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  • Letter |

    A robust ceramic/refractory metal (ZrC/W)-based composite for use in heat exchangers in concentrated solar power plants above 1,023 kelvin is described, having attractive high-temperature thermal, mechanical and chemical properties combined with cost-effective processing.

    • M. Caccia
    • , M. Tabandeh-Khorshid
    • , G. Itskos
    • , A. R. Strayer
    • , A. S. Caldwell
    • , S. Pidaparti
    • , S. Singnisai
    • , A. D. Rohskopf
    • , A. M. Schroeder
    • , D. Jarrahbashi
    • , T. Kang
    • , S. Sahoo
    • , N. R. Kadasala
    • , A. Marquez-Rossy
    • , M. H. Anderson
    • , E. Lara-Curzio
    • , D. Ranjan
    • , A. Henry
    •  & K. H. Sandhage

  • Brief Communications Arising |

    • Wen Chen
    • , Bo OuYang
    •  & James J. Chou

  • Article |

    An experimental measurement of the electric dipole moment of the electron with sensitivity an order of magnitude better than previous studies increases the accessible mass range of fundamental particles by a factor of three.

    • V. Andreev
    • , D. G. Ang
    • , D. DeMille
    • , J. M. Doyle
    • , G. Gabrielse
    • , J. Haefner
    • , N. R. Hutzler
    • , Z. Lasner
    • , C. Meisenhelder
    • , B. R. O’Leary
    • , C. D. Panda
    • , A. D. West
    • , E. P. West
    •  & X. Wu

  • Letter | | open

    Long-read sequencing allows the assembly of antigen-gene arrays in Trypanosoma brucei and, coupled with deletion experiments, demonstrates that histone variants act as a molecular link between genome architecture, chromatin conformation and antigen variation.

    • Laura S. M. Müller
    • , Raúl O. Cosentino
    • , Konrad U. Förstner
    • , Julien Guizetti
    • , Carolin Wedel
    • , Noam Kaplan
    • , Christian J. Janzen
    • , Panagiota Arampatzi
    • , Jörg Vogel
    • , Sascha Steinbiss
    • , Thomas D. Otto
    • , Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba
    • , Robert P. Sebra
    •  & T. Nicolai Siegel

  • News & Views |

    A remarkable metal–ceramic composite material has been produced that could aid the development of the next generation of power plants — and might even have a role in curing the world of its addiction to fossil fuels.

    • Craig Turchi

  • Letter |

    The flight of dandelion seeds is enabled by an extraordinary vortex ring, which was revealed by the visualization of the flow around the seed.

    • Cathal Cummins
    • , Madeleine Seale
    • , Alice Macente
    • , Daniele Certini
    • , Enrico Mastropaolo
    • , Ignazio Maria Viola
    •  & Naomi Nakayama

  • News & Views |

    Pigmented cells in the skin of cuttlefish can contract or relax to produce different skin-colour patterns. Tracking the dynamics of these cells reveals how this display system develops, and how it is controlled.

    • Adrien Jouary
    •  & Christian K. Machens

  • Editorial |

    Clinicians, companies and researchers have come together to suggest ways to break the deadlock on finding better ways to prescribe antibiotics.

  • Letter |

    A downward expansion of oxygen depletion in the eastern Pacific Ocean during the last ice age suggests an increase in the respired carbon reservoir, contributing to the lower levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during this period.

    • Babette A. A. Hoogakker
    • , Zunli Lu
    • , Natalie Umling
    • , Luke Jones
    • , Xiaoli Zhou
    • , Rosalind E. M. Rickaby
    • , Robert Thunell
    • , Olivier Cartapanis
    •  & Eric Galbraith

  • Futures |

    Strange attraction.

    • D. A. Xiaolin Spires

  • Article |

    Tracking analyses of tens of thousands of individual chromatophores in freely behaving cephalopods enable studies of behaviour and development at cellular resolution.

    • Sam Reiter
    • , Philipp Hülsdunk
    • , Theodosia Woo
    • , Marcel A. Lauterbach
    • , Jessica S. Eberle
    • , Leyla Anne Akay
    • , Amber Longo
    • , Jakob Meier-Credo
    • , Friedrich Kretschmer
    • , Julian D. Langer
    • , Matthias Kaschube
    •  & Gilles Laurent

  • News & Views |

    The parasite Trypanosoma brucei causes sleeping sickness. It evades human defences by changing the version of a protein that coats its surface. Analysis of its genome and nuclear structure clarifies this variation process.

    • Steve Kelly
    •  & Mark Carrington

  • Letter |

    Near-atomic resolution cryo-electron microscopy structures of the Zaire ebolavirus nucleoprotein indicate a complex transition from the RNA-free to RNA-bound forms of the protein, and reveal the mechanism of oligomer formation and helical assembly.

    • Yukihiko Sugita
    • , Hideyuki Matsunami
    • , Yoshihiro Kawaoka
    • , Takeshi Noda
    •  & Matthias Wolf

  • News Explainer |

    As Canada lifts most of its restrictions on studying cannabis, here’s a look at how the rest of the world is faring.

    • Elie Dolgin

  • Article |

    Analyses of samples from patients with acute myeloid leukaemia reveal that drug response is associated with mutational status and gene expression; the generated dataset provides a basis for future clinical and functional studies of this disease.

