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‘Talking won’t save the planet’: uniting efforts to save Panama’s parks Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
Juan Carlos Navarro shares his hopes and frustrations as he works to protect his country’s biodiversity and fight climate change.
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Here’s how to bag a hefty research prize to turbocharge innovation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
‘Challenge’ prizes are growing in popularity, but stimulating creativity takes more than financial incentives.
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Researchers overlooked airborne diseases for centuries — then COVID-19 changed everything Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
A fascinating exploration of microbes that can travel through the air reveals how the pandemic marked a turning point for a crucial research field.
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Money and murder: the dark side of the Asilomar meeting on recombinant DNA Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
The famed 1975 conference about a controversial genetic technology is feted as an example of how scientific self-regulation works. But more significant is what wasn’t discussed.
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What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
There are many large language models to choose from; some excel at coding, whereas others are better for synthesizing information.
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Daily briefing: Scientists use AI to design life-like enzymes from scratch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
What Robert F. Kennedy Jr might do with his newfound influence over US science. Plus, life-like enzymes designed from scratch can accelerate a four-step reaction.
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NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
Some researchers at NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion in science.
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‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs begin Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
President Donald Trump and his team view the Environmental Protection Agency as a threat to US prosperity. Workers have been waiting for the axe to fall.
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Daily briefing: Why US scientists aren’t retiring Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
Centuries of isolation shaped Greenlanders’ unique genetics. Plus, why so many US scientists don’t want to retire.
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Anxiety and Related Disorders During the Perinatal Period Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-15 Nichole Fairbrother, Fiona L. Challacombe, Sheryl M. Green, Heather A. O'Mahen
Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders are, as a group, the most common mental health conditions and are more common among women compared with among men. It is now evident that these disorders affect one in five pregnant and postpartum people and are more common than depression. For some disorders (e.g., obsessive–compulsive disorder), there is also evidence of an elevated risk for their development
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‘Researching climate change feels like standing in the path of an approaching train’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
Studying the impacts of extreme weather events can exact a heavy mental toll. Finding your ‘happy place’ is an important coping strategy.
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Why I retracted part of my PhD dissertation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
Psychologist Laura Steenbergen took the step after raising research-integrity concerns about a former mentor.
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Bats on film: scientific storytelling from a recovering academic Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
Scientific exchange is more than just research papers. Get your camera out to capture the beauty and intensity of your work, says Mariëtte van der Walt.
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Bullseye! Galaxy hosts a record-breaking nine starry rings Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.
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From farm to pharmacy: gene-edited plants produce a popular supplement Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Widely grown crops can be bioengineered to make a form of coenzyme Q taken by people seeking a health boost.
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Daily briefing: A simple blood test could diagnose pancreatic cancer early Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
A new blood test could diagnose pancreatic cancer before it spreads. Plus, physicists have detected the highest-energy neutrino ever.
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Scientists use AI to design life-like enzymes from scratch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Combined approach takes AI-engineered enzymes one step closer to practical applications.
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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.
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Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr is now a powerful force in US science: what will he do? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Kennedy has expressed support for some fields, but has also declared he’d like a ‘break’ in infectious-disease research.
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Quantum-computing technology that makes qubits from atoms wins mega investment Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Firms using ‘neutral atoms’ to create qubits are reentering the race to build useful quantum machines.
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The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-14 Peggy J. Liu, Theresa A. Kwon, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Nicole You Jeung Kim
It is often said that much of consumption is “social” in nature, but what does this mean? This article proposes the social congruency framework for differentiating between different types of social consumption experiences—characterizing a consumption experience with respect to congruency with a social partner on up to three dimensions: what, where, and when. Utilizing this social congruency framework
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Author Correction: India–Eurasia convergence speed-up by passive-margin sediment subduction Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Hao Zhou, Jiashun Hu, Luca Dal Zilio, Ming Tang, Keqing Li, Xiumian Hu
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08069-6 Published online 6 November 2024
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Publisher Correction: Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Hideki Ikeda, Katsushige Kawase, Tatsuya Nishi, Tomofumi Watanabe, Keizo Takenaga, Takashi Inozume, Takamasa Ishino, Sho Aki, Jason Lin, Shusuke Kawashima, Joji Nagasaki, Youki Ueda, Shinichiro Suzuki, Hideki Makinoshima, Makiko Itami, Yuki Nakamura, Yasutoshi Tatsumi, Yusuke Suenaga, Takao Morinaga, Akiko Honobe-Tabuchi, Takehiro Ohnuma, Tatsuyoshi Kawamura, Yoshiyasu Umeda, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yukiko
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08439-0 Published online 22 January 2025
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Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
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Are PhDs losing their lustre? Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
High living costs paired with stagnant stipends are being blamed for a drop in PhD enrolments in several countries.
