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Author Correction: Fasting-mimicking diet and hormone therapy induce breast cancer regression
- Irene Caffa
- , Vanessa Spagnolo
- , Claudio Vernieri
- , Francesca Valdemarin
- , Pamela Becherini
- , Min Wei
- , Sebastian Brandhorst
- , Chiara Zucal
- , Else Driehuis
- , Lorenzo Ferrando
- , Francesco Piacente
- , Alberto Tagliafico
- , Michele Cilli
- , Luca Mastracci
- , Valerio G. Vellone
- , Silvano Piazza
- , Anna Laura Cremonini
- , Raffaella Gradaschi
- , Carolina Mantero
- , Mario Passalacqua
- , Alberto Ballestrero
- , Gabriele Zoppoli
- , Michele Cea
- , Annalisa Arrighi
- , Patrizio Odetti
- , Fiammetta Monacelli
- , Giulia Salvadori
- , Salvatore Cortellino
- , Hans Clevers
- , Filippo De Braud
- , Samir G. Sukkar
- , Alessandro Provenzani
- , Valter D. Longo
- & Alessio Nencioni
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Research Highlight |
How salt water on Mars could give astronauts a breather
Water locked away in Martian sediments could be split into the gases needed by humans and their machines.
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Career Feature |
How to write a superb literature review
Nature speaks to old hands and first timers about the work they did to make their reviews sing.
- Andy Tay
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News |
Snakebite steals millions of years of quality life in India
New data provide first estimate of the toll that snakebites take on survivors.
- Carrie Arnold
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COVID research updates: Smell tests could sniff out rising COVID case counts
Nature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes key papers as they appear.
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Author Correction |
Author Correction: Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa
- Mark O. Cuthbert
- , Richard G. Taylor
- , Guillaume Favreau
- , Martin C. Todd
- , Mohammad Shamsudduha
- , Karen G. Villholth
- , Alan M. MacDonald
- , Bridget R. Scanlon
- , D. O. Valerie Kotchoni
- , Jean-Michel Vouillamoz
- , Fabrice M. A. Lawson
- , Philippe Armand Adjomayi
- , Japhet Kashaigili
- , David Seddon
- , James P. R. Sorensen
- , Girma Yimer Ebrahim
- , Michael Owor
- , Philip M. Nyenje
- , Yahaya Nazoumou
- , Ibrahim Goni
- , Boukari Issoufou Ousmane
- , Tenant Sibanda
- , Matthew J. Ascott
- , David M. J. Macdonald
- , William Agyekum
- , Youssouf Koussoubé
- , Heike Wanke
- , Hyungjun Kim
- , Yoshihide Wada
- , Min-Hui Lo
- , Taikan Oki
- & Neno Kukuric
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Research Highlight |
A sugary coating tells cells it’s time to make blood
Sugars ‘write’ a signal that helps embryonic cells to transition to a vital new job.
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Research Highlight |
Presto chango: tiny particles get a chemical makeover but keep their shape
Self-assembling particles exhibit a mind-boggling array of structure and composition.
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: 14 nations make an unprecedented commitment to healthy oceans
A sustainable ocean economy, video of the moment the Arecibo telescope collapsed and scientists have restored vision in old mice by reversing their biological clocks.
- Flora Graham
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Planning a postdoc before moving to industry? Think again
Experience as a postdoctoral researcher might not fast-track your career outside academia, Julie Gould discovers.
- Julie Gould
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Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
Photon-based quantum computer does a calculation that ordinary computers might never be able to do.
- Philip Ball
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News |
The UK has approved a COVID vaccine — here’s what scientists now want to know
The Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine has passed safety and efficacy tests — but scientists still have many questions about how this and other vaccines will perform as they’re rolled out to millions of people.
- Heidi Ledford
- , David Cyranoski
- & Richard Van Noorden
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Best map of Milky Way reveals a billion stars in motion
Data haul from Gaia space observatory offers a glimpse of what Earth’s night sky will look like for 1.6 million years to come.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Nature Podcast |
Cellular ageing: turning back the clock restores vision in mice
A trio of genes may be key to making cells young again, and ultra precise measurement of a fundamental physics constant.
- Noah Baker
- & Nick Howe
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Outlook |
Outlook: Allergies
A condition whose impact goes far beyond adverse reactions.
- David Payne
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Nature Podcast |
Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans
Erna Solberg on fisheries, fossil fuels and the future of the oceans.
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Enhanced triple-α reaction reduces proton-rich nucleosynthesis in supernovae
The triple-α reaction rate in proton-rich core-collapse supernovae is found to be enhanced at high nucleon densities, suppressing the formation of proton-rich nuclei from gallium to cadmium.
