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Book Review |
When is sorrow sickness? A history of depression
A book traces the shifting lines between sadness and illness, but not who gets to draw them.
- China Mills
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News |
tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence
Search engine’s tool for summarizing studies promises easier skim-reading.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
- & Richard Van Noorden
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Publisher Correction |
Publisher Correction: Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride
- Elliot Snider
- , Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon
- , Raymond McBride
- , Mathew Debessai
- , Hiranya Vindana
- , Kevin Vencatasamy
- , Keith V. Lawler
- , Ashkan Salamat
- & Ranga P. Dias
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Author Correction |
Author Correction: Determination of RNA structural diversity and its role in HIV-1 RNA splicing
- Phillip J. Tomezsko
- , Vincent D. A. Corbin
- , Paromita Gupta
- , Harish Swaminathan
- , Margalit Glasgow
- , Sitara Persad
- , Matthew D. Edwards
- , Lachlan Mcintosh
- , Anthony T. Papenfuss
- , Ann Emery
- , Ronald Swanstrom
- , Trinity Zang
- , Tammy C. T. Lan
- , Paul Bieniasz
- , Daniel R. Kuritzkes
- , Athe Tsibris
- & Silvi Rouskin
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Research Highlight |
Technology for sterilizing medical instruments goes solar
A sunlight-powered device equipped with an a lightweight gel makes steam hot enough to kill dangerous microbes.
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Tips for trust-building science communication
Aim to inform and not persuade, say science communication experts. Plus, the iconic Arecibo telescope is to close forever and how COVID hinders taste and smell.
- Flora Graham
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Career Feature |
How to shift into COVID-19 research
Scientists who aren’t virologists or vaccinologists can still make crucial contributions to the global effort to battle SARS-CoV-2.
- Amy DePaul
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Career Column |
Why your scientific presentation should not be adapted from a journal article
In trying to be rigorous, scientists frequently pack presentations with content from journal articles. The result can be incomprehensible and a lost opportunity.
- David Rubenson
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News |
COVID research updates: Immune responses to coronavirus persist beyond 6 months
Nature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes key papers as they appear.
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Author Correction |
Author Correction: Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution
- Byrappa Venkatesh
- , Alison P. Lee
- , Vydianathan Ravi
- , Ashish K. Maurya
- , Michelle M. Lian
- , Jeremy B. Swann
- , Yuko Ohta
- , Martin F. Flajnik
- , Yoichi Sutoh
- , Masanori Kasahara
- , Shawn Hoon
- , Vamshidhar Gangu
- , Scott W. Roy
- , Manuel Irimia
- , Vladimir Korzh
- , Igor Kondrychyn
- , Zhi Wei Lim
- , Boon-Hui Tay
- , Sumanty Tohari
- , Kiat Whye Kong
- , Shufen Ho
- , Belen Lorente-Galdos
- , Javier Quilez
- , Tomas Marques-Bonet
- , Brian J. Raney
- , Philip W. Ingham
- , Alice Tay
- , LaDeana W. Hillier
- , Patrick Minx
- , Thomas Boehm
- , Richard K. Wilson
- , Sydney Brenner
- & Wesley C. Warren
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: What could falling COVID death rates mean for the pandemic?
Around the world, COVID death rates are falling, but why?
- Noah Baker
- & Heidi Ledford
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News |
What scientists really think about the ethics of facial recognition research
A first-of-a-kind survey reveals discomfort among some researchers working in facial recognition and related fields.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Career Feature |
‘Blood, sweat and tears’: Building a network for Black scientists
The UK BBSTEM initiative hopes that helping Black researchers to connect and support one another professionally will boost their representation in academia and industry.
- Virginia Gewin
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Postdocs are disenchanted with working life, says survey
Fewer than half of postdocs surveyed would recommend a scientific career to their younger self. Plus, what the science says about asymptomatic COVID and ethical questions confront facial recognition.
- Flora Graham
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News |
Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever — scientists are reeling
New satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation.
