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I scale these vast trees to gather data on the effects of climate change Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23
Rebecca Hsu works as a forest ecologist for the Taiwan Forestry Institute in Taipei.
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Promises and challenges of crop translational genomics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Martin Mascher, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Hyeonah Shim, Nils Stein
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‘Substandard and unworthy’: why it’s time to banish bad-mannered reviews Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23
The publisher of Physics World and other journals is marking Peer Review Week 2024 by calling for more courtesy in the process.
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Oldest and coldest: JWST claims a first for exoplanet imaging Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Isabel Rebollido Vázquez
Direct observations of exoplanet ε Indi Ab.
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Can AI feel distress? Inside a new framework to assess sentience Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23
From artificial-intelligence algorithms to zebrafish, this book take a precautionary approach to assessing how sentient such entities are.
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In Asia, alternative proteins are the new clean energy Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Ryan Huling, Doris Lee, Wasamon Nutakul, Samuel Goh
As climate and food-security pressures intensify, the world’s most populous continent sees clear opportunities to reimagine meat — just as it did for affordable solar panels.
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Einstein in Oxford: the untold story of an unlikely friendship Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23
Albert Einstein’s sojourns in the English city, as Nazism rose in Germany, were built on the back of a connection with a now largely forgotten don.
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Daily briefing: CERN to eject Russian scientists Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
CERN will eject Russian scientists at the end of November, but keep a foot in the door with Moscow. Plus, how ‘deintensifying’ cancer treatment could help people and the planet.
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Scientists are building a giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-21
Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science.
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Harassed? Intimidated? Guidebook offers help to scientists under attack Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
Scholars provide tactics for responding to threats and abuse, but emphasize that institutions must defend their researchers.
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Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more.
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Thalidomide-like drug staunches bleeding from genetic disease Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Severe nosebleeds caused by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia dwinded in people who took a drug used to treat cancer.
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Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Thomas L. Griffiths, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Erin Grant, R. Thomas McCoy
The success of methods based on artificial neural networks in creating intelligent machines seems like it might pose a challenge to explanations of human cognition in terms of Bayesian inference. We argue that this is not the case and that these systems in fact offer new opportunities for Bayesian modeling. Specifically, we argue that artificial neural networks and Bayesian models of cognition lie
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How men react to women’s presence: A review and an agenda to expand team gender diversity research Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Corinne Post, Jamie L. Gloor, Kris Byron
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COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
The finding comes from a reanalysis of genomic data.
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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
The concepts were judged by reviewers and were not told who or what had created them.
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Daily briefing: Thick, sticky ‘brain goo’ might drive obesity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
‘Brain goo’ that stops neurons processing insulin signals might drive obesity. Plus, China has almost reached peak greenhouse-gas emissions — what does that mean for climate change?
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Is bird flu spreading among people? Data gaps leave researchers in the dark Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission.
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Rules of river avulsion change downstream Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 James H. Gearon, Harrison K. Martin, Clarke DeLisle, Eric A. Barefoot, David Mohrig, Chris Paola, Douglas A. Edmonds
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Author Correction: Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern. Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Masahiro Watanabe,Sarah M Kang,Matthew Collins,Yen-Ting Hwang,Shayne McGregor,Malte F Stuecker
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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
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 September 2024
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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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Targeting cancer with small-molecule pan-KRAS degraders Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Johannes Popow, William Farnaby, Andreas Gollner, Christiane Kofink, Gerhard Fischer, Melanie Wurm, David Zollman, Andre Wijaya, Nikolai Mischerikow, Carina Hasenoehrl, Polina Prokofeva, Heribert Arnhof, Silvia Arce-Solano, Sammy Bell, Georg Boeck, Emelyne Diers, Aileen B. Frost, Jake Goodwin-Tindall, Jale Karolyi-Oezguer, Shakil Khan, Theresa Klawatsch, Manfred Koegl, Roland Kousek, Barbara Kratochvil
Mutations in the Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) protein are highly prevalent in cancer. However, small-molecule concepts that address oncogenic KRAS alleles remain elusive beyond replacing glycine at position 12 with cysteine (G12C), which is clinically drugged through covalent inhibitors. Guided by biophysical and structural studies of ternary complexes, we designed a heterobifunctional
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Psychedelic research at a crossroads Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Stacey B. Armstrong, Alan K. Davis
There is an urgent need to develop better treatments for mental health conditions that affect one in every eight people in the world. To combat this concern, psychedelic drugs have been combined with psychotherapy and studied in clinical trials in the United States and Europe. Psychedelics are hallucinogenic drugs that alter brain activity and facilitate altered states of consciousness. The proposed
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Ice skater Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Robin George Andrews
Beneath Europa’s icy crust is a salty ocean, perhaps the best place in the Solar System to look for life. A NASA spacecraft will soon set off to probe the jovian moon
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Radical-mediated click-clip reactions Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jiantao Zhao, Huacheng Yu, Xingchen Jin, Bo Qin, Shan Mei, Jiang-Fei Xu, Xi Zhang
Click reactions, which are characterized by rapid, high-yielding, and highly selective coupling of two reaction partners, are powerful tools in synthesis but are rarely reversible. Innovative strategies that reverse such couplings in a precise and on-demand manner, enabling a click-clip sequence, would greatly expand the technique’s versatility. Herein, a click and clip reaction pair is demonstrated