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China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.
- David Cyranoski
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Research Highlight |
Mini-tumours tell of immune cells’ role in cancer
3D cultures detail the complex relationship between a tumour and its environment.
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News |
South Korean university delays vote on whether to suspend president
KAIST president Shin Sung-Chul has been referred to prosecutors for allegedly misusing public funds — an accusation he denies.
- Mark Zastrow
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News |
Massive ocean carbon sink spotted burping CO2 on the sly
Data from robotic ocean floats reveal that waters off Antarctica don’t absorb as much carbon as scientists thought.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Career News |
Conference attendance boosts authorship opportunities
Scientists who travel to meetings are more likely to co-author papers than are those who stay at home.
- Paul Smaglik
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News & Views |
2018: Choice cuts from this year’s News & Views articles
Extracts from selected News & Views articles published this year.
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News |
The best science images of the year: 2018 in pictures
California’s worst wildfires, cloned monkey twins, the world’s smallest house and more.
- Mico Tatalovic
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast Extra: Evidence of a ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s protein
New research suggests that a key protein involved in the neurodegenerative disease can be transferred between brains.
- Ali Jennings
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News & Views |
Amyloid-β ‘seeds’ in old vials of growth hormone
Some samples of human growth hormone used as therapy until the mid-1980s contain amyloid-β peptide and cause genetically modified mice to develop amyloid-β deposits in the brain.
- Tien-Phat V. Huynh
- & David M. Holtzman
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News |
Huge brain study uncovers ‘buried’ genetic networks linked to mental illness
Enormous genomic analysis yields tantalizing insights into mechanisms behind conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Linda Geddes
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Is blood-spatter science all it’s cracked up to be?
The dubious science of blood-spatter analysis. Plus, digging into the latest evidence on ‘transmissible Alzheimer’s’, and tuberculosis funding hits an all-time high.
- Flora Graham
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Career News |
International students steer clear of graduate programmes in the United States
US immigration policies and stance might be deterring attendance.
- Molly Hawes
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News |
US science academies urge expansion of fusion-energy research
A report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for a US pilot fusion-energy plant.
- Jeff Tollefson
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News |
NIH considers restrictions to counter foreign influence in research
An agency working group advises stronger security measures, but raises concerns about stigmatizing foreign-born researchers in the United States.
- Sara Reardon
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News |
Italian scientists protest funding for vaccine-safety investigation
The National Order of Biologists made a €10,000 donation to a group that questions the safety of vaccines.
- Giorgia Guglielmi
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Research Highlight |
A molecule that helps the ‘exercise hormone’ do its work
Receptor identified on bone cells binds to compound secreted by muscles.
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Letter |
Transmission of amyloid-β protein pathology from cadaveric pituitary growth hormone
Archived vials of cadaveric human growth hormone contain substantial levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides and can seed Aβ plaques in susceptible mice, suggesting that this material could have transmitted Aβ pathology to humans.
- Silvia A. Purro
- , Mark A. Farrow
- , Jacqueline Linehan
- , Tamsin Nazari
- , David X. Thomas
- , Zhicheng Chen
- , David Mengel
- , Takashi Saito
- , Takaomi Saido
- , Peter Rudge
- , Sebastian Brandner
- , Dominic M. Walsh
- & John Collinge
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News |
‘Transmissible’ Alzheimer’s theory gains traction
Mouse tests confirm that sticky proteins associated with degenerative brain diseases can be transferred — but researchers say risks for humans are likely to be minimal.
- Alison Abbott
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News |
How Neanderthal DNA might have shaped some human brains
Gene variants acquired through interbreeding seem to give some people with European ancestry more elongated brains.
- Ewen Callaway
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News |
South Korean scientists protest treatment of university president accused of misusing funds
The science ministry alleges that KAIST leader Shin Sung-Chul made illegal payments to a California lab, but many scientists see a political purge.
- Mark Zastrow
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News |
Cell-jacking proteins could be the key to cracking Zika and dengue
Targeting common host proteins used by different viruses to manipulate human cells could lead to new treatments.
- Amy Maxmen
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Nature Index |
Strong spending compounds chemistry prowess
The discipline’s historic prominence in China is underpinned by its crucial value to industrial processes. Committed funding sees it leading the way in emerging areas, such as nanomaterials.
- Hepeng Jia
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Outlook |
Gene therapy targets sickle-cell disease
The research is promising, but a true cure for this painful condition could be years away.
- Anna Nowogrodzki
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Letter |
Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains
Direct observation of incommensurate spin correlations in doped and spin-imbalanced Hubbard chains confirms two fundamental predictions for Luttinger liquids and shows that such correlations are suppressed by interchain coupling.
- Guillaume Salomon
- , Joannis Koepsell
- , Jayadev Vijayan
- , Timon A. Hilker
- , Jacopo Nespolo
- , Lode Pollet
- , Immanuel Bloch
- & Christian Gross
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News & Views |
An exciting tool for asymmetric synthesis
A catalytic process driven by visible light converts a mixture of mirror-image isomers of compounds called allenes to a single mirror-image isomer — opening up avenues of research for synthetic chemistry.
- Cheng Yang
- & Yoshihisa Inoue
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Outlook |
Gene therapy
Gene tinkering opens the door to treatments for an array of diseases
- Herb Brody
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Letter |
A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds
Misexpression of the sperm-cell-expressed transcription factor BABY BOOM1 in the rice egg cell induces embryo development without fertilization, establishing the feasibility of asexual reproduction in crops and potentially enabling the clonal propagation of hybrids through seeds.
