Mumps is rising in some nations — but a fresh dose of vaccine might help

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03352-y Modelling of an outbreak at a US university suggests that a nimble vaccination campaign can limit transmission. | Continue reading


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Planning for life on Mars

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03345-x Rebeca Gonçalves explains how plant food could be grown on the red planet. | Continue reading


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Coherent growth of high-Miller-index facets enhances perovskite solar cells

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08159-5 Coherent growth of high-Miller-index facets enhances perovskite solar cells | Continue reading


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Homogenized contact in all-perovskite tandems using tailored 2D perovskite

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08158-6 Homogenized contact in all-perovskite tandems using tailored 2D perovskite | Continue reading


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Strain regulation retards natural operation decay of perovskite solar cells

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08161-x Strain regulation retards natural operation decay of perovskite solar cells | Continue reading


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Isomeric diammonium passivation for perovskite–organic tandem solar cells

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08160-y Isomeric diammonium passivation for perovskite–organic tandem solar cells | Continue reading


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Kids in the classroom flow like water vapour

Nature, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03203-w Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting. | Continue reading


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How To Win A Nobel: A three minute guide

Nature, Published online: 11 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03349-7 Nature looks at 646 past laureates to work out who is statistically most likely to take home a medal | Continue reading


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A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

Nature, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02903-7 SDG 17 offers an “enabling” blueprint for meeting ambitious targets, including measures to tackle poverty, hunger and climate change, says Kate Roll. | Continue reading


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How AI-powered science search engines can speed up your research

Nature, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02942-0 Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can researchers use them responsibly? | Continue reading


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Two comb jellies fuse their bodies and then act as one

Nature, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03202-x The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissues from those of others. | Continue reading


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Don’t overshoot: why carbon dioxide removal will achieve too little, too late

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03266-9 Many climate scenarios bake in a temperature overshoot before technologies are used to scrub the atmosphere clean of emissions. Emerging science says that is probably a fool’s errand. | Continue reading


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Structural basis of mRNA decay by the human exosome–ribosome supercomplex

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08015-6 The structure of a human exosome–ribosome supercomplex reveals the mechanisms behind the formation of active cytoplasmic exosomes and their role in co-translational RNA decay. | Continue reading


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Phase transitions in random circuit sampling

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07998-6 By implementing random circuit sampling, experimental and theoretical results establish the existence of transitions to a stable, computationally complex phase that is reachable with current quantum process … | Continue reading


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Robust chemical analysis with graphene chemosensors and machine learning

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08003-w Machine learning models trained with extensive datasets generated by ion-sensitive field-effect transistor sensors can classify complex liquids and quantify changes in chemical composition. | Continue reading


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AKT and EZH2 inhibitors kill TNBCs by hijacking mechanisms of involution

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08031-6 AKT inhibitors synergize with agents that suppress the histone methyltransferase EZH2 and promote robust tumour regression in multiple triple-negative breast cancer models in vivo by triggering an involutio … | Continue reading


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Universal quantum operations and ancilla-based read-out for tweezer clocks

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08005-8 We demonstrate high-fidelity entangling gates, universal quantum operations, and ancilla-based read-out for ultranarrow optical transitions of neutral atoms in a tweezer clock platform. | Continue reading


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CTLA4 blockade abrogates KEAP1/STK11-related resistance to PD-(L)1 inhibitors

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07943-7 Alterations in the tumour suppressor genes STK11 and/or KEAP1 can identify patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer who are likely to benefit from combinations of PD-(L)1 and CTLA4 immune checkpoin … | Continue reading


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The interplay of mutagenesis and ecDNA shapes urothelial cancer evolution

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07955-3 Whole-genome sequencing of matched serial tumours from patients identifies two key mutagenic factors (APOBEC3 and chemotherapy) and extrachromosomal DNA-forming structural variants that drive treatment resi … | Continue reading


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Dendritic, delayed, stochastic CaMKII activation in behavioural time scale plasticity

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08021-8 Induction of behavioural time scale plasticity leads to dendritic, delayed and stochastic Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase II activation, findings that clarify the mechanisms that underlie place cell format … | Continue reading


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Biomolecular condensates mediate bending and scission of endosome membranes

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07990-0 Plant ESCRT component FREE1 forms liquid-like condensates that associate with membranes to drive intraluminal vesicle formation. | Continue reading


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Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08026-3 Health effects of dietary restriction are uncoupled from longevity. | Continue reading


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Temporally distinct 3D multi-omic dynamics in the developing human brain

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08030-7 Using a single-nucleus multi-omics approach, a study jointly profiles the reorganization of the epigenome and the three-dimensional chromatin conformation during the development of the human hippocampus and … | Continue reading


