Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07911-1 The impact of structural variation on the evolution of the amylase genes is explored using human pangenome resources and ancient DNA data. | Continue reading


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A climate threshold for ocean deoxygenation during the Early Cretaceous

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07876-1 Rapid ocean deoxygenation during the Early Cretaceous OAE1a is shown to provide evidence for a strong link between volcanic CO2 emissions, weathering and ocean oxygen content that is characterized by a cl … | Continue reading


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A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07758-6 A global macroplastic pollution emissions inventory and methodology is developed using machine learning and probabilistic material flow analysis, to identify hotspots across more than 50,000 municipalitie … | Continue reading


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Frontostriatal salience network expansion in individuals in depression

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07805-2 Precision functional mapping shows that the frontostriatal salience network occupies nearly twice as much of the cortex in people with depression, and this was unaffected by mood changes and detected in c … | Continue reading


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A γδ T cell–IL-3 axis controls allergic responses through sensory neurons

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07869-0 A γδ T cell–IL-3 signalling axis is defined that controls the allergen responsiveness of cutaneous sensory neurons, leading to evidence for an immune rheostat that governs sensory neuronal responses to al … | Continue reading


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Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02859-8 Physicists make breakthrough towards building a clock based on atomic nuclei — plus how engineered T cells could improve spinal injury outcomes. | Continue reading


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Early intermittent hyperlipidaemia alters tissue macrophages to fuel atherosclerosis

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07993-x Early intermittent hyperlipidaemia alters tissue macrophages to fuel atherosclerosis | Continue reading


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Spectacular stars over Stonehenge and more — August’s best science images

Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02781-z The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. | Continue reading


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Holistic approach to carbon capture bridges the ‘Valley of Death’

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02819-2 Carbon-capture technology often founders at the point when basic research is translated into practical applications. A computational modelling platform called PrISMa solves this problem by considering the … | Continue reading


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To tackle social-media harms, mandate data access for researchers

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02853-0 To tackle social-media harms, mandate data access for researchers | Continue reading


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Don’t dismiss the Montreal ozone-depletion protocol as a ‘zombie’

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02852-1 Don’t dismiss the Montreal ozone-depletion protocol as a ‘zombie’ | Continue reading


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To conserve biodiversity, create spaces where natural selection is allowed free rein

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02854-z To conserve biodiversity, create spaces where natural selection is allowed free rein | Continue reading


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International whaling convention needs boosting, not dismantling

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02851-2 International whaling convention needs boosting, not dismantling | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: Heat might make bumblebees lose their sense of smell

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02878-5 Heat waves could threaten bees’ ability to feed and pollinate. Plus, ways to tackle the cost of open-access publishing fees and the search for an HIV vaccine — and a cure. | Continue reading


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The biology of smell is a mystery — AI is helping to solve it

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02833-4 Scientists are beginning to crack the fiendishly complex code that helps us to sense odours. | Continue reading


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How a bacterial immune system gets taken apart

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02816-5 Investigating small protein inhibitors of CRISPR–Cas — an adaptive immune system in bacteria — has led to the discovery of a mechanism for inhibiting a large macromolecular complex. AcrIF25, an anti-CRISP … | Continue reading


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Brunch with a carnivorous plant

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02668-z A meaty menu for a peckish perennial, and a fairground-style festival of physics, in this week’s snippets from Nature’s archive. | Continue reading


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African scientists must not be priced out of mental-health research

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02831-6 Under-representation of African populations in mental-health studies perpetuates inequities — change is needed. | Continue reading


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How rival weight-loss drugs fare at treating obesity, diabetes and more

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02716-8 Wegovy, Zepbound and similar medications all lead to metabolic improvements, but scientists are starting to unpick the differences between them. | Continue reading


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Skull bones harbour immune cells that are poised to target brain tumours

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02789-5 The human brain is usually considered to be beyond the reach of most immune cells. However, analysis of people who have brain tumours has revealed tumour-targeting T cells of the immune system in skull bo … | Continue reading


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An ethical way forward for Indigenous microbiome research

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02792-w Science has a history of exploitation and extraction. Microbiologists have the chance to take a different approach. | Continue reading


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Why I love drilling in the mountains early in the morning

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02836-1 Scientific technician and meteorologist Bernd Seiser samples ice cores to track changes in the climate of Europe’s mountains. | Continue reading


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Publisher Correction: Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07940-w Publisher Correction: Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks | Continue reading


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Why repairing forests is not just about planting trees

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02834-3 An exploration of deforestation and restoration shows that woods are much more than trees. They depend on — and provide for — people, animals and microbes. | Continue reading


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How can I publish open access when I can’t afford the fees?

