Political protection for the planet’s last great wilderness is no longer fit for purpose. Make its governance democratic: scrap the veto that lets individual interests rule.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05368-7
Muddled language can lead scientists in the wrong direction, neurobiologists claim.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05418-0
New measures introduce what could be the world’s strongest disincentive for misconduct so far.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05417-1
As loggers and miners move into previously inaccessible regions, researchers are pooling knowledge about the country’s ecosystems.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05397-2
Initiatives include a national list of cases, a blacklist of ‘poor quality’ journals and a government agency that is responsible for policing misconduct.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05359-8
Health workers battling Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo can diagnose the virus in hours, instead of days.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05389-2
Estimated cost of geoengineering technology to fight climate change has plunged since a 2011 analysis.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05357-w
New gut bacteria can expand the diet of animals like koalas and rhinoceroses.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05352-1
最新の4つの元素発見を契機として、周期表に新元素を追加する際の承認基準をめぐって盛んな議論が行われている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05371-y
今回、2つの実験によって、量子ネットワークの離れたノード間で非古典的相関を決定論的方法で分配できることが示された。今回の成果は、量子ネットワークを拡大する道を整えるものである。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05336-1
免疫系のT細胞は、腫瘍を標的にするよう操作できるが、一部の人々でこうした治療効果が高い理由はよく分かっていない。今回、治療に劇的に応答した1人の患者から、その手掛かりが得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05251-5
今回、酵素の活性部位から離れた所で生じた変異によって、酵素の活性を高める局所的な変性が生じ得ることが分かった。この知見は、寒冷地に生きる生物が生化学反応を促進できる方法を示唆している。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05302-x
パリ協定は、地球温暖化を2°C未満に抑えることを目標にしている。今回、解析によって、この目標を達成すれば沿岸地域における海水準上昇のリスクが大きく低下するが、その恩恵を確認するには時間がかかることが示唆された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05366-9
今回、酵素複合体P-TEFbのサブユニットは、細胞内で、タンパク質を細分化して液体状の滴を作ることができることが分かった。この相分離が、P-TEFbを助けて遺伝子の転写を促進している可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05244-4
Analyses of data from 137 forest plots across 20 European countries show that ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity is strongly influenced by environmental and host species factors and provide thresholds to inform ecosystem assessment tools
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0189-9
Cryo-EM structures of late intermediates in the assembly of human 40S ribosomal subunits help to define the principles by which immature rRNA conformations and ribosomal biogenesis factors shape the 40S maturation process.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0193-0
The structure of a homomeric channel of subunit A of leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 8 (LRRC8) determined by cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography reveals the basis for anion selectivity.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0134-y
Observations of 13CO and C18O emission from four dusty starburst galaxies at redshifts of approximately two to three reveal that massive stars are more numerous in starburst events than in ordinary star-forming spiral galaxies.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0196-x
Deterministic quantum state transfer and entanglement generation is demonstrated between superconducting qubits on distant chips using single photons.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0195-y
Remote deterministic spin–spin entanglement is achieved using nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamonds and a single-photon entangling protocol, with much improved entangling rates compared to previously used two-photon protocols.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0200-5
Programmed ferromagnetic domains are 3D-printed into soft materials capable of fast transformations between complex three-dimensional shapes via magnetic actuation.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0185-0
The catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide over platinum proceeds through two distinct channels: it is dominated at low temperatures by the more active step sites and at high temperatures by the more abundant terrace sites of the platinum surface.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0188-x
Analysis of cosmogenic isotopes from a marine sediment core shows that much of the land-based East Antarctic Ice Sheet has remained stable for the past eight million years, including during the warm Pliocene epoch.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0155-6
Micro- and nannofossil, trace fossil and geochemical evidence from the Chicxulub impact crater demonstrates that proximity to the asteroid impact site did not determine rates of recovery of marine ecosystems after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0163-6
Imaging of hippocampal neuron activity in mice performing a memory task across several days identifies both stable and dynamic memory engrams.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0191-2
The coordinated action of BREVIS RADIX (BRX) and PROTEIN KINASE ASSOCIATED WITH BRX (PAX) regulates auxin flux during the development of protophloem sieve elements in the root meristem of Arabidopsis.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0186-z
A single-chain variable fragment of the antibody E06, which binds to the phosphocholine headgroup of oxidized phospholipids, blocks the uptake of oxidized low-density lipoprotein by macrophages, and reduces inflammation and atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolaemic mice.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0198-8
Genetically engineered T cells that induced remission in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia were found to have disruption of the
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0178-z
The transition between early mitotic inhibitor 1 acting as a substrate of the APC/C and as an inhibitor of the same complex results in an irreversible switch that mediates human cell-cycle commitment.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0199-7
The histidine-rich domain of cyclin T1 promotes phase separation into liquid droplets, which facilitates the hyperphosphorylation of the C-terminal domain repeats of RNA polymerase II.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0174-3
By engineering entropy-tuning changes into distal sites of a bacterial adenylate kinase, an allosteric tuning mechanism based on protein dynamics is revealed.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0183-2
