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The world’s top chemical-weapons detectives just opened a brand-new lab

The state-of-the-art centre will help to enforce a near-universal ban on certain chemicals and train analysts from around the world.

How one man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed the onset of disease

Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments.

Sara Reardon
News 15 May 2023
Four challenges facing Biden’s nominee for NIH director

If confirmed, Monica Bertagnolli will grapple with congressional investigations, threats to funding, diversity issues and public distrust of science.

Max Kozlov
News 16 May 2023
A draft human pangenome reference

An initial draft of the human pangenome is presented and made publicly available by the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium; the draft contains 94 de novo haplotype assemblies from 47 ancestrally diverse individuals.

Wen-Wei Liao
Mobin Asri
Benedict Paten
Article Open Access 10 May 2023
Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted

Researchers who are coerced into manipulating their paper’s citations are more likely to get their work published. Plus, hammerhead sharks ‘hold their breath’ during deep dives and lab-grown monkey embryos reach 25 days.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 12 May 2023
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Found in the trash: these floating snails hang out in the ocean’s garbage patch

Ocean currents that collect plastic also round up sea life — this striking image shows its bubbly life raft.

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Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?
David Adam
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For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen

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Davide Castelvecchi
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Audit AI search tools now, before they skew research
Michael Gusenbauer
World View 16 May 2023
Three climate policies that the G7 must adopt — for itself and the wider world
Edward B. Barbier
Comment 16 May 2023
Research assessment exercises are necessary — but we need to learn to do them better

Editorial 16 May 2023

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- Ink that mimics the colour of incoming light
  
  Light-sensitive particles have been shown to stratify in solution in a way that changes the colour of the whole suspension. The system forms a colour-changing ink that could make electronic paper a viable technology.
  
  Hector Lopez-Rios
  Monica Olvera de la Cruz
  
  News & Views 17 May 2023
- Changes in education levels across generations in Africa are linked to religion
  
  Census data from across Africa reveal that religion is a strong predictor of whether a child is likely to complete more or less education than their parents. The analysis calls into question current approaches to closing education gaps.
  Melina R. Platas
  
  News & Views 17 May 2023
- Chromosomal comparisons reveal comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals
  
  Analyses of chromosome organization across diverse animals and non-animals provide evidence that a group of marine creatures called ctenophores, or comb jellies, are the sister clade of all other animals, bringing to bear new methods to answer a long-standing evolutionary question.
  
  Research Briefing 17 May 2023
- Organic catalyst opens way to energy-efficient chlorine production
  
  The industrial process for making chlorine uses a vast amount of energy globally. An organic catalyst has been developed that could form the basis of a more energy-efficient process, replacing expensive inorganic catalysts.
  Thomas Turek
  
  News & Views 17 May 2023
- The role of NINJ1 protein in programmed cellular destruction
  
  The protein NINJ1 drives membrane rupture associated with certain types of cell death. Investigation of NINJ1 reveals mechanistic details of how it functions, raising the possibility of developing new therapeutics.
  James C. Whisstock
  Ruby H. P. Law
  
  News & Views 17 May 2023
- A continuous measure for understanding the accuracy of genetically based predictions
  
  Research Briefing 17 May 2023
- A step closer to making the mother of stem cells
  Martin F. Pera
  
  News & Views 17 May 2023
- From the archive: a history of climate, and the scent of sitting pheasants
  
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- Superconducting qubits cover new distances
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Inhibiting membrane rupture with NINJ1 antibodies limits tissue injury

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EMC chaperone-Ca_V structure reveals an ion channel assembly intermediate

Zhou Chen
Abhisek Mondal
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Microbial peptides activate tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in glioblastoma

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes from glioblastoma can recognize bacterial and gut microbial peptides.

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Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H ii regions

The authors report observational evidence that, within interstellar gas, there are temperature inhomogeneities affecting only highly ionized gas and causing the abundance discrepancy problem, and provide new empirical relations for estimation of temperature and metallicity.

J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado
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Structural basis of NINJ1-mediated plasma membrane rupture in cell death

Structural, biochemical and mutagenesis studies indicate that, in dying cells, the membrane protein NINJ1 assembles into filaments, disrupting the cell membrane.

Morris Degen
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Sebastian Hiller
Article Open Access 17 May 2023

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The world’s top chemical-weapons detectives just opened a brand-new lab

How one man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed the onset of disease

Four challenges facing Biden’s nominee for NIH director

A draft human pangenome reference

Daily briefing: Citation padding gets papers accepted

News & Comment

Found in the trash: these floating snails hang out in the ocean’s garbage patch

Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen

The world’s top chemical-weapons detectives just opened a brand-new lab

Audit AI search tools now, before they skew research

Three climate policies that the G7 must adopt — for itself and the wider world

Research assessment exercises are necessary — but we need to learn to do them better

Latest Reviews & Analysis

Ink that mimics the colour of incoming light

Changes in education levels across generations in Africa are linked to religion

Chromosomal comparisons reveal comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

Organic catalyst opens way to energy-efficient chlorine production

The role of NINJ1 protein in programmed cellular destruction

A continuous measure for understanding the accuracy of genetically based predictions

A step closer to making the mother of stem cells

From the archive: a history of climate, and the scent of sitting pheasants

Superconducting qubits cover new distances

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Inhibiting membrane rupture with NINJ1 antibodies limits tissue injury

EMC chaperone-Ca_V structure reveals an ion channel assembly intermediate

Microbial peptides activate tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in glioblastoma

Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H ii regions

Structural basis of NINJ1-mediated plasma membrane rupture in cell death

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