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COP26 climate summit: A scientists’ guide to a momentous meeting

Despite 30 years of climate diplomacy, urgent and aggressive action is needed to halt global warming. Nature explains what success looks like, and what’s on the line.

Mysterious ‘alien beacon’ was false alarm

Radio signal seemed to originate from the star Proxima Centauri, and provided a helpful drill for future searches.

Alexandra Witze
News 25 Oct 2021
Scientists reel as Brazilian government backtracks on research funds

President Jair Bolsonaro has approved a bill funnelling cash away from science and towards other areas of government, stranding research proposals and dashing hopes.

Meghie Rodrigues
News 22 Oct 2021
Low glycaemic diets alter lipid metabolism to influence tumour growth

Lien et al. show that low glycemic diets can reduce tumour growth by deregulating lipid metabolism.

Evan C. Lien
Anna M. Westermark
Matthew G. Vander Heiden
Article 20 Oct 2021
Daily briefing: Signs of a planet outside the Milky Way

Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever discovered outside our galaxy. Plus: A scientists’ guide to COP26, and a strikingly detailed look at the insides of cells.

Emma Stoye
Nature Briefing 26 Oct 2021
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This digital-hygiene routine will protect your scholarship

Simple, regular checks could squelch some pernicious practices by unscrupulous publishers and preserve your digital presence.

Guillaume Cabanac

World View 26 Oct 2021
The secret lives of cells — as never seen before
- Diana Kwon
News Feature 26 Oct 2021
Predatory publishers’ latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers
- Kyle Siler
- Vincent Larivière
- Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Comment 26 Oct 2021
The answer to the biodiversity crisis is not more debt

Editorial 26 Oct 2021
Giant, free index to world's research papers released online
- Holly Else
News 26 Oct 2021
Why hundreds of scientists are weighing in on a high-stakes US abortion case
- Amy Maxmen
News 26 Oct 2021
Academia’s ableist mindset needs to change
- Kendall Powell
Career Feature 25 Oct 2021

Latest Reviews & Analysis

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  Nature’s pages feature musings about the value of studying wetlands, and a report of the excavation of an ancient city in Sicily.
  
  News & Views 26 Oct 2021
- A massive effort links protein-coding gene variants to health
  
  The protein-coding portions of more than 450,000 individuals’ genomes have been sequenced, and analysed together with the individuals’ health data, revealing rare and common gene variants linked to various health-related traits.
  Yukinori Okada
  Qingbo S. Wang
  
  News & Views 25 Oct 2021
- Clues that natural killer cells help to control COVID
  
  Natural killer cells can destroy cells infected by SARS-CoV-2, but this immune-system defence malfunctions in people with severe COVID-19. Will this finding drive a search for ways to reinvigorate natural killer cells in such cases?
  Emilie Narni-Mancinelli
  Eric Vivier
  
  News & Views 25 Oct 2021
- Nanometre-scale imaging and AI reveal the interior of whole cells
  
  Efforts to generate nanoscale-resolution images of cell interiors have gained ground through the development and refinement of a microscopy method. The data sets are publicly available as resources for further discoveries.
  Jason R. Swedlow
  Lucy Collinson
  
  News & Views 25 Oct 2021
- Diet comparison suggests a lipid imbalance can slow tumour growth
  
  Understanding how diet affects tumour growth could lead to better treatments. Analysis in mice reveals that a low-calorie diet, but not a ketogenic diet, slows the growth of pancreatic cancer. This effect is mediated by lipid changes.
  Giulia Salvadori
  Valter D. Longo
  
  News & Views 20 Oct 2021
- Non-magnetic objects induced to move by electromagnets
  Eric Diller
  
  News & Views 20 Oct 2021
- Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines
  Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg
  David Anthony
  Muhammad Zahir
  
  Perspective 20 Oct 2021
- From the archive
  
  News & Views 19 Oct 2021
- Rhinoceros genomes uncover family secrets
  Desire Lee Dalton
  Stefan Prost
  
  News & Views 19 Oct 2021

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A Conserved Mechanism for Regulating Replisome Disassembly in Eukaryotes

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Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave

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Article 25 Oct 2021
Prestin’s conformational cycle underlies outer hair cell electromotility

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Immunogenicity and efficacy of heterologous ChadOx1/BNT162b2 vaccination

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