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Transylvanian diaries reveal centuries-old climate extremes Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.
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Dozens of new obesity drugs are coming: these are the ones to watch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with fewer side effects.
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Why is mathematics education failing some of the world’s most talented children? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-12
A study shines a light on the remarkable arithmetic skills that young people acquire outside formal schooling. Education must evolve to enable them to fulfil their potential.
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Author Correction: High fatigue resistance in a titanium alloy via near-void-free 3D printing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Zhan Qu, Zhenjun Zhang, Rui Liu, Ling Xu, Yining Zhang, Xiaotao Li, Zhenkai Zhao, Qiqiang Duan, Shaogang Wang, Shujun Li, Yingjie Ma, Xiaohong Shao, Rui Yang, Jürgen Eckert, Robert O. Ritchie, Zhefeng Zhang
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07048-1 Published online 28 February 2024
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‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Researchers create precise 3D patterns with water.
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Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.
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Daily briefing: ‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants blocked by legal challenge Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Earth’s inner core is changing shape. Plus, a judge has blocked ‘devastating’ cuts to NIH grants in the United States.
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Outdated rules on expenses prevent academics from travelling more sustainably Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Close the biodiversity funding gap by teaching conservation to financial professionals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Nature markets are nothing new — they are widespread, regulated and instructive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
The biochemist introduced the first heel-prick tests for newborn babies in Spain, protecting infants from life-changing metabolic conditions.
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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
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‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
A range of initiatives, from financial-support schemes to awareness campaigns, is already changing the university’s environment.
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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Keisuke Goda, Tatsushi Igaki, Bernd Kuhn, Noboru Mizushima, Takeharu Nagai, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Noriko Osumi, Amy Q. Shen, Masahiro Sonoshita, Masashi Yanagisawa
The nation must lose its tight focus on individual disciplines if it is to keep pace with the evolving requirements of scientific enquiry.
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Earth’s mysterious inner core really is changing shape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Earthquakes ringing through the planet illuminate how its heart is transforming.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Holly Smith
Cracks in Greenland's glaciers deepened by climate change.
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A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s — these genes might explain his escape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Scientists identify nine genetic variants that could have helped a man to avoid dementia for at least two decades longer than expected.
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Daily briefing: How did childhood evolve? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
An AI system is crushing it at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Plus, what an iconic fossil teaches us about the evolution of childhood.
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‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
The ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency.
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Author Correction: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo, David F. Savage
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08455-0 Published online 22 January 2025
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Pathways to Crime and Antisocial Behavior: A Critical Analysis of Psychological Research and a Call for Broader Ecological Perspectives Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Edelyn Verona, Bryanna Fox
The United States has one of the highest rates of correctional supervision among all nations in the world, reflecting the disproportionate incarceration of racial minorities and economically disadvantaged groups. Scholars have emphasized the role of structural factors and governmental policies in long-term shifts in crime and incarceration. However, much of the psychological research on crime and antisocial
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Movement Toward Dimensional Symptom Models of Comorbid Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder and Eating Disorders Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Cheri A. Levinson, Avantika Kapadia, Luis E. Sandoval-Araujo, Irina A. Vanzhula, Karyne Machry
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders (EDs) are highly comorbid. Despite the high comorbidity, there is little understanding of why these disorders coexist and even less research on how to best treat this co-occurrence. In this article, we review the literature on comorbid OCD-ED and discuss potential underlying shared mechanisms, including anxiety/avoidance, perfectionism, intolerance
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Youth with Behavioral Health Symptoms in the Juvenile Legal System: From Assessment of Needs to Interventions to Scalability Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Kathleen Kemp, Kaitlin Sheerin, Casey Pederson, Miyah Grant, Crosby Modrowski, Anthony Spirito
This article provides an overview of the current state of assessment and clinical intervention approaches for youth with juvenile legal system (JLS) involvement. The review includes (a) a brief overview of characteristics of youth with JLS involvement; (b) current screening and assessment frameworks within the JLS that identify treatment needs; (c) an overview of effective clinical interventions for
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I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
When Ho Thi Thanh Van isn’t creating materials for fuel cells, she is cultivating traditional medicines.
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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
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How to end outrage and detoxify politics: share stories, not statistics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
A book on human morality claims that although liberals and conservatives prioritize different victims, mutual understanding is still possible.
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How and why my company pivoted from energy to agritechnology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Lambda Agri chief executive Monica Saavedra describes funding strategies and the circumstances leading to the company changing strategic direction.
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Daily briefing: People in dense crowds move in swirls Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
People begin to move in vortices in densely packed crowds. Plus, the scientists who kept research alive in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas conflict.
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Daily briefing: How mantis shrimps survive landing the world’s fastest punch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
What’s behind the mantis shrimp’s powerful punch? Plus, six ways to cultivate allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia.
