Scientists are building a giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work

Nature, Published online: 21 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03100-2 Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science. | Continue reading


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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03070-5 The concepts were judged by reviewers and were not told who or what had created them. | Continue reading


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Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03099-6 ‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more. | Continue reading


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Harassed? Intimidated? Guidebook offers help to scientists under attack

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03104-y Scholars provide tactics for responding to threats and abuse, but emphasize that institutions must defend their researchers. | Continue reading


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Bad dog

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03062-5 Error correction. | Continue reading


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COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03026-9 The finding comes from a reanalysis of genomic data. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Drosophila immune cells transport oxygen through PPO2 protein phase transition

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08058-9 Author Correction: Drosophila immune cells transport oxygen through PPO2 protein phase transition | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08060-1 Author Correction: Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: CERN to eject Russian scientists

Nature, Published online: 20 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03126-6 CERN will eject Russian scientists at the end of November, but keep a foot in the door with Moscow. Plus, how ‘deintensifying’ cancer treatment could help people and the planet. | Continue reading


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What does peak emissions mean for China — and the world?

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02877-6 The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come. | Continue reading


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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02900-w Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining. | Continue reading


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Tackling the reality of noma

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03041-w The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to unravel the mystery of what causes it. | Continue reading


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Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03078-x Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way? | Continue reading


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Is bird flu spreading among people? Data gaps leave researchers in the dark

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03089-8 Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: Thick, sticky ‘brain goo’ might drive obesity

Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03102-0 ‘Brain goo’ that stops neurons processing insulin signals might drive obesity. Plus, China has almost reached peak greenhouse-gas emissions — what does that mean for climate change? | Continue reading


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Quarks show that quantum entanglement holds at high energies

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02801-y By smashing protons together at blinding speeds, scientists have shown that pairs of quarks display the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. The result could lead to fresh insight about one of the forces h … | Continue reading


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Space radiation measurements during the Artemis I lunar mission

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07927-7 Measurements from the heavily shielded Orion spacecraft during the uncrewed Artemis I mission show dose-rate reductions due to shielding and orientation for Van Allen belt crossings and quantify the inter … | Continue reading


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Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07922-y Experiments in mice show that the perineural net has a key role in metabolic disease by controlling insulin access to neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. | Continue reading


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Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07887-y A newly identified emergent constraint applied to a key drought metric reduces uncertainty in future predictions of the longest annual dry spells, revealing that their increase due to climate change will … | Continue reading


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Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07859-2 The emergent electrodynamics induced by skyrmion lattice motion in Gd2PdSi3 is facilitated by its giant topological Hall effect dynamic transition, and implies the emergent Galilean relativity of current- … | Continue reading


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Targeted protein relocalization via protein transport coupling

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07950-8 Targeted protein relocalization using shuttle proteins with potent ligands amenable to incorporation into targeted relocalization activating molecules could be used to regulate cellular physiology and cor … | Continue reading


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Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07889-w Paracrine κ-opioid signalling among cells surrounding the spinal cord central canal modulates scar formation after injury. | Continue reading


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Micronuclear battery based on a coalescent energy transducer

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07933-9 A micronuclear battery is built based on an autoluminescent americium–terbium compound that couples radioisotopes with energy transducers at the molecular level, resulting in an 8,000-fold enhancement in … | Continue reading


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Rules of river avulsion change downstream

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07964-2 A novel theoretical framework reveals how topography surrounding rivers causes dramatic changes in their courses, with implications for natural hazard prediction, particularly in the Global South. | Continue reading


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Three-dimensional wave breaking

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07886-z We conduct experiments in a wave tank and show that waves with realistic three-dimensional spreading can become two times steeper than two-dimensional waves before breaking, with three breaking regimes id … | Continue reading


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Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07879-y Radio images reveal distant black hole jets of cosmological length, suggesting that the environmental impact of supermassive black holes extends further in space and time than previously thought. | Continue reading


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Mars’s induced magnetosphere can degenerate

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07959-z When the cone angle between the solar wind velocity and the solar wind magnetic field is small at Mars, the induced magnetosphere degenerates. | Continue reading


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Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07824-z Entanglement was observed in top–antitop quark events by the ATLAS experiment produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN using a proton–proton collision dataset with a centre-of-mass energy of √s  = 13 … | Continue reading


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Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07951-7 Frontal polymerization spin mode dynamics is used to autonomously fabricate patterned crystalline domains in poly(cyclooctadiene) with multiscale organization. | Continue reading


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Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07963-3 In male mouse germline development, the precise DNA methylation of young, active transposons requires a two-step process in which SPIN1 and SPOCD1 mark young LINE1 elements before the piRNA pathway trigge … | Continue reading


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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07937-5 Temporally dynamic extraembryonic and embryonic BMP4 signalling shapes mouse embryo lineage choices. | Continue reading


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One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07932-w A one-step hydrogen-based redox process turns oxides directly into green alloys in bulk forms, with application-worthy properties. | Continue reading


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Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07960-6 Transplants of consortia with limited numbers of strains of commensal bacteria derived from healthy human stool samples are able to suppress intestinal Enterobacteriaceae by regulating gluconate availabil … | Continue reading


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Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07949-1 Opto-twistronic Hall effect driven by structural chirality and coherence length is observed in a three-dimensional self-assembled twisted spiral superlattice of WS2. | Continue reading


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Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07941-9 Superconducting transmon qubits have been fabricated in a 300 mm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) pilot line using industrial fabrication methods, achieving relaxation and coherence times ex … | Continue reading


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Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03071-4 With a combined length of 23 million light years, these jets are the biggest yet discovered — plus, a single-step process for making metal alloys. | Continue reading


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A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and CNS

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08043-2 A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and CNS | Continue reading


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Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education?

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02992-4 World leaders are restarting their engagement with the Taliban — yet the rights of half of the population is not on their official agenda. | Continue reading


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Rage against machine learning driven by profit

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02985-3 Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input. | Continue reading


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Why AI might be a game-changer for Africa

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02987-1 Researchers across the continent are using artificial intelligence to design bespoke solutions for health, development and more. | Continue reading


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Can AI be used to assess research quality?

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02989-z Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option. | Continue reading


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Dreams of the East Elevens

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03000-5 Medical assistance. | Continue reading


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A guide to the Nature Index

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02990-6 A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com. | Continue reading


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Artificial intelligence laws in the US states are feeling the weight of corporate lobbying

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02988-0 The power of big tech is outstripping any ‘Brussels effect’ from the EU’s AI Act. | Continue reading


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Rise of ChatGPT and other tools raises major questions for research

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02984-4 AI is changing the way researchers work forever, but human expertise must continue to hold sway. | Continue reading


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AI’s international research networks mapped

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02986-2 A few key countries have become hubs of collaboration in artificial intelligence. | Continue reading


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This ‘scuba diving’ lizard has a self-made air supply

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02977-3 A bubble of air on its snout extends the water anole’s underwater time by more than a minute. | Continue reading


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A broader view of the diversity of human gene expression

Nature, Published online: 18 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03015-y Differences in gene expression between individuals are an important source of variation in traits and diseases. However, most of the research into such differences in humans has focused on individuals of … | Continue reading


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