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Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08023-6 The detection and modelling of nine X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a nearby tidal disruption event shows that these eruptions arise in accretion disks around massive black holes, left behind by tidally … | Continue reading


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Continental-scale nutrient and contaminant delivery by Pacific salmon

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07980-2 Pacific salmon transport of nutrients and contaminants to freshwaters increased by 30% and 20%, respectively, between 1976 and 2015, an increase dominated by pink salmon, which had the highest nutrient-to-c … | Continue reading


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Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosion

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07978-w Analysis of the sub-seasonal patterns of river migration reveals that permafrost reduces erosion rates and suggests that full permafrost thaw may lead to a 30–100% increase in the migration rates of Arctic … | Continue reading


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Single-neuron representations of odours in the human brain

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08016-5 Human piriform and mediotemporal neurons encode odours, and signal how we perceive, rate and identify scents. | Continue reading


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A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08028-1 Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel senso … | Continue reading


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Overconfidence in climate overshoot

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08020-9 Aiming for declining global temperatures can limit long-term climate risks compared with a mere stabilization of global warming, including sea-level rise and cryosphere changes. | Continue reading


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Diverse anti-defence systems are encoded in the leading region of plasmids

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07994-w The leading region of plasmids is a hotspot for many anti-defence systems, encoding anti-CRISPR, anti-restriction and other counter-defence proteins; focusing on this region could lead to the discovery of d … | Continue reading


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Two waves of massive stars running away from the young cluster R136

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08013-8 An astrometric analysis of Gaia data identified two waves of massive runaway stars that have been dynamically ejected from the young cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | Continue reading


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Peptide programming of supramolecular vinylidene fluoride ferroelectric phases

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08041-4 A bio-inspired supramolecular material combines tiny amino acid sequences present in proteins with equally small segments of the plastic poly(vinylidene fluoride), yielding high-performance sustainable ferr … | Continue reading


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Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07913-z A family of multi-qubit Rydberg quantum gates is developed and used to generate Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock, allowing improvement in frequency measurement precision by taking advantage of ent … | Continue reading


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One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08034-3 How the navigational system of the brain constructs spatial maps that require both rapid changes and representational accuracy is explored. | Continue reading


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Dear researchers: send us your lab hacks

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03217-4 Do you have a favourite tool or workaround that helps you save time, money or drudgery? Share it with Nature’s readers. | Continue reading


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‘Cocaine of the seas’ — how a luxury food is wreaking ecological mayhem

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03259-8 A surging market for ‘fish maw’ is pushing threatened species to the brink. Researchers are trying to limit the damage. | Continue reading


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Reaction for coupling 3D molecular fragments expands the chemist’s toolkit

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03221-8 A glaring gap in the portfolio of reactions used to synthesize libraries of organic compounds has been filled by the advent of a general method for joining together 3D molecular fragments — a boon for pharm … | Continue reading


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Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems shows the need for more protection globally

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03238-z Ecosystems reliant on groundwater are vulnerable to water depletion and climate change, but often their locations are unknown. A map of groundwater-dependent ecosystems across global drylands provides essen … | Continue reading


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Keen to improve the working lives of postdocs? Ask them what they want

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03301-9 Postdoctoral researchers at two German research institutions conduct regular surveys of their colleagues and use the data to argue for changes in the workplace. | Continue reading


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Sewage lurks in coastal waters — often unnoticed by widely used test

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03205-8 Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Dynamic behaviour restructuring mediates dopamine-dependent credit assignment

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08143-z Author Correction: Dynamic behaviour restructuring mediates dopamine-dependent credit assignment | Continue reading


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This AI powered ‘tongue’ can tell Coke and Pepsi apart

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03309-1 Machine learning and artificial neural networks allow graphene to become an accurate and general-use ‘taste taster’ — plus, how pacific-salmon migrations cycle nutrients and contaminants on a continental sc … | Continue reading


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World’s oldest known artwork in Indonesian cave dated using lasers

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03248-x Laser-induced imaging of radioactive elements was used to work out the age of an ancient cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The results reveal that the narrative scene is 51,200 years old, … | Continue reading


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Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03214-7 This year's prize celebrates computational tools that have transformed biology and have the potential to revolutionise drug discovery. | Continue reading


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When we’re stars

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03068-z A permanent fix. | Continue reading


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Women are better than men at science job interviews

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03107-9 The number of job applications and identifying as a woman have been determined as success factors for securing biological-science job offers. | Continue reading


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Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03204-9 A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account. | Continue reading


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Lethal Marburg virus is on the rise in Rwanda: why scientists are worried

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03275-8 There is no proven vaccine or treatment for infections with the virus, which is closely related to Ebola virus and causes similar symptoms. | Continue reading


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