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Emergence of a distinct mechanism of C–N bond formation in photoenzymes Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Felix C. Raps, Ariadna Rivas-Souchet, Chey M. Jones, Todd K. Hyster
C–N bond formation is integral to modern chemical synthesis due to the ubiquity of nitrogen heterocycles in small-molecule pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Alkene hydroamination with unactivated alkenes is an atom economical strategy for constructing these bonds. However, these reactions are challenging to render asymmetric when preparing fully substituted carbon stereocenters. Here, we report a
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Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.
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Nobel prizes are globally unrepresentative — the nomination process must be opened up Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
The geography of science is changing. As a result, a big push is needed to broaden the pool of scientists eligible to nominate their peers for Nobel prizes.
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Lethal Marburg virus is on the rise in Rwanda: why scientists are worried Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
There is no proven vaccine or treatment for infections with the virus, which is closely related to Ebola virus and causes similar symptoms.
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South Korea’s emissions-reduction plan declared unconstitutional in a landmark climate case Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
Letter to the Editor
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Congress is threatening funding of US firearm-injury prevention research — again Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
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GPS tracking reveals how hares shape lynx populations Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Abigail Klopper
Tracking Canada lynx as they move across Alaska.
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Accidental gunpowder blast caused an uproar at London Zoo in 1874 Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Establish global standards to protect childhood cancer genomics data Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
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Unevidenced biodiversity claim should be abandoned — but biodiversity can be counted Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
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Tips to beat ‘brain drain’: how to foster home expertise from abroad Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
Governments should encourage researchers to stay and boost the economies of their home countries rather than working overseas.
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Biases in ‘sustainable finance’ metrics could hinder lending to those that need it most Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Arjuna Dibley, Rebecca Burdon, Alister Self, Jared Lewis, Malte Meinshausen, Johannes Gütschow, Mika Pflüger, Daniel Busch, Ben Neville
Private-investor approaches for measuring the emissions associated with lending to governments risk creating perverse incentives.
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Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods.
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Physics Nobel scooped by machine-learning pioneers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton pioneered computational methods that enabled the development of neural networks.
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How to keep research afloat during an administrative stint Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
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What if Marie Curie’s greatest legacy was not her two Nobel prizes? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08
A compelling book uncovers little-known aspects of the iconic chemist’s life, and the pioneering — if troubled — careers of the women who worked with her.
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Does the 2024 US election matter to science? Take Nature’s poll Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
The presidential election in the United States will have global ramifications. Do scientists around the world care who wins? Will the outcome affect you?
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Daily briefing: Believe it or not, this lush green landscape is Antarctica Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
A region of Antarctica is going green at an alarming rate. Plus, scientists reflect on one year of the Israel–Hamas conflict.
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Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: why discovery took 30 years to prove Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.
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Gravitational wells in the large-scale structure of the Universe Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
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Author Correction: Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Jaeseok Lee, Victor C. Tsai, Greg Hirth, Avigyan Chatterjee, Daniel T. Trugman
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I embrace traditional roots in Argentinian winemaking Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Working as an oenologist brings to life an important aspect of my country’s cultural identity.
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New peer-review trial lets grant applicants evaluate each other’s proposals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
One of Germany’s biggest research-funding organizations is hoping ‘distributed peer review’ can help to tackle the reviewer shortage.
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Medicine Nobel awarded for gene-regulating microRNAs Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun identified a class of tiny molecules that have a crucial role in controlling gene expression.
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Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Mayank Kejriwal, Henrique Santos, Alice M. Mulvehill, Ke Shen, Deborah L. McGuinness, Henry Lieberman
The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of.
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How to keep a president healthy — tips from a former White House doctor Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
From quitting smoking to dealing with anthrax, a fascinating memoir looks behind the scenes at presidential health care.
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The Israel–Hamas conflict one year on: researcher resilience in the face of war Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and educators on both sides of the border describe the devastation of lost homes, destroyed laboratories and slain colleagues.