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The researchers on a quest to protect the gut from antibiotics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.
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σ-Bond insertion reactions of two strained diradicaloids Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Arismel Tena Meza, Christina A. Rivera, Huiling Shao, Andrew V. Kelleghan, K. N. Houk, Neil K. Garg
The development of new synthetic methodologies are instrumental for enabling the discovery of new medicines. Those methods that provide efficient access to structural alternatives for aromatic compounds (i.e., saturated arene bioisosteres), have become highly coveted.1,2,3,4 The incorporation of such bioisosteres typically leads to favorable drug-like properties and represents an emerging field of
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Observation of Plastic Ice VII by Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Maria Rescigno, Alberto Toffano, Umbertoluca Ranieri, Leon Andriambariarijaona, Richard Gaal, Stefan Klotz, Michael Marek Koza, Jacques Ollivier, Fausto Martelli, John Russo, Francesco Sciortino, Jose Teixeira, Livia Eleonora Bove
Water is the third most abundant molecule in the universe and a key component in the interiors of icy moons, giant planets, and Uranus- and Neptune-like exoplanets1–3. Owing to its distinct molecular structure and flexible hydrogen bonds that readily adapt to a wide range of pressures and temperatures, water forms numerous crystalline and amorphous phases4–6. Most relevant for the high pressures and
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Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
The deadly cancer is often not found until it has spread to other parts of the body.
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Gourmet cockatoos like to fancy up their food Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
Make mine blueberry: Goffin’s cockatoos add flair to plain vegetables with a dip into fruity soy yogurt.
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Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
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Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Weinan Sun, Johan Winnubst, Maanasa Natrajan, Chongxi Lai, Koichiro Kajikawa, Arco Bast, Michalis Michaelos, Rachel Gattoni, Carsen Stringer, Daniel Flickinger, James E. Fitzgerald, Nelson Spruston
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Transcriptional adaptation upregulates utrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Lara Falcucci, Christopher M. Dooley, Douglas Adamoski, Thomas Juan, Justin Martinez, Angelina M. Georgieva, Kamel Mamchaoui, Cansu Cirzi, Didier Y. R. Stainier
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Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Inbal Shainer, Johannes M. Kappel, Eva Laurell, Joseph C. Donovan, Martin W. Schneider, Enrico Kuehn, Irene Arnold-Ammer, Manuel Stemmer, Johannes Larsch, Herwig Baier
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Topological segregation of stress sensors along the gut crypt–villus axis Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Kouki K. Touhara, Nathan D. Rossen, Fei Deng, Joel Castro, Andrea M. Harrington, Tifany Chu, Sonia Garcia-Caraballo, Mariana Brizuela, Tracey O’Donnell, Jinhao Xu, Onur Cil, Stuart M. Brierley, Yulong Li, David Julius
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A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Clelton A. Santos, Mariana A. B. Morais, Fernanda Mandelli, Evandro A. Lima, Renan Y. Miyamoto, Paula M. R. Higasi, Evandro A. Araujo, Douglas A. A. Paixão, Joaquim M. Junior, Maria L. Motta, Rodrigo S. A. Streit, Luana G. Morão, Claudio B. C. Silva, Lucia D. Wolf, Cesar R. F. Terrasan, Nathalia R. Bulka, Jose A. Diogo, Felipe J. Fuzita, Felippe M. Colombari, Camila R. Santos, Priscila T. Rodrigues
