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  • Repeated flash-heating provides a new way to depolymerise plastics, and the latest from the Nature Briefing.

    • Benjamin Thompson
    • Shamini Bundell
    Nature Podcast
  • A new strategy to separate radioactive americium from lanthanides based on complexation with polyoxometalates and ultrafiltration technique is highly efficient and rapid, does not involve any organic components and requires minimal energy input.

    • Hailong Zhang
    • Ao Li
    • Shuao Wang
    Article Open Access
  • A depolymerization method is described that uses electrified spatiotemporal heating to selectively generate monomers from the commodity plastics polypropylene and poly(ethylene terephthalate), allowing control over the pyrolysis of plastic waste and reducing the formation of side products.

    • Qi Dong
    • Aditya Dilip Lele
    • Liangbing Hu
    Article
  • Using single-molecule imaging, the authors show that Smc5/6 forms DNA loops by extrusion, which establishes DNA loop extrusion as a conserved mechanism among eukaryotic SMC complexes.

    • Biswajit Pradhan
    • Takaharu Kanno
    • Eugene Kim
    Article Open Access
  • Using a quantum annealing processor to study three-dimensional spin glasses demonstrates an accurate large-scale quantum simulation of critical dynamics and a scaling advantage over analogous classical methods for energy optimization.

    • Andrew D. King
    • Jack Raymond
    • Mohammad H. Amin
    Article
  • The authors develop a new oxide-dispersion-strengthened NiCoCr-based alloy using a model-driven alloy design approach and laser-based additive manufacturing, showing how such designs can provide superior compositions using far fewer resources than previous methods.

    • Timothy M. Smith
    • Christopher A. Kantzos
    • John W. Lawson
    Article Open Access
  • A study shows that, although the number of incarcerated people in the USA decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino individuals increased.

    • Brennan Klein
    • C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
    • Elizabeth Hinton
    Article Open Access
  • A mouse model of invasive breast cancer in which Pten and Trp53 are simultaneously inactivated links PTEN loss with STAT3 activation and indicates that immune escape in PTEN-null tumours is mediated by PI3Kβ.

    • Johann S. Bergholz
    • Qiwei Wang
    • Jean J. Zhao
    Article
  • Arabidopsis thaliana UMAMIT uniporters facilitate glucosinolate efflux from biosynthetic cells along the electrochemical gradient into the apoplast, in which the high-affinity H+-coupled glucosinolate importers GLUCOSINOLATE TRANSPORTERS (GTRs) load them into the phloem for translocation to the seeds.

    • Deyang Xu
    • Niels Christian Holm Sanden
    • Barbara Ann Halkier
    Article
  • A phylogeny-guided genome-resolved metagenomic analysis of DNA viruses in the ocean reveals atypical plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses that form a putative new phylum dubbed Mirusviricota.

    • Morgan Gaïa
    • Lingjie Meng
    • Tom O. Delmont
    Article Open Access
  • Local microenvironmental cues modulate melanocyte stem cells, which control hair pigmentation, to enter different differentiation states, shifting between hair follicle stem cell and transit-amplifying compartments, a process that is different to other self-renewing systems.

    • Qi Sun
    • Wendy Lee
    • Mayumi Ito
    Article Open Access
  • The ability to separate the radioactive element americium from spent nuclear fuel would lower the long-term hazards of nuclear waste. An inorganic molecular cage that selectively binds to americium opens up a separation strategy.

    • May Nyman
    • Gauthier Deblonde
    News & Views
  • The observation that melanocyte stem cells migrate up and down the hair follicle, differentiating into melanocytes and then returning to a stem-cell identity, calls into question long-held assumptions about adult stem cells.

    • Carlos Galvan
    • William E. Lowry
    News & Views