- Shilun Jin
- , Luke F. Roberts
- , Sam M. Austin
- & Hendrik Schatz
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Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics
Recent work on optical computing for artificial intelligence applications is reviewed and the potential and challenges of all-optical and hybrid optical networks are discussed.
- Gordon Wetzstein
- , Aydogan Ozcan
- , Sylvain Gigan
- , Shanhui Fan
- , Dirk Englund
- , Marin Soljačić
- , Cornelia Denz
- , David A. B. Miller
- & Demetri Psaltis
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Thermochemical lithosphere differentiation and the origin of cratonic mantle
A model is proposed for the origin of cratonic lithospheric mantle in which rifting and melting in the hot, early Earth mantle leave behind large volumes of stiffer, depleted mantle.
- Fabio A. Capitanio
- , Oliver Nebel
- & Peter A. Cawood
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Determination of the fine-structure constant with an accuracy of 81 parts per trillion
The fine-structure constant is determined with an accuracy of 81 parts per trillion using matter-wave interferometry to measure the rubidium atom recoil velocity.
- Léo Morel
- , Zhibin Yao
- , Pierre Cladé
- & Saïda Guellati-Khélifa
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Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning
Data augmentation and a self-correcting design are used to develop a reinforcement-learning algorithm for the autonomous navigation of Loon superpressure balloons in challenging stratospheric weather conditions.
- Marc G. Bellemare
- , Salvatore Candido
- , Pablo Samuel Castro
- , Jun Gong
- , Marlos C. Machado
- , Subhodeep Moitra
- , Sameera S. Ponda
- & Ziyu Wang
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Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision
Expression of three Yamanaka transcription factors in mouse retinal ganglion cells restores youthful DNA methylation patterns, promotes axon regeneration after injury, and reverses vision loss in a mouse model of glaucoma and in aged mice, suggesting that mammalian tissues retain a record of youthful epigenetic information that can be accessed to improve tissue function.
- Yuancheng Lu
- , Benedikt Brommer
- , Xiao Tian
- , Anitha Krishnan
- , Margarita Meer
- , Chen Wang
- , Daniel L. Vera
- , Qiurui Zeng
- , Doudou Yu
- , Michael S. Bonkowski
- , Jae-Hyun Yang
- , Songlin Zhou
- , Emma M. Hoffmann
- , Margarete M. Karg
- , Michael B. Schultz
- , Alice E. Kane
- , Noah Davidsohn
- , Ekaterina Korobkina
- , Karolina Chwalek
- , Luis A. Rajman
- , George M. Church
- , Konrad Hochedlinger
- , Vadim N. Gladyshev
- , Steve Horvath
- , Morgan E. Levine
- , Meredith S. Gregory-Ksander
- , Bruce R. Ksander
- , Zhigang He
- & David A. Sinclair
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: UK approves Pfizer–BioNTech COVID vaccine
The UK will start to roll out the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine within days. Plus, China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon and we are ‘within striking distance’ of the Paris climate goals.
- Flora Graham
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News Feature |
Could COVID delirium bring on dementia?
Delirium is very common on COVID wards. Researchers are testing whether these temporary bouts of confusion could bring on permanent cognitive decline.
- Carrie Arnold
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Outlook |
How blockchain and genetic engineering could make food safer for people with allergies
The two technologies might ultimately bring an end to ‘may contain’ food labels, which consumers find confusing.
- Guy Poppy
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News |
Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice
‘Reprogramming’ approach seems to make old cells young again.
- Heidi Ledford
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Outlook |
Research round-up: Allergies
‘Itch-proof’ cosmetics, keeping inflammation-causing T cells in check, and other highlights from allergy and immunology studies.
- Elizabeth Svoboda
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News & Views |
Standard model of particle physics tested by the fine-structure constant
A highly precise measurement of a physical constant known as the fine-structure constant provides a stringent test of the standard model of particle physics, and sets strong limits on the existence of speculative particles.
- Holger Müller
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Outlook |
Cracking the meat-allergy mystery with the tick-bite link
An unusual reaction to mammalian meat is challenging the immunological understanding of allergies.
- Bianca Nogrady
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World View |
Norway’s Prime Minister: Ocean science can boost jobs and wellbeing
Why I put my political will behind knowledge to benefit the ocean and humanity.
- Erna Solberg
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Outlook |
The race to deliver the hypoallergenic cat
Researchers are looking beyond allergen immunotherapy to help people whose pets make them sneeze.
- Amber Dance
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News & Views |
Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock
Neurons progressively deteriorate with age and lose resilience to injury. It emerges that treatment with three transcription factors can re-endow neurons in the mature eye with youthful characteristics and the capacity to regenerate.
- Andrew D. Huberman
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Spotlight |
Inside China’s response to COVID
Researchers and officials reveal how the pandemic has shifted the country’s scientific landscape and global reputation.
