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02/11/2024

Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question: What makes the human brain so special? Read the Nature feature.

Nature News & Comment

02/11/2024

The genetic history of the aurochs—the wild ancestors of domestic cattle—reveals a complex ancestry and migration across Eurasia and North Africa, shaped by climate change and human activity, according to research published in Nature.

Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3YID64P

02/11/2024

Trauma and infections increase during war, while routine cancer care is disrupted, but telemedicine, AI chatbots and electronic health records can help, reports a feature in Nature Medicine. 🔒

Nature Medicine

01/11/2024

Drug-related errors are a leading cause of preventable patient harm in the clinical setting. A paper in npj Digital Medicine presents the first wearable camera system to automatically detect potential errors, prior to medication delivery.

Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3C0dCqS

01/11/2024

A Perspective in Nature Reviews Microbiology reflects on current approaches and challenges of defining a ‘healthy microbiome,’ and proposes an updated framework for interpreting these dynamic ecosystems. Read the article: https://go.nature.com/3AnCdFt 🔒

01/11/2024

A paper in Nature describes a fossil tadpole from around 161 million years ago, which is the oldest known tadpole reported to date. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3YJkzp7

31/10/2024

A collection of papers from the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) published across Nature Portfolio journals present maps of tumours and their surrounding environments, including breast, colon and pancreas, which offer new insights into tumour biology.

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31/10/2024

Announcing the 2024 Inspiring Women in Science Award Winners! Congratulations to Claire Chewapreecha on winning Scientific Achievement, and WITIN Girls STEM Clubs for Science Outreach Award! From life-saving genomics to empowering girls in Nigeria, their work is shaping a brighter, more inclusive future in STEM.

Learn more about the winners: https://go.nature.com/3vsFdxo

31/10/2024

To celebrate Halloween, Nature Careers asked nine scientists what inspired them to study unorthodox animals and plants and what they want the world to know about their favourite organisms.

Nature Careers

31/10/2024

A study in Nature Mental Health identifies increased hippocampal, posterior hippocampal, and amygdala connectivity in people who had experienced whiplash and mild traumatic brain injury and who developed chronic pain one year later. Read the article: https://go.nature.com/3YFOkXP 🔒

30/10/2024

A paper in Scientific Reports presents the Cough2COVID-19 framework, an AI that can detect COVID-19 in cough audio signals with 98% accuracy.

Scientific Reports

30/10/2024

Drone-mounted LiDAR has revealed the extent of two lost cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The finding of these cities, reported in Nature, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought.

Read the research paper: https://go.nature.com/3NzIAIV

30/10/2024

A Data Descriptor in Scientific Data presents Course-Skill Atlas, a longitudinal dataset of skills inferred from over three million course syllabi taught at nearly three thousand U.S. higher education institutions.

Read the article: https://go.nature.com/3UkCXC0

29/10/2024

A study in Nature Computational Science projects e-waste growth from generative AI to reach a total accumulation of 1.2-5 million metric tons during 2020-2030 if no waste reduction measures are implemented.

Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/4e2RDg7

29/10/2024

Achieving net-zero climate targets requires substantial land for carbon dioxide removal. A paper in Nature Communications quantifies the land area in countries’ climate pledges at approximately 1 billion hectares, often involving the conversion of existing land uses to forests.

Nature Communications

29/10/2024

Given the concerns over US leadership in science, how does the country measure up and what comes next after the election? Nature examines the numbers and a few key issues that could determine the United States’ scientific future.

Nature News & Comment

28/10/2024

A paper in Nature Medicine presents an intervention known as AVATAR therapy that enables people with psychosis who hear distressing voices to engage with a digital embodiment of the voice they hear and may lead to short-term improvements in voice-related distress. Read the article: https://go.nature.com/3YrrIJa

28/10/2024

Political polarization is an understudied determinant of health. A Review in Nature Medicine describes the types of political polarization and how they impact the health of populations and individuals, including potential mitigation strategies and research priorities. Read the article: https://rdcu.be/dX7Zr

28/10/2024

Bureaucrats in Pakistan and India are more likely to impose sanctions on crop residue burning when its negative effects are felt in their jurisdiction rather than across the border, a paper in Nature suggests.

The findings show that action varies according to the geographical consequences (both on the environment and public health) of the practice and offer insights on how better control may be implemented.

Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3BTmw9j

27/10/2024

Nature reports how models have vastly underestimated the energy costs of reproduction across the animal kingdom and what researchers are doing about it.

Nature News & Comment

27/10/2024

Base editing screens of 11 cancer genes identify four functional classes of variants that collectively underpin sensitivity and resistance to ten commonly used drugs in cancer cell lines, according to a paper in Nature Genetics. https://go.nature.com/48jXtsc

27/10/2024

A Review in Nature Reviews Cardiology describes the adverse effects of soil and water pollution—including heavy metal, pesticide, and microplastic and nanoplastic pollution—on cardiovascular health. Read the Review: https://go.nature.com/3YfdWt8 🔒

27/10/2024

A study published in Nature reports on the successful treatment of patients suffering from toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) using JAK inhibitors. TEN is a rare but often fatal reaction to common medications.

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26/10/2024

Hiring managers want applicants to show passion and dedication, but not overconfidence or exaggerations. A feature from Nature Careers describes how to walk this line.

