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A promising 3D-printing method gets flexible
New ingredients allow a printing technique that once produced only brittle objects to turn out items that are pliable or sturdy.
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Research Highlight |
Why Facebook users might want to show their true colours
Authentic self-expression on social media is linked to enhanced mood.
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News |
US civil-rights group offers support to researchers facing China scrutiny
As the United States continues its crack-down on research espionage, scientists seek legal resources and advice.
- Nidhi Subbaraman
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: What Germany’s leading pandemic scientist says about what’s to come
German virologist Christian Drosten on everything from testing to visiting your grandparents. Plus, China has joined COVAX and rediscovering Nobel-winning science.
- Flora Graham
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News |
COVID research updates: Dense cities should brace for long coronavirus outbreaks
Nature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes key papers as they appear.
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Research Highlight |
Can’t smell stinky fish? It might be in your genes
When exposed to the reek of fish, people with a particular mutation tend to misidentify the odour — or not detect it at all.
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Fc-optimized antibodies elicit CD8 immunity to viral respiratory infection
- Stylianos Bournazos
- , Davide Corti
- , Herbert W. Virgin
- & Jeffrey V. Ravetch
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What China’s speedy COVID vaccine deployment means for the pandemic
China has promised vaccines to many countries, but whether it can meet its commitments is unclear.
- David Cyranoski
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: COVID-sniffing dog tops the month’s best science images
Sniffer dogs to screen for COVID-19, what China’s speedy COVID vaccine deployment means for the pandemic and what scientists in Sweden think of its controversial COVID strategy.
- Flora Graham
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Obituary |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)
US Supreme Court justice, champion of equity, environment, democracy.
- Sarah Franklin
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Obituary |
Berni Alder (1925–2020)
Theoretical physicist who pioneered the computer modelling of matter.
- David Ceperley
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Nature Podcast |
Trump vs. Biden: what's at stake for science?
A conversation about the US election and the possible fallout for science, and are maternal behaviours learned or innate?
- Nick Howe
- & Benjamin Thompson
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News & Views |
Inductors enter the world of quantum mechanics
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
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News & Views |
Early onset of planet formation observed in a nascent star system
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
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News |
Australian research gets billion-dollar boost in sweeping stimulus budget
First budget since pandemic began offers much-needed funds to universities and national science agency.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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Editorial |
Long COVID: let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms
The terminology for long-lasting COVID symptoms — and the definition of recovery — must incorporate patients’ perspectives.
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Pioneers of revolutionary CRISPR gene editing win chemistry Nobel
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share the award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.
- Heidi Ledford
- & Ewen Callaway
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News & Views |
Seeds of cancer in normal skin
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
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: CRISPR scientists win the chemistry Nobel
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
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Article |
A STAT3 palmitoylation cycle promotes TH17 differentiation and colitis
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
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Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia
Stable isotope data for Southeast Asian mammals across the Quaternary period shed light on environmental change from the Early Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch, contextualizing hominin evolution and megafauna extinction in the region.
- Julien Louys
- & Patrick Roberts
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Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex
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
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The genomic landscapes of individual melanocytes from human skin
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
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eIF2α controls memory consolidation via excitatory and somatostatin neurons
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
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Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals
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
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Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration
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
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Emergent electromagnetic induction in a helical-spin magnet
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
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Microglia-organized scar-free spinal cord repair in neonatal mice
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
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Article |
Spontaneous travelling cortical waves gate perception in behaving primates
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
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Article |
Four annular structures in a protostellar disk less than 500,000 years old
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
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A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks
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
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Review Article |
Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century
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
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Article |
Amygdala inhibitory neurons as loci for translation in emotional memories
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
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Review Article |
Programmable photonic circuits
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
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News Feature |
Face masks: what the data say
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
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News |
Physicists who unravelled mysteries of black holes win Nobel prize
Mathematical physicist Roger Penrose shares the prize with Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel, who discovered a giant black hole in the centre of the Galaxy.
- Elizabeth Gibney
- & Davide Castelvecchi
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Career Column |
Wear your mask, but think about deaf students
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
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World View |
Plan now to speed vaccine supply for future pandemics
Slow-lane logistics shouldn’t stymie fast-track science, says head of UK government’s Vaccine Taskforce.
- Kate Bingham
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News Q&A |
Contact tracing Trump’s travels would be ‘massive but feasible’
Although the US president travelled to several states while possibly infected, the task would prevent COVID spread, says response specialist Emily Wroe.
- Nidhi Subbaraman
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Comment |
COVID-19 vaccines: how to ensure Africa has access
History must not repeat itself — global and continental cooperation are essential.
- John N. Nkengasong
- , Nicaise Ndembi
- , Akhona Tshangela
- & Tajudeen Raji
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Career Column |
How managing a chronic illness gave me skills that would strengthen my PhD
A childhood diagnosis of type 1 diabetes taught Olivia Favor about the importance of meticulous record-keeping and other skills that proved useful in the lab.
- Olivia Favor
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News |
COVID sniffer dogs, cave bear and corals — September’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
- Emma Stoye
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Black-hole physicists win Nobel
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
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Editorial |
Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever
Science and politics are inseparable — and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months.
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Research Highlight |
The odd couple: how a pair of mismatched black holes formed
A merger between two black holes of vastly different masses might have stemmed from a relationship between two unequal stars.