A new analysis breaks down the likely social cost of carbon emissions by country and should make unhappy reading for politicians.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06827-x
With six months to go, uncertainty posed by the decision to leave the European Union is taking its toll.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06826-y
Chance unearthing of a famous document reveals the scientist’s attempt to avoid the Inquisition.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06825-z
Exclusive: Document shows that the astronomer toned down the claims that triggered science history’s most infamous battle — then lied about his edits.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06769-4
Nicholas Longrich has been disciplined by the University of Bath, UK, for breaching its anti-harassment policy.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06764-9
“Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06771-w
The National Science Foundation’s rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06766-7
Bones and artefacts suggest that kids laboured at skilled tasks thousands of years ago.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06747-w
In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06749-8
世界保健機関（WHO）が、「疾病および関連保健問題の国際統計分類（ICD）」の改訂で、伝統医学を初めて収載する。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06782-7
ヨーロッパの科学者たちは、英国のEU離脱という事態に対し、どのように備えているのだろうか。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06781-8
現行の生体センサーには、大きな外部電源が必要である。今回、生体信号を精密かつ連続的に測定するフレキシブルなウエアラブルセンサーに電力を供給できる、極めて薄い太陽電池が作製された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06788-1
染色体は、微小核と呼ばれる壊れやすい構造体では核の外側に存在することがある。今回、微小核は、その外層に核膜の構成要素の一部がないために壊れやすいことが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06668-8
HIV感染の薬物治療では日々の服薬を長期にわたり続ける必要があり、これによって有害な副作用が生じる場合もある。今回、HIVを標的にする2つの抗体を組み合わせて用いることで、代替的な治療方法が得られる可能性があることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06773-8
今回、加えられた力に応答して多段階の自己誘導シーケンスで形状が変化する機械的構造体が作られた。こうした構造体は、フレキシブルエレクトロニクスやソフトロボティクスに応用できる可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06787-2
今回、βバレルと呼ばれるタンパク質の構造モチーフを、任意の小分子と特異的に結合するように設計できる計算法が考案され、生物工学的応用への扉が開かれた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06202-w
Analysis of blood from a healthy human show that haematopoietic stem cells increase rapidly in numbers through early life, reaching a stable plateau in adulthood, and contribute to myeloid and B lymphocyte populations throughout life.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0497-0
Combination therapy with the anti-HIV-1 monoclonal antibodies 3BNC117 and 10-1074 maintains long-term suppression in the absence of antiretroviral therapy in individuals with antibody-sensitive viral reservoirs.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0531-2
The elucidation of general principles for designing β-barrels enables the de novo creation of fluorescent proteins.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0509-0
The structure of a complex containing calcitonin gene-related peptide, the human calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor and the Gs heterotrimer, determined using Volta phase-plate cryo-electron microscopy, provides structural insight into the regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors by receptor activity modifying protein 1.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0535-y
Three-dimensional simulations of the convective envelopes of massive stars suggest that it is the helium opacity that controls outbursts in luminous blue variable stars.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0525-0
Topologically protected edge states realized in a square array of ring resonators are used to demonstrate a robust source of heralded single photons produced by spontaneous four-wave mixing.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0478-3
Efficient terahertz harmonic generation—challenging but important for ultrahigh-speed optoelectronic technologies—is demonstrated in graphene through a nonlinear process that could potentially be generalized to other materials.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0508-1
A scheme for implementing multi-step topological reorganization of a mechanical metamaterial is demonstrated, which proceeds autonomously, without the need for external control.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0541-0
Detection of biometric signals by self-powered electronic devices that are highly flexible and can be applied to skin.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0536-x
Complex tertiary alkylamines are prepared in one step from readily available amines, carbonyls and alkenes, via the visible-light-mediated reduction of in-situ-generated iminium ions to form alkyl-substituted α-amino radicals.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0537-9
The High Plains region of North America is in a transient state, with a younger, efficient network of river channels progressively cannibalizing an older, less efficient region, aiding water retention for wetlands and groundwater recharge.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0532-1
Biomechanical analyses of mammaliaform and cynodont fossils demonstrate that miniaturization drove the evolutionary transformation of the mammalian jaw, which preceded the optimization of bite force-to-joint load in the mandible
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0521-4
The diversity in the hydraulic traits of trees mediates ecosystem resilience to drought and will probably have an important role in future ecosystem–atmosphere feedback effects.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0539-7
Mice can learn to detect objects with their whiskers and respond appropriately even in the absence of their primary somatosensory cortex.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0527-y
Somatosensory corticospinal neurons facilitate touch sensitivity and touch-evoked neuropathic pain in mice.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0515-2
The mitotic spindle prevents normal nuclear envelope assembly on missegregated chromosomes, leading to spontaneous envelope disruption of micronuclei and subsequent genome instability.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0534-z
METTL3, the enzyme responsible for m6A modification, influences translation by interacting with eIF3h to mediate looping between the regions near the stop codon and 5′ cap of mRNA.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0538-8
The retromer complex (the vacuolar protein sorting heterotrimer Vps26–Vps29–Vps35) has been resolved in association with membranes and the sorting nexin protein Vps5 using cryo-electron tomography.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0526-z
