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Correspondence |
Predatory journals: evolution keeps them under the radar
- Fahmi H. Kakamad
- , Abdulwahid M. Salih
- & Shvan H. Mohammed
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Comment |
The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late
Exploitation and degradation of the mysterious layer between the sunlit ocean surface and the abyss jeopardize fish stocks and the climate.
- Adrian Martin
- , Philip Boyd
- , Ken Buesseler
- , Ivona Cetinic
- , Hervé Claustre
- , Sari Giering
- , Stephanie Henson
- , Xabier Irigoien
- , Iris Kriest
- , Laurent Memery
- , Carol Robinson
- , Grace Saba
- , Richard Sanders
- , David Siegel
- , María Villa Alfageme
- & Lionel Guidi
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News |
Coronavirus lockdowns have changed the way Earth moves
A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Correspondence |
Defining predatory journals: no peer review, no point
- Leonhard Dobusch
- , Maximilian Heimstädt
- , Katja Mayer
- & Tony Ross-Hellauer
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Technology Feature |
Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
- Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Coronavirus could have killed 40 million people if the world had not taken action
The COVID-19 pandemic could have infected an estimated 90% of the world’s population and killed 40.6 million people if no mitigation measures were put in place to combat it. Plus: meet the scientists who are redeploying to fight the virus, and what DNA might say about why some people don’t get very ill from COVID-19.
- Flora Graham
- , Davide Castelvecchi
- & Smriti Mallapaty
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Correspondence |
Share mobile and social-media data to curb COVID-19
- Rachel A. McKendry
- , Geraint Rees
- , Ingemar J. Cox
- , Anne Johnson
- , Michael Edelstein
- , Andrew Eland
- , Molly M. Stevens
- & David Heymann
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News & Views |
How stress can cause a fever
Psychological stress can trigger physiological responses, including an increase in body temperature. A neural circuit that underlies this stress-induced heat response has been identified.
- Dayu Lin
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News |
Climate vs coronavirus: Why massive stimulus plans could represent missed opportunities
Economic bailouts could bolster green growth — or delay action and boost emissions.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Where I Work |
Transfixed by the glow of Arctic ice under starlight
Maria Josefa Verdugo ships into the bitter cold of far-northern waters to measure ice-core properties as part of a year-round climate project.
- Chris Woolston
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World View |
Suppressing early information on COVID-19 and other health scares can aid misinformation
Governments need to think twice before they suppress messages related to COVID-19.
- Heidi J. Larson
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Book Review |
Neuroscience needs some new ideas
A history of the metaphors behind brain research faces a dark past and disquieting future. By Stephen Casper.
- Stephen Casper
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Article |
Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2
- Jian Shang
- , Gang Ye
- , Ke Shi
- , Yushun Wan
- , Chuming Luo
- , Hideki Aihara
- , Qibin Geng
- , Ashley Auerbach
- & Fang Li
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Research Highlight |
The bits of wire that can devastate lion populations
Simple snares aimed at catching African game for the table take a huge toll on carnivores, too.
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World View |
We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace
Unheeded lessons from simulations of health and other disasters could still assist recovery.
- Ian Boyd
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News |
‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease
Other countries on lockdown will be watching for a resurgence of infections in Hubei province now that travel restrictions are lifting.
- David Cyranoski
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Article |
Control and single-shot readout of an ion embedded in a nanophotonic cavity
Single ytterbium ion qubits in nanophotonic cavities have long coherence times and can be optically read out in a single shot, establishing them as excellent candidates for optical quantum networks.
- Jonathan M. Kindem
- , Andrei Ruskuc
- , John G. Bartholomew
- , Jake Rochman
- , Yan Qi Huan
- & Andrei Faraon
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Career Feature |
You can get that paper, thesis or grant written — with a little help
Productivity coaches, boot camps and online meet-ups teach researchers to avoid distractions and negative thoughts to get their writing projects done.
- Roberta Kwok
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News |
Cull, release or bring them home: Coronavirus crisis forces hard decisions for labs with animals
As universities scale back operations and scientists observe stay-at-home orders, many are struggling to protect their research and the animals that power it.
- Anna Nowogrodzki
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Career Column |
How to defend a PhD remotely
Alyssa Frederick defended her thesis remotely before the coronavirus outbreak began. Here’s how.
- Alyssa Frederick
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Article |
Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound to the ACE2 receptor
- Jun Lan
- , Jiwan Ge
- , Jinfang Yu
- , Sisi Shan
- , Huan Zhou
- , Shilong Fan
- , Qi Zhang
- , Xuanling Shi
- , Qisheng Wang
- , Linqi Zhang
- & Xinquan Wang
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: A radical proposal to infect healthy people with the coronavirus to test vaccines
A ‘human challenge’ study would involve exposing perhaps 100 healthy young people to the coronavirus and seeing whether those who get the vaccine escape infection. Plus: UK prime minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, and Neanderthals enjoyed a nice bit of fish.
