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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Tales of a migratory marine biologist

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02795-7 Christine Gabriele’s research involves tracking the endangered humpback whale in both Hawaiian and Alaskan waters. | Continue reading


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Denebian Glamour’s what’s hot and what’s not for the next millennium

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02766-y All you need to know on the latest trends across the Galaxy! | Continue reading


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Lonely? Playful? Why are dolphin attacks rising in Japan?

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02783-x Dolphin ecologist Tadamichi Morisaka discusses common dolphin behaviours that could explain the encounters with people. | Continue reading


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Nail your tech-industry interviews with these six techniques

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02790-y Your first professional job interview can be harrowing. Simple advance planning can make it smoother, says Mark Klenk. | Continue reading


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LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02527-x Large language models (LLMs) are becoming less overtly racist, but respond negatively to text in African American English. Such ‘covert’ racism could harm speakers of this dialect when LLMs are used for deci … | Continue reading


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Metabolism of organic carcinogens by gut bacteria induces bladder tumours

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02740-8 Bacteria in the gut can affect the chemically induced growth of tumours in other parts of the body. Certain gut bacteria convert nitrosamine compounds, which are found in cigarette smoke and processed food, … | Continue reading


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Superconductor surprises with strongly interacting electrons

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02559-3 A chromium-based superconductor is the newest member of a group of metals that show many intriguing properties simultaneously. The pronounced effects of its electron–electron interactions add to these rich p … | Continue reading


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The heart is put at risk of rupture by cells bordering damaged tissue

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02436-z After a heart attack, cardiac muscle cells at the border between injured and healthy tissue instigate an inflammatory response, which spreads to neighbouring cells and makes the heart wall vulnerable to tear … | Continue reading


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Closed-loop transfer enables artificial intelligence to yield chemical knowledge

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07892-1 Integration of closed-loop experiments with physics-based feature selection and supervised learning, denoted as closed-loop transfer, yields chemical insights in parallel with optimization of objective funct … | Continue reading


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Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07873-4 Fibrin drives inflammation and neuropathology in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and fibrin-targeting immunotherapy may represent a therapeutic intervention for patients with long COVID. | Continue reading


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Sperm-origin paternal effects on root stem cell niche differentiation

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07885-0 TREE1 and its homologue DAZ3 are expressed exclusively in Arabidopsis sperm, showing how genetic deficiencies can exert enduring paternal effects on specific plant organ differentiation and how parental-of-o … | Continue reading


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Tuberculosis in otherwise healthy adults with inherited TNF deficiency

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07866-3 Human TNF is required for respiratory-burst-dependent immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages but seems to be largely redundant physiologically. | Continue reading


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Sympathetic neuropeptide Y protects from obesity by sustaining thermogenic fat

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07863-6 We find that, relative to central neuropeptide Y, peripheral neuropeptide Y produced by sympathetic nerves has the opposite effect on body weight by sustaining energy expenditure independently of food intake … | Continue reading


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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07856-5 Despite efforts to remove overt racial prejudice, language models using artificial intelligence still show covert racism against speakers of African American English that is triggered by features of the dial … | Continue reading


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Cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism for sensory prediction errors

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07851-w Experiments in mice show that a cortico-thalamic circuit generates prediction-error signals in primary visual cortex that amplify visual input that deviates from animals’ expectations. | Continue reading


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Photoredox phase engineering of transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07872-5 Chemical lithiation of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides can be accelerated by up to six orders of magnitude using low-power illumination and a variety of phase transition agents. | Continue reading


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Probing plant signal processing optogenetically by two channelrhodopsins

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07884-1 Using new optogenetic tools to induce distinct ion fluxes, a study shows that these discrete signals trigger different metabolic and transcriptional pathways that allow plants to respond to specific types of … | Continue reading


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Superconductivity under pressure in a chromium-based kagome metal

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07761-x The emergence of superconductivity under pressure is reported in a chromium-based kagome metal, CsCr3Sb5, which has strong electron correlations, frustrated magnetism and characteristic flat bands close to t … | Continue reading


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