- Alexandra Witze
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Author Correction |
Author Correction: Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century
- 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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Publisher Correction |
Publisher Correction: Exuberant fibroblast activity compromises lung function via ADAMTS4
- David F. Boyd
- , E. Kaitlynn Allen
- , Adrienne G. Randolph
- , Xi-zhi J. Guo
- , Yunceng Weng
- , Catherine J. Sanders
- , Resha Bajracharya
- , Natalie K. Lee
- , Clifford S. Guy
- , Peter Vogel
- , Wenda Guan
- , Yimin Li
- , Xiaoqing Liu
- , Tanya Novak
- , Margaret M. Newhams
- , Thomas P. Fabrizio
- , Nicholas Wohlgemuth
- , Peter M. Mourani
- , Michele Kong
- , Ronald C. Sanders Jr
- , Katherine Irby
- , Katri Typpo
- , Barry Markovitz
- , Natalie Cvijanovich
- , Heidi Flori
- , Adam Schwarz
- , Nick Anas
- , Peter Mourani
- , Angela Czaja
- , Gwenn McLaughlin
- , Matthew Paden
- , Keiko Tarquinio
- , Bria M. Coates
- , Neethi Pinto
- , Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg
- , Adrienne G. Randolph
- , Anna A. Agan
- , Tanya Novak
- , Margaret M. Newhams
- , Stephen C. Kurachek
- , Mary E. Hartman
- , Allan Doctor
- , Edward J. Truemper
- , Sidharth Mahapatra
- , Kate G. Ackerman
- , L. Eugene Daugherty
- , Mark W. Hall
- , Neal Thomas
- , Scott L. Weiss
- , Julie Fitzgerald
- , Renee Higgerson
- , Laura L. Loftis
- , Rainer G. Gedeit
- , Marc-André Dugas
- , Thomas N. Wight
- , Stacey Schultz-Cherry
- , Stephania A. Cormier
- , Kathryn Shaw-Saliba
- , Andrew Pekosz
- , Richard E. Rothman
- , Kuan-Fu Chen
- , Zifeng Yang
- , Richard J. Webby
- , Nanshan Zhong
- , Jeremy Chase Crawford
- & Paul G. Thomas
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Research Highlight |
How the microbiome rouses the body’s virus-fighting powers
A molecule on the surface of a common gut microbe helps to activate genes involved in the immune response.
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Nature Podcast |
The troubling rise of facial recognition technology
The grave concerns over ethical and societal impacts of inescapable facial-recognition technology.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Richard Van Noorden
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Outlook |
Lung cancer
There is encouraging news in the fight against the world’s most deadly form of cancer.
- Herb Brody
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News Round-Up |
COVID in Kenya, science in space and Europe’s budget boost
The latest science news, in brief.
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Research Highlight |
A toxic metal contaminates the ocean’s deepest trenches
Dead fish drifting into the Mariana and Kermadec trenches carry mercury pollution with them.
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Comment |
Five rules for evidence communication
Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade.
- Michael Blastland
- , Alexandra L. J. Freeman
- , Sander van der Linden
- , Theresa M. Marteau
- & David Spiegelhalter
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Outlook |
Research round-up: lung cancer
Refining immunotherapy, evaluating the benefits of screening, and other highlights from clinical trials and laboratory studies.
- Bianca Nogrady
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News & Views |
Engineered antibodies to combat viral threats
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages globally, interest in antiviral treatments has never been higher. Antibodies are key defence components, and engineering them to better exploit their natural functions might boost therapeutic options.
- Xiaojie Yu
- & Mark S. Cragg
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Outlook |
Lung-cancer researchers and clinicians must pay more attention to women
It is not a disease just for old men any more.
- Narjust Duma
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Outlook |
How liquid biopsies allow smarter lung-cancer treatment
Technologies that count tumour cells in the blood promise to improve survival times.
- Benjamin Plackett
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Career Feature |
Postdoc survey reveals disenchantment with working life
The second article in a series on Nature’s inaugural survey of postdocs in academia worldwide uncovers a sense of instability among the research precariat.
- Chris Woolston
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News Feature |
The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Stop the postdoc treadmill … I want to get off
Julie Gould investigates how brain drains and demographic time bombs are forcing some countries to rethink the postdoc.
- Julie Gould
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Outlook |
New lung-cancer drugs extend survival times
The disease remains highly lethal but advances in immunotherapy and targeted drugs bring a flicker of hope.
- Michael Eisenstein
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News & Views |
Hierarchies defined through human mobility
An analysis of worldwide data finds that human mobility has a hierarchical structure. A proposed model that accounts for such hierarchies reproduces differences in mobility behaviour across genders and levels of urbanization.
- Elsa Arcaute
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News & Views |
Cracking the cell access code for the deadly virus VEEV
The discovery that the receptor protein LDLRAD3 is essential for infection of human cells by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus could inform strategies to combat this potentially lethal infection.
- James Zengel
- & Jan E. Carette
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News & Views |
Potentially harmful aerosols concentrate in European urban centres
Atmospheric particles that increase levels of cellular oxidants when inhaled might be especially harmful. An analysis reveals which emissions should be limited to minimize the potential adverse health effects of such particles in Europe.
- Rodney Weber
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News Feature |
Resisting the rise of facial recognition
Growing use of surveillance technology has prompted calls for bans and stricter regulation.
- Antoaneta Roussi
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Editorial |
Facial-recognition research needs an ethical reckoning
The fields of computer science and artificial intelligence are struggling with the ethical challenges of biometrics. Researchers, funders and institutions must respond.
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Outlook |
Artificial intelligence is improving the detection of lung cancer
Machine learning systems for early detection could save lives.
