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    An air gap embedded within the structure of a thermophotovoltaic device acts as a near-perfect reflector of low-energy photons, resulting in their recovery and recycling by the thermal source, enabling excellent power-conversion efficiency.

    • Dejiu Fan
    • , Tobias Burger
    • , Sean McSherry
    • , Byungjun Lee
    • , Andrej Lenert
    •  & Stephen R. Forrest

  • Nature Index |

    A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality available free online at natureindex.com.

  • Nature Index |

    In a commentary on high-impact research outputs across 245 cities, György Csomós, Zsófia Viktória Vida and Balázs Lengyel explore changing patterns.

    • György Csomós
    • , Zsófia Viktória Vida
    •  & Balázs Lengyel

  • Nature Briefing |

    Despite our intimate familiarity with fire, we still struggle with a complete understanding of it. Plus, fast antigen coronavirus tests and increasingly impenetrable papers.

    • Flora Graham

  • Article |

    Plasmonic effects in organic light-emitting devices, which are normally considered a source of energy loss, are harnessed to enhance the stability of these devices while maintaining operational efficiency.

    • Michael A. Fusella
    • , Renata Saramak
    • , Rezlind Bushati
    • , Vinod M. Menon
    • , Michael S. Weaver
    • , Nicholas J. Thompson
    •  & Julia J. Brown

  • News & Views |

    The rhythmic activity of a single layer of neurons has now been shown to cause dissociation — an experience involving a feeling of disconnection from the surrounding world.

    • Ken Solt
    •  & Oluwaseun Akeju

  • Futures |

    Suspended for safety.

    • Marissa Lingen

  • News & Views |

    Evidence has been found of a planet circling the smouldering remains of a dead star in a tight orbit. The discovery raises the question of how the planet survived the star’s death throes — and whether other planets also orbit the remains.

    • Steven Parsons

  • Nature Briefing |

    We have not met any of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed in 2010 — but there are hopeful signs to build on. Plus, how COVID-19 can damage the brain and a visually sumptuous tour of the latest dinosaur discoveries.

    • Flora Graham

  • News & Views |

    Influenza vaccination induces a protective memory immune response. The finding that human naive and memory B cells enter vaccine-induced germinal-centre structures suggests that both cell types aid this memory response.

    • Lauren B. Rodda
    •  & Marion Pepper

  • Review Article |

    NumPy is the primary array programming library for Python; here its fundamental concepts are reviewed and its evolution into a flexible interoperability layer between increasingly specialized computational libraries is discussed.

    • Charles R. Harris
    • , K. Jarrod Millman
    • , Stéfan J. van der Walt
    • , Ralf Gommers
    • , Pauli Virtanen
    • , David Cournapeau
    • , Eric Wieser
    • , Julian Taylor
    • , Sebastian Berg
    • , Nathaniel J. Smith
    • , Robert Kern
    • , Matti Picus
    • , Stephan Hoyer
    • , Marten H. van Kerkwijk
    • , Matthew Brett
    • , Allan Haldane
    • , Jaime Fernández del Río
    • , Mark Wiebe
    • , Pearu Peterson
    • , Pierre Gérard-Marchant
    • , Kevin Sheppard
    • , Tyler Reddy
    • , Warren Weckesser
    • , Hameer Abbasi
    • , Christoph Gohlke
    •  & Travis E. Oliphant

  • Article |

    Miniature gut tubes grown in vitro from mouse intestinal stem cells are perfusable, can be colonized with microorganisms and exhibit a similar arrangement and diversity of specialized cell types to intestines in vivo.

    • Mikhail Nikolaev
    • , Olga Mitrofanova
    • , Nicolas Broguiere
    • , Sara Geraldo
    • , Devanjali Dutta
    • , Yoji Tabata
    • , Bilge Elci
    • , Nathalie Brandenberg
    • , Irina Kolotuev
    • , Nikolce Gjorevski
    • , Hans Clevers
    •  & Matthias P. Lutolf

  • Article |

    Dissociative states in mouse and human brains are traced to low-frequency rhythmic neural activity—with distinct molecular, cellular and physiological properties—in the deep retrosplenial cortex and the posteromedial cortex.

    • Sam Vesuna
    • , Isaac V. Kauvar
    • , Ethan Richman
    • , Felicity Gore
    • , Tomiko Oskotsky
    • , Clara Sava-Segal
    • , Liqun Luo
    • , Robert C. Malenka
    • , Jaimie M. Henderson
    • , Paul Nuyujukian
    • , Josef Parvizi
    •  & Karl Deisseroth

  • Article |

    Ancient DNA analyses reveal that Viking Age migrations from Scandinavia resulted in differential influxes of ancestry to different parts of Europe, and the increased presence of non-local ancestry within Scandinavia.