- Flynn Murphy
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Outlook |
Microbial ambassadors against food allergies
Early disruptions in the composition of the gut microbiome can directly influence digestive and immune function in ways that put children at greater risk.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News |
Scientists fear that ‘covidization’ is distorting research
Some researchers worry that shifting priorities towards pandemic-focused science comes at the expense of other disciplines.
- David Adam
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News |
Meet the scientists investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic
Ten researchers with expertise in virology, public health and animals will seek to answer this key question.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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Comment |
Five priorities for a sustainable ocean economy
Unleash the ocean’s potential to boost economies sustainably while addressing climate change, food security and biodiversity.
- Jane Lubchenco
- , Peter M. Haugan
- & Mari Elka Pangestu
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News & Views |
Bacterial species singled out from a diverse crowd
Microscopy methods that reveal the spatial patterns of individual types of microbe are limited by the number of different species that can be monitored together. A new technique now provides progress on this front.
- Jen Nguyen
- & Carolina Tropini
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News |
Gut-wrenching footage documents Arecibo telescope’s collapse
Instrument platform crashed into the telescope’s dish, irrevocably ending the facility’s role in astronomy.
- Alexandra Witze
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News & Views |
Autonomous balloons take flight with artificial intelligence
An artificially intelligent controller can station a stratospheric balloon for weeks at a time without full knowledge of surrounding winds, opening up the prospect of unsupervised environmental monitoring.
- Scott M. Osprey
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Outlook |
The peanut snack that triggered a fresh approach to allergy prevention
Early oral exposure to some allergenic foods is now seen as a key prevention strategy, but tackling inhalant allergies remains a challenge.
- Sarah DeWeerdt
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Editorial |
World leaders are waking up to the ocean’s role in a healthy planet
Fourteen nations have made an unprecedented and welcome commitment to use marine ecosystems sustainably. It is equally important to establish a system to hold them to account.
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Outlook |
Food allergies: the psychological toll
Bullying, anxiety and depression can have a huge impact on the lives of people with allergies and their families.
- Roxanne Khamsi
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Article |
Structure of the class D GPCR Ste2 dimer coupled to two G proteins
A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the yeast pheromone receptor Ste2, a class D G-protein-coupled receptor, in its active state reveals that Ste2 is a homodimer that couples to two G proteins.
- Vaithish Velazhahan
- , Ning Ma
- , Gáspár Pándy-Szekeres
- , Albert J. Kooistra
- , Yang Lee
- , David E. Gloriam
- , Nagarajan Vaidehi
- & Christopher G. Tate
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Article |
Ultrafast structural changes within a photosynthetic reaction centre
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography is used to reveal the structural changes that stabilize the charge-separation steps of electron-transfer reactions in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Blastochloris viridis on a timescale of picoseconds.
- Robert Dods
- , Petra Båth
- , Dmitry Morozov
- , Viktor Ahlberg Gagnér
- , David Arnlund
- , Hoi Ling Luk
- , Joachim Kübel
- , Michał Maj
- , Adams Vallejos
- , Cecilia Wickstrand
- , Robert Bosman
- , Kenneth R. Beyerlein
- , Garrett Nelson
- , Mengning Liang
- , Despina Milathianaki
- , Joseph Robinson
- , Rajiv Harimoorthy
- , Peter Berntsen
- , Erik Malmerberg
- , Linda Johansson
- , Rebecka Andersson
- , Sergio Carbajo
- , Elin Claesson
- , Chelsie E. Conrad
- , Peter Dahl
- , Greger Hammarin
- , Mark S. Hunter
- , Chufeng Li
- , Stella Lisova
- , Antoine Royant
- , Cecilia Safari
- , Amit Sharma
- , Garth J. Williams
- , Oleksandr Yefanov
- , Sebastian Westenhoff
- , Jan Davidsson
- , Daniel P. DePonte
- , Sébastien Boutet
- , Anton Barty
- , Gergely Katona
- , Gerrit Groenhof
- , Gisela Brändén
- & Richard Neutze
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Article |
Availability of food determines the need for sleep in memory consolidation
Hunger status in a fly is shown to drive either sleep-dependent or sleep-independent memory formation through different mushroom body circuits.
- Nitin S. Chouhan
- , Leslie C. Griffith
- , Paula Haynes
- & Amita Sehgal
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Article |
Distinct hypothalamic control of same- and opposite-sex mounting behaviour in mice
Ultrasonic vocalizations of male mice distinguish aggressive, male-directed mounting from reproductive, female-directed mounting behaviours, which are represented by distinct ESR1-expressing populations of neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus and medial preoptic area, respectively.
- Tomomi Karigo
- , Ann Kennedy
- , Bin Yang
- , Mengyu Liu
- , Derek Tai
- , Iman A. Wahle
- & David J. Anderson