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Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
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Could a rare mutation that causes dwarfism also slow ageing? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
People with Laron syndrome have a low risk of heart disease and a number of other age-related disorders, hinting at strategies for new treatments.
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Future of Humanity Institute shuts: what’s next for ‘deep future’ research? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Researchers from several disciplines hope to predict — and prevent — scenarios that pose risks to humanity.
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Garden-variety fungus is an expert at environmental clean-ups Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
The common fungus Aspergillus niger removes both heavy metals and organic pollutants from its surroundings.
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Air-travel climate-change emissions detailed for nearly 200 nations Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Carbon emissions from flights that departed from low- and middle-income countries in 2019 totalled 417 million tonnes.
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Rat neurons repair mouse brains — and restore sense of smell Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Scientists develop hybrid mice by filling in missing cells and structures in their brains with rat stem cells.
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Hello puffins, goodbye belugas: changing Arctic fjord hints at our climate future Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Stunning images show an ecosystem’s upheaval as it warms at an alarming pace.
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Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
By joining a collecting society, researchers can ensure they are paid when copyrighted book content and papers are reproduced.
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Daily briefing: How an unlikely friendship with Jung influenced Pauli’s physics Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
A patient-analyst relationship to psychoanalyst Carl Jung that evolved into a friendship deeply influenced physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s work. Plus, organoids shed light on cancer and other diseases, and medieval graves reveal secrets of a mysterious nomadic people.
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NIH pay raise for postdocs and PhD students could have US ripple effect Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Salary increases for the 17,000-plus recipients of an NIH research award could lead to increases in other academic settings.
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Bird flu in US cows: is the milk supply safe? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Pasteurized milk is probably not a threat to people, but fresh milk droplets on milking equipment could be spreading the virus in a herd.
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Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Ranga Dias sued his university, in part, for allegedly conducting a biased investigation, which found he had committed extensive scientific misconduct.
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Daily briefing: The origins of bioluminescence in animals date back over half a billion years Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Octocorals probably evolved the ability to make light when the first animals developed eyes. Plus, the WHO has redefined ‘airborne transmission’ and how artificial intelligence is changing weapons of war.
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How DNA encodes the start of transcription Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jun Wang, Vikram Agarwal
The central dogma of molecular biology outlines the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins. With a limited vocabulary of four nucleotides (A, C, G, and T), DNA encodes an extensive instruction set, including the chromosomal positions where RNAs begin to be transcribed and the magnitudes of their expression. This process, known as transcription initiation (1), begins at transcription
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SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Nikita Kaushal, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Micah Wilhelm, Khalil Azennoud, Janica C. Bühler, Kerstin Braun, Yassine Ait Brahim, Andy Baker, Yuval Burstyn, Laia Comas-Bru, Jens Fohlmeister, Yonaton Goldsmith, Sandy P. Harrison, István G. Hatvani, Kira Rehfeld, Magdalena Ritzau, Vanessa Skiba, Heather M. Stoll, József G. Szűcs, Péter Tanos, Pauline C. Treble, Vitor Azevedo, Jonathan L. Baker, Andrea Borsato
Abstract. Palaeoclimate information on multiple climate variables at different spatiotemporal scales is becoming increasingly important to understand environmental and societal responses to climate change. A lack of high-quality reconstructions of past hydroclimate has recently been identified as a critical research gap. Speleothems, with their precise chronologies, widespread distribution, and ability
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The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Nicola Bodini, Mike Optis, Stephanie Redfern, David Rosencrans, Alex Rybchuk, Julie K. Lundquist, Vincent Pronk, Simon Castagneri, Avi Purkayastha, Caroline Draxl, Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Ethan Young, Billy Roberts, Evan Rosenlieb, Walter Musial
Abstract. This article introduces the 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23), which offers the latest wind resource information for offshore regions in the United States. NOW-23 supersedes, for its offshore component, the Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit, which was published a decade ago and is currently a primary resource for wind resource assessments and grid integration studies
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China's Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries.
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‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
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Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation — but critics warn of bias Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
There are questions about whether the tool, which could be used by editors to find and shortlist peer reviewers, would disadvantage inexperienced candidates or those in certain locations.
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NATO is boosting AI and climate research as scientific diplomacy remains on ice Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
As the military alliance created to counter the Soviet Union expands, it is prioritizing studies on how climate change affects security, cyber attacks and election interference.
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Are robots the solution to the crisis in older-person care? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Social robots that promise companionship and stimulation for older people and those with dementia are attracting investment, but some question their benefits.
