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    Browse the top 50 most read Nature Communications articles published in 2018 from across the Earth and planetary sciences.

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    Browse the top 50 most read Nature Communications articles published in 2018 from across the life and biological sciences.

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    Browse the top 50 most read Nature Communications physics articles published in 2018.

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    Fire and ice: this collection explores volcanism and the presence of water (-ice) across our Solar System and what it can tell us about planetary geologic processes.

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    In this collection, we showcase recent articles published in Nature Communications on FEL generation and characterization and their application in fundamental studies of light-matter interaction. These research papers include FEL instrumentation and techniques, investigations on photoionization and ultrafast processes in atomic and molecular physics, chemical and physical properties of condensed matter systems, and probing of structure and dynamics of biological samples. This collection highlights the increasingly significant role FELs are having on research across a diverse range of subject areas and Nature Communications’ role as a suitable platform in publishing such multidisciplinary works.

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    Early Earth research is an exciting, yet particularly difficult field of research. This collection highlights the different opinions on how to investigate the early formation of genetic material, honours the difficulties of early Earth research, and showcases some advances in origin-of-life research that have been published in Nature Communications.

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    The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most important natural cycles impacting the global climate. This evolving collection brings together research that examines the dynamics of ENSO in present, past and future climates, as well as its predictability and the global and regional impacts to ecosystems and society.

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    This cross-disciplinary collection brings together Nature Communications articles from biotechnology, optics, neuroscience, cell biology, and medicine that develop or apply light-controlled technologies.

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    Synthetic and medicinal chemists are at the forefront of drug discovery and development. This collection showcases some of the most recent advances in organic synthesis, biocatalysis and -chemistry geared towards discovery and improvement of bioactive compounds, which have been published in Nature Communications.

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    This interdisciplinary collection showcases recent Nature Communications articles that provide new insights into microbial interactions, competition and coexistence dynamics, community assembly, and contributions to ecosystem function.

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    In this collection we highlight recent plasma research from Nature Communications, including fundamental processes relevant to astrophysical events, energy transfer from lasers to particles during acceleration, material development for plasma confinement and nuclear reactions in plasma fusion devices, plus much more.

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    This Nature Communications collection showcases the latest opinion pieces, reviews articles and original research on polar ice sheets, their internal dynamics, and their interaction with and impact on the wider Earth-climate system. This collection, curated by the Earth science editorial team, will be continually updated and seeks to provide a useful resource for the Antarctic and Arctic ice sheets community.

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