Mitochondrial complex I promotes kidney cancer metastasis

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07812-3 Studying changes in the metabolic properties of kidney cancer in patients reveals an increased need for mitochondrial metabolism as tumors metastasize from the kidney to distant organs. | Continue reading


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Remodelling of the translatome controls diet and its impact on tumorigenesis

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07781-7 During fasting, hepatocytes selectively remodel the translatome while global translation is downregulated, showing a new signalling property of fatty acids and that, on a ketogenic diet, treatment with eFT50 … | Continue reading


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A Scottish origin for Stonehenge's Altar Stone

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02651-8 Geologists have found the provenance for Stonehenge's central Altar Stone, in the Orcadian Basin in Scotland | Continue reading


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The mystery of Stonehenge’s central stone unearthed

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02646-5 A geochemical analysis suggests that Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from northern Scotland — plus, chemists have finally discovered how to break selenium bonds unevenly. | Continue reading


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Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07915-x Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state | Continue reading


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Encoding of female mating dynamics by a hypothalamic line attractor

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07916-w Encoding of female mating dynamics by a hypothalamic line attractor | Continue reading


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Author Correction: piRNA processing by a trimeric Schlafen-domain nuclease

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07938-4 Author Correction: piRNA processing by a trimeric Schlafen-domain nuclease | Continue reading


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Chatbots in science: What can ChatGPT do for you?

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02630-z Milton Pividori spent a year and a half studying how best to use ChatGPT in research. Here, he highlights three key lessons. | Continue reading


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The genomic basis of childhood T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07807-0 Comprehensive genomic and transcriptomics analyses of more than 1,300 cases of childhood T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia identify 15 distinct subtypes that are associated with specific outcomes. | Continue reading


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Friends or foes? An academic job search risked damaging our friendship

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02629-6 Chasing the same opportunities tested long-standing alliances. Three researchers explain how they weathered the storm. | Continue reading


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Geology’s biggest mystery: when did plate tectonics start to reshape Earth?

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02602-3 Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around. Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus. | Continue reading


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Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02599-9 Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. | Continue reading


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How to train your crocodile

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02610-3 Doctored toad carcasses teach crocs to avoid eating the toxin-producing cane toad. | Continue reading


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What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02422-5 The threshold for survival in heat is lower than thought — researchers are using state-of-the-art climate chambers to explore when blistering conditions threaten life. | Continue reading


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Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02457-8 Age is just a number. | Continue reading


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Who is legally responsible for climate harms? The world’s top court will now decide

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02600-5 The International Court of Justice will clarify states’ legal responsibility for impacts of climate change. Although non-binding, its opinion will matter for thousands of climate lawsuits. | Continue reading


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Growing mpox outbreak triggers Africa’s first health emergency — and fears of wider spread

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02607-y The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention issues a historic declaration as several countries see their first cases of the disease caused by the monkeypox virus. | Continue reading


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FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02597-x Nature talks with researchers about the outlook for other hallucinogens in clinical trials as psychiatric treatments. | Continue reading


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DNA of child sacrificed in ancient city reveals surprising parentage

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02612-1 The mother and father of a young child buried at the archaeological site of Paquimé, Mexico, were more closely related to each other than first cousins. | Continue reading


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Weather and climate predicted accurately — without using a supercomputer

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02558-4 A cutting-edge global model of the atmosphere combines machine learning with a numerical model based on the laws of physics. This ‘hybrid’ system accurately predicts the weather — and even shows promise for … | Continue reading


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A hike of postdoc salary alone will not retain the best researchers in low- or middle-income countries

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02617-w A hike of postdoc salary alone will not retain the best researchers in low- or middle-income countries | Continue reading


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Canadian graduate-salary boost will only go to a select few

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02616-x Canadian graduate-salary boost will only go to a select few | Continue reading


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The need for equity in Brazilian scientific funding

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02618-9 The need for equity in Brazilian scientific funding | Continue reading


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Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02601-4 Humans are locked in an arms race with microbes, but scientists are pursuing diverse approaches to keep one step ahead or slow down the competition. | Continue reading


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Quantum hacking looms — but ultra-secure encryption is ready to deploy

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02623-y Approval of three quantum-proof algorithms caps eight-year global effort to make the Internet safe from future computers. | Continue reading


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Amplification of autoimmune organ damage by NKp46-activated ILC1