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Structures of human γδ T cell receptor–CD3 complex Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Weizhi Xin, Bangdong Huang, Ximin Chi, Yuehua Liu, Mengjiao Xu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xu Li, Qiang Su, Qiang Zhou
Gamma delta (γδ) T cells, a unique T cell subgroup, are crucial in various immune responses and immunopathology1-3. The γδ T cell receptor (TCR), generated by γδ T cells, recognizes a diverse range of antigens independently of the major histocompatibility complex2. The γδ TCR associates with CD3 subunits, initiating T cell activation and holding great potential in immunotherapy4. Here, we report the
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How gliding marsupials got their ‘wings’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 April 2024
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Should the Maldives be creating new land? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
The Maldives are racing to reclaim vast amounts of land to combat rising sea levels. But many are concerned that these efforts risk harming the paradise they aims to protect
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This giant extinct salmon had tusks like a warthog Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Scientists initially thought that the outsized teeth were fangs, giving rise to the ‘sabre-toothed salmon’ nickname.
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High-performance fibre battery with polymer gel electrolyte Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Chenhao Lu, Haibo Jiang, Xiangran Cheng, Jiqing He, Yao Long, Yingfan Chang, Xiaocheng Gong, Kun Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Zhengfeng Zhu, Jingxia Wu, Jiajia Wang, Yuanyuan Zheng, Xiang Shi, Lei Ye, Meng Liao, Xuemei Sun, Bingjie Wang, Peining Chen, Yonggang Wang, Huisheng Peng
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Discovery of WRN inhibitor HRO761 with synthetic lethality in MSI cancers Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Stephane Ferretti, Jacques Hamon, Ruben de Kanter, Clemens Scheufler, Rita Andraos-Rey, Stephanie Barbe, Elisabeth Bechter, Jutta Blank, Vincent Bordas, Ernesta Dammassa, Andrea Decker, Noemi Di Nanni, Marion Dourdoigne, Elena Gavioli, Marc Hattenberger, Alisa Heuser, Christelle Hemmerlin, Jürgen Hinrichs, Grainne Kerr, Laurent Laborde, Isabel Jaco, Eloísa Jiménez Núñez, Hans-Joerg Martus, Cornelia
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Antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic approach for Timothy syndrome Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiaoyu Chen, Fikri Birey, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Rebecca Levy, Mayuri Vijay Thete, Noah Reis, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Massimo Onesto, Noriaki Sakai, Zuzana Hudacova, Jin Hao, Xiangling Meng, Seiji Nishino, John Huguenard, Sergiu P. Pașca
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Multi-project wafers for flexible thin-film electronics by independent foundries Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Hikmet Çeliker, Wim Dehaene, Kris Myny
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Growth of diamond in liquid metal at 1 atm pressure Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Yan Gong, Da Luo, Myeonggi Choe, Yongchul Kim, Babu Ram, Mohammad Zafari, Won Kyung Seong, Pavel Bakharev, Meihui Wang, In Kee Park, Seulyi Lee, Tae Joo Shin, Zonghoon Lee, Geunsik Lee, Rodney S. Ruoff
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PGE2 limits effector expansion of tumour-infiltrating stem-like CD8+ T cells Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Sebastian B. Lacher, Janina Dörr, Gustavo P. de Almeida, Julian Hönninger, Felix Bayerl, Anna Hirschberger, Anna-Marie Pedde, Philippa Meiser, Lukas Ramsauer, Thomas J. Rudolph, Nadine Spranger, Matteo Morotti, Alizee J. Grimm, Sebastian Jarosch, Arman Oner, Lisa Gregor, Stefanie Lesch, Stefanos Michaelides, Luisa Fertig, Daria Briukhovetska, Lina Majed, Sophia Stock, Dirk H. Busch, Veit R. Buchholz
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A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 S. Ding, A. M. Garofalo, H. Q. Wang, D. B. Weisberg, Z. Y. Li, X. Jian, D. Eldon, B. S. Victor, A. Marinoni, Q. M. Hu, I. S. Carvalho, T. Odstrčil, L. Wang, A. W. Hyatt, T. H. Osborne, X. Z. Gong, J. P. Qian, J. Huang, J. McClenaghan, C. T. Holcomb, J. M. Hanson
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Single-cell analysis reveals context-dependent, cell-level selection of mtDNA Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Anna V. Kotrys, Timothy J. Durham, Xiaoyan A. Guo, Venkata R. Vantaku, Sareh Parangi, Vamsi K. Mootha
