Trump’s pick for the US regulatory agency will bring experience and a clear vision — as well as ties to industry.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21661
Crippling the US National Institutes of Health might increase resistance to other attacks on science.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21664
New Zealand parrots provide the latest support for a popular theory of crowd behaviour.
doi: 10.1038/543464a
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health are big losers — but planetary science at NASA stands to gain.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21652
Immersive experience set to become accessible to all.
doi: 10.1038/543473a
President’s impeachment creates opportunity to shift how nation supports basic research.
doi: 10.1038/543474a
The indigenous people — known for their click languages — are the first in Africa to draft guidelines for researchers.
doi: 10.1038/543475a
Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for role in theory with data applications from digital cinema to pinpointing gravitational waves.
doi: 10.1038/543476a
世界各地のさまざまな電波望遠鏡をリンクさせることで、「事象の地平線」を画像化しようとする望遠鏡計画（Event Horizon Telescope）がいよいよ始動する。
doi: 10.1038/543478a
標準的な恐竜の進化系統樹には、「骨盤が鳥類に似た」鳥盤目と「骨盤が爬虫類に似た」竜盤目という2つの主要な枝がある。今回見直された系統樹は、恐竜のさまざまな分類群の間の類縁関係に関する多くの考えに異を唱えている。
doi: 10.1038/543494a
今回、肺に感染するMycobacterium abscessus菌株のゲノム塩基配列解読によって、この細菌の感染モードが環境経由のものからヒト間伝染に変わる可能性が示唆されている。この知見は、臨床に影響を及ぼす。
doi: 10.1038/543495a
今回、最先端の電子顕微鏡法を用いてナノ構造体の振動励起がマッピングされた。この結果は、こうした励起に関する理解を深め、ナノ構造体の設計に役立つと思われる。
doi: 10.1038/543497a
今回、マルハナバチのコロニーの生産性に土地利用の質が影響を及ぼすことが示され、空間的かつ時間的に資源を利用できることが、複数世代にわたる生存性を高めるのに重要であることが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/nature21897
抗レトロウイルス療法によってエイズの発症を防ぐことができるが、少数の細胞が感染したままであるため、この病気は治せない。今回、感染した細胞のマーカーとなるタンパク質が発見され、潜在するウイルスリザーバーの重要な研究が容易になると思われる。
doi: 10.1038/nature21899
Analysis of a wide range of dinosaurs and dinosauromorphs recovers a sister-taxon relationship between Ornithischia and Theropoda, calling for the redefinition of all the major clades within Dinosauria and the revival of the clade Ornithoscelida.
doi: 10.1038/nature21700
Increasing expression of the autism-associated gene Ube3a, either alone or in combination with seizures, not only impairs sociability in mice but also reduces expression of the synaptic organizer Cbln1 in the ventral tegmental area, thus weakening glutamatergic transmission.
doi: 10.1038/nature21678
In Arabidopsis thaliana, a genetic network that controls the phosphate stress response also influences the structure of the root microbiome community, even under non-stress phosphate conditions.
doi: 10.1038/nature21417
A technique called genome architecture mapping (GAM) involves sequencing DNA from a large number of thin nuclear cryosections to develop a map of genome organization without the limitations of existing 3C-based methods.
doi: 10.1038/nature21411
Simultaneous precise measurement of the non-commuting observables spin angle and spin amplitude is achieved by directing the error due to quantum measurement back-action into an unmeasured spin component.
doi: 10.1038/nature21434
Spatial mapping of optical and acoustic, bulk and surface vibrational modes in magnesium oxide nanocubes is demonstrated using a single electron probe.
doi: 10.1038/nature21699
Finite-element models are used to identify a material geometry that achieves the theoretical bounds on isotropic elastic stiffness—a combination closed-cell cubic and octet foam.
doi: 10.1038/nature21075
A method is described for selectively activating remote C–H bonds in heterocycles by using a catalytic template that binds by reversible coordination instead of a covalent linkage, removing the need for specific functional groups on which to attach the template.
doi: 10.1038/nature21418
The authors report single-crystal elasticity data on (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite and show that its elastic behaviour is markedly different from that of the MgSiO3 endmember.
doi: 10.1038/nature21390
Analysis of three wild-caught bumblebee species shows that family lineage survival and persistence is significantly increased between successive colony cycle stages with the proportion of high-value foraging habitat near the natal colony.
doi: 10.1038/nature21709
Genomic analyses of KRAB-containing zinc-finger proteins and the transposable elements to which they bind show that a co-evolutionary arms race was not the only driver of their evolution.
doi: 10.1038/nature21683
Here, marine phytoplankton are shown to diversify their migratory strategy in response to turbulent cues through a rapid change in shape, thus challenging a fundamental paradigm in oceanography that phytoplankton are passively at the mercy of ocean turbulence.
doi: 10.1038/nature21415
Early administration of broadly neutralizing antibodies in a macaque SHIV infection model is associated with very low levels of persistent viraemia, which leads to the establishment of T-cell immunity and resultant long-term infection control.
doi: 10.1038/nature21435
CD32a expression is induced on the surface of HIV-1-infected quiescent CD4 T cells, and could thus be used as a biomarker to facilitate future study of how the virus persists in cellular reservoirs in infected hosts.
doi: 10.1038/nature21710
The vertebrate-conserved and germline-specific RNA-binding protein DND1 recruits the CCR4–NOT deadenylase complex to destabilize its mRNA targets and is required for the maintenance of germline stem cells.
doi: 10.1038/nature21690
Methylation at the 6 position of adenosine (m6A) in RNA is rapidly and transiently induced at DNA damage sites in response to ultraviolet irradiation.
doi: 10.1038/nature21671