    • Ashot Margaryan
    • , Daniel J. Lawson
    • , Martin Sikora
    • , Fernando Racimo
    • , Simon Rasmussen
    • , Ida Moltke
    • , Lara M. Cassidy
    • , Emil Jørsboe
    • , Andrés Ingason
    • , Mikkel W. Pedersen
    • , Thorfinn Korneliussen
    • , Helene Wilhelmson
    • , Magdalena M. Buś
    • , Peter de Barros Damgaard
    • , Rui Martiniano
    • , Gabriel Renaud
    • , Claude Bhérer
    • , J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar
    • , Anna K. Fotakis
    • , Marie Allen
    • , Raili Allmäe
    • , Martyna Molak
    • , Enrico Cappellini
    • , Gabriele Scorrano
    • , Hugh McColl
    • , Alexandra Buzhilova
    • , Allison Fox
    • , Anders Albrechtsen
    • , Berit Schütz
    • , Birgitte Skar
    • , Caroline Arcini
    • , Ceri Falys
    • , Charlotte Hedenstierna Jonson
    • , Dariusz Błaszczyk
    • , Denis Pezhemsky
    • , Gordon Turner-Walker
    • , Hildur Gestsdóttir
    • , Inge Lundstrøm
    • , Ingrid Gustin
    • , Ingrid Mainland
    • , Inna Potekhina
    • , Italo M. Muntoni
    • , Jade Cheng
    • , Jesper Stenderup
    • , Jilong Ma
    • , Julie Gibson
    • , Jüri Peets
    • , Jörgen Gustafsson
    • , Katrine H. Iversen
    • , Linzi Simpson
    • , Lisa Strand
    • , Louise Loe
    • , Maeve Sikora
    • , Marek Florek
    • , Maria Vretemark
    • , Mark Redknap
    • , Monika Bajka
    • , Tamara Pushkina
    • , Morten Søvsø
    • , Natalia Grigoreva
    • , Tom Christensen
    • , Ole Kastholm
    • , Otto Uldum
    • , Pasquale Favia
    • , Per Holck
    • , Sabine Sten
    • , Símun V. Arge
    • , Sturla Ellingvåg
    • , Vayacheslav Moiseyev
    • , Wiesław Bogdanowicz
    • , Yvonne Magnusson
    • , Ludovic Orlando
    • , Peter Pentz
    • , Mads Dengsø Jessen
    • , Anne Pedersen
    • , Mark Collard
    • , Daniel G. Bradley
    • , Marie Louise Jørkov
    • , Jette Arneborg
    • , Niels Lynnerup
    • , Neil Price
    • , M. Thomas P. Gilbert
    • , Morten E. Allentoft
    • , Jan Bill
    • , Søren M. Sindbæk
    • , Lotte Hedeager
    • , Kristian Kristiansen
    • , Rasmus Nielsen
    • , Thomas Werge
    •  & Eske Willerslev

  • Article |

    Single-cell transcriptomics roadmap of human dermal fibroblasts reprogrammed to primed and naive pluripotency reveals a route for the direct reprogramming of somatic cells into induced trophoblast stem cells.

    • Xiaodong Liu
    • , John F. Ouyang
    • , Fernando J. Rossello
    • , Jia Ping Tan
    • , Kathryn C. Davidson
    • , Daniela S. Valdes
    • , Jan Schröder
    • , Yu B. Y. Sun
    • , Joseph Chen
    • , Anja S. Knaupp
    • , Guizhi Sun
    • , Hun S. Chy
    • , Ziyi Huang
    • , Jahnvi Pflueger
    • , Jaber Firas
    • , Vincent Tano
    • , Sam Buckberry
    • , Jacob M. Paynter
    • , Michael R. Larcombe
    • , Daniel Poppe
    • , Xin Yi Choo
    • , Carmel M. O’Brien
    • , William A. Pastor
    • , Di Chen
    • , Anna L. Leichter
    • , Haroon Naeem
    • , Pratibha Tripathi
    • , Partha P. Das
    • , Alexandra Grubman
    • , David R. Powell
    • , Andrew L. Laslett
    • , Laurent David
    • , Susan K. Nilsson
    • , Amander T. Clark
    • , Ryan Lister
    • , Christian M. Nefzger
    • , Luciano G. Martelotto
    • , Owen J. L. Rackham
    •  & Jose M. Polo

  • Article |

    A tight coupling between metabolic rate, efficacy of oxygen supply and the temperature sensitivities of marine animals predicts a variety of geographical niches that better aligns with the distributions of species than models of either temperature or oxygen alone.

    • Curtis Deutsch
    • , Justin L. Penn
    •  & Brad Seibel

  • Article |

    The widely available silicon-on-insulator technology is used to develop a miniaturized ultrasound detector, which is 200 times smaller than the wavelengths of sound that it can detect.

    • Rami Shnaiderman
    • , Georg Wissmeyer
    • , Okan Ülgen
    • , Qutaiba Mustafa
    • , Andriy Chmyrov
    •  & Vasilis Ntziachristos

  • Article |

    The PARP2–HPF1 histone-modifying complex bridges two nucleosomes to align broken DNA ends for ligation, initiating conformational changes that activate PARP2 and enable DNA damage repair.

