Interdisciplinary studies articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    Analysis of projected sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation show an income reduction of 19% of the world economy within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.

    • Maximilian Kotz
    • , Anders Levermann
    •  & Leonie Wenz
  • Article
    | Open Access

    A global high-resolution disaster footprint analytical model is developed to show substantial socioeconomic impacts from climatic change-driven heat stress through the global supply chain by 2060 due to direct and indirect effects on health and labour productivity.

    • Yida Sun
    • , Shupeng Zhu
    •  & Dabo Guan
  • Article |

    Analysis of research articles and patent applications shows that members of teams that collaborate remotely are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries than members of on-site teams.

    • Yiling Lin
    • , Carl Benedikt Frey
    •  & Lingfei Wu
  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study shows that, although the number of incarcerated people in the USA decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino individuals increased.

    • Brennan Klein
    • , C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
    •  & Elizabeth Hinton
  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study proposes four ways in which foods sourced in aquatic environments can contribute to healthier, more environmentally sustainable and equitable food systems, and examines the relevance of these ambitions to nations.

    • Beatrice I. Crona
    • , Emmy Wassénius
    •  & Colette C. C. Wabnitz
  • Article
    | Open Access

    Philological analysis of labels and instructions, together with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis of residues on vessels recovered from a 26th Dynasty embalming workshop at Saqqara, Egypt provide insights into ancient Egyptian embalming practices.

    • Maxime Rageot
    • , Ramadan B. Hussein
    •  & Philipp W. Stockhammer
  • Article
    | Open Access

    Two remarkably large sites in southwest Amazonia, belonging to the Casarabe culture, include complex civic-ceremonial architecture and large water-management infrastructure, representing a type of tropical low-density urbanism that has not previously been described in Amazonia.

    • Heiko Prümers
    • , Carla Jaimes Betancourt
    •  & Martin Schaich
  • Article |

    A global assessment shows that increases in the number of wet days and extreme daily rainfall adversely affect economic growth, particularly in high-income nations and via the services and manufacturing sectors.

    • Maximilian Kotz
    • , Anders Levermann
    •  & Leonie Wenz
  • Article |

    Estimates of global total biomass (the mass of all living things) and anthopogenic mass (the mass embedded in inanimate objects made by humans) over time show that we are roughly at the timepoint when anthropogenic mass exceeds total biomass.

    • Emily Elhacham
    • , Liad Ben-Uri
    •  & Ron Milo
  • Article |

    Analyses of COVID-19 infection rates show that non-pharmaceutical interventions achieved large, beneficial and measurable health outcomes in China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the United States; these results may inform decisions on whether or when these interventions should be deployed, intensified or lifted.

    • Solomon Hsiang
    • , Daniel Allen
    •  & Tiffany Wu
  • Letter |

    The dynamics of interactions between hate-orientated networks on different online platforms is characterized, and a mathematical model predicts that policing on one online platform can make matters worse and generate ‘darker’ parts of the Internet.

    • N. F. Johnson
    • , R. Leahy
    •  & S. Wuchty
  • Books & Arts |

    Michael A. Goldman hails the first English translation of the three-man paper that launched molecular biology.

    • Michael A. Goldman
  • Career Brief |

    International graduate student fellowship aims to identify future scientific leaders.

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    Concerns about food shortages, land use, climate change and biodiversity have created a huge need for interdisciplinary researchers focused on agriculture. Virginia Gewin investigates the opportunities.

    • Virginia Gewin