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Daily briefing: Is this where mitochondria came from? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Researchers pop a bacterium into a larger cell in echo of the first complex life. Plus, why there’s no bird flu in Australia… yet.
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Publisher Correction: Nitrogen-doped amorphous monolayer carbon Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Xiuhui Bai, Pengfei Hu, Ang Li, Youwei Zhang, Aowen Li, Guangjie Zhang, Yufeng Xue, Tianxing Jiang, Zezhou Wang, Hanke Cui, Jianxin Kang, Hewei Zhao, Lin Gu, Wu Zhou, Li-Min Liu, Xiaohui Qiu, Lin Guo
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07958-0 Published online 25 September 2024
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Author Correction: UDP-glucose accelerates SNAI1 mRNA decay and impairs lung cancer metastasis Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Xiongjun Wang, Ruilong Liu, Wencheng Zhu, Huiying Chu, Hua Yu, Ping Wei, Xueyuan Wu, Hongwen Zhu, Hong Gao, Ji Liang, Guohui Li, Weiwei Yang
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1340-y Published online 26 June 2019
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Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa's public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever.
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach was in deflecting its course.
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Believe it or not, this lush landscape is Antarctica Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Vegetation is spreading at an alarming rate in a place where temperatures are soaring.
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Daily briefing: How to win a Nobel prize: what past winners can tell you about your chances Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
We take a glance into the brain of a fruit fly in unprecedented detail and look to history to find out how to win a Nobel prize.
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The nested morphology of disk winds from young stars revealed by JWST/NIRSpec observations Nat. Astron. (IF 12.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Ilaria Pascucci, Tracy L. Beck, Sylvie Cabrit, Naman S. Bajaj, Suzan Edwards, Fabien Louvet, Joan R. Najita, Bennett N. Skinner, Uma Gorti, Colette Salyk, Sean D. Brittain, Sebastiaan Krijt, James Muzerolle Page, Maxime Ruaud, Kamber Schwarz, Dmitry Semenov, Gaspard Duchêne, Marion Villenave
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Why hasn’t deadly bird flu reached Australia yet? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
Several theories explain why Oceania is the last region free of the H5N1 virus.
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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-04
The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.
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Bacteria implanted into fungi offer clues to the origins of complex life Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.
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How artificial intelligence can help to keep us safe Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
Sociologist Gabriele Jacobs believes AI can be a useful tool in public safety, if developed ethically and responsibly.
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Essential vector-disease resource faces shutdown without funding Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01
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US election has profound implications for science in Ukraine Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01
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International action is needed now to save the Pantanal Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01
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Jordan’s green-energy vision requires refinement Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01
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Mutant maize with a ‘smart canopy’ evades the shade at high planting density Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
Plants with a mutation in a shade-responsive leaf gene have increased yields.
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A virus-derived enzyme can destroy the membrane structures that protect bacteria Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-03
A previously unknown enzyme can kill the bacteria that cause graft-versus-host disease in the treatment of blood disorders.
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A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02
The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.
