Where in the world is there potential for tropical-forest regeneration?

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03920-2 To restore tropical forests at scale requires cost-effective methods. An estimated 215 million hectares — an area larger than that of Mexico — have potential for natural forest regeneration, which could le … | Continue reading


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Long orbit

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03884-3 A change of course. | Continue reading


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This giant coral is the biggest ever found — November’s best science images

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03877-2 The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. | Continue reading


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Do you drink coffee? Ask your gut

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03866-5 Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria. | Continue reading


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Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03811-6 Researchers hope protein-design competitions will help highlight promising molecules, but there are hurdles to overcome. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Intravenous and intracranial GD2-CAR T cells for H3K27M+ diffuse midline gliomas

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08452-3 Author Correction: Intravenous and intracranial GD2-CAR T cells for H3K27M+ diffuse midline gliomas | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08235-w Author Correction: Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions | Continue reading


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Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08433-6 XXX. | Continue reading


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Durable all inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08432-7 Durable all inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics | Continue reading


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These two ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03907-z Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species coexisted. | Continue reading


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‘That’s funny’: creative solutions for time-starved researchers

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03426-x An immunologist and his illustrator friend reveal tips and tricks to help scientists to reach peak performance and creativity. | Continue reading


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Raising a glass to the Four Friends Doing Science journal club

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03534-8 Four researchers who left Serbia to pursue their careers rely on this group to keep in touch and to navigate life in science. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: Fossilized poo and vomit show how dinosaurs rose to dominance

Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03928-8 What dinosaurs ate reveals how they adapted climate change-induced shifts in vegetation. Plus, antimatter goes on the road and India’s solar-observation mission tracks fireball from the sun. | Continue reading


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Fossilized faeces helps explain dinosaurs’ rise to dominance

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03901-5 Hundreds of pieces of fossilized faeces and vomit show how dinosaurs became Earth’s dominant land animals — plus, the search for a commensal fungus that’s made mouse guts its home. | Continue reading


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Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03835-y Neuronal population activity in the anterior temporal lobe of the human brain organizes into bursts of spiking in response to visual images. The specific sequence of neuronal firing in these bursts encodes … | Continue reading


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Limits on foreign students are harming research, universities warn

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03807-2 The UK, Canadian and Australian governments have introduced immigration restrictions for students. | Continue reading


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Quantum scars make their mark in graphene

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03649-y By patterning an ultrathin layered structure with tiny wells, physicists have created and imaged peculiar states known as quantum scars — revealing behaviour that could be used to boost the performance of … | Continue reading


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Australia must boost R&D investment to reclaim global research standing

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03637-2 Australia’s fall to 12th in the Nature Index highlights the urgent need for greater R&D investment and policies that support university research and the international talent pipeline. | Continue reading


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Fossilized poo and vomit show how dinosaurs rose to rule Earth

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03889-y Analysis of 200-million-year-old digested foods reveals how the animals became dominant. | Continue reading


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A guide to the Nature Index

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03641-6 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. | Continue reading


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How to stop plastic pollution: three strategies that actually work

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03860-x Countries are meeting to agree the first ever global treaty on curbing plastic pollution. Research suggests where bans and incentives can make a difference. | Continue reading


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The birth of Bronze Age pastoralism where Europe meets Asia

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03832-1 At the interface between Asia and Europe, the Caucasus region was a melting pot during the Bronze Age and the origin of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies. Ancient-DNA analyses reveal how Neolithic … | Continue reading


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Design tips for reproducible studies linking the brain to behaviour

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03650-5 Brain-wide association studies, which aim to link features of the brain to a person’s characteristics, have a replicability problem. Besides increasing sample size, what else can be done to make these stud … | Continue reading


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Top performers hold steady in Australia’s declining research landscape

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03639-0 A handful of leading universities are key to Australia’s success in science, which took a major dive in 2022. | Continue reading