Nature Careers

26/10/2024

A study in Nature finds that two archaeological sites located over 2,000 m above sea level in the mountains of Uzbekistan were major urban centres. The discovery of the remote sites, positioned along Asia’s medieval Silk Routes, may warrant a rethink of the role of peripheral communities in shaping trade and political interactions along the Silk Road. Read the article: https://go.nature.com/3NzIAIV

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Cleaner fish with MSR capacity realize their body size based on their mental image

A study in Scientific Reports shows that cleaner fish, having attained mirror self-recognition, construct a mental image of their bodies by investigating their ability to recall body size. The study demonstrates that cleaner fish possess private self-awareness. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3XpDumT

A fingertip-wearable microgrid system for autonomous energy management and metabolic monitoring

A paper in Nature Electronics presents a wearable microgrid powered solely by fingertip perspiration that can monitor metabolic biomarkers—including glucose, vitamin C, lactate and levodopa—over extended periods of time. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/4grSXvF 🔒

A Scottish origin for Stonehenge’s enigmatic Altar Stone

A new geochemical analysis of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, published in Nature, suggests that this stone originally came from the Orcadian Basin in Scotland, over 700 kilometres away.

Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots

An analysis of how rhinoceros beetles deploy and retract their hindwings shows that the process is passive, requiring no muscular activity, according to a paper in Nature. The findings could help improve the design of flying micromachines, which can be seen in this video. #Technology

Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots

A paper in Nature describes an ultra-lightweight, solar-powered micro aerial vehicle capable of sustained flight. The device is lighter and smaller than existing sunlight-powered aerial vehicles, and may enable long-distance and long-duration aerial reconnaissance applications. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3Sdddqe

Science in Shorts Winners

Congratulations to the 10 winners of Science in Shorts! Making complex science fun and understandable in one minute is tough, but these winners nailed it. Watch all of them here: https://go.nature.com/SISWIN24FB

Spinoff Prize Winner 2024

Congratulations to Spinoff Prize 2024 winner Trince! Learn how this spinoff from Ghent University is using laser-heated nanoparticles to create openings in cell membranes that permit low-damage introduction of molecules. https://go.nature.com/3xUxha0

On Your Wavelength podcast: Episode 3

The latest On Your Wavelength podcast episode dives into the story of how a surprise scientific discovery was published in Nature Physics. Listen here: https://go.nature.com/3XVZQhM

Continuous neural control of a bionic limb restores biomimetic gait after amputation

A neuroprosthetic interface that allows a bionic leg to be fully responsive to the human nervous system is reported in a paper published in Nature Medicine. Read the paper here: https://go.nature.com/3xxWiYq

A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass

A Nature paper reports the discovery of a simple, rigid, bioorganic peptide glass composed of natural amino acids that undergoes complete self-healing at room temperature and can be useful for various applications in science and engineering. 🔒 Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3xnXr4y

The Spinoff Prize: Announcing the 2024 Finalists

Digistain, SalivaDirect, Trince Bio and Tezcat Biosciences have made it to the final of the Spinoff Prize 2024. Find out who wins the €30,000 prize at Curious2024 – Future Insight. Learn more: https://go.nature.com/SpinoffFinalists24FB

Experiment-free exoskeleton assistance via learning in simulation

A paper in Nature presents a simulation framework to speed up the development of control systems for an exoskeleton that assists movement in real-world settings. The findings suggest this framework may help to accelerate the widespread adoption of devices including exoskeletons and prostheses. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3VPaGF3

The Nature Awards Microbiome Accelerator

Last chance to win a spot on an exclusive training programme at our London HQ and $10,000! Submit to the Nature Awards Microbiome Accelerator by June 24. https://go.nature.com/MicrobiomeAccelerator24FB

Maximum diffusion reinforcement learning

An article in Nature Machine Intelligence discusses MaxDiff RL, a method to tackle learning challenges in embodied agents (AI systems that interact with the physical world like robots and virtual assistants) by using statistical mechanics for reliable decision-making. 🔒 Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3RdgSDV

Stretchable OLEDs based on a hidden active area for high fill factor and resolution compensation

A paper in Nature Communications reports on the construction of flexible and stretchable organic light-emitting devices with improved performance compared to previous forms of this technology. This research tackles the reduced resolution upon stretch in conventional stretchable displays and could aid in the development of next-generation conformable technology. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3yWErKL

Imperceptible augmentation of living systems with organic bioelectronic fibres

A study in Nature Electronics uses customizable fibre networks to create on-skin electrodes that can record electrocardiogram and electromyography signals, skin-gated organic electrochemical transistors and augmented touch and plant interfaces. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3WXVnun

Levitation and dynamics of bodies in supersaturated fluids

A study in Nature Communications uses raisins and 3D-printed bodies in carbonated water and finds that the motion of the solid object is influenced by the accumulation and release of bubbles as they reach the surface. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3QWpfDE

Molecular pixelation: spatial proteomics of single cells by sequencing

A paper in Nature Methods presents Molecular Pixelation, which is an optics-free method that uses DNA-tagged antibodies to enable identification of the relative location of proteins on single cells. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/44BUeui

Representation of internal speech by single neurons in human supramarginal gyrus

A paper in Nature Human Behaviour presents a new technology that could enable researchers to extract meaning from brain signals during internal speech. The preliminary findings could aid the development of tools to help to restore communication in people who have lost the ability to speak. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/4anxxvf

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