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The fly connectome reveals a path to the effectome Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Dean A. Pospisil, Max J. Aragon, Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Amy R. Sterling, Philipp Schlegel, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire E. McKellar, Marta Costa, Katharina Eichler, Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Mala Murthy, Jonathan W. Pillow
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Bulk high-temperature superconductivity in pressurized tetragonal La2PrNi2O7 Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Ningning Wang, Gang Wang, Xiaoling Shen, Jun Hou, Jun Luo, Xiaoping Ma, Huaixin Yang, Lifen Shi, Jie Dou, Jie Feng, Jie Yang, Yunqing Shi, Zhian Ren, Hanming Ma, Pengtao Yang, Ziyi Liu, Yue Liu, Hua Zhang, Xiaoli Dong, Yuxin Wang, Kun Jiang, Jiangping Hu, Shoko Nagasaki, Kentaro Kitagawa, Stuart Calder, Jiaqiang Yan, Jianping Sun, Bosen Wang, Rui Zhou, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Jinguang Cheng
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Network statistics of the whole-brain connectome of Drosophila Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Albert Lin, Runzhe Yang, Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Amy R. Sterling, Philipp Schlegel, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire E. McKellar, Marta Costa, Katharina Eichler, Alexander Shakeel Bates, Nils Eckstein, Jan Funke, Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Mala Murthy
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Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Amy R. Sterling, Philipp Schlegel, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire E. McKellar, Albert Lin, Marta Costa, Katharina Eichler, Yijie Yin, Will Silversmith, Casey Schneider-Mizell, Chris S. Jordan, Derrick Brittain, Akhilesh Halageri, Kai Kuehner, Oluwaseun Ogedengbe, Ryan Morey, Jay Gager, Krzysztof Kruk, Eric Perlman, Runzhe Yang, David Deutsch, Doug Bland, Marissa Sorek, Ran Lu
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Rapid homologue juxtaposition during meiotic chromosome pairing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Tadasu Nozaki, Beth Weiner, Nancy Kleckner
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Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 N. Østgaard, A. Mezentsev, M. Marisaldi, J. E. Grove, M. Quick, H. Christian, S. Cummer, M. Pazos, Y. Pu, M. Stanley, D. Sarria, T. Lang, C. Schultz, R. Blakeslee, I. Adams, R. Kroodsma, G. Heymsfield, N. Lehtinen, K. Ullaland, S. Yang, B. Hasan Qureshi, J. Søndergaard, B. Husa, D. Walker, D. Shy, M. Bateman, P. Bitzer, M. Fullekrug, M. Cohen, J. Montanya, C. Younes, O. van der Velde, P. Krehbiel,
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Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand
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A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Philip K. Shiu, Gabriella R. Sterne, Nico Spiller, Romain Franconville, Andrea Sandoval, Joie Zhou, Neha Simha, Chan Hyuk Kang, Seongbong Yu, Jinseop S. Kim, Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Philipp Schlegel, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire E. McKellar, Amy Sterling, Marta Costa, Katharina Eichler, Alexander Shakeel Bates, Nils Eckstein, Jan Funke, Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Mala Murthy, Salil S. Bidaye, Stefanie
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Signature of the western boundary currents in local climate variability Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 James G. Larson, David W. J. Thompson, James W. Hurrell
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Mortality caused by tropical cyclones in the United States Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Rachel Young, Solomon Hsiang
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Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Philipp Schlegel, Yijie Yin, Alexander S. Bates, Sven Dorkenwald, Katharina Eichler, Paul Brooks, Daniel S. Han, Marina Gkantia, Marcia dos Santos, Eva J. Munnelly, Griffin Badalamente, Laia Serratosa Capdevila, Varun A. Sane, Alexandra M. C. Fragniere, Ladann Kiassat, Markus W. Pleijzier, Tomke Stürner, Imaan F. M. Tamimi, Christopher R. Dunne, Irene Salgarella, Alexandre Javier, Siqi Fang, Eric Perlman
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RNA m5C oxidation by TET2 regulates chromatin state and leukaemogenesis Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Zhongyu Zou, Xiaoyang Dou, Ying Li, Zijie Zhang, Juan Wang, Boyang Gao, Yu Xiao, Yiding Wang, Lijie Zhao, Chenxi Sun, Qinzhe Liu, Xianbin Yu, Hao Wang, Juyeong Hong, Qing Dai, Feng-Chun Yang, Mingjiang Xu, Chuan He
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Tuft cells act as regenerative stem cells in the human intestine Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Lulu Huang, Jochem H. Bernink, Amir Giladi, Daniel Krueger, Gijs J. F. van Son, Maarten H. Geurts, Georg Busslinger, Lin Lin, Harry Begthel, Maurice Zandvliet, Christianne J. Buskens, Willem A. Bemelman, Carmen López-Iglesias, Peter J. Peters, Hans Clevers