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UM171 glues asymmetric CRL3–HDAC1/2 assembly to degrade CoREST corepressors Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Megan J. R. Yeo, Olivia Zhang, Xiaowen Xie, Eunju Nam, N. Connor Payne, Pallavi M. Gosavi, Hui Si Kwok, Irtiza Iram, Ceejay Lee, Jiaming Li, Nicholas J. Chen, Khanh Nguyen, Hanjie Jiang, Zhipeng A. Wang, Kwangwoon Lee, Haibin Mao, Stefan A. Harry, Idris A. Barakat, Mariko Takahashi, Amanda L. Waterbury, Marco Barone, Andrea Mattevi, Steven A. Carr, Namrata D. Udeshi, Liron Bar-Peled, Philip A. Cole
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Global engineering effects of soil invertebrates on ecosystem functions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Donghao Wu, Enzai Du, Nico Eisenhauer, Jérome Mathieu, Chengjin Chu
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Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Frederik Filip Stæger, Mette K. Andersen, Zilong Li, Jasmin Pernille Hjerresen, Shixu He, Cindy G. Santander, Rasmus Tanderup Jensen, Karsten Fleischer Rex, Anne Cathrine Baun Thuesen, Kristian Hanghøj, Inge Høst Seiding, Emil Jørsboe, Sara Elizabeth Stinson, Malthe Sebro Rasmussen, Renzo F. Balboa, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Peter Bjerregaard, Mikkel Schubert, Jonas Meisner, Allan Linneberg,
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Macrophages protect against sensory axon loss in peripheral neuropathy Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Sara Hakim, Aakanksha Jain, Stuart S. Adamson, Veselina Petrova, Jonathan Indajang, Hyoung Woo Kim, Riki Kawaguchi, Qing Wang, Elif S. Duran, Drew Nelson, Caitlin A. Greene, Jenae Rasmussen, Clifford J. Woolf
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Manipulation of the altermagnetic order in CrSb via crystal symmetry Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Zhiyuan Zhou, Xingkai Cheng, Mengli Hu, Ruiyue Chu, Hua Bai, Lei Han, Junwei Liu, Feng Pan, Cheng Song
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Shielding Pt/γ-Mo2N by inert nano-overlays enables stable H2 production Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Zirui Gao, Aowen Li, Xingwu Liu, Mi Peng, Shixiang Yu, Maolin Wang, Yuzhen Ge, Chengyu Li, Tie Wang, Zhaohua Wang, Wu Zhou, Ding Ma
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Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Paola Peinado, Marco Stazi, Claudio Ballabio, Michael-Bogdan Margineanu, Zhaoqi Li, Caterina I. Colón, Min-Shu Hsieh, Shreoshi Pal Choudhuri, Victor Stastny, Seth Hamilton, Alix Le Marois, Jodie Collingridge, Linus Conrad, Yinxing Chen, Sheng Rong Ng, Margaret Magendantz, Arjun Bhutkar, Jin-Shing Chen, Erik Sahai, Benjamin J. Drapkin, Tyler Jacks, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Maksym V. Kopanitsa, Hugh
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Hydrogen escaping from a pair of exoplanets smaller than Neptune Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 R. O. Parke Loyd, Ethan Schreyer, James E. Owen, James G. Rogers, Madelyn I. Broome, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Ruth Murray-Clay, David J. Wilson, Sarah Peacock, Johanna Teske, Hilke E. Schlichting, Girish M. Duvvuri, Allison Youngblood, P. Christian Schneider, Kevin France, Steven Giacalone, Natasha E. Batalha, Adam C. Schneider, Isabella Longo, Travis Barman, David R. Ardila
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Aqueous-based recycling of perovskite photovoltaics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Xun Xiao, Niansheng Xu, Xueyu Tian, Tiankai Zhang, Bingzheng Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Yeming Xian, Chunyuan Lu, Xiangyu Ou, Yanfa Yan, Licheng Sun, Fengqi You, Feng Gao
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Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Kayla M. Goforth, Catherine M. F. Lohmann, Andrew Gavin, Reyco Henning, Andrew Harvey, Tara L. Hinton, Dana S. Lim, Kenneth J. Lohmann
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MorPhiC Consortium: towards functional characterization of all human genes Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Mazhar Adli, Laralynne Przybyla, Tony Burdett, Paul W. Burridge, Pilar Cacheiro, Howard Y. Chang, Jesse M. Engreitz, Luke A. Gilbert, William J. Greenleaf, Li Hsu, Danwei Huangfu, Ling-Hong Hung, Anshul Kundaje, Sheng Li, Helen Parkinson, Xiaojie Qiu, Paul Robson, Stephan C. Schürer, Ali Shojaie, William C. Skarnes, Damian Smedley, Lorenz Studer, Wei Sun, Dušica Vidović, Thomas Vierbuchen, Brian S