- Imtiyaz Khanday
- , Debra Skinner
- , Bing Yang
- , Raphael Mercier
- & Venkatesan Sundaresan
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Books & Arts |
The Wright brothers’ real story, cosmic chronology, and what happened to the megafauna: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
- Barbara Kiser
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Research Highlight |
Reptile urine used as paint in ancient Peru
Snake waste the probable source of white colour on pottery from first millennium BC.
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Nature Index |
A guide to the Nature Index
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality available free online at natureindex.com.
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Books & Arts |
2018 in culture: Best science books and shows of the year
Ancient robots, suffragist scientists, Tom Lehrer at 90 and the ultimate food fight – 2018 was a gift for science books and art.
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Nature Briefing |
Daily briefing: Trump will target clean-water rules
Some streams and wetlands at risk, the unpredictable effects of editing the gene at the centre of the CRISPR-baby claim and the neural code for everything we see.
- Flora Graham
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Nature Index |
Yielding results to feed a people
Studies to improve the productivity, resistance and taste of rice crops are central to China’s commanding position in plant biology.
- Hepeng Jia
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Nature Index |
Small science grows large in new hands
China’s nanotech industry is forging ahead, with high funding levels, a maturing talent pool, and international experience.
- Sarah O’Meara
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Outlook |
Gene therapy targets epilepsy
Anti-seizure medication doesn’t work in every person with epilepsy. But a treatment option is emerging that would spare the need for brain surgery.
- Liam Drew
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Article |
Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming
Despite inter-model differences in predicting the details of the eastern Pacific El Niño, a robust increase in the corresponding sea surface temperature variability under greenhouse warming is found across models.
- Wenju Cai
- , Guojian Wang
- , Boris Dewitte
- , Lixin Wu
- , Agus Santoso
- , Ken Takahashi
- , Yun Yang
- , Aude Carréric
- & Michael J. McPhaden
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News Feature |
Science in longform: Favourite feature stories in 2018
The first experiment to dim the Sun, the rise of traditional Chinese medicine and an internet of animals are among the stories that shaped 2018.
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News & Views |
Enzymes engineered to trap reaction intermediates
Many enzymatic processes involve a mechanism in which reaction intermediates are covalently attached to the enzyme’s active site. A strategy has been devised that enables mimics of these intermediates to be visualized.
- Andrew M. Gulick
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Nature Index |
All eyes on the prize
To become a world-leading scientific nation in every sense, China needs to close the quality gap.
- Catherine Armitage
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Outlook |
A genetically augmented future
Gene therapy could one day be used for bodily enhancement, creating an ethical minefield for physicians, says Ellen Wright Clayton.
- Ellen Wright Clayton
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: The art of performing science, and chiral chemistry
Join Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell for this week's science updates.
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News |
Global funding for tuberculosis research hits all-time high
But investment still falls short of the US$2 billion needed each year to eliminate the disease by 2030.
- Munyaradzi Makoni
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Research Highlight |
Dracula ant’s powerful pincers snap shut at record speed
Fangs are feeble next to the fastest appendages in the animal world.
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Nature Index |
Quality deficit belies the hype
Few Chinese researchers are regarded as global leaders, as the pressure for rapid output prevails.
- Futao Huang
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Letter |
Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Rh5–CyRPA–Ripr invasion complex
A subnanometre-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Rh5–CyRPA–Ripr complex of Plasmodium falciparum provides insights into how this ligand interacts with the receptor basigin in erythrocyte hosts.
- Wilson Wong
- , Rick Huang
- , Sebastien Menant
- , Chuan Hong
- , Jarrod J. Sandow
- , Richard W. Birkinshaw
- , Julie Healer
- , Anthony N. Hodder
- , Usheer Kanjee
- , Christopher J. Tonkin
- , Denise Heckmann
- , Vladislav Soroka
- , Teit Max Moscote Søgaard
- , Thomas Jørgensen
- , Manoj T. Duraisingh
- , Peter E. Czabotar
- , Willem A. de Jongh
- , Wai-Hong Tham
- , Andrew I. Webb
- , Zhiheng Yu
- & Alan F. Cowman
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Comment |
Debate ethics of embryo models from stem cells
International discussion must guide research, urge Nicolas Rivron, Martin Pera and colleagues.
- Nicolas Rivron
- , Martin Pera
- , Janet Rossant
- , Alfonso Martinez Arias
- , Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
- , Jianping Fu
- , Susanne van den Brink
- , Annelien Bredenoord
- , Wybo Dondorp
- , Guido de Wert
- , Insoo Hyun
- , Megan Munsie
- & Rosario Isasi
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News Explainer |
Could the United Kingdom really build its own global satnav system?
Britain has abandoned plans to rejoin the EU’s Galileo network for defence and critical infrastructure after Brexit — but the alternative faces major hurdles.
- Declan Butler
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Letter |
An entanglement-based wavelength-multiplexed quantum communication network
A fully connected quantum network is demonstrated in which one source of entangled photons distributes quantum states to four users, with the potential for many more users to be added.
- Sören Wengerowsky
- , Siddarth Koduru Joshi
- , Fabian Steinlechner
- , Hannes Hübel
- & Rupert Ursin