    • Jeffrey W. Tyner
    • , Cristina E. Tognon
    • , Daniel Bottomly
    • , Beth Wilmot
    • , Stephen E. Kurtz
    • , Samantha L. Savage
    • , Nicola Long
    • , Anna Reister Schultz
    • , Elie Traer
    • , Melissa Abel
    • , Anupriya Agarwal
    • , Aurora Blucher
    • , Uma Borate
    • , Jade Bryant
    • , Russell Burke
    • , Amy Carlos
    • , Richie Carpenter
    • , Joseph Carroll
    • , Bill H. Chang
    • , Cody Coblentz
    • , Amanda d’Almeida
    • , Rachel Cook
    • , Alexey Danilov
    • , Kim-Hien T. Dao
    • , Michie Degnin
    • , Deirdre Devine
    • , James Dibb
    • , David K. Edwards V
    • , Christopher A. Eide
    • , Isabel English
    • , Jason Glover
    • , Rachel Henson
    • , Hibery Ho
    • , Abdusebur Jemal
    • , Kara Johnson
    • , Ryan Johnson
    • , Brian Junio
    • , Andy Kaempf
    • , Jessica Leonard
    • , Chenwei Lin
    • , Selina Qiuying Liu
    • , Pierrette Lo
    • , Marc M. Loriaux
    • , Samuel Luty
    • , Tara Macey
    • , Jason MacManiman
    • , Jacqueline Martinez
    • , Motomi Mori
    • , Dylan Nelson
    • , Ceilidh Nichols
    • , Jill Peters
    • , Justin Ramsdill
    • , Angela Rofelty
    • , Robert Schuff
    • , Robert Searles
    • , Erik Segerdell
    • , Rebecca L. Smith
    • , Stephen E. Spurgeon
    • , Tyler Sweeney
    • , Aashis Thapa
    • , Corinne Visser
    • , Jake Wagner
    • , Kevin Watanabe-Smith
    • , Kristen Werth
    • , Joelle Wolf
    • , Libbey White
    • , Amy Yates
    • , Haijiao Zhang
    • , Christopher R. Cogle
    • , Robert H. Collins
    • , Denise C. Connolly
    • , Michael W. Deininger
    • , Leylah Drusbosky
    • , Christopher S. Hourigan
    • , Craig T. Jordan
    • , Patricia Kropf
    • , Tara L. Lin
    • , Micaela E. Martinez
    • , Bruno C. Medeiros
    • , Rachel R. Pallapati
    • , Daniel A. Pollyea
    • , Ronan T. Swords
    • , Justin M. Watts
    • , Scott J. Weir
    • , David L. Wiest
    • , Ryan M. Winters
    • , Shannon K. McWeeney
    •  & Brian J. Druker

  • Outlook |

    Working as a scientist in low- and middle-income countries can be challenging, but it also provides the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.

    • Richard Hodson

  • Books & Arts |

    Elizabeth Gibney soaks up an exhibition blazing with hot science and cultural riches.

    • Elizabeth Gibney

  • Letter |

    Species richness was found to increase temporal stability but decrease resistance to warming in an experiment involving 690 micro-ecosystems consisting of 1 to 6 species of bacterivorous ciliates that were sampled over 40 days.

    • Frank Pennekamp
    • , Mikael Pontarp
    • , Andrea Tabi
    • , Florian Altermatt
    • , Roman Alther
    • , Yves Choffat
    • , Emanuel A. Fronhofer
    • , Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy
    • , Aurélie Garnier
    • , Jason I. Griffiths
    • , Suzanne Greene
    • , Katherine Horgan
    • , Thomas M. Massie
    • , Elvira Mächler
    • , Gian Marco Palamara
    • , Mathew Seymour
    •  & Owen L. Petchey

  • Outlook |

    The full scientific potential of emerging economies has yet to be realized.

    • Richard Hodson

  • Letter |

    A Bose–Einstein condensate is created in space that has sufficient stability to enable its characteristic dynamics to be studied.

    • Dennis Becker
    • , Maike D. Lachmann
    • , Stephan T. Seidel
    • , Holger Ahlers
    • , Aline N. Dinkelaker
    • , Jens Grosse
    • , Ortwin Hellmig
    • , Hauke Müntinga
    • , Vladimir Schkolnik
    • , Thijs Wendrich
    • , André Wenzlawski
    • , Benjamin Weps
    • , Robin Corgier
    • , Tobias Franz
    • , Naceur Gaaloul
    • , Waldemar Herr
    • , Daniel Lüdtke
    • , Manuel Popp
    • , Sirine Amri
    • , Hannes Duncker
    • , Maik Erbe
    • , Anja Kohfeldt
    • , André Kubelka-Lange
    • , Claus Braxmaier
    • , Eric Charron
    • , Wolfgang Ertmer
    • , Markus Krutzik
    • , Claus Lämmerzahl
    • , Achim Peters
    • , Wolfgang P. Schleich
    • , Klaus Sengstock
    • , Reinhold Walser
    • , Andreas Wicht
    • , Patrick Windpassinger
    •  & Ernst M. Rasel

  • Letter |

    The cerebellum is critical for the coding of future movement in the frontal cortex.

    • Zhenyu Gao
    • , Courtney Davis
    • , Alyse M. Thomas
    • , Michael N. Economo
    • , Amada M. Abrego
    • , Karel Svoboda
    • , Chris I. De Zeeuw
    •  & Nuo Li

  • News & Views |

    Efforts to find early traces of life on Earth often focus on structures in ancient rocks, called stromatolites, that formed by microbial activity. One of the oldest proposed stromatolite discoveries has now been questioned.

    • Mark A. van Zuilen

  • News & Views |

    An exotic ultracold gas known as a Bose–Einstein condensate has been produced and studied in space. Such gases could be used to build quantum sensors that probe the properties of the Universe with extreme precision.

    • Liang Liu

  • Brief Communications Arising |

    • Benjamin P. Oestringer
    • , Juan H. Bolivar
    • , Mario Hensen
    • , Jolyon K. Claridge
    • , Chris Chipot
    • , François Dehez
    • , Nicole Holzmann
    • , Nicole Zitzmann
    •  & Jason R. Schnell