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How Nature reported the establishment of a wildlife sanctuary in the Pacific Ocean in 1920, and a wry analysis of whether procreation causes heart attacks.
Don’t wait to save insects — these steps benefit society and biodiversity, too. Plus: a banner year for medical applications of CRISPR gene editing and planning a week without meetings.
The three-dimensional structure of all cloud complexes in the solar neighbourhood is revealed, showing a narrow and coherent 2.7-kpc arrangement of dense gas, in disagreement with the Gould Belt model.
The fastest way to become fluent in the language of a new scientific discipline is to embed yourself inside it and use it regularly, says Sarah Bohndiek.
Astronomical signals called fast radio bursts remain enigmatic, but a key discovery has now been made. A second repeating fast radio burst has been traced to its host galaxy, and its home bears little resemblance to that of the first.
What’s behind the fading of one of the sky’s brightest stars? Plus: cooling materials send heat into space and don’t be squeamish about drinking recycled wastewater.
Only one repeating fast radio burst has been localized, to an irregular dwarf galaxy; now another is found to come from a star-forming region of a nearby spiral galaxy.
The crystal structure of the SA2–SCC1 subunits of human cohesin in complex with CTCF reveals the molecular basis of the cohesin–CTCF interaction that enables the dynamic regulation of chromatin folding.