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How to thank your lab mates: eight ways to show gratitude at the end of year

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03829-w Alongside secret Santas and seasonal parties, many laboratories develop traditions to show appreciation to colleagues — from sweets and mulled wine to quizzes and ice-skating trips. | Continue reading


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Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08213-2 Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes. | Continue reading


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Pan-genome bridges wheat structural variations with habitat and breeding

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08277-0 The pan-genome of 17 wheat cultivars grown in China is explored, providing insights into the breeding history of wheat in East Asia. | Continue reading


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Stereochemistry in the disorder–order continuum of protein interactions

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08271-6 Studies on protein–protein interactions using proteins containing d- or l-amino acids show that stereoselectivity of binding varies with the degree of disorder within the complex. | Continue reading


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Cancer cells impair monocyte-mediated T cell stimulation to evade immunity

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08257-4 Inflammatory monocytes are identified as important players in T cell restimulation in the tumour microenvironment. | Continue reading


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Organ-specific sympathetic innervation defines visceral functions

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08269-0 Multi-modal transcriptomic analyses of the sympathetic nervous system reveal organ-specific neural innervation and modular regulation of visceral functions. | Continue reading


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Interleukin-15-armoured GPC3 CAR T cells for patients with solid cancers

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08261-8 We evaluate the effects in humans of interleukin-15 co-expression on glypican-3 (GPC3) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells and demonstrate that IL-15 increases the expansion, intratumoural survival and … | Continue reading


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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08141-1 A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corporate ac … | Continue reading


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Early versus deferred use of CDK4/6 inhibitors in advanced breast cancer

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08035-2 The phase 3 SONIA trial challenges the benefits of using cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 inhibitors as a first-line compared with second-line treatment. | Continue reading


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Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftment

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08242-x Strain richness of gut microbiota ecosystems is a key characteristic underpinning engraftment in faecal microbiota transplantation, and could improve the design of defined live biotherapeutic products with … | Continue reading


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Direct visualization of relativistic quantum scars in graphene quantum dots

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08190-6 Using a graphene quantum dot creation and a wavefunction mapping technique, quantum scars are directly visualized for Dirac electrons with a scanning tunnelling microscope. | Continue reading


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MCM double hexamer loading visualized with human proteins

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08263-6 Biochemical and structural studies of the human MCM replicative DNA helicase complex show differences from the yeast complex and provide insights into mechanisms of double hexamer assembly on sequence-inde … | Continue reading


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Multiple mechanisms for licensing human replication origins

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08237-8 Biochemical and structural studies of the loading pathway of the human MCM2–7 replicative helicase motor reveal differences from the orthologous yeast system that may increase resilience against challenges … | Continue reading


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Study design features increase replicability in brain-wide association studies

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08260-9 Optimizing study design is critical for increasing standardized effect sizes and replicability, and the features that increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association studi … | Continue reading


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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08185-3 Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes from dif … | Continue reading


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Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08265-4 Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns. | Continue reading


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Why build a muon collider: a three minute guide

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03883-4 Colliding muons could lead to new discoveries – and for a fraction of the cost of facilities like the Large Hadron Collider | Continue reading


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Humble scientists earn more trust

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03858-5 Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible. | Continue reading


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Addendum: Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08416-7 Addendum: Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3 | Continue reading


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I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I work on ways to help the country’s soil heal

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03567-z Sustainable-development researcher Olena Melnyk talks about moving her life and research career from Ukraine to Switzerland. | Continue reading


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Forty years of crazy crystals

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal — a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can … | Continue reading


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Is COP29 climate deal a historic breakthrough or let-down? Researchers react

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03875-4 Rich countries will ‘take the lead’ in finding US$300 billion annually in climate finance to poor countries. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Enhanced silica export in a future ocean triggers global diatom decline

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08425-6 Author Correction: Enhanced silica export in a future ocean triggers global diatom decline | Continue reading


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Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin

Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08412-x Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin | Continue reading


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