Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan

The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others. | Continue reading


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Quark Deconfinement as Supernova Explosion Engine for Blue Supergiant Stars

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Programming molecular topologies from single-stranded nucleic acids

Designing nucleic acid-based nanostructures with knots remains challenging. Here the authors present a general strategy to design and construct highly knotted 2D and 3D nanostructures from single-stranded DNA or RNA | Continue reading


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US Supreme Court allows historic kids' climate lawsuit to go forward

Case aims to compel the government to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. | Continue reading


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Nature Index Launches First Global Science City Ranking: Beijing Number One

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M6A facilitates hippocampus-dependent learning and memory through YTHDF1

Neuronal stimulation induces protein translation of m6A-methylated neuronal mRNAs facilitated by YTHDF1, and this process contributes to learning and memory. | Continue reading


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Evidence of ancient Milky Way merger

The Milky Way’s thick stellar disk formed from a galactic collision. | Continue reading


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Machine learning spots natural selection at work in human genome

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to identify genetic sequences molded by evolutionary pressures. | Continue reading


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The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits

Researchers look to scanners with 10.5-tesla magnets and beyond for unprecedented detail about the brain. | Continue reading


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A semi-synthetic organism that stores, retrieves increased genetic information

A modified Escherichia coli is used to demonstrate that semi-synthetic organisms can use non-natural hydrophobic base pairs to genetically encode for the incorporation of non-canonical amino acids into proteins. | Continue reading


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Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C

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Protect the last of the wild

Global conservation policy must stop the disappearance of Earth’s few intact ecosystems, warn James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan and colleagues. | Continue reading


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Targeted neurotechnology restores walking in humans with spinal cord injury

Spatially selective and temporally controlled stimulation of the spinal cord, together with rehabilitation, results in substantial restoration of locomotor function in humans with spinal cord injury. | Continue reading


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Snake velvet black: Hierarchical micro and nanostructure enhance dark coloration

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Multifunctional sequence-defined macromolecules for chemical data storage

Sequence-defined macromolecules consist of a defined chain length and topology and can be used in applications such as antibiotics and data storage. Here the authors developed two algorithms to encode text fragments and QR codes as a collection of oligomers and to reconstruct the … | Continue reading


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Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance. | Continue reading


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Persistent polar ocean warming in a strategically geoengineered climate

Changes in the water cycle arising from a strategic geoengineering approach alter the ocean circulation and structure, according to an ensemble of simulations with an Earth System Model. | Continue reading


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The Moral Machine experimemnt

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Chemists thrilled by speedy atomic structures

Cross-disciplinary thinking was key to realizing the potential of an existing technique to resolving structure of tiny organic molecules. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 6 years ago

Europe shows first cards in €1B quantum bet

One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products. | Continue reading


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Spread of Invasive Alien Species, the Harlequin Ladybird in Britain and Ireland

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A snapshot of salaries and career paths in the scientific sector

Nature’s survey offers a snapshot of salaries and career paths in the scientific sector. | Continue reading


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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal

Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. | Continue reading


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The human gut microbiome in early-onset type 1 diabetes from the TEDDY study

An analysis of more than 10,000 metagenomes from the TEDDY study provides a detailed functional profile of the gut microbiome in relation to islet autoimmunity, and supports the protective effects of short-chain fatty acids in early-onset type 1 diabetes. | Continue reading


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Rare genetic sequences illuminate early humans' history in Africa

Little-studied ethnic groups on the continent are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived there tens of thousands of years ago. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 6 years ago

The top 100 papers (2014)

Nature explores the most-cited research of all time. | Continue reading


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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal

Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. | Continue reading


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Ultra-broadband on-chip twisted light emitter for optical communications

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The Moral Machine experiment

Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations. | Continue reading


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First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

Logging hypotheses and protocols before performing research seems to work as intended: to reduce publication bias for positive results. | Continue reading


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How to build a Moon base

Researchers are ramping up plans for living on the Moon. | Continue reading


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All psychiatric disorders are significantly heritable

This Review considers recent findings — from genome-wide association studies, structural variant studies and exome sequencing — about the genetics of nine psychiatric disorders. The authors evaluate the implications of our current picture of the genetic architectures of these con … | Continue reading


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No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research

Projects that recruit the public are getting more ambitious and diverse, but the field faces some growing pains. | Continue reading


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Exploiting deep learning and volunteered geographic info for mapping buildings

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Ben Barres: neuroscience pioneer, gender champion

Marc Freeman lauds the transgender neurobiologist's posthumously published memoir. | Continue reading


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O2 solubility in Martian near-surface environments:implications for aerobic life

Despite little O2 in the Martian atmosphere, concentrations of dissolved O2 in near-surface brines on Mars may be sufficient to support aerobic life, according to solubility calculations. | Continue reading


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The genetics of university success

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Space-borne Bose–Einstein condensation for precision interferometry

A Bose–Einstein condensate is created in space that has sufficient stability to enable its characteristic dynamics to be studied. | Continue reading


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Genes unleashed: how the Victorians engineered our dogs

Meg Olmert weighs up a tale of artificial selection, class, entertainment and more than 200 breeds. | Continue reading


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Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat

The vulnerability of barley production and beer supply to future weather extremes remains unknown. A study using modelling finds that weather extremes associated with climate change would threaten the availability and economic accessibility of beer. | Continue reading


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Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature

The seeds contain a lot of open space, which seems to be the key to sustaining flight. | Continue reading


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Spatial trends in United States tornado frequency

While the number of tornadoes has remained fairly static in the United States over the past 40 years, strong geographic contrasts are apparent. Tornadoes have the potential to cause severe damage, yet understanding their changes in time—particularly the impact of anthropogenic wa … | Continue reading


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Twenty-five years of using microlensing to study dark matter

The impact of gravitational-microlensing observations from 1993. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 6 years ago

What legal weed in Canada means for science

Opportunities abound to improve the cultivation of a once-forbidden plant. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 6 years ago

Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold

Sarah Robey examines two books that together trace the birth and evolution of the nuclear age. | Continue reading


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Rotten meat and bottled formaldehyde: fighting for food safety

Felicity Lawrence extols two chronicles on the ongoing battle to regulate the US food industry. | Continue reading


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Number crunching

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Security and eavesdropping in terahertz wireless links

Contrary to current expectation, eavesdropping on terahertz wireless data links is shown to be easier than expected, by placing an object in the path of the signal that scatters part of it to a receiver located elsewhere. | Continue reading


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