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Chemoproteomic discovery of a covalent allosteric inhibitor of WRN helicase Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Kristen A. Baltgalvis, Kelsey N. Lamb, Kent T. Symons, Chu-Chiao Wu, Melissa A. Hoffman, Aaron N. Snead, Xiaodan Song, Thomas Glaza, Shota Kikuchi, Jason C. Green, Donald C. Rogness, Betty Lam, Maria E. Rodriguez-Aguirre, David R. Woody, Christie L. Eissler, Socorro Rodiles, Seth M. Negron, Steffen M. Bernard, Eileen Tran, Jonathan Pollock, Ali Tabatabaei, Victor Contreras, Heather N. Williams, Martha
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A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Sandro Mereghetti, Michela Rigoselli, Ruben Salvaterra, Dominik Patryk Pacholski, James Craig Rodi, Diego Gotz, Edoardo Arrigoni, Paolo D’Avanzo, Christophe Adami, Angela Bazzano, Enrico Bozzo, Riccardo Brivio, Sergio Campana, Enrico Cappellaro, Jerome Chenevez, Fiore De Luise, Lorenzo Ducci, Paolo Esposito, Carlo Ferrigno, Matteo Ferro, Gian Luca Israel, Emeric Le Floc’h, Antonio Martin-Carrillo,
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Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiaoyin Chen, Stephan Fischer, Mara C. P. Rue, Aixin Zhang, Didhiti Mukherjee, Patrick O. Kanold, Jesse Gillis, Anthony M. Zador
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Periportal macrophages protect against commensal-driven liver inflammation Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Yu Miyamoto, Junichi Kikuta, Takahiro Matsui, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Kentaro Fujii, Daisuke Okuzaki, Yu-chen Liu, Takuya Yoshioka, Shigeto Seno, Daisuke Motooka, Yutaka Uchida, Erika Yamashita, Shogo Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Eiichi Morii, Karl Tryggvason, Takashi Shichita, Hisako Kayama, Koji Atarashi, Jun Kunisawa, Kenya Honda, Kiyoshi Takeda, Masaru Ishii
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High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Linfeng Pan, Linjie Dai, Oliver J. Burton, Lu Chen, Virgil Andrei, Youcheng Zhang, Dan Ren, Jinshui Cheng, Linxiao Wu, Kyle Frohna, Anna Abfalterer, Terry Chien-Jen Yang, Wenzhe Niu, Meng Xia, Stephan Hofmann, Paul J. Dyson, Erwin Reisner, Henning Sirringhaus, Jingshan Luo, Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Grätzel, Samuel D. Stranks
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Probing entanglement in a 2D hard-core Bose–Hubbard lattice Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Amir H. Karamlou, Ilan T. Rosen, Sarah E. Muschinske, Cora N. Barrett, Agustin Di Paolo, Leon Ding, Patrick M. Harrington, Max Hays, Rabindra Das, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Meghan Schuldt, Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Simon Gustavsson, Yariv Yanay, Jeffrey A. Grover, William D. Oliver
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One-dimensional proximity superconductivity in the quantum Hall regime Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Julien Barrier, Minsoo Kim, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Na Xin, P. Kumaravadivel, Lee Hague, E. Nguyen, A. I. Berdyugin, Christian Moulsdale, V. V. Enaldiev, J. R. Prance, F. H. L. Koppens, R. V. Gorbachev, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. I. Glazman, I. V. Grigorieva, V. I. Fal’ko, A. K. Geim
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Transient loss of Polycomb components induces an epigenetic cancer fate Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 V. Parreno, V. Loubiere, B. Schuettengruber, L. Fritsch, C. C. Rawal, M. Erokhin, B. Győrffy, D. Normanno, M. Di Stefano, J. Moreaux, N. L. Butova, I. Chiolo, D. Chetverina, A.-M. Martinez, G. Cavalli
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Spatiotemporally resolved colorectal oncogenesis in mini-colons ex vivo Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 L. Francisco Lorenzo-Martín, Tania Hübscher, Amber D. Bowler, Nicolas Broguiere, Jakob Langer, Lucie Tillard, Mikhail Nikolaev, Freddy Radtke, Matthias P. Lutolf
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Valleytronics in bulk MoS2 with a topologic optical field Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Igor Tyulnev, Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Julita Poborska, Lenard Vamos, Philip St. J. Russell, Francesco Tani, Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov, Rui E. F. Silva, Jens Biegert
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Regioselective hydroformylation of propene catalysed by rhodium-zeolite Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiangjie Zhang, Tao Yan, Huaming Hou, Junqing Yin, Hongliu Wan, Xiaodong Sun, Qing Zhang, Fanfei Sun, Yao Wei, Mei Dong, Weibin Fan, Jianguo Wang, Yujie Sun, Xiong Zhou, Kai Wu, Yong Yang, Yongwang Li, Zhi Cao
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Mechanism of single-stranded DNA annealing by RAD52–RPA complex Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Chih-Chao Liang, Luke A. Greenhough, Laura Masino, Sarah Maslen, Ilirjana Bajrami, Marcel Tuppi, Mark Skehel, Ian A. Taylor, Stephen C. West
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Dearomatization drives complexity generation in freshwater organic matter Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Siyu Li, Mourad Harir, David Bastviken, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Michael Gonsior, Alex Enrich-Prast, Juliana Valle, Norbert Hertkorn
