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The COVID generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains?

Child-development researchers are asking whether the pandemic is shaping brains and behaviour.

How to protect US science from political meddling after Trump

In a fresh report, federal researchers recommend ways to strengthen scientific integrity and preserve public trust in government.

Alexandra Witze
News 11 Jan 2022
‘Killer’ immune cells still recognize Omicron variant

Amid concerns over lost antibody defences, some researchers argue that more attention should be paid to T cells.

Heidi Ledford
News 11 Jan 2022
The effect of rainfall changes on economic production

A global assessment shows that increases in the number of wet days and extreme daily rainfall adversely affect economic growth, particularly in high-income nations and via the services and manufacturing sectors.

Maximilian Kotz
Anders Levermann
Leonie Wenz
Article 12 Jan 2022
Daily briefing: First transplant of a gene-edited pig heart

A person in the United States is the first to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. Plus, the evolution of the arXiv preprint server and why we shouldn’t ignore the human failures that lead to ‘natural’ disasters.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 11 Jan 2022
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Earth’s orbit, testing in pregnancy — the week in infographics

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

News 12 Jan 2022
The COVID generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains?
Melinda Wenner Moyer
News Feature 12 Jan 2022
The devastating mudslides that follow forest fires
Jane Palmer
News Feature 12 Jan 2022
COVID vaccines safely protect pregnant people: the data are in
Shannon Hall
News 12 Jan 2022
Weaving Indigenous knowledge into the scientific method
Saima May Sidik
Career Feature 11 Jan 2022
Stamp out fake clinical data by working together
Lisa Bero
World View 11 Jan 2022
Unblock research bottlenecks with non-profit start-ups
Adam Marblestone
Anastasia Gamick
Samuel G. Rodriques
Comment 11 Jan 2022

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  Excessive rainfall can cause catastrophic socio-economic losses to a community or nation. An analysis of changes in gross regional product identifies ways in which extreme precipitation affects global economic productivity.
  
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  News & Views 12 Jan 2022
- Important genomic regions mutate less often than do other regions
  
  Genomic regions that are crucial for the viability and reproduction of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana are enriched with molecular features that are associated with a reduced rate of mutation.
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  News & Views 12 Jan 2022
- A strange metal emerges from a failed superconductor
  
  The curious electrical resistance that gives strange metals their name has been seen in a failed superconductor, in which disorder interferes with the material’s ability to achieve zero resistance below a critical temperature.
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  News & Views 12 Jan 2022
- From the archive
  
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- Inflammation in the gut is encoded by neurons in the brain
  
  The nervous and immune systems interact in a bidirectional manner. It emerges that inflammation in the body activates brain cells that, when later reactivated, can trigger a recapitulation of the inflammatory response.
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  News & Views 10 Jan 2022
- Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa
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- The magnetic field of a molecular cloud revealed
  
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Star formation near the Sun is driven by expansion of the Local Bubble

Three-dimensional analysis of the solar neighbourhood shows that nearly all star-forming regions near the Sun lie on the surface of the Local Bubble, which was inflated by supernovae about 14 million years ago.

Catherine Zucker
Alyssa A. Goodman
Cameren Swiggum
Article 12 Jan 2022
Signatures of a strange metal in a bosonic system

Strange metallicity—in particular, resistance that is linear in temperature and magnetic field—is observed in a nanopatterned YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ bosonic system.

Chao Yang
Haiwen Liu
Yanrong Li
Article 12 Jan 2022
Elastomeric electrolytes for high-energy solid-state lithium batteries

An elastomeric solid-state electrolyte shows desirable mechanical properties and high electrochemical stability, and is used to demonstrate a high-energy solid-state lithium battery at ambient temperature.

Michael J. Lee
Junghun Han
Seung Woo Lee
Article 12 Jan 2022
A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon–oxygen–neon nebula

Observations of the supernova SN 2019hgp, identified about a day after its explosion, show that it occurred within a nebula of carbon, oxygen and neon, and was probably the explosion of a massive WC/WO star.

A. Gal-Yam
R. Bruch
N. Knezevic
Article 12 Jan 2022
Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells

Simultaneous recordings from hundreds of grid cells in rats, combined with topological data analysis, show that network activity in grid cells resides on a toroidal manifold that is invariant across environments and brain states.

Richard J. Gardner
Erik Hermansen
Edvard I. Moser
Article Open Access 12 Jan 2022

Their goals may be different, and so may the paths they are taking to reach them, but the universities aged 50 and under featured in this Nature Index supplement are proof that youth need not be a barrier to strong research performance.

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