- Flora Graham
- , Davide Castelvecchi
- & Smriti Mallapaty
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News |
University pays millions to researchers who sued over sexual-harassment allegations
The US$9.4-million settlement ends a lawsuit brought over the way the University of Rochester in New York handled allegations against cognitive scientist Florian Jaeger.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big
Cold temperatures and a strong polar vortex allowed chemicals to gnaw away at the protective ozone layer in the north.
- Alexandra Witze
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: Old treatments and new hopes
Could blood plasma from coronavirus survivors be an effective short-term treatment for patients?
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News Feature |
Why a landmark treaty to stop ocean biopiracy could stymie research
Several cancer and HIV drugs have come from marine organisms, but scientists worry that a new agreement to save species could hinder some research.
- Olive Heffernan
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News |
Coronavirus papers: Debilitated patients rally after dose of survivors’ blood
A selection of the latest research on COVID-19.
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News |
Tens of thousands of scientists are redeploying to fight coronavirus
As labs shut down around the world, researchers are finding creative ways to donate their time, supplies and expertise.
- Giuliana Viglione
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News |
What the cruise-ship outbreaks reveal about COVID-19
Close confines help the virus to spread, but closed environments are also an ideal place to study how the new coronavirus behaves.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Cruise ship coronavirus outbreak gave scientists ‘an ideal experiment’
The COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess has given researchers the rare opportunity to study the virus in a highly controlled population, in which almost everyone was tested. Plus: families face heartbreak as non-coronavirus clinical trials are put on hold, and the healing ozone layer is getting the jet stream back on track in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Flora Graham
- , Davide Castelvecchi
- & Smriti Mallapaty
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Career Column |
Science-ing from home
In the first of two articles about laboratory closures triggered by COVID-19, scientists affected by the shutdowns outline the tools they are using to run their research groups remotely.
- Kendall Powell
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Research Highlight |
How a starfish egg is like a quantum system
Waves that travel through an egg’s outer membrane echo those seen in physical systems at much smaller — and much larger — scales.
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Career Column |
Seven tips to manage your mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak
Feeling overwhelmed by a lockdown and the need to suddenly adopt e-learning? Keep connected and compassionate, says clinical psychologist Desiree Dickerson.
- Desiree Dickerson
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Article |
Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins
- Tommy Tsan-Yuk Lam
- , Marcus Ho-Hin Shum
- , Hua-Chen Zhu
- , Yi-Gang Tong
- , Xue-Bing Ni
- , Yun-Shi Liao
- , Wei Wei
- , William Yiu-Man Cheung
- , Wen-Juan Li
- , Lian-Feng Li
- , Gabriel M. Leung
- , Edward C. Holmes
- , Yan-Ling Hu
- & Yi Guan
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Research Highlight |
All-purpose enzymes boost CRISPR’s powers
The gene-editing system could target a broad swathe of the genome with the help of versatile enzymes.
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News Q&A |
Should scientists infect healthy people with the coronavirus to test vaccines?
Radical proposal to conduct ‘human challenge’ studies could dramatically speed up vaccine research.
- Ewen Callaway
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Article |
Parental-to-embryo switch of chromosome organization in early embryogenesis
Single-cell allelic HiC analysis, combined with allelic gene expression and chromatin states, reveals parent-of-origin-specific dynamics of chromosome organization and gene expression during mouse preimplantation development.
- Samuel Collombet
- , Noémie Ranisavljevic
- , Takashi Nagano
- , Csilla Varnai
- , Tarak Shisode
- , Wing Leung
- , Tristan Piolot
- , Rafael Galupa
- , Maud Borensztein
- , Nicolas Servant
- , Peter Fraser
- , Katia Ancelin
- & Edith Heard
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: New York City will start treating COVID-19 patients with the blood of survivors
Researchers hope that the antibody-laden blood of those who have recovered from coronavirus might reduce severe infections — but we don’t know yet if it will work. Plus: signs that the outbreak in Italy went undetected for weeks, and how running a quantum computer is like solving a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded.
- Flora Graham
- , Davide Castelvecchi
- & Nicky Phillips
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Article |
Video-based AI for beat-to-beat assessment of cardiac function
A video-based deep learning algorithm—EchoNet-Dynamic—accurately identifies subtle changes in ejection fraction and classifies heart failure with reduced ejection fraction using information from multiple cardiac cycles.
