High-profile allegations of bullying at a German research institute highlight the need for better systems to protect young scientists.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05683-z
Science offers renewed hope for those still waiting for their moment in the spotlight.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05682-0
Key meeting should focus minds on the best way to extract minerals from the depths of the ocean.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05681-1
Top German institute plans to release results of a survey that will shed light on bullying issues.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05634-8
EU researchers would overwhelm existing visa system and should retain special access to the United Kingdom, say science organizations.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05632-w
Scientists might be able to draw from new sources of cannabis compounds for research.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05659-z
Machine learning on mountain of safety data improves automated assessments.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05664-2
Experiments in mice suggest that the technology has a long way to go before being used for pest control in the wild.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05665-1
イスラエル・ワイツマン科学研究所の神経科学者Nachum Ulanovskyは、オオコウモリと200 mにも及ぶ長いトンネルを使って、脳の空間ナビゲーションの仕組みを調べている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05648-2
今回、人工遺伝子回路によって、初期胚発生時に生じるものによく似た単純な3D構造を細胞に形成させることができた。この進歩は、望ましい構造の組織を作るのに役立つ。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05564-5
最終氷期を中断させた気候異常の特徴は、北大西洋へ淡水を放出した氷山の流出であった。今回、北太平洋にも淡水が時々放出されていたことが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05614-y
PARPタンパク質の阻害剤は、がん治療に使われている。今回、PARP阻害剤は、DNA損傷が生じる速度までDNA複製を加速することによって効能を発揮していることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05501-6
今回、注意深く検討された観察研究によって、大気の質を改善すれば、サハラ以南のアフリカにおける乳児死亡を最大で22％回避できると見積もられた。この値は、以前の見積もりよりずっと大きい。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05394-5
マヨラナフェルミオンと呼ばれるエキゾチック粒子には、量子コンピューティングに応用できる可能性があるが、その存在はまだ明確には確認されていない。今回、2つのグループが、こうした粒子の存在を示す証拠を見いだした。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05637-5
非在来種のネズミの導入は、島の生態系を破壊する可能性がある。今回、こうしたネズミが、海鳥と近くにあるサンゴ礁の藻類や魚類とを結び付ける複雑に絡み合った相互作用も傷つけることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05355-y
China has addressed widespread rural poverty and environmental degradation head-on via unprecedented investment in sixteen large-scale sustainability programmes.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0280-2
Measurements of the thermal Hall conductance in the first excited Landau level of the quantum Hall effect show the existence of a state with non-Abelian excitations.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0184-1
The dual-specificity kinase DYRK3 acts as a central ‘dissolvase’, mediating the phase transitions of several types of membraneless organelles during mitosis.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0279-8
The cryo-EM structure of the yeast origin recognition complex (ORC) bound to a 72-base-pair origin DNA sequence provides insights into the basis of the origin selection mechanism.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0293-x
‘Oumuamua—the first known interstellar object to have entered the Solar System—is probably a comet, albeit with unusual dust and chemical properties owing to its origin in a distant solar system.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0254-4
Half-integer quantization of the thermal Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid reveals chiral currents of charge-neutral Majorana fermions around the edges of the sample, produced by strong electronic correlations.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0274-0
A top-contacting method for the fabrication of molecular devices uses metallic nanoparticles to electrically contact self-assembled monolayers, enabling the preparation of thousands of identical, ambient-stable metal–molecule–metal devices.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0275-z
The rapid water transport through graphene oxide membranes can be switched off by introducing localized electric fields within the membranes that ionize surrounding water molecules and thus block transport.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0292-y
Sediment-core and modelling analyses suggest that, during distinct cold periods known as Heinrich Stadials, changes in ocean circulation in the North Atlantic triggered discharge of freshwater from the Cordilleran Ice Sheet into the North Pacific.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0276-y
Cooperation is more likely to evolve in a public-goods-distribution game when payoffs can change between rounds so that the stakes increase when players cooperate and decrease when players defect.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x
Productivity of coral reefs is enhanced near islands with no invasive rats, as populations of seabirds, which transfer nitrogen from deeper areas of ocean to the nearshore waters via their guano, are much larger than on rat-infested islands.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0202-3
A 10 μg m−3 increase in the concentration of ambient respirable particulate matter is associated with a 9% rise in infant mortality in Africa and this increase is not affected by household wealth.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0263-3
Screening pairwise combinations of antibiotics and other drugs against three bacterial pathogens reveals that antagonistic and synergistic drug–drug interactions are specific to microbial species and strains.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0278-9
Activation of P2RX7 receptors by extracellular ATP is required for the generation, maintenance and function of central and tissue-resident CD8+ memory T cells.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0282-0
The discovery and characterization of small-molecule antagonists that inhibit the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) protein may help to develop therapies for the treatment of autoinflammatory disease.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0287-8
Structural analysis demonstrates how TRIP13 and p31comet disassemble the mitotic checkpoint complex.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0281-1
Inhibition of PARP is shown to accelerate the speed of replication fork elongation, which prevents fork stalling and induces DNA damage, with implications for genomic instability and cancer treatment.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0261-5
Mutations in all three genes encoding ribonuclease H2 sensitize cells to poly(ADP–ribose) polymerase inhibitors by compromising ribonucleotide excision repair.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0291-z
