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  • Author Correction |

    • David U. Gorkin
    • , Iros Barozzi
    • , Yuan Zhao
    • , Yanxiao Zhang
    • , Hui Huang
    • , Ah Young Lee
    • , Bin Li
    • , Joshua Chiou
    • , Andre Wildberg
    • , Bo Ding
    • , Bo Zhang
    • , Mengchi Wang
    • , J. Seth Strattan
    • , Jean M. Davidson
    • , Yunjiang Qiu
    • , Veena Afzal
    • , Jennifer A. Akiyama
    • , Ingrid Plajzer-Frick
    • , Catherine S. Novak
    • , Momoe Kato
    • , Tyler H. Garvin
    • , Quan T. Pham
    • , Anne N. Harrington
    • , Brandon J. Mannion
    • , Elizabeth A. Lee
    • , Yoko Fukuda-Yuzawa
    • , Yupeng He
    • , Sebastian Preissl
    • , Sora Chee
    • , Jee Yun Han
    • , Brian A. Williams
    • , Diane Trout
    • , Henry Amrhein
    • , Hongbo Yang
    • , J. Michael Cherry
    • , Wei Wang
    • , Kyle Gaulton
    • , Joseph R. Ecker
    • , Yin Shen
    • , Diane E. Dickel
    • , Axel Visel
    • , Len A. Pennacchio
    •  & Bing Ren

  • Obituary |

    Theoretical physicist who pioneered the computer modelling of matter.

    • David Ceperley

  • Nature Podcast |

    A conversation about the US election and the possible fallout for science, and are maternal behaviours learned or innate?

    • Nick Howe
    •  & Benjamin Thompson

  • News & Views |

    Electronic devices called inductors are hard to miniaturize because their effectiveness is proportional to their size. An approach based on quantum mechanics could overcome this issue, offering many potential applications.

    • Seonghoon Woo

  • News & Views |

    Narrow rings and gaps have been seen in a particularly young disk of dust and gas around a nascent star, using the world’s most powerful radio telescope. The finding provides a potential glimpse of the earliest stages of planet formation.

    • Patrick Sheehan

  • News & Views |

    Sequencing the genomes of individual skin cells called melanocytes has revealed a rich landscape of DNA changes. These insights shed light on the origins of melanoma, an aggressive type of cancer.

    • Inigo Martincorena

  • Nature Briefing |

    Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share the Nobel for developing the revolutionary gene-editing technology. Plus, the evidence for face masks and contact tracing Trump’s travels.

    • Flora Graham

  • Article |

    The dynamic and reversible S-palmitoylation of the transcription factor STAT3 enhances its activation and promotes the differentiation of TH17 cells.

    • Mingming Zhang
    • , Lixing Zhou
    • , Yuejie Xu
    • , Min Yang
    • , Yilai Xu
    • , Garrison Paul Komaniecki
    • , Tatsiana Kosciuk
    • , Xiao Chen
    • , Xuan Lu
    • , Xiaoping Zou
    • , Maurine E. Linder
    •  & Hening Lin

  • Article |

    The onset of maternal behaviour in mice involves an interaction between intrinsic tuning of auditory cortical neurons and experience-dependent plasticity.

    • Jennifer K. Schiavo
    • , Silvana Valtcheva
    • , Chloe J. Bair-Marshall
    • , Soomin C. Song
    • , Kathleen A. Martin
    •  & Robert C. Froemke

  • Article |

    A combination of clonal expansion and DNA amplification is used to sequence genetic material from individual melanocytes, shedding light on the mutational landscape of these cells and the development of melanomas.

    • Jessica Tang
    • , Eleanor Fewings
    • , Darwin Chang
    • , Hanlin Zeng
    • , Shanshan Liu
    • , Aparna Jorapur
    • , Rachel L. Belote
    • , Andrew S. McNeal
    • , Tuyet M. Tan
    • , Iwei Yeh
    • , Sarah T. Arron
    • , Robert L. Judson-Torres
    • , Boris C. Bastian
    •  & A. Hunter Shain

  • Article |

    Stimulation of de novo protein synthesis in both excitatory and inhibitory, somatostatin-expressing neurons in the mouse hippocampus enhances memory consolidation.

