Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03724-4 In mice, stress altered the way that the brain packaged memories, resulting in an unnecessary fear response — but drugs were able to reverse the effect. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03736-0 Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03716-4 Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03731-5 Divided loyalties. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03744-0 The female figures, dubbed Helga and Zohar, took a trip round the moon to measure the levels of space radiation outside low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03776-6 We explore efforts to tap the Earth for its heat energy. Plus, trust in scientists is slowly recovering in the United States | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 15 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08382-0 Lunar farside volcanism 2.8 billion years ago from Chang’e-6 basalts | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03723-5 Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now started to rise. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03621-w With technical advances and enthusiasm from policymakers, advocates say the time for next-generation geothermal has come. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08366-0 Engineered receptors for soluble cellular communication and disease sensing | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03748-w A genetic tweak can make big tomatoes much sweeter. Plus, how smartphone signals can help map the upper atmosphere | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03481-4 ChatGPT can do many things, but writing a personal endorsement is not one of them, says Maroun Khoury. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03670-1 Newly analysed fossil came from what could be the biggest-known member of a family of apex avian predators. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03714-6 When it comes to laboratory automation, small and simple is the winning combination. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03672-z The development worries researchers because children are particularly vulnerable to the disease. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08154-w An analysis of the environmental footprints of consumption finds that planetary boundary transgressions can be mitigated by following an effective mitigation pathway focused on the food and services sector … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08163-9 Skull bone marrow expands during adult life, exhibits lifelong vascular growth and increases its haematopoietic potential during ageing. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08187-1 A pangenome analysis of 76 wild and domesticated barley accessions in combination with short-read sequence data of 1,315 barley genotypes indicates that allelic diversity at structurally complex loci may h … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08191-5 Low-latitude planktonic foraminifera are coping with rapid ocean warming, acidification and nutrient shifts by migrating to deeper water-column depths or polewards, displacing higher-latitude species and r … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08029-0 Data from the fossil record, together with computational modelling, are used to assess the response of foraminifera (marine zooplankton) to temperature changes through time and to predict how well they wil … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08177-3 Intrinsic molecular resources are used to implement a two-qubit iSWAP gate using individually trapped X1Σ+ NaCs molecules. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08193-3 Long-term tracking of learned actions in mouse motor cortex shows that learned actions are retained with their context, and learning new tasks creates new memories, which do not overwrite or modify existin … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6 Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in areas wi … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08186-2 A study identifies two genes that act as brakes controlling the sugar content of tomatoes and demonstrates their manipulation to generate sweeter tomatoes without affecting the fruit size and yield. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08171-9 We evaluated the use of chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells targeting GD2 (GD2-CART) for H3K27M+ diffuse midline glioma (DMG), finding that intravenous administration of GD2-CART, followed by intrac … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08183-5 Cryo-electron microscopy and biochemical studies elucidate the read–write mechanisms of non-canonical PRC1-containing RYBP in histone H2A lysine 119 monoubiquitination and their roles in maintaining epigen … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08188-0 Using quantum gas microscopy, Hilbert space fragmentation and fractonic excitations are observed in a two-dimensional tilted Bose–Hubbard model. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08180-8 By examining neural responses from tree shrews performing hierarchical decision tasks with rule reversals, the authors identify a thalamocortical mechanism for regulating cognitive flexibility. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08169-3 FastGlioma is a visual foundation model for fast and accurate detection of glioma infiltration in fresh, unprocessed surgical tissue. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08225-y TMEPro profiles the glycosylated secreted and plasma membrane proteome of 100 human pancreatic tissue samples, defines cell type origins and identifies potential paracrine cross-talk mediated through tyros … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08342-8 Photochemical permutation of thiazoles, isothiazoles and other azoles | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08205-2 Fossil tooth development suggests an extended human growth phase occurred at least 1.77 million years ago, possibly reflecting a shift towards extended parenting and reproductive success, rather than incre … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08207-0 In mouse and nonhuman primate models, treatment with selective, long-acting neurokinin 2 receptor agonists aids weight loss by suppressing appetite and increasing energy expenditure, as well as by increasi … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03679-6 Artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT might soon become fully autonomous by learning to perceive and interact with their environment. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03608-7 Female researchers and those from outside the European Union are paying a particularly heavy price to live in Dublin. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03676-9 Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03685-8 A question of perspective. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03549-1 An ambitious analysis of data has revealed the effects of the 2019–20 Australian megafires on biodiversity. It turns out that the outcome is more nuanced than just the anticipated picture of a massive loss … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03697-4 Microbial growth at depths of 200–500 metres has been found to be limited by iron, a key micronutrient. To meet their iron requirement, bacteria inhabiting the twilight zone manufacture siderophores — mole … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03546-4 Wearable robots that assist leg movements could transform the lives of people with reduced mobility — but only if the devices can adapt in real time to support a vast range of human activities. Machine lea … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03694-7 Key aspects of early bird evolution have been difficult to resolve, owing to a lack of suitably preserved fossilized remains. A fossilized skull of a bird that lived during the age of the dinosaurs helps t … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03548-2 The discovery of a pathway that controls appetite and calorie burning has led to the development of a drug that modulates both by targeting one receptor, offering a promising strategy for weight loss and i … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03302-8 A genetic regulator of tomato sweetness has been identified through comparison of wild and domesticated varieties of the plant. Genetically engineering tomatoes to alter this gene increases sugar content w … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03691-w The enzyme cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) and its partner cyclin B1 were thought to be sufficient to achieve error-free cell division. But now CDK5, an atypical cyclin-dependent kinase mostly known for i … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03663-0 Whether rising carbon dioxide concentrations affect terrestrial species diversity around the globe is, surprisingly, almost unstudied. A 24-year field experiment shows that adding nitrogen to grassland plo … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03545-5 Phone users around the world are enabling the creation of a space-weather monitor that will deepen our understanding of the physics governing Earth’s ionized upper atmosphere and improve the accuracy of sa … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03700-y Bacteria living inside other cells can form stable, mutually beneficial partnerships with their hosts, but it is rare that two organisms are sufficiently compatible on their first encounter. Injecting bact … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03547-3 Human children pair fast growth of a large brain with slow body growth. Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain size compa … | Continue reading