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Teacher-student relationships and student outcomes: A systematic second-order meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Valentin Emslander,Doris Holzberger,Sverre Berg Ofstad,Antoine Fischbach,Ronny Scherer
Teacher-student relationships (TSRs) play a vital role in establishing a positive classroom climate and promoting positive student outcomes. Several meta-analyses have suggested significant correlations between positive TSRs and, for example, academic achievement, motivation, executive functions, and well-being, as well as between negative TSRs that result in behavior problems or bullying. These meta-analyses
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A peculiarity in psychological measurement practices. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Mark White
This essay discusses a peculiarity in institutionalized psychological measurement practices. Namely, an inherent contradiction between guidelines for how scales/tests are developed and how those scales/tests are typically analyzed. Best practices for developing scales/tests emphasize developing individual items or subsets of items to capture unique aspects of constructs, such that the full construct
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Reassessing the fitting propensity of factor models. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Wes Bonifay,Li Cai,Carl F Falk,Kristopher J Preacher
Model complexity is a critical consideration when evaluating a statistical model. To quantify complexity, one can examine fitting propensity (FP), or the ability of the model to fit well to diverse patterns of data. The scant foundational research on FP has focused primarily on proof of concept rather than practical application. To address this oversight, the present work joins a recently published
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The relationship between the phi coefficient and the unidimensionality index H: Improving psychological scaling from the ground up. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Johannes Titz
To study the dimensional structure of psychological phenomena, a precise definition of unidimensionality is essential. Most definitions of unidimensionality rely on factor analysis. However, the reliability of factor analysis depends on the input data, which primarily consists of Pearson correlations. A significant issue with Pearson correlations is that they are almost guaranteed to underestimate
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Reliability in unidimensional ordinal data: A comparison of continuous and ordinal estimators. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Eunseong Cho,Sébastien Béland
This study challenges three common methodological beliefs and practices. The first question examines whether ordinal reliability estimators are more accurate than continuous estimators for unidimensional data with uncorrelated errors. Continuous estimators (e.g., coefficient alpha) can be applied to both continuous and ordinal data, while ordinal estimators (e.g., ordinal alpha and categorical omega)
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Missing not at random intensive longitudinal data with dynamic structural equation models. Psychological Methods (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Daniel McNeish
Intensive longitudinal designs are increasingly popular for assessing moment-to-moment changes in mood, affect, and interpersonal or health behavior. Compliance in these studies is never perfect given the high frequency of data collection, so missing data are unavoidable. Nonetheless, there is relatively little existing research on missing data within dynamic structural equation models, a recently
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Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing. Psychological Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Léo Fitouchi,Manvir Singh,Jean-Baptiste André,Nicolas Baumard
Why do humans believe in moralizing gods? Leading accounts argue that these beliefs evolved because they help societies grow and promote group cooperation. Yet recent evidence suggests that beliefs in moralizing gods are not limited to large societies and might not have strong effects on cooperation. Here, we propose that beliefs in moralizing gods develop because individuals shape supernatural beliefs
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“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.
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Have Trump’s anti-DEI orders hit private funders? HHMI halts inclusive science programme Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost diversity in science education.
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DeepMind AI crushes tough maths problems on par with top human solvers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The company’s AlphaGeometry2 reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Poetry on Mars and robots on Earth: Books in brief Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Bonobos know when you’re in the know ― and when you’re not Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The apes can tailor their communications to account for a human partner’s level of knowledge.
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From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
In episode 2 of 'What's in a name' we look at the how names can help scientists communicate with the public.
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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
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How my research focus exposed me to threats and harassment Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Researchers who investigate highly-politicized topics can face harassment, others for their race, gender identity or disability. Two scientists share their stories.
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Granzyme K activates the entire complement cascade Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Carlos A. Donado, Erin Theisen, Fan Zhang, Aparna Nathan, Madison L. Fairfield, Karishma Vijay Rupani, Dominique Jones, Kellsey P. Johannes, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Daniel F. Dwyer, A. Helena Jonsson, Michael B. Brenner
Granzymes are a family of serine proteases mainly expressed by CD8+ T cells, natural killer cells, and innate-like lymphocytes1. Although their primary function is thought to be the induction of cell death in virally infected and tumor cells, accumulating evidence indicates certain granzymes can elicit inflammation by acting on extracellular substrates1. Recently, we found that the majority of tissue
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Mantis shrimp have the world’s fastest punch — here’s how their limbs survive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new materials.
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Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
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How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
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Daily briefing: Genetically modified pig-organ transplant trial gets green light Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The first pig-organ transplant trial in humans has been approved. Plus, the internet doesn't affect our memories, but AI might.
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How the brain suppresses fear: mouse study offers path to anxiety treatments Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.
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OpenAI’s ‘deep research’ tool: is it useful for scientists? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The model produces cited, pages-long reports that might be helpful for generating literature reviews.
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Engineered nose bacteria sneak drugs into the brain Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.
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‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.
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The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Drug companies are trialling a host of medications that they hope will offer benefits beyond weight loss.
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants. Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Hongbo Liu,Amin Abedini,Eunji Ha,Ziyuan Ma,Xin Sheng,Bernhard Dumoulin,Chengxiang Qiu,Tamas Aranyi,Shen Li,Nicole Dittrich,Hua-Chang Chen,Ran Tao,Der-Cherng Tarng,Feng-Jen Hsieh,Shih-Ann Chen,Shun-Fa Yang,Mei-Yueh Lee,Pui-Yan Kwok,Jer-Yuarn Wu,Chien-Hsiun Chen,Atlas Khan,Nita A Limdi,Wei-Qi Wei,Theresa L Walunas,Elizabeth W Karlson,Eimear E Kenny,Yuan Luo,Leah Kottyan,John J Connolly,Gail P Jarvik
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and identified 1026 (97 previously unknown) independent loci. Ancestry-specific analysis indicated an attenuation of newly identified signals on common variants in European ancestry populations and the power
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Analysis of Intensive Longitudinal Data: Putting Psychological Processes in Perspective Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. (IF 17.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 E.L. Hamaker
Research based on intensive longitudinal data (ILD)—consisting of many repeated measures from one or multiple individuals—is rapidly gaining popularity in psychological science. To appreciate the unique potential of ILD research for clinical psychology, this review begins by examining how our three traditional research approaches fall short when the goal is to investigate processes. It then explores
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The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-04
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.