    • Vijendra Sharma
    • , Rapita Sood
    • , Abdessattar Khlaifia
    • , Mohammad Javad Eslamizade
    • , Tzu-Yu Hung
    • , Danning Lou
    • , Azam Asgarihafshejani
    • , Maya Lalzar
    • , Stephen J. Kiniry
    • , Matthew P. Stokes
    • , Noah Cohen
    • , Alissa J. Nelson
    • , Kathryn Abell
    • , Anthony P. Possemato
    • , Shunit Gal-Ben-Ari
    • , Vinh T. Truong
    • , Peng Wang
    • , Adonis Yiannakas
    • , Fatemeh Saffarzadeh
    • , A. Claudio Cuello
    • , Karim Nader
    • , Randal J. Kaufman
    • , Mauro Costa-Mattioli
    • , Pavel V. Baranov
    • , Albert Quintana
    • , Elisenda Sanz
    • , Arkady Khoutorsky
    • , Jean-Claude Lacaille
    • , Kobi Rosenblum
    •  & Nahum Sonenberg

  • Article |

    Ruhugu virus and rustrela virus are the first close relatives of rubella virus, providing insights into the zoonotic origin of rubella virus and the epidemiology and evolution of all three viruses.

    • Andrew J. Bennett
    • , Adrian C. Paskey
    • , Arnt Ebinger
    • , Florian Pfaff
    • , Grit Priemer
    • , Dirk Höper
    • , Angele Breithaupt
    • , Elisa Heuser
    • , Rainer G. Ulrich
    • , Jens H. Kuhn
    • , Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly
    • , Martin Beer
    •  & Tony L. Goldberg

  • Article |

    An organoid-based screening platform maps the genetic interactions underlying intestinal development and regeneration, showing that retinoic acid metabolism maintains the balance between regeneration and homeostasis, and that an antagonist of the retinoid X receptor promotes regeneration in vivo.

    • Ilya Lukonin
    • , Denise Serra
    • , Ludivine Challet Meylan
    • , Katrin Volkmann
    • , Janine Baaten
    • , Rui Zhao
    • , Shelly Meeusen
    • , Karyn Colman
    • , Francisca Maurer
    • , Michael B. Stadler
    • , Jeremy Jenkins
    •  & Prisca Liberali

  • Article |

    Microscale magnetic devices containing nanoscale spin helices produce an inductance comparable in magnitude to that of a commercial inductor, in a volume about a million times smaller.

    • Tomoyuki Yokouchi
    • , Fumitaka Kagawa
    • , Max Hirschberger
    • , Yoshichika Otani
    • , Naoto Nagaosa
    •  & Yoshinori Tokura

  • Article |

    In neonatal mice, scar-free healing after spinal cord injury is organized by microglia, and transplantation of neonatal microglia or peptidase-inhibitor-treated adult microglia into adult mice after injury improves healing and axon regrowth.

    • Yi Li
    • , Xuelian He
    • , Riki Kawaguchi
    • , Yu Zhang
    • , Qing Wang
    • , Aboozar Monavarfeshani
    • , Zhiyun Yang
    • , Bo Chen
    • , Zhongju Shi
    • , Huyan Meng
    • , Songlin Zhou
    • , Junjie Zhu
    • , Anne Jacobi
    • , Vivek Swarup
    • , Phillip G. Popovich
    • , Daniel H. Geschwind
    •  & Zhigang He

  • Article |

    Timing and position of spontaneously arising waves of activity in the visual cortex predict the sensitivity of visual perception in awake, behaving marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).

    • Zachary W. Davis
    • , Lyle Muller
    • , Julio Martinez-Trujillo
    • , Terrence Sejnowski
    •  & John H. Reynolds

  • Article |

    Dust-emission observations of the young (<500,000 years old) protostar IRS 63 show evidence of rings and gaps in its disk, a prerequisite of planet formation.

