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More Alzheimer’s drugs head for FDA review: what scientists are watching

Eli Lilly and other pharma firms have begun submitting their anti-amyloid drug hopefuls for approval. But questions linger over the controversial precedent set by Biogen's aducanumab.

‘COP26 hasn’t solved the problem’: scientists react to UN climate deal

The Glasgow Climate Pact is a step forward, researchers say, but efforts to decarbonize are not enough to limit global temperature rises to 2 °C.

Ehsan Masood
Jeff Tollefson
News 14 Nov 2021
Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States

Evaluation of death certificates from national database paints grim picture for pregnant women.

Nidhi Subbaraman
News 12 Nov 2021
Allometric rules for mammalian cortical layer 5 neuron biophysics

Analyses of layer 5 cortical pyramidal neurons in 10 mammalian species show that human neurons are distinct in that they do not follow the expected allometric relationship between neuron size and membrane conductance.

Lou Beaulieu-Laroche
Norma J. Brown
Mark T. Harnett
Article 10 Nov 2021
Daily briefing: How some fish can live for centuries

How some fish can live for more than 200 years, the questions swirling around new Alzheimer’s drugs and how one of the world’s last COVID-elimination strategies is panning out in China.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 16 Nov 2021
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The start-ups chasing clean, carbon-free fusion energy

An emerging industry of nuclear-fusion firms promises to have commercial reactors ready in the next decade.

Philip Ball

News Feature 17 Nov 2021
Stagnating salaries present hurdles to career satisfaction
- Chris Woolston
Career Feature 16 Nov 2021
Yes, science can weigh in on abortion law
- Diana Greene Foster
World View 16 Nov 2021
COP26 didn’t solve everything — but researchers must stay engaged

Editorial 16 Nov 2021
How to turn your ideas into patents
- Andy Tay
Career Feature 15 Nov 2021
Friction: from fingerprints to climate change
- Anna Novitzky
Book Review 15 Nov 2021
‘COP26 hasn’t solved the problem’: scientists react to UN climate deal
- Ehsan Masood
- Jeff Tollefson
News 14 Nov 2021

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  Nature’s pages feature a look at scientific connections to Montpellier and discuss food in Paris during a siege.
  
  News & Views 16 Nov 2021
- Tracking the origin of Transeurasian languages
  
  A triangulation of linguistic, archaeological and genetic data suggests that the Transeurasian language family originated in a population of grain farmers in China around 9,000 years ago, and that agriculture underpinned its spread.
  Peter Bellwood
  
  News & Views 10 Nov 2021
- Global temperature changes mapped across the past 24,000 years
  
  Palaeoclimate data and models have been used to produce a comprehensive report of Earth’s temperature changes over the past 24 millennia. The results suggest that modern warming differs from the gradual rise of the past 10,000 years.
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  News & Views 10 Nov 2021
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  Nature’s pages feature a textbook that takes a new approach for covering science, and an obituary of Charles Babbage.
  
  News & Views 09 Nov 2021
- Fifty years of the brain’s sense of space
  
  Neurons in a brain region called the hippocampus were found to be selectively active when rats are in a specific spatial location during natural navigation. The discovery launched research efforts into how the brain supports spatial memory.
  Isabel I. C. Low
  Lisa M. Giocomo
  
  News & Views 04 Nov 2021
- Mice with disrupted mitochondria used to model Parkinson’s disease
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  News & Views 03 Nov 2021
- GABA molecules made by B cells can dampen antitumour responses
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  News & Views 03 Nov 2021
- A whale of an appetite revealed by analysis of prey consumption
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Latest Research articles

Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2

Leo Swadling
Mariana O. Diniz
Mala K. Maini
Article 10 Nov 2021
Bubble casting soft robotics

An all-in-one methodology for fabricating soft robotics reported here uses interfacial flows in elastomers that cure to produce actuators that can be tailored to suit applications from artificial muscles to grippers.

Trevor J. Jones
Etienne Jambon-Puillet
P.-T. Brun
Article 10 Nov 2021
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum

Paleoclimate datasets are integrated with a climate model to reconstruct global surface temperature since the Last Glacial Maximum, showing sustained warming until the mid-Holocene.

Matthew B. Osman
Jessica E. Tierney
Christopher J. Poulsen
Article 10 Nov 2021
Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle–ductile damage in the outer rise

Numerical subduction models used to determine the consequences of bending-induced plate damage show that slab weakening and segmentation can occur at the outer-rise region of the subducting plate.

T. V. Gerya
D. Bercovici
T. W. Becker
Article 10 Nov 2021
Diverse alterations associated with resistance to KRAS(G12C) inhibition

Multiple treatment-emergent alterations appear in patients with advanced-stage cancer who were treated with a KRAS inhibitor.

Yulei Zhao
Yonina R. Murciano-Goroff
Piro Lito
Article 10 Nov 2021