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These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage

Researchers are hunting through waste water for heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 variants that could be the next Omicron.

China’s Mars rover finds hints of catastrophic floods

Radar images reveal clues to the history of a largely unexplored region.

Smriti Mallapaty
News 27 Sept 2022
This spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid in an attempt to change its path

NASA’s DART mission is testing whether humanity could deflect a space rock if it were going to hit Earth.

Alexandra Witze
News 23 Sept 2022
Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots

An additive manufacturing method using a team of autonomous aerial robots allows for scalable and adaptable three-dimensional printing, and is used to deposit building materials during flight.

Ketao Zhang
Pisak Chermprayong
Mirko Kovac
Article 21 Sept 2022
Daily briefing: Our first attempt to reroute an asteroid

NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose. Plus, Germany has placed a big bet on biodiversity and a plant beloved by the ancient Greeks and Romans might have been rediscovered at last.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 26 Sept 2022
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To set transgender policy, look to the evidence

Policy debates concerning transgender people are embroiled in the culture wars. Let data and science — not politicians — guide laws.

Paisley Currah

World View 27 Sept 2022
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How hiring policies can help end workplace harassment
Emily Sohn
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These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage
Ewen Callaway
News 26 Sept 2022
Troubled biodiversity plan gets billion-dollar funding boost
Natasha Gilbert
News 26 Sept 2022
‘Papermill alarm’ software flags potentially fake papers
Holly Else
News 23 Sept 2022
This spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid in an attempt to change its path
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News 23 Sept 2022

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Hybrid laser-trapping technique lights the way for neutral atoms
  
  An experimental platform that uses two different tools for controlling neutral atoms with laser light combines speed with scalability. The approach provides a crucial step towards realizing innovative quantum algorithms and simulations.
  
  Giulia Semeghini
  
  News & Views 26 Sept 2022
- Structure of wheat immune receptor helps guide design of disease-resistant varieties
  
  When plants recognize disease-causing organisms, they activate immune responses through mechanisms that are poorly understood. Resolving the structure of a plant receptor-protein complex in wheat that detects fungus-derived molecules reveals that the corresponding receptor family is structurally conserved during evolution.
  
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- The origins of medulloblastoma tumours in humans
  
  How certain subgroups of a childhood brain tumour called a medulloblastoma arise has been unclear. Evidence now implicates a cell type found only in developing human brains as the originator of these tumours.
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- Ancient DNA reveals details about early medieval migration into England
  
  After the Roman Empire collapsed, Europe underwent substantial cultural changes and saw large-scale migrations. A genome-wide ancient-DNA analysis of hundreds of individuals from early medieval England shows that they derived an average of 76% of their ancestry from people from Europe. Burial practices varied slightly between the different heritage groups, especially for women.
  
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- Interfaces boost response to electric fields in layered oxides
  
  A structure with precisely engineered layers produces a giant strain in an electric field. The interplay between structural distortions and electric dipoles at the interfaces between layers could aid material and device design.
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Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar

A ground-penetrating radar survey of Martian subsurface structure in a southern marginal area of Utopia Planitia constructed a detailed subsurface image profile showing a roughly 70-m-thick, multi-layered structure below regolith.

Chao Li
Yikang Zheng
Fuyuan Wu
Article Open Access 26 Sept 2022
Continuous air purification by aqueous interface filtration and absorption

An air purification strategy is presented that moves air in the form of bubbles through an ion-doped conjugated polymer-coated matrix, which captures larger particulate matter, infiltrated with a selected functional liquid, which captures smaller particulate matter.

Yunmao Zhang
Yuhang Han
Xu Hou
Article 26 Sept 2022
A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels

Evolutionary conservation of plant receptor structure allowed for generation of new variants of wheat and barley nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) that recognize AvrSr35 of the wheat stem rust pathogen, supporting proof of principle for structure-based engineering of NLRs for crop improvement.

Alexander Förderer
Ertong Li
Jijie Chai
Article Open Access 26 Sept 2022
Common human genetic variants of APOE impact murine COVID-19 mortality

Benjamin N. Ostendorf
Mira A. Patel
Sohail F. Tavazoie
Article 21 Sept 2022
A Designed Photoenzyme for Enantioselective [2+2]-Cycloadditions

Jonathan S. Trimble
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Anthony P. Green
Article 21 Sept 2022