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Tips for submission success Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Nature Astronomy is a selective journal whose editors examine submissions for advances in scientific understanding, robustly supported conclusions and broad relevance. Here we expound upon these criteria to help authors maximize their publication chances.
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BAGPIPES Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Paul Woods
Adam Carnall’s BAGPIPES code grew out of necessity and has since developed into a widely used tool for fitting the spectra and photometry of galaxies, especially in the JWST era.
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High-energy neutrinos from the vicinity of the supermassive black hole in NGC 1068 Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 P. Padovani, E. Resconi, M. Ajello, C. Bellenghi, S. Bianchi, P. Blasi, K.-Y. Huang, S. Gabici, V. Gámez Rosas, H. Niederhausen, E. Peretti, B. Eichmann, D. Guetta, A. Lamastra, T. Shimizu
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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining.
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Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?
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What does peak emissions mean for China — and the world? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come.
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Tackling the reality of noma Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to unravel the mystery of what causes it.
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A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and CNS Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Borja Ocón, Menglan Xiang, Yuhan Bi, Serena Tan, Kevin Brulois, Aiman Ayesha, Manali Kunte, Catherine Zhou, Melissa LaJevic, Nicole Lazarus, Francesca Mengoni, Tanya Sharma, Stephen Montgomery, Jody E. Hooper, Mian Huang, Tracy Handel, John R. D. Dawson, Irina Kufareva, Brian A. Zabel, Junliang Pan, Eugene C. Butcher
Tissue-selective chemoattractants direct lymphocytes to epithelial surfaces to establish local immune environments, regulate immune responses to food antigens and commensal organisms, and protect from pathogens. Homeostatic chemoattractants for small intestines, colon, and skin are known1 2, but chemotropic mechanisms selective for respiratory tract and other non-intestinal mucosal tissues (NIMT) remain
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Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
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Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 J. Van Damme, S. Massar, R. Acharya, Ts. Ivanov, D. Perez Lozano, Y. Canvel, M. Demarets, D. Vangoidsenhoven, Y. Hermans, J. G. Lai, A. M. Vadiraj, M. Mongillo, D. Wan, J. De Boeck, A. Potočnik, K. De Greve
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Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Zhurun Ji, Yuzhou Zhao, Yicong Chen, Ziyan Zhu, Yuhui Wang, Wenjing Liu, Gaurav Modi, Eugene J. Mele, Song Jin, Ritesh Agarwal
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Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Munehiro Furuichi, Takaaki Kawaguchi, Marie-Madlen Pust, Keiko Yasuma-Mitobe, Damian R. Plichta, Naomi Hasegawa, Takashi Ohya, Shakti K. Bhattarai, Satoshi Sasajima, Yoshimasa Aoto, Timur Tuganbaev, Mizuki Yaginuma, Masahiro Ueda, Nobuyuki Okahashi, Kimiko Amafuji, Yuko Kiridoshi, Kayoko Sugita, Martin Stražar, Julian Avila-Pacheco, Kerry Pierce, Clary B. Clish, Ashwin N. Skelly, Masahira Hattori,
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One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Shaolou Wei, Yan Ma, Dierk Raabe
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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ron Hadas, Hernan Rubinstein, Markus Mittnenzweig, Yoav Mayshar, Raz Ben-Yair, Saifeng Cheng, Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Netta Reines, Ayelet-Hashahar Orenbuch, Aviezer Lifshitz, Dong-Yuan Chen, Michael B. Elowitz, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Jacob H. Hanna, Amos Tanay, Yonatan Stelzer
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Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Madeleine Dias Mirandela, Ansgar Zoch, Jessica Leismann, Shaun Webb, Rebecca V. Berrens, Devisree Valsakumar, Yuka Kabayama, Tania Auchynnikava, Martina Schito, Tamoghna Chowdhury, David MacLeod, Xinyu Xiang, Juan Zou, Juri Rappsilber, Robin C. Allshire, Philipp Voigt, Atlanta G. Cook, Joan Barau, Dónal O’Carroll
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Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Justine E. Paul, Yuan Gao, Yoo Kyung Go, Luis E. Rodriguez Koett, Anisha Sharma, Manxin Chen, Jacob J. Lessard, Tolga Topkaya, Cecilia Leal, Jeffrey S. Moore, Philippe H. Geubelle, Nancy R. Sottos
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Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
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Mars’s induced magnetosphere can degenerate Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Qi Zhang, Stas Barabash, Mats Holmstrom, Xiao-dong Wang, Yoshifumi Futaana, Christopher M. Fowler, Robin Ramstad, Hans Nilsson
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Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martijn S. S. L. Oei, Martin J. Hardcastle, Roland Timmerman, Aivin R. D. J. G. I. B. Gast, Andrea Botteon, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Gabriela Calistro Rivera, Reinout J. van Weeren, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Huib T. Intema, Francesco de Gasperin, S. G. Djorgovski
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Three-dimensional wave breaking Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, R. Calvert, T. Davey, F. Dias, T. S. van den Bremer
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Micronuclear battery based on a coalescent energy transducer Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Kai Li, Congchong Yan, Junren Wang, Kun Zhu, Junjun Guo, Yugang Zhang, Guozheng Shi, Yuchen Yin, Liwei Cheng, Liang Sun, Yumin Wang, Hailong Zhang, Ying Sun, Jianyu Yuan, Wanli Ma, Guoxun Ji, Zhifang Chai, Yaxing Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang, Shuao Wang
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Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Wendy W. S. Yue, Kouki K. Touhara, Kenichi Toma, Xin Duan, David Julius
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Targeted protein relocalization via protein transport coupling Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Christine S. C. Ng, Aofei Liu, Bianxiao Cui, Steven M. Banik
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Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Max T. Birch, Ilya Belopolski, Yukako Fujishiro, Minoru Kawamura, Akiko Kikkawa, Yasujiro Taguchi, Max Hirschberger, Naoto Nagaosa, Yoshinori Tokura
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Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Irina Y. Petrova, Diego G. Miralles, Florent Brient, Markus G. Donat, Seung-Ki Min, Yeon-Hee Kim, Margot Bador
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Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Cait A. Beddows, Feiyue Shi, Anna L. Horton, Sagar Dalal, Ping Zhang, Chang-Chun Ling, V. Wee Yong, Kim Loh, Ellie Cho, Chris Karagiannis, Adam J. Rose, Magdalene K. Montgomery, Paul Gregorevic, Matthew J. Watt, Nicolle H. Packer, Benjamin L. Parker, Robyn M. Brown, Edward S. X. Moh, Garron T. Dodd
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Space radiation measurements during the Artemis I lunar mission Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Stuart P. George, Ramona Gaza, Daniel Matthiä, Diego Laramore, Jussi Lehti, Thomas Campbell-Ricketts, Martin Kroupa, Nicholas Stoffle, Karel Marsalek, Bartos Przybyla, Mena Abdelmelek, Joachim Aeckerlein, Amir A. Bahadori, Janet Barzilla, Matthias Dieckmann, Michael Ecord, Ricky Egeland, Timo Eronen, Dan Fry, Bailey H. Jones, Christine E. Hellweg, Jordan Houri, Robert Hirsh, Mika Hirvonen, Scott Hovland
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Quarks show that quantum entanglement holds at high energies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martin Hentschinski
Proton–proton collisions confirm quantum principle in top-quark pairs.