- Elizabeth Svoboda
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Outlook |
Oncogene-specific advocacy groups bring a patient-centric perspective to studies of lung cancer
Communities sharing particular types of the disease are helping steer research towards better therapies.
- Elie Dolgin
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Outlook |
Better treatments for lung cancer that spreads to the brain
Metastasis to the brain is usually a swift death sentence but researchers are developing ways to make it less lethal.
- Natalie Healey
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News Feature |
Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?
The technology is improving — but the bigger issue is how it’s used.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Article |
Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
Spectroscopic studies and theoretical calculations of the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction establish that reaction rates depend on the amount of charge stored in the electrocatalyst, and not on the applied potential.
- Hong Nhan Nong
- , Lorenz J. Falling
- , Arno Bergmann
- , Malte Klingenhof
- , Hoang Phi Tran
- , Camillo Spöri
- , Rik Mom
- , Janis Timoshenko
- , Guido Zichittella
- , Axel Knop-Gericke
- , Simone Piccinin
- , Javier Pérez-Ramírez
- , Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
- , Robert Schlögl
- , Peter Strasser
- , Detre Teschner
- & Travis E. Jones
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News |
What the data say about asymptomatic COVID infections
People without symptoms can pass on the virus, but estimating their contribution to outbreaks is challenging.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Pfizer–BioNTech COVID vaccine works for high-risk groups
The Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine is highly effective across racial groups and in people over 65. Plus, trapped-ion systems heat up the quantum-computing race and why some vaccines have to be kept ultracold.
- Flora Graham
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Article |
LDLRAD3 is a receptor for Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
LDLRAD3 is a receptor for infection with Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, and in mouse models deletion of Ldlrad3 or treatment with a soluble LDLRAD3 decoy molecule abrogates infection and disease caused by this virus.
- Hongming Ma
- , Arthur S. Kim
- , Natasha M. Kafai
- , James T. Earnest
- , Aadit P. Shah
- , James Brett Case
- , Katherine Basore
- , Theron C. Gilliland
- , Chengqun Sun
- , Christopher A. Nelson
- , Larissa B. Thackray
- , William B. Klimstra
- , Daved H. Fremont
- & Michael S. Diamond
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Article |
A molecular cell atlas of the human lung from single-cell RNA sequencing
Expression profiling on 75,000 single cells creates a comprehensive cell atlas of the human lung that includes 41 out of 45 previously known cell types and 14 new ones.
- Kyle J. Travaglini
- , Ahmad N. Nabhan
- , Lolita Penland
- , Rahul Sinha
- , Astrid Gillich
- , Rene V. Sit
- , Stephen Chang
- , Stephanie D. Conley
- , Yasuo Mori
- , Jun Seita
- , Gerald J. Berry
- , Joseph B. Shrager
- , Ross J. Metzger
- , Christin S. Kuo
- , Norma Neff
- , Irving L. Weissman
- , Stephen R. Quake
- & Mark A. Krasnow
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Article |
Host ANP32A mediates the assembly of the influenza virus replicase
Structural and biochemical studies of influenza virus RNA polymerase in complex with host acidic nuclear phosphoprotein 32 (ANP32) show how ANP32-mediated polymerase dimerization enables the replication of influenza viral RNA in a host-dependent manner.
- Loïc Carrique
- , Haitian Fan
- , Alexander P. Walker
- , Jeremy R. Keown
- , Jane Sharps
- , Ecco Staller
- , Wendy S. Barclay
- , Ervin Fodor
- & Jonathan M. Grimes
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Article |
Observation of gauge invariance in a 71-site Bose–Hubbard quantum simulator
Quantum simulation in a 71-site optical lattice certifies gauge invariance, showing how this essential property of lattice gauge theories can be maintained across a quantum phase transition.
- Bing Yang
- , Hui Sun
- , Robert Ott
- , Han-Yi Wang
- , Torsten V. Zache
- , Jad C. Halimeh
- , Zhen-Sheng Yuan
- , Philipp Hauke
- & Jian-Wei Pan
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Article |
Small-molecule-induced polymerization triggers degradation of BCL6
Binding of the small molecule BI-3802 to the oncogenic transcription factor B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) induces polymerization of BCL6, leading to its ubiquitination by SIAH1 and proteasomal degradation.
- Mikołaj Słabicki
- , Hojong Yoon
- , Jonas Koeppel
- , Lena Nitsch
- , Shourya S. Roy Burman
- , Cristina Di Genua
- , Katherine A. Donovan
- , Adam S. Sperling
- , Moritz Hunkeler
- , Jonathan M. Tsai
- , Rohan Sharma
- , Andrew Guirguis
- , Charles Zou
- , Priya Chudasama
- , Jessica A. Gasser
- , Peter G. Miller
- , Claudia Scholl
- , Stefan Fröhling
- , Radosław P. Nowak
- , Eric S. Fischer
- & Benjamin L. Ebert