    • Silvija Bilokapic
    • , Marcin J. Suskiewicz
    • , Ivan Ahel
    •  & Mario Halic

  • Article |

    The cellular organelles peroxisomes contribute to the sensitivity of cells to ferroptosis by synthesizing polyunsaturated ether phospholipids, and changes in the abundances of these lipids are associated with altered sensitivity to ferroptosis during cell-state transitions.

    • Yilong Zou
    • , Whitney S. Henry
    • , Emily L. Ricq
    • , Emily T. Graham
    • , Vaishnavi V. Phadnis
    • , Pema Maretich
    • , Sateja Paradkar
    • , Natalie Boehnke
    • , Amy A. Deik
    • , Ferenc Reinhardt
    • , John K. Eaton
    • , Bryan Ferguson
    • , Wenyu Wang
    • , Joshua Fairman
    • , Heather R. Keys
    • , Vlado Dančík
    • , Clary B. Clish
    • , Paul A. Clemons
    • , Paula T. Hammond
    • , Laurie A. Boyer
    • , Robert A. Weinberg
    •  & Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Article |

    A fundamental superconducting qubit is introduced: ‘blochnium’ is dual to the transmon, relies on a circuit element called hyperinductance, and its fundamental physical variable is the quasicharge of the Josephson junction.

    • Ivan V. Pechenezhskiy
    • , Raymond A. Mencia
    • , Long B. Nguyen
    • , Yen-Hsiang Lin
    •  & Vladimir E. Manucharyan

  • Article |

    The building blocks of the nanostructures observed on Drosophila corneas are determined, and then used to create artificial nanostructures with anti-reflective and anti-adhesive properties.

    • Mikhail Kryuchkov
    • , Oleksii Bilousov
    • , Jannis Lehmann
    • , Manfred Fiebig
    •  & Vladimir L. Katanaev

  • Article |

    The rare blood group Dantu is known to protect against severe malaria, and a mechanism is proposed here: Dantu red blood cells have a high membrane tension that prevents invasion by malaria parasites.

    • Silvia N. Kariuki
    • , Alejandro Marin-Menendez
    • , Viola Introini
    • , Benjamin J. Ravenhill
    • , Yen-Chun Lin
    • , Alex Macharia
    • , Johnstone Makale
    • , Metrine Tendwa
    • , Wilfred Nyamu
    • , Jurij Kotar
    • , Manuela Carrasquilla
    • , J. Alexandra Rowe
    • , Kirk Rockett
    • , Dominic Kwiatkowski
    • , Michael P. Weekes
    • , Pietro Cicuta
    • , Thomas N. Williams
    •  & Julian C. Rayner

  • Article |

    A giant planet candidate roughly the size of Jupiter but more than 14 times as massive is observed by TESS and other instruments to be transiting the white dwarf star WD 1856+534.

    • Andrew Vanderburg
    • , Saul A. Rappaport
    • , Siyi Xu
    • , Ian J. M. Crossfield
    • , Juliette C. Becker
    • , Bruce Gary
    • , Felipe Murgas
    • , Simon Blouin
    • , Thomas G. Kaye
    • , Enric Palle
    • , Carl Melis
    • , Brett M. Morris
    • , Laura Kreidberg
    • , Varoujan Gorjian
    • , Caroline V. Morley
    • , Andrew W. Mann
    • , Hannu Parviainen
    • , Logan A. Pearce
    • , Elisabeth R. Newton
    • , Andreia Carrillo
    • , Ben Zuckerman
    • , Lorne Nelson
    • , Greg Zeimann
    • , Warren R. Brown
    • , René Tronsgaard
    • , Beth Klein
    • , George R. Ricker
    • , Roland K. Vanderspek
    • , David W. Latham
    • , Sara Seager
    • , Joshua N. Winn
    • , Jon M. Jenkins
    • , Fred C. Adams
    • , Björn Benneke
    • , David Berardo
    • , Lars A. Buchhave
    • , Douglas A. Caldwell
    • , Jessie L. Christiansen
    • , Karen A. Collins
    • , Knicole D. Colón
    • , Tansu Daylan
    • , John Doty
    • , Alexandra E. Doyle
    • , Diana Dragomir
    • , Courtney Dressing
    • , Patrick Dufour
    • , Akihiko Fukui
    • , Ana Glidden
    • , Natalia M. Guerrero
    • , Xueying Guo
    • , Kevin Heng
    • , Andreea I. Henriksen
    • , Chelsea X. Huang
    • , Lisa Kaltenegger
    • , Stephen R. Kane
    • , John A. Lewis
    • , Jack J. Lissauer
    • , Farisa Morales
    • , Norio Narita
    • , Joshua Pepper
    • , Mark E. Rose
    • , Jeffrey C. Smith
    • , Keivan G. Stassun
    •  & Liang Yu