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Emx2 underlies the development and evolution of marsupial gliding membranes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jorge A. Moreno, Olga Dudchenko, Charles Y. Feigin, Sarah A. Mereby, Zhuoxin Chen, Raul Ramos, Axel A. Almet, Harsha Sen, Benjamin J. Brack, Matthew R. Johnson, Sha Li, Wei Wang, Jenna M. Gaska, Alexander Ploss, David Weisz, Arina D. Omer, Weijie Yao, Zane Colaric, Parwinder Kaur, Judy St. Leger, Qing Nie, Alexandria Mena, Joseph P. Flanagan, Greta Keller, Thomas Sanger, Bruce Ostrow, Maksim V. Plikus
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Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Alexandre R. Zuntini, Tom Carruthers, Olivier Maurin, Paul C. Bailey, Kevin Leempoel, Grace E. Brewer, Niroshini Epitawalage, Elaine Françoso, Berta Gallego-Paramo, Catherine McGinnie, Raquel Negrão, Shyamali R. Roy, Lalita Simpson, Eduardo Toledo Romero, Vanessa M. A. Barber, Laura Botigué, James J. Clarkson, Robyn S. Cowan, Steven Dodsworth, Matthew G. Johnson, Jan T. Kim, Lisa Pokorny, Norman J
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Optical clocks at sea Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jonathan D. Roslund, Arman Cingöz, William D. Lunden, Guthrie B. Partridge, Abijith S. Kowligy, Frank Roller, Daniel B. Sheredy, Gunnar E. Skulason, Joe P. Song, Jamil R. Abo-Shaeer, Martin M. Boyd
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PGE2 inhibits TIL expansion by disrupting IL-2 signalling and mitochondrial function Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Matteo Morotti, Alizee J. Grimm, Helen Carrasco Hope, Marion Arnaud, Mathieu Desbuisson, Nicolas Rayroux, David Barras, Maria Masid, Baptiste Murgues, Bovannak S. Chap, Marco Ongaro, Ioanna A. Rota, Catherine Ronet, Aspram Minasyan, Johanna Chiffelle, Sebastian B. Lacher, Sara Bobisse, Clément Murgues, Eleonora Ghisoni, Khaoula Ouchen, Ribal Bou Mjahed, Fabrizio Benedetti, Naoill Abdellaoui, Riccardo
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Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Zsófia Rácz, Levente Samu, Tamás Szeniczey, Norbert Faragó, Corina Knipper, Ronny Friedrich, Denisa Zlámalová, Luca Traverso, Salvatore Liccardo, Sandra Wabnitz, Divyaratan Popli, Ke Wang, Rita Radzeviciute, Bence Gulyás, István Koncz, Csilla Balogh, Gabriella M. Lezsák, Viktor Mácsai, Magdalena M. E. Bunbury, Olga Spekker, Petrus le Roux, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Balázs
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Mini-colon and brain 'organoids' shed light on cancer and other diseases Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Tiny 3D structures made from human stem cells sometimes offer insights that animal models cannot.
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Atomic clock keeps ultra-precise time aboard a rocking naval ship Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine threads the needle between precision and practicality.
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Robust optical clocks promise stable timing in a portable package Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Bonnie L. S. Marlow, Jonathan Hirschauer
At-sea testing of three compact optical clocks.
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Targeting RNA opens therapeutic avenues for Timothy syndrome Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Silvia Velasco
Genetic therapy for Timothy syndrome tested in organoid models.
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Plastic pollution: three numbers that support a crackdown Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
As negotiators haggle over a global treaty to curb plastics pollution, a flood of data outlines how a treaty could make a difference.
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Bioengineered ‘mini-colons’ shed light on cancer progression Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Nicolò Riggi, Felipe de Sousa e Melo
Experimental system to examine tumour formation over space and time.
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Ancient DNA traces family lines and political shifts in the Avar empire Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Lara M. Cassidy
Social structure of a medieval civilization revealed by ancient DNA.
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Galaxy found napping in the primordial Universe Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jacqueline Antwi-Danso
JWST reveals distant quenched galaxy.
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Retractions are part of science, but misconduct isn’t — lessons from a superconductivity lab Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Journals, funders and institutions that employ researchers all want to produce or disseminate rigorous scientific knowledge — and all can learn lessons from misconduct cases.