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Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice

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The UK has approved a COVID vaccine — here’s what scientists now want to know

The Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine has passed safety and efficacy tests — but scientists still have many questions about how this and other vaccines will perform as they’re rolled out to millions of people.
Heidi Ledford
David Cyranoski
Richard Van Noorden

News 03 Dec 2020
Gut-wrenching footage documents Arecibo telescope’s collapse

Instrument platform crashed into the telescope’s dish, irrevocably ending the facility’s role in astronomy.
Alexandra Witze

News 02 Dec 2020
Standard model of particle physics tested by the fine-structure constant

A highly precise measurement of a physical constant known as the fine-structure constant provides a stringent test of the standard model of particle physics, and sets strong limits on the existence of speculative particles.
Holger Müller

News & Views 02 Dec 2020
Daily briefing: 14 nations make an unprecedented commitment to healthy oceans

A sustainable ocean economy, video of the moment the Arecibo telescope collapsed and scientists have restored vision in old mice by reversing their biological clocks.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 03 Dec 2020
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The UK has approved a COVID vaccine — here’s what scientists now want to know
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  Perspective 02 Dec 2020
- Standard model of particle physics tested by the fine-structure constant
  
  A highly precise measurement of a physical constant known as the fine-structure constant provides a stringent test of the standard model of particle physics, and sets strong limits on the existence of speculative particles.
  
  Holger Müller
  
  News & Views 02 Dec 2020
- Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock
  
  Neurons progressively deteriorate with age and lose resilience to injury. It emerges that treatment with three transcription factors can re-endow neurons in the mature eye with youthful characteristics and the capacity to regenerate.
  
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Correlates of protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques
Katherine McMahan
Jingyou Yu
Dan H. Barouch

Article 04 Dec 2020
Enhanced triple-α reaction reduces proton-rich nucleosynthesis in supernovae

The triple-α reaction rate in proton-rich core-collapse supernovae is found to be enhanced at high nucleon densities, suppressing the formation of proton-rich nuclei from gallium to cadmium.
Shilun Jin
Luke F. Roberts
Hendrik Schatz

Article 02 Dec 2020
Thermochemical lithosphere differentiation and the origin of cratonic mantle

A model is proposed for the origin of cratonic lithospheric mantle in which rifting and melting in the hot, early Earth mantle leave behind large volumes of stiffer, depleted mantle.
Fabio A. Capitanio
Oliver Nebel
Peter A. Cawood

Article 02 Dec 2020
Determination of the fine-structure constant with an accuracy of 81 parts per trillion

The fine-structure constant is determined with an accuracy of 81 parts per trillion using matter-wave interferometry to measure the rubidium atom recoil velocity.
Léo Morel
Zhibin Yao
Saïda Guellati-Khélifa

Article 02 Dec 2020
Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning

Data augmentation and a self-correcting design are used to develop a reinforcement-learning algorithm for the autonomous navigation of Loon superpressure balloons in challenging stratospheric weather conditions.
Marc G. Bellemare
Salvatore Candido
Ziyu Wang

Article 02 Dec 2020

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