Nature's experts delve into preprints

The world’s record holders are in Antarctica, regardless of how ‘glacier’ is defined.

PhD student Gianluca Torta contributes to green recycling by extracting rare-earth metals from industrial landfill for reuse in electric motors.

Bystander-intervention programmes use humour and other tools to call out bullying and harassment in science.

High-resolution structures of the SMP protein complex.

Cloning of the Shaker protein had far-reaching effects in neuroscience.

An asteroid that travels inside the orbit of Venus probably wandered there from further afield.

Candidates face calls to prioritize research as the leadership contest heats up.

Brain cancer that has its roots in the breast stops growing, and even shrinks, after a hybrid therapy.

Heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms push up the number of cases, make diseases more severe and hamper people’s ability to cope.

Shifting winds and ocean currents are pushing warm waters into East Antarctica, contributing to ice loss, an analysis finds.

The catalytic asymmetric construction of Csp3–Csp3 bonds remains one of the foremost challenges in organic synthesis.1 Metal-catalyzed cross-electrophile couplings (XEC) have emerged as a powerful tool for C–C bond formation.2-5 However, coupling two distinct Csp3-electrophiles with high cross- and stereoselectivity continues as an unmet challenge. Here, we report a highly chemo- and enantioselective

How researchers created complex tiling patterns with bioengineered bacteria

Prolonged contact, especially with a person’s skin lesions, is emerging as the top transmission route.

Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.

Accurate and timely detection of recombinant lineages is crucial for interpreting genetic variation, reconstructing epidemic spread, identifying selection and variants of interest, and accurately performing phylogenetic analyses 1–4. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, genomic data generation has exceeded the capacities of existing analysis platforms, thereby crippling real-time analysis of viral evolution

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant of concern spread globally, causing resurgences of COVID-19 worldwide1,2. Delta’s emergence in the UK occurred on the background of a heterogeneous landscape of immunity and relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Here we analyse 52,992 virus genomes from England together with 93,649 global genomes to reconstruct the emergence of Delta, and quantify its introduction

Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.

Studies of Chinese coins reveal the composition of Jin and Xi — and hint at unexpected complexity in metallurgy.

Researchers worry that a protracted stand-off could slow progress on tackling global warming and hamper research collaborations.

The henipavirus can cause respiratory symptoms and is related to Nipah and Hendra viruses, but cannot spread easily in people.

Viral levels resurge in more than 10% of untreated people with COVID-19, but early data hint that the rebound is even more pronounced after antiviral treatment.

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A seemingly simple marine animal clears particles from its tubes with sneeze-like contractions.