Editorials
Too many institutions give low priority to tackling sexual misconduct in science.
doi: 10.1038/547379a
There are now vast opportunities to study the effects on young minds.
doi: 10.1038/547379b
The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking.
doi: 10.1038/547380a
News
Scientists will look into the heart of Surtsey, an island created 50 years ago by a volcanic eruption.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22340
National security community examines the risks and benefits of technology to quickly spread genetic modifications.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22345
Transplanted cells offer middle-aged rodents an increased lifespan.
doi: 10.1038/547389a
Business-focused funding agency Innovate UK is driving British efforts to commercialize research.
doi: 10.1038/547390a
Crowding antennas closer together may affect the Square Kilometre Array's ability to observe the early Universe.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22361
News Features
With major spaceflight milestones behind it, China is working to build an international reputation for space science.
doi: 10.1038/547394a
News & Views
Hair-like sensors are suspected to aid fish navigation in complex environments. Laboratory experiments and computational simulations reveal how these sensors can detect water flow to direct the swimming responses of fish. See Letter p.445
doi: 10.1038/nature23096
A nanoscale magnetic device that mimics the behaviour of neurons has been used to recognize audio signals. Such a device could be adapted to tackle tasks with greater efficiency than conventional computers. See Letter p.428
doi: 10.1038/547407a
A sophisticated analysis in mice of how inputs to neurons from other neurons are distributed across individual cells of the brain's visual cortex provides information about how mammalian vision is processed. See Letter p.449
doi: 10.1038/nature23098
An innovative combination of chemical synthesis, theory and spectroscopy could simplify determination of the structures of naturally occurring, biologically active molecules, which are often leads for drug discovery. See Letter p.436a
doi: 10.1038/547410a
Polio has almost been eradicated. A field study demonstrates that a combination of focused science and epidemiology, and community-based integrated health approaches, are required to finish the job.
doi: 10.1038/547411a
Articles
In vivo CRISPR screening reveals that loss of Ptpn2 increases the response of tumour cells to immunotherapy and increases IFNγ signalling, suggesting that PTPN2 inhibition may potentiate the effect of immunotherapies that invoke an IFNγ response.
doi: 10.1038/nature23270
Analysis of parental allele-specific chromatin accessibility genome-wide in mouse zygotes and morula embryos, and investigation of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying these allelic sites, identifying maternal H3K27me3 as a DNA methylation-independent mechanism for genomic imprinting.
doi: 10.1038/nature23262
Letters
The prompt optical flash produced by the γ-ray burst GRB 160625B is highly linearly polarized, suggesting that it is produced by fast-cooling synchrotron radiation in a large-scale magnetic field.
doi: 10.1038/nature23289
Spoken-digit recognition using a nanoscale spintronic oscillator that mimics the behaviour of neurons demonstrates the potential of such oscillators for realizing large-scale neural networks in future hardware.
doi: 10.1038/nature23011
The electronic nematic phase in copper oxide superconductors is found over a broad range of temperature and doping but is not aligned with the crystal axes.
doi: 10.1038/nature23290
Experimental and computed nuclear magnetic resonance data and an iterative synthetic strategy have revealed the correct structures of the baulamycins, potentially important antimicrobial compounds, allowing them to be chemically synthesized.
doi: 10.1038/nature23265
Deforestation increases the odds of a species being threatened by extinction, and this effect is disproportionately strong in relatively intact landscapes, suggesting that efforts are needed to protect intact forest landscapes and prevent a new wave of extinctions.
doi: 10.1038/nature23285
In the absence of visual information, larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) use their mechanosensory lateral line to perform rheotaxis by using flow velocity gradients as navigational cues.
doi: 10.1038/nature23014
Mapping the organization of excitatory inputs onto the dendritic spines of individual mouse visual cortex neurons reveals how inputs representing features from the extended visual scene are organized and establishes a computational unit suited to amplify contours and elongated edges.
doi: 10.1038/nature23019
Therapy-resistant cancer cell states identified across diverse contexts are selectively vulnerable to ferroptotic cell death induced by inhibition of lipid peroxidase pathways converging on GPX4.
doi: 10.1038/nature23007
The cysteine protease CPR-4, a cathepsin B homologue, is identified as a radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE) factor in nematodes in response to ultraviolet or ionizing radiation, and causes inhibition of cell death and increased embryonic lethality.
doi: 10.1038/nature23284
Heterochromatin formation involves histone H3 methylation, with H3K9me2 defining a distinct heterochromatin state that is transcriptionally permissive and can couple with RNAi, and the transition to non-permissive H3K9me3 required for the epigenetic heritability of heterochromatin.
doi: 10.1038/nature23267
Crystal structures of the human cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) bound to the agonists AM11542 and AM841 reveal notable structural rearrangements upon receptor activation, and this flexibility may be a common feature among other G-protein-coupled receptors.
doi: 10.1038/nature23272
The lysosomal potassium channel TMEM175 has a tetrameric structure unlike that of the canonical potassium channels, with an hourglass-shaped pore in which isoleucine residues have a key role in channel selectivity.
doi: 10.1038/nature23269