    • Dominique M. Segura-Cox
    • , Anika Schmiedeke
    • , Jaime E. Pineda
    • , Ian W. Stephens
    • , Manuel Fernández-López
    • , Leslie W. Looney
    • , Paola Caselli
    • , Zhi-Yun Li
    • , Lee G. Mundy
    • , Woojin Kwon
    •  & Robert J. Harris

  • Article |

    Bottom-up and top-down approaches are used to quantify global nitrous oxide sources and sinks resulting from both natural and anthropogenic sources, revealing a 30% increase in global human-induced emissions between 1980 and 2016.

    • Hanqin Tian
    • , Rongting Xu
    • , Josep G. Canadell
    • , Rona L. Thompson
    • , Wilfried Winiwarter
    • , Parvadha Suntharalingam
    • , Eric A. Davidson
    • , Philippe Ciais
    • , Robert B. Jackson
    • , Greet Janssens-Maenhout
    • , Michael J. Prather
    • , Pierre Regnier
    • , Naiqing Pan
    • , Shufen Pan
    • , Glen P. Peters
    • , Hao Shi
    • , Francesco N. Tubiello
    • , Sönke Zaehle
    • , Feng Zhou
    • , Almut Arneth
    • , Gianna Battaglia
    • , Sarah Berthet
    • , Laurent Bopp
    • , Alexander F. Bouwman
    • , Erik T. Buitenhuis
    • , Jinfeng Chang
    • , Martyn P. Chipperfield
    • , Shree R. S. Dangal
    • , Edward Dlugokencky
    • , James W. Elkins
    • , Bradley D. Eyre
    • , Bojie Fu
    • , Bradley Hall
    • , Akihiko Ito
    • , Fortunat Joos
    • , Paul B. Krummel
    • , Angela Landolfi
    • , Goulven G. Laruelle
    • , Ronny Lauerwald
    • , Wei Li
    • , Sebastian Lienert
    • , Taylor Maavara
    • , Michael MacLeod
    • , Dylan B. Millet
    • , Stefan Olin
    • , Prabir K. Patra
    • , Ronald G. Prinn
    • , Peter A. Raymond
    • , Daniel J. Ruiz
    • , Guido R. van der Werf
    • , Nicolas Vuichard
    • , Junjie Wang
    • , Ray F. Weiss
    • , Kelley C. Wells
    • , Chris Wilson
    • , Jia Yang
    •  & Yuanzhi Yao

  • Review Article |

    The long-term success of area-based conservation—including both protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures—after 2020 will depend on governments securing adequate funding and prioritizing biodiversity in land, water and sea management.

    • Sean L. Maxwell
    • , Victor Cazalis
    • , Nigel Dudley
    • , Michael Hoffmann
    • , Ana S. L. Rodrigues
    • , Sue Stolton
    • , Piero Visconti
    • , Stephen Woodley
    • , Naomi Kingston
    • , Edward Lewis
    • , Martine Maron
    • , Bernardo B. N. Strassburg
    • , Amelia Wenger
    • , Harry D. Jonas
    • , Oscar Venter
    •  & James E. M. Watson

  • Article |

    Protein synthesis is required in distinct populations of inhibitory neurons in the mouse amygdala to store memories of danger and safety.

    • Prerana Shrestha
    • , Zhe Shan
    • , Maggie Mamcarz
    • , Karen San Agustin Ruiz
    • , Adam T. Zerihoun
    • , Chien-Yu Juan
    • , Pedro M. Herrero-Vidal
    • , Jerry Pelletier
    • , Nathaniel Heintz
    •  & Eric Klann

  • Review Article |

    The current state of programmable photonic integrated circuits is discussed, including recent developments in their building blocks, circuit architectures, electronic control and programming strategies, as well as different application spaces.

    • Wim Bogaerts
    • , Daniel Pérez
    • , José Capmany
    • , David A. B. Miller
    • , Joyce Poon
    • , Dirk Englund
    • , Francesco Morichetti
    •  & Andrea Melloni

  • News Feature |

    The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

    • Lynne Peeples

  • Career Column |

    Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.

    • Olivier Pourret
    •  & Elodie Saillet

  • Nature Briefing |

    Penrose, Ghez and Genzel win the physics Nobel for black-hole research, the impact of US President Donald Trump on science and why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever.

    • Flora Graham