Long-term monitoring is essential for working out how alterations in the Atlantic Ocean current system will affect the planet.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04322-x
New observations could help us understand discrepancies in measurements of the expansion of the Universe.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04321-y
Prizes will reward outstanding scientific discovery and exceptional efforts to engage girls and young women in science.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04323-w
China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04122-3
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to spot planets orbiting nearby bright stars.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03354-7
Pay disparities at science employers outpace national average for all firms.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04309-8
The reorganization could jeopardize access to reliable, independent data about the island, critics say.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04120-5
Physicians struggle to identify which patients are likely to respond to a recently approved therapy.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03862-6
ついに重力波の直接検出に成功した重力波研究者たちは、さらに野心的な目標に狙いを定めて研究を進めている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04157-6
通信システムは、乱数生成器に頼って情報を暗号化している。今回、信頼できないデバイスからも完全にランダムな数を作る方法が得られ、セキュリティーの向上につながる可能性がでてきた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04105-4
今回、一般的な考えとは逆に、原子レベルで薄い材料の反射率が高くなり得ることが実証された。この知見は、ナノフォトニクス、オプトエレクトロニクス、量子光学に技術的な影響を及ぼす可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04089-1
植物は、土壌の水分を感知して水不足を未然に防ぐと考えられている。今回、水が少なくなると発現するペプチドが特定され、根底にある分子機構を解明する機会が得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03872-4
さまざまな証拠が、北大西洋の循環系が過去1600年で前例のない弱まった状態であることを示しているが、この弱化が始まった正確な時期については疑問が残っている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04086-4
今回、細胞を追跡する解析によって、マウスの肝臓に散在している細胞集団が、染色体末端を保護する酵素であるテロメラーゼを発現していることが明らかになった。こうした細胞が、肝臓の維持と再生に寄与している。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-02684-w
ウイルスの進化史はほとんど分かっていない。今回、脊椎動物のRNAウイルスが大規模に発見され、ウイルスはしばしば宿主を変えるが、大半は数百万年にわたって宿主と共進化することが示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03923-w
Lithium-rich cathode materials in which manganese undergoes double redox could point the way for lithium-ion batteries to meet the capacity and energy density needs of portable electronics and electric vehicles.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0015-4
A characteristic ‘fingerprint’ of sea-surface temperatures suggests that the Atlantic overturning circulation has slowed substantially since the mid-twentieth century, as predicted by climate models in response to increasing carbon dioxide emissions.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5
Around 200 new vertebrate-specific viruses are discovered, and every vertebrate-specific viral family known to infect mammals and birds is also present in amphibians, reptiles or fish, suggesting that evolution of vertebrate viruses mirrors that of vertebrate hosts.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0012-7
A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the light-harvesting–reaction centre (LH1–RC) complex of the photosynthetic bacterium Blastochloris viridis suggests factors that underlie the large redshift in the absorption spectrum of bacteriochlorophyll in the complex and that promote quinone–quinol translocation across the LH1 ring.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0014-5
The structure of the Thermochromatium tepidum calcium-ion-bound light-harvesting–reaction centre (LH1–RC) supercomplex, which performs the primary reactions of photosynthesis in purple photosynthetic bacteria, is resolved to the atomic level.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0002-9
Crystal structures of the gastric proton pump in complex with two inhibitory drugs reveal the mechanism that generates the steep acidic gradient across the membranes of parietal cells.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0003-8
Single-pulse radio observations of a glitch in the Vela pulsar show sudden changes in the pulse shape coincident with the glitch, indicating that the glitch could affect the pulsar’s magnetosphere.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0001-x
1,024 random bits that are uniformly distributed to within 10−12 and unpredictable assuming the impossibility of superluminal communication are generated and certified using a loophole-free Bell test.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0019-0
Palaeoclimate records show that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakened substantially at the end of the Little Ice Age, probably in response to enhanced freshwater fluxes from the Arctic and Nordic seas.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0007-4
Analysis of changes in plant species richness on mountain summits over the past 145 years suggests that increased climatic warming has led to an acceleration in species richness increase.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6
In an Arabidopsis model, the CLE25 peptide acts as a root-to-shoot signalling molecule that modulates abscisic acid expression to close stomata and enhance resistance to dehydration.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0009-2
A tissue culture system that provides an increasing intensity of electromechanical stimulation over time enables an in vitro model of cardiac tissue derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to develop many of the characteristics of adult cardiac tissue.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0016-3
A population of hepatocytes expressing high levels of telomerase are distributed throughout the liver and regenerate the liver during homeostasis and after injury.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0004-7
The glycolytic enzyme PFKFB4 directly phosphorylates and regulates binding of the coactivator SRC-3 to ATF4 and thereby increases the transcriptional activity of this complex, leading to increased expression of metabolic genes, and enhancing tumour growth and metastasis.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0018-1
Analysis of viral samples from deceased piglets shows that a bat coronavirus was responsible for an outbreak of fatal disease in China and highlights the importance of the identification of coronavirus diversity and distribution in bats in order to mitigate future outbreaks of disease.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0010-9