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Daily briefing: Crustaceans can ‘smell’ their way back to their home cave Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Tiny crustaceans can detect their home waters using ‘smell’. Plus, the challenges that accompany the cure for sickle-cell disease.
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Small molecules help misplaced proteins hitchhike around cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Robert Yvon, Christina M. Woo
Proteins induced to shuttle between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
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Magnetic whirlpools creep and flow in response to emergent electrodynamics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Yingying Wu
Dynamic behaviours in a skyrmion-hosting material.
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Brain goop that traps hunger neurons drives obesity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.
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Crosstalk between the embryo and the developing placenta relies on same signal for multiple messages Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Proper communication between embryonic tissues is crucial to the production of the correct balance of cell types.
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Gut microbes fend off harmful bacteria by depriving them of nutrients Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Eric G. Pamer
Depletion of the molecule gluconate halts gut colonization by a pathogen.
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CERN prepares to expel Russian scientists — but won’t completely cut ties Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
The laboratory has ended its agreement with the nation, but will continue working with a Russian nuclear-research institute, raising tensions among researchers.
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Obesity is driven by a build-up of molecular mesh around hunger neurons Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Alexander Dityatev
Neuronal insulin resistance caused by excess extracellular matrix.
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Quantum feat: physicists observe entangled quarks for first time Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Particle measurements at the Large Hadron Collider open the door to future high-energy tests of entanglement.
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Black holes as big as atoms might be speeding through the Solar System Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, simulations suggest.
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Unrelaxed craters muddy the waters of the dwarf planet Ceres Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Lauren Schurmeier, Andrew J. Dombard
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An ancient and impure frozen ocean on Ceres implied by its ice-rich crust Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 I. F. Pamerleau, M. M. Sori, J. E. C. Scully
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AI’s international research networks mapped Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A few key countries have become hubs of collaboration in artificial intelligence.
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This ‘scuba diving’ lizard has a self-made air supply Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A bubble of air on its snout extends the water anole’s underwater time by more than a minute.
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Rise of ChatGPT and other tools raises major questions for research Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
AI is changing the way researchers work forever, but human expertise must continue to hold sway.
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Artificial intelligence laws in the US states are feeling the weight of corporate lobbying Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
The power of big tech is outstripping any ‘Brussels effect’ from the EU’s AI Act.
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The UK’s $1-billion bet to create technologies that change the world Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
It was modelled after DARPA, the hugely successful US tech funder. Can Britain’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency — ARIA — create revolutionary innovations?
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A brain circuit that cements the memory of socially learnt food preferences Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A region of the mouse brain’s cortical amygdala consolidates memory of an odour it could smell on another mouse.
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Science-policy advisers shape programmes that solve real-world problems Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Four scientists discuss how they broke into the field and how they use evidence to tackle society’s problems.
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A guide to the Nature Index Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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A broader view of the diversity of human gene expression Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
An RNA-sequencing data set compiled from individuals from around the world provides insights into variation in gene expression.
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Can AI be used to assess research quality? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option.
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Why AI might be a game-changer for Africa Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Researchers across the continent are using artificial intelligence to design bespoke solutions for health, development and more.
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Rage against machine learning driven by profit Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input.
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Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
World leaders are restarting their engagement with the Taliban — yet the rights of half of the population is not on their official agenda.
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A small fix to cut beer intake: downsize the pint Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Total alcohol consumed fell at establishments in England that replaced the classic imperial pint with a two-thirds measure.
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‘The standard model is not dead’: ultra-precise particle measurement thrills physicists Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
CERN’s calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the possibility of new physics.
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Should young kids take the new anti-obesity drugs? What the research says Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown.
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Daily briefing: AlphaFold reveals ‘family tree’ of viruses Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
AlphaFold reveals how viruses including hepatitis C, dengue and Zika evolved. Plus, mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise in Europe — are scientists worried?
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The coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars through episodic resonance locking Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Jared Bryan, Julien de Wit, Meng Sun, Zoë L. de Beurs, Richard H. D. Townsend
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UN Pact for the Future: Scientists must step up to accelerate sustainability goals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Letter to the Editor