- David Ouyang
- , Bryan He
- , Amirata Ghorbani
- , Neal Yuan
- , Joseph Ebinger
- , Curtis P. Langlotz
- , Paul A. Heidenreich
- , Robert A. Harrington
- , David H. Liang
- , Euan A. Ashley
- & James Y. Zou
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Book Review |
A lively history of smell, practical solutions for climate change, and big cats on the prowl: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Article |
A mechanism of ferritin crystallization revealed by cryo-STEM tomography
Cryo-STEM tomography of ferritin crystallization is used to reveal nonclassical evolution of crystalline order, indicating that it may be desolvation that drives the continuous evolution of order in crystallization.
- Lothar Houben
- , Haim Weissman
- , Sharon G. Wolf
- & Boris Rybtchinski
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Outlook |
We need more evidence to answer questions about screening
When should people start being screened for breast cancer? Laura Esserman details the efforts being made to find out.
- Laura Esserman
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Article |
A mycobacterial ABC transporter mediates the uptake of hydrophilic compounds
Analysis of cryo-electron microscopy structures of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ABC transporter Rv1819c suggests that it is a multi-solute transporter for hydrophilic molecules.
- S. Rempel
- , C. Gati
- , M. Nijland
- , C. Thangaratnarajah
- , A. Karyolaimos
- , J. W. de Gier
- , A. Guskov
- & D. J. Slotboom
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Article |
Z-nucleic-acid sensing triggers ZBP1-dependent necroptosis and inflammation
Analyses of mouse models of inflammation suggest some chronic inflammatory conditions may result from Z-DNA-binding protein 1 sensing endogenous Z-form nucleic acids—such as those of endogenous retroelements—through its Zα domains.
- Huipeng Jiao
- , Laurens Wachsmuth
- , Snehlata Kumari
- , Robin Schwarzer
- , Juan Lin
- , Remzi Onur Eren
- , Amanda Fisher
- , Rebecca Lane
- , George R. Young
- , George Kassiotis
- , William J. Kaiser
- & Manolis Pasparakis
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News & Views |
AI tracks a beating heart’s function over time
Clinicians use ultrasound videos of heartbeats to assess subtle changes in the heart’s pumping function. A method that uses artificial intelligence might simplify these complex assessments when heartbeats are out of rhythm.
- Partho P. Sengupta
- & Donald A. Adjeroh
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Article |
The ABC exporter IrtAB imports and reduces mycobacterial siderophores
The mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB functions as a siderophore importer despite exhibiting an exporter fold in its structure, and contains a siderophore interaction domain capable of siderophore reduction and iron release inside the cell.
- Fabian M. Arnold
- , Miriam S. Weber
- , Imre Gonda
- , Marc J. Gallenito
- , Sophia Adenau
- , Pascal Egloff
- , Iwan Zimmermann
- , Cedric A. J. Hutter
- , Lea M. Hürlimann
- , Eike E. Peters
- , Jörn Piel
- , Gabriele Meloni
- , Ohad Medalia
- & Markus A. Seeger
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Article |
A genomic and epigenomic atlas of prostate cancer in Asian populations
Genomic, transcriptomic and DNA methylation data from tissue samples from 208 Chinese patients with prostate cancer define the landscape of alterations in this population, and comparison with data from Western cohorts suggests that the disease may stratify into different molecular subtypes.
- Jing Li
- , Chuanliang Xu
- , Hyung Joo Lee
- , Shancheng Ren
- , Xiaoyuan Zi
- , Zhiming Zhang
- , Haifeng Wang
- , Yongwei Yu
- , Chenghua Yang
- , Xiaofeng Gao
- , Jianguo Hou
- , Linhui Wang
- , Bo Yang
- , Qing Yang
- , Huamao Ye
- , Tie Zhou
- , Xin Lu
- , Yan Wang
- , Min Qu
- , Qingsong Yang
- , Wenhui Zhang
- , Nakul M. Shah
- , Erica C. Pehrsson
- , Shuo Wang
- , Zengjun Wang
- , Jun Jiang
- , Yan Zhu
- , Rui Chen
- , Huan Chen
- , Feng Zhu
- , Bijun Lian
- , Xiaoyun Li
- , Yun Zhang
- , Chao Wang
- , Yue Wang
- , Guangan Xiao
- , Junfeng Jiang
- , Yue Yang
- , Chaozhao Liang
- , Jianquan Hou
- , Conghui Han
- , Ming Chen
- , Ning Jiang
- , Dahong Zhang
- , Song Wu
- , Jinjian Yang
- , Tao Wang
- , Yongliang Chen
- , Jiantong Cai
- , Wenzeng Yang
- , Jun Xu
- , Shaogang Wang
- , Xu Gao
- , Ting Wang
- & Yinghao Sun
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Outlook |
How cancer genomics is transforming diagnosis and treatment
Genome sequencing is providing physicians with more data about the causes of cancer and changing the way some forms of the disease are treated.
- Bianca Nogrady