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The neuroimmune connectome in health and disease Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Michael A. Wheeler, Francisco J. Quintana
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Direct experimental constraints on the spatial extent of a neutrino wavepacket Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Joseph Smolsky, Kyle G. Leach, Ryan Abells, Pedro Amaro, Adrien Andoche, Keith Borbridge, Connor Bray, Robin Cantor, David Diercks, Spencer Fretwell, Stephan Friedrich, Abigail Gillespie, Mauro Guerra, Ad Hall, Cameron N. Harris, Jackson T. Harris, Leendert M. Hayen, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, Calvin Hinkle, Geon-Bo Kim, Inwook Kim, Amii Lamm, Annika Lennarz, Vincenzo Lordi, Jorge Machado, Andrew Marino
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Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang Wang, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Min Lin, Zhonghe Zhou
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Stronger and coarser-grained biodegradable zinc alloys Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Chengcheng Wu, Fengxiang Lin, Hong Liu, Matthew H. Pelletier, Max Lloyd, Williams R. Walsh, Jian-Feng Nie
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Converging mechanism of UM171 and KBTBD4 neomorphic cancer mutations Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Xiaowen Xie, Olivia Zhang, Megan J. R. Yeo, Ceejay Lee, Ran Tao, Stefan A. Harry, N. Connor Payne, Eunju Nam, Leena Paul, Yiran Li, Hui Si Kwok, Hanjie Jiang, Haibin Mao, Jennifer L. Hadley, Hong Lin, Melissa Batts, Pallavi M. Gosavi, Vincenzo D’Angiolella, Philip A. Cole, Ralph Mazitschek, Paul A. Northcott, Ning Zheng, Brian B. Liau
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The bulk motion of gas in the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
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Balanced plant helper NLR activation by a modified host protein complex Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Shijia Huang, Junli Wang, Ridan Song, Aolin Jia, Yu Xiao, Yue Sun, Lin Wang, Dennis Mahr, Zhongshou Wu, Zhifu Han, Xin Li, Jane E. Parker, Jijie Chai
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A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Antonio V. Aubry, Romain Durand-de Cuttoli, Elizabeth Karpman, Rachel L. Fisher-Foye, Lyonna F. Parise, Flurin Cathomas, C. Joseph Burnett, Yewon Yang, Chongzhen Yuan, Alexa R. LaBanca, Kenny L. Chan, Kion T. Winston, Hsiao-yun Lin, Farah Dackour, Arman A. Tavallaei, Johana Alvarez, Tadaaki Nishioka, Hirofumi Morishita, Robert C. Froemke, Long Li, Scott J. Russo
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Activation and inhibition mechanisms of a plant helper NLR Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Yinyan Xiao, Xiaoxian Wu, Zaiqing Wang, Kexin Ji, Yang Zhao, Yu Zhang, Li Wan
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Measuring racial educational disparities over time amongst top achievers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Uditi Karna, Min Sok Lee, John A. List, Andrew Simon, Haruka Uchida
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External Li supply reshapes Li deficiency and lifetime limit of batteries Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Shu Chen, Guanbin Wu, Haibo Jiang, Jifeng Wang, Tiantian Chen, Chenyang Han, Wenwen Wang, Rongchen Yang, Jiahua Zhao, Zhihang Tang, Xiaocheng Gong, Chuanfa Li, Mengyao Zhu, Kun Zhang, Yifei Xu, Ying Wang, Zhe Hu, Peining Chen, Bingjie Wang, Kai Zhang, Yongyao Xia, Huisheng Peng, Yue Gao
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Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 R. Alex Wiebe, David S. Wilcove
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Genetic data from Indigenous Greenlanders could help to narrow health-care gap Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Laura Arbour
Population genetics for the Greenlandic Inuit.