enric Pallé
    • , H. M. Cegla
    • , Roberto Cirami
    • , João M. P. Coelho
    • , Paolo Conconi
    • , Igor Coretti
    • , Claudio Cumani
    • , Guido Cupani
    • , Hans Dekker
    • , Bernard Delabre
    • , Sebastian Deiries
    • , Valentina D’Odorico
    • , Paolo Di Marcantonio
    • , Pedro Figueira
    • , Ana Fragoso
    • , Ludovic Genolet
    • , Matteo Genoni
    • , Ricardo Génova Santos
    • , Nathan Hara
    • , Ian Hughes
    • , Olaf Iwert
    • , Florian Kerber
    • , Jens Knudstrup
    • , Marco Landoni
    • , Baptiste Lavie
    • , Jean-Louis Lizon
    • , Monika Lendl
    • , Gaspare Lo Curto
    • , Charles Maire
    • , Antonio Manescau
    • , C. J. A. P. Martins
    • , Denis Mégevand
    • , Andrea Mehner
    • , Giusi Micela
    • , Andrea Modigliani
    • , Paolo Molaro
    • , Manuel Monteiro
    • , Mario Monteiro
    • , Manuele Moschetti
    • , Eric Müller
    • , Nelson Nunes
    • , Luca Oggioni
    • , António Oliveira
    • , Giorgio Pariani
    • , Luca Pasquini
    • , Ennio Poretti
    • , José Luis Rasilla
    • , Edoardo Redaelli
    • , Marco Riva
    • , Samuel Santana Tschudi
    • , Paolo Santin
    • , Pedro Santos
    • , Alex Segovia Milla
    • , Julia V. Seidel
    • , Danuta Sosnowska
    • , Alessandro Sozzetti
    • , Paolo Spanò
    • , Alejandro Suárez Mascareño
    • , Hugo Tabernero
    • , Fabio Tenegi
    • , Stéphane Udry
    • , Alessio Zanutta
    •  & Filippo Zerbi

  • Article |

    Analyses of microbial communities that live 10–750 m below the seafloor at Atlantis Bank, Indian Ocean, provide insights into how these microorganisms survive by coupling energy sources to organic and inorganic carbon resources.

    • Jiangtao Li
    • , Paraskevi Mara
    • , Florence Schubotz
    • , Jason B. Sylvan
    • , Gaëtan Burgaud
    • , Frieder Klein
    • , David Beaudoin
    • , Shu Ying Wee
    • , Henry J. B. Dick
    • , Sarah Lott
    • , Rebecca Cox
    • , Lara A. E. Meyer
    • , Maxence Quémener
    • , Donna K. Blackman
    •  & Virginia P. Edgcomb

  • Article |

    A quantitative atlas of the transcriptomes, proteomes and phosphoproteomes of 30 tissues of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana provides a valuable resource for plant research.

    • Julia Mergner
    • , Martin Frejno
    • , Markus List
    • , Michael Papacek
    • , Xia Chen
    • , Ajeet Chaudhary
    • , Patroklos Samaras
    • , Sandra Richter
    • , Hiromasa Shikata
    • , Maxim Messerer
    • , Daniel Lang
    • , Stefan Altmann
    • , Philipp Cyprys
    • , Daniel P. Zolg
    • , Toby Mathieson
    • , Marcus Bantscheff
    • , Rashmi R. Hazarika
    • , Tobias Schmidt
    • , Corinna Dawid
    • , Andreas Dunkel
    • , Thomas Hofmann
    • , Stefanie Sprunck
    • , Pascal Falter-Braun
    • , Frank Johannes
    • , Klaus F. X. Mayer
    • , Gerd Jürgens
    • , Mathias Wilhelm
    • , Jan Baumbach
    • , Erwin Grill
    • , Kay Schneitz
    • , Claus Schwechheimer
    •  & Bernhard Kuster

  • Article |

    CRISPR screens in a 3D spheroid cancer model system more accurately recapitulate cancer phenotypes than existing 2D models and were used to identify carboxypeptidase D, acting via the IGF1R, as a 3D-specific driver of cancer growth.

    • Kyuho Han
    • , Sarah E. Pierce
    • , Amy Li
    • , Kaitlyn Spees
    • , Grace R. Anderson
    • , Jose A. Seoane
    • , Yuan-Hung Lo
    • , Michael Dubreuil
    • , Micah Olivas
    • , Roarke A. Kamber
    • , Michael Wainberg
    • , Kaja Kostyrko
    • , Marcus R. Kelly
    • , Maryam Yousefi
    • , Scott W. Simpkins
    • , David Yao
    • , Keonil Lee
    • , Calvin J. Kuo
    • , Peter K. Jackson
    • , Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
    • , Anshul Kundaje
    • , Andrew J. Gentles
    • , Christina Curtis
    • , Monte M. Winslow
    •  & Michael C. Bassik

  • News & Views |

    Identifying Earth’s building blocks from terrestrial rocks is challenging because these ingredients have become mixed as the planet evolved. Evidence of an unknown building block in ancient rocks provides fresh insight.

    • Katherine R. Bermingham

  • News & Views |

    Chromatin, the complex of DNA and protein in cell nuclei, can be modified by ubiquitin molecules. It emerges that this modification occurs in a molecular reaction chamber formed from an enzyme and a scaffold protein.

    • Nick Gilbert
    •  & Fred van Leeuwen