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07907-x Amplification of autoimmune organ damage by NKp46-activated ILC1 | Continue reading


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Why you shouldn’t hire a dune buggy on holiday

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02444-z The effect of dune-buggying on wildlife in California’s Mojave desert, and an introduction to X-ray crystallography from one of its founders, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. | Continue reading


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Multimodal approach steps up the search for axion insulators

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02524-0 A cocktail of experiments and theory provides a way of revealing complex patterns in magnetic materials, including some textures that can identify the systems as members of an elusive class known as axion in … | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07896-x Author Correction: Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought | Continue reading


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Silicon Valley is cheerleading the prospect of human–AI hybrids — we should be worried

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02603-2 A pseudo-religion dressed up as technoscience promises human transcendence at the cost of extinction. | Continue reading


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Winds of change: reshaping Tenerife’s energy economy

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02606-z Guillermo Galván García aims to increase the island’s dependency on clean energy, while mitigating the environmental impact of turbine installations. | Continue reading


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New photonic integrated circuits offer high performance and scalable manufacturing

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02582-4 Electro-optical devices that use wafers of lithium tantalate on an insulator have properties similar or superior to those of state-of-the-art lithium niobate-on-insulator wafers. They can also be made in lar … | Continue reading


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Are the Cosmic Gems the earliest star clusters ever detected?

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02438-x Observations might have uncovered star clusters that existed when the Universe was just 460 million years old. If this timing is accurate, the discovery provides valuable clues about how and when the first s … | Continue reading


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Dismantle ‘zombie’ wildlife protection conventions once their work is done

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02604-1 Almost 80 years after it was created, the international whaling convention has outlived its usefulness. Ending it could set an example for other organizations. | Continue reading


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Rare developmental disorder caused by variants in a small RNA gene

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02434-1 Genetic variants in RNU4-2, a gene in a part of the genome not usually in the spotlight, have been identified as the cause of a developmental disorder in a large number of individuals who previously lacked a … | Continue reading


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‘Who will protect us from seeing the world’s largest rainforest burn?’ The mental exhaustion faced by climate scientists

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02605-0 To cope with the emotional toll of working in the field, researchers have developed strategies to help themselves and others. | Continue reading


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Superconductivity paper spurs dispute as field reels from earlier scandal

Nature, Published online: 10 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02061-w Whistleblowers raise questions about the processing and sharing of raw data. | Continue reading


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How much would you pay for free shipping?

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02456-9 A worldwide web. | Continue reading


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Blood test uses ‘protein clock’ to predict risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02576-2 The clock is effective in people with a range of genetic backgrounds. | Continue reading


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The Taliban 'took my life' — scientists who fled takeover speak out

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02575-3 Researchers from Afghanistan who found sanctuary around the world following the Taliban takeover in 2021 are struggling to settle in. | Continue reading


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Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02596-y Changing how published papers are displayed could shift the focus from simple metrics to research quality. | Continue reading


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Why ChatGPT can't handle some languages

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02581-5 In a test of the chatbot's language abilities it fails at certain languages. | Continue reading


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ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it

Nature, Published online: 09 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02579-z The Large Language Models that power chatbots are known to struggle in languages outside of English — this podcast explores how this challenge can be overcome. | Continue reading


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Deepest-ever samples of rock from Earth’s mantle unveiled

Nature, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02560-w Kilometre-long rock cores leave scientists wanting to know more — just when an international exploration effort is coming to an end. | Continue reading


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Your microwave oven has its own microbiome

Nature, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02553-9 Survey of bacteria living inside household and laboratory appliances finds a robust ecosystem. | Continue reading


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Why we quit: how ‘toxic management’ and pandemic pressures fuelled disillusionment in higher education

Nature, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02595-z A survey of former UK academics reveals an uncaring culture characterized by long working hours, despite management rhetoric about well-being. | Continue reading


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Tsung-Dao Lee obituary: boundary-breaking physicist who won Nobel prize at just 30

Nature, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02585-1 Visionary researcher helped to overturn the idea that all particles behave in the same way as their mirror images. | Continue reading


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How expert skateboarders use physics on the half-pipe

Nature, Published online: 08 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02507-1 Athletes can achieve greater speed with just the right ‘pumping’ motion, modelling shows. | Continue reading


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