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02849-w To avoid the restrictions of paywalls, researchers must often pay an article-processing fee. Nature explores ways to offset the cost. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Isolation of a methyl-reducing methanogen outside the Euryarchaeota

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08000-z Author Correction: Isolation of a methyl-reducing methanogen outside the Euryarchaeota | Continue reading


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HIV: how close are we to a vaccine — or a cure?

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02840-5 Stem-cell transplants have freed seven people of the virus, but researchers say most long-term interventions remain a distant prospect. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: What causes obesity? Contentious topic gets an authoritative analysis

Nature, Published online: 02 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02867-8 Leading experts — who sometimes disagree heartily — come together to focus on obesity. Plus, SpaceX rocket explosions shredded the upper atmosphere, and how researchers are racing to save fossils exposed … | Continue reading


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Researchers built an ‘AI Scientist’ — what can it do?

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02842-3 The large language model does everything from reading the literature to writing and reviewing its own papers, but it has a limited range of applicability so far. | Continue reading


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Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02841-4 Observations highlight threats to GPS and similar systems from natural as well as human-caused disturbances. | Continue reading


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Underwater bridge gives clues to ancient human arrival

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02799-3 Dating mineral deposits in a flooded cave reveals that humans reached Mallorca over 5,000 years ago. | Continue reading


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Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02714-w All too often negative results fail to appear in scientific literature, but now funders, publishers and researchers are finding ways to change this. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Life-cycle-coupled evolution of mitosis in close relatives of animals

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07961-5 Author Correction: Life-cycle-coupled evolution of mitosis in close relatives of animals | Continue reading


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Bumblebees’ sense of smell can’t take the heat

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02703-z Climate change could compromise the pollinators’ ability to detect flowers. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: ‘Mobesity’ — how bigger vehicles are undermining the benefits of electric cars

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02861-0 Ever-enlarging vehicles take more energy to build and run. Plus, the biggest-ever catalogue of food microbes and how pregnancy transforms the brain. | Continue reading


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The race to save fossils exposed by Brazil’s record-setting floods

Nature, Published online: 30 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02794-8 As intermittent rain continues, palaeontologists in southern Brazil are working to extract dinosaur and other bones before they are damaged. | Continue reading


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Japan moves to halt long-term postgraduate decline by tripling number of PhD graduates

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02718-6 Plan aims to elevate the status of PhD holders and give them greater career mobility. | Continue reading


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Are you what you eat? Biggest-ever catalogue of food microbes finds out

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02778-8 Bacteria and fungi in fermented favourites like kimchi are also present in the human microbiome. | Continue reading


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Synthesis of non-canonical amino acids through dehydrogenative tailoring

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07988-8 Synthesis of non-canonical amino acids through dehydrogenative tailoring | Continue reading


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Reductive alkyl-alkyl coupling from isolable nickel-alkyl complexes

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07987-9 Reductive alkyl-alkyl coupling from isolable nickel-alkyl complexes | Continue reading


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Electrocatalytic reductive deuteration of arenes and heteroarenes

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07989-7 Electrocatalytic reductive deuteration of arenes and heteroarenes | Continue reading


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Natural acid makes super-sticky eco-friendly glue

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02701-1 Recyclable spray, patch and film adhesives work as well as existing petroleum-based products. | Continue reading


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Detecting hidden brain injuries

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02788-6 Biomarker tests could help to diagnose people with mild traumatic brain injury when scans show nothing. | Continue reading


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Humanity’s newest brain gains are most at risk from ageing

Nature, Published online: 29 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02784-w The large prefrontal cortex provides evolutionary and cognitive advantages over non-human primates — but there’s a cost. | Continue reading


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Mating proximity blinds threat perception

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07890-3 A state-dependent dopamine filter system in the male Drosophila brain balances threat perception against the drive to mate. | Continue reading


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Inside China’s race to lead the world in nuclear fusion

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02759-x The country has ambitious plans for fusion power plants to provide clean, limitless energy. Can they be realized? | Continue reading


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Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02747-1 Awareness of when a paper can’t be trusted is often too low — but adopting some easy-to-use technological solutions can help researchers, publishers and referees to clean things up. | Continue reading


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Exclusive: the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02719-5 Data from giant project show how withdrawn research propagates through the literature. | Continue reading


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