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Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team
- Volume 550
- Issue 7675
How the Sun’s corona can be millions of degrees hotter than its surface has been a mystery. NASA/SDO
Astronomy and astrophysics
Tiny, fleeting flares might heat Sun’s corona
Ice formed six-leaved-clover patterns on hydrophobic surfaces, and sunflower-like arrangements on hydrophilic ones. J. Liu et al./PNAS
Climate sciences
Dry summers ahead for US–Mexico border region
When the signals from blood vessels are dimmed, lymph vessels can be seen in primate brains on magnetic resonance imaging scans. M. Absinta et al./eLife (CC0 1.0)
Despite claims of recent sightings in Tasmania, most researchers think the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died out decades ago. Popperfoto/Getty
Budgies come in two distinct colour combinations; now researchers think they have worked out why. Budgies (Melopsittacus undulatus) come in two distinct colour combinations; now researchers think they have worked out why.
CRISPR systems are used by microbes to fight off attacks, such as from the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bound to an invading phage DNA (shown in orange here). V. Falconieri/Subramaniam lab/NCI/NIH
Molecular biology
