Workers on the front line of the battle against the disease are too often overlooked as scientists and funders plot how to defeat malaria.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05799-2
Awards highlight impressive efforts that reach the next generation.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05801-x
Scientists have a new tool to help them judge how widely wildlife data should be shared.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05800-y
The strategy could also be used to bolster the defences of Tasmanian devils and corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05757-y
The Parker Solar Probe will dive into the sizzling solar corona to explore its mysteries.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05741-6
The government is trying to bolster its research workforce but academics say more needs to be done to improve the sector.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05600-4
Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over open-access deals.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05754-1
With the end of Europe’s major Planck mission, researchers are moving to smaller projects studying different aspects of the cosmic microwave background.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05788-5
マラリア原虫の薬剤耐性系統の拡大という「時限爆弾」を抱えている東南アジアでは、そうした事態を未然に防ぐべく懸命な取り組みが行われている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05772-z
今回、中国で約210万年前の石器が発掘された。この証拠から、アフリカの外で最古とされるヒト族の痕跡の年代がさらに古くなった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05293-9
原子は、波のような振る舞いをして物質波を形成し得る。こうした波を用いて、光と物質が相互作用する仕組みを支える基本過程がモデル化され、今後の研究の実験プラットフォームが得られた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05738-1
細菌に感染するファージと呼ばれるウイルスが、第一波では感染に成功しなくても細菌の免疫系を抑制し、その後のウイルスの感染が成功できるようすることが、今回分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05762-1
抗がん剤メトトレキサートは毒性が高いため、臨床での使用が制限されることがある。今回、マウスを用いた研究で、アミノ酸ヒスチジンを多く含む食事によって、メトトレキサート治療の効果が高まり毒性が弱まることが示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05573-4
近縁である2種のハエの雄は、雌のフェロモンに対して異なる応答をする。今回、この違いが、進化的に保存された脳内の神経回路の活動の変化に起因することが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05595-y
今回、グレートバリアリーフから得られた太古のサンゴを分析して、最終氷期の末期に全球海水準が急速に低下したことが明らかになった。この知見は、これまで考えられていたよりも氷床が動的だったことを示唆している。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05760-3
Recent progress in machine learning in the chemical sciences and future directions in this field are discussed.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0337-2
Micrometre-sized particles of two niobium tungsten oxides have high volumetric capacities and rate performances, enabled by very high lithium-ion diffusion coefficients.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0347-0
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doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0322-9
A cryo-electron microscopy structure of fungal mitochondrial calcium uniporter shows that the channel is tetrameric and sheds light on channel assembly and function.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0333-6
X-ray and cryo-electron microscopy structures of fungal mitochondrial calcium uniporter proteins reveal a tetrameric architecture and shed light on the function of the channel.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0330-9
Structures of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter from fungal and metazoan organisms reveal a tetrameric architecture and shed light on the function of the channel.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0331-8
The two episodes of star formation predicted by the ‘cold flow’ theory of galactic gas accretion also explain the observed bimodality in the chemical-abundance distribution of solar-neighbourhood stars.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0329-2
An open quantum system containing ultracold rubidium atoms trapped in an optical lattice undergoes spontaneous emission of matter waves into free space.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0348-z
DNA origami is used as a template to produce complex geometric shapes of nanoscale silica hybrid materials.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0332-7
This study of whole-soil carbon dynamics finds that, of the atmospheric carbon that is incorporated into the topmost metre of soil over 50 years, just 19 per cent reaches the subsoil, in a manner that depends on land use and aridity.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0328-3
Details of the drops in sea level associated with glaciation during the Last Glacial Maximum are revealed using a coral proxy from the Great Barrier Reef.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0335-4
An Early Pleistocene artefact assemblage from the Chinese Loess Plateau indicates that hominins had left Africa by at least 2.1 million years ago, and occupied the Loess Plateau repeatedly for a long time.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0299-4
Triple oxygen isotope measurements of 1.4-billion-year-old sedimentary sulfates reveal a unique mid-Proterozoic atmosphere and demonstrate that gross primary productivity in the mid-Proterozoic was between 6% and 41% of pre-anthropogenic levels.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0349-y
The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is shown to be at least as stiff as the cell wall, and this property enables it to protect cells from mechanical pertubations.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0344-3
A comprehensive characterization of the thymic stroma identifies a tuft-cell-like thymic epithelial cell population that is critical for shaping the immune niche in the thymus.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0346-1
A comprehensive analysis of the thymic medulla identifies a tuft-cell-like thymic epithelial cell population that is necessary for shaping thymic function.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0345-2
Histidine metabolism influences the sensitivity of cancer cells to methotrexate, with mice bearing leukaemia xenografts showing increased response to the drug upon histidine supplementation.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0316-7
Modulation of DNA 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by glucose reveals an AMPK–TET2–5hmC axis that links diabetes to cancer.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0350-5
