The earliest known drawing in history sends a message through 73,000 years p.149
Cross-hatched crayon on a rock shard suggests early humans indulged in abstract art.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06657-x
Cross-hatched crayon on a rock shard suggests early humans indulged in abstract art.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06657-x
An algebra pioneer who faced discrimination deserves wider recognition on the centenary of her namesake theorem.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06658-w
Imran Khan’s new administration must respect expertise to meet its ambitious goals.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06659-9
Blazes have created natural experiments in Montana and California towns and a monkey-breeding colony.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06123-8
Sweeping policy changes aim to refocus research efforts on poverty, unemployment, drought and other national problems.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06122-9
But experts say the mission is a huge task and could detract from more useful space programmes.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06146-1
Astrophysicist plans to spend prize money — awarded 50 years after the discovery — on increasing diversity in science.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06210-w
The tool, called Google Dataset Search, should help researchers to find the data they need more easily.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06201-x
The energy-efficiency drive at the information factories that serve us Facebook, Google and Bitcoin.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06610-y
The protein RANKL is released by bone-forming cells called osteoblasts, and binds to its receptor, RANK, on osteoclast cells to trigger bone removal. It emerges that the pathway can act in reverse to stimulate bone formation.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05960-x
Controlled long-distance transport of electron spins is required for a kind of electronics known as spintronics. Such transport has been realized in an antiferromagnet, the most common type of magnetic material.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06197-4
Sheets of cells called epithelia can curve into tubes in embryos. Modelling and in vivo observations reveal that cells in tubes adopt an asymmetric cell shape dubbed scutoid, contrary to some previous assumptions.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06162-1
Computational simulations suggest that future losses of tidal wetlands attributable to sea-level rise could be greatly offset by the landward advance of these ecosystems into newly sea-inundated areas.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06190-x
PINK1 and parkin proteins help to degrade damaged mitochondrial organelles, and abnormalities in these proteins are linked to Parkinson’s disease. Mouse studies reveal that the proteins act to prevent inflammation.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05988-z
An investigation finds that most protein complexes in yeast cells assemble before the subunits have fully formed. This mechanism might prevent the formation of toxic protein aggregates.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05905-4
Chemical optimization of arylomycins results in an inhibitor of bacterial type I signal peptidase that shows activity both against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Gram-negative bacteria in vitro and in several in vivo infection models.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0483-6
Osteoclasts secrete small extracellular vesicles that stimulate osteoblasts, promoting bone formation via receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL), thereby linking bone formation and resorption.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0482-7
Comparison of multiple lesions from individual pancreases sheds light on how ancestral clones can spread through the ductal system and give rise to precursor lesions, with acquisition of further mutations leading to pancreatic cancer.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0481-8
Observations of a hot flow anomaly accelerating solar-wind ions suggest a mechanism for such acceleration—a Fermi acceleration trap caused by Earth’s bow shock interacting with the solar wind.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0472-9
The observation of the 1S–2P Lyman-α transition in the antihydrogen atom, the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen, is reported.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0435-1
Rates of radiative heat transfer between sub-wavelength planar membranes are experimentally and theoretically shown to exceed the blackbody limit in the far field by more than two orders of magnitude.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0480-9
Tunable spin transport over long distances is demonstrated through the antiferromagnetic insulator haematite, paving the way to the development of spin-logic devices based on antiferromagnetic insulators.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0490-7
3D printing of liquid-crystal polymers can create lightweight hierarchical structures with very high stiffness and toughness.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0474-7
A global modelling approach shows that in response to rises in global sea level, gains of up to 60% in coastal wetland areas are possible, if appropriate coastal management solutions are developed to help support wetland resilience.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0476-5
Meristems of the rooting axes of Asteroxylon mackiei preserved in 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert lack root caps, which demonstrates that the evolution of the root systems of modern vascular plants occurred in a stepwise fashion.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0445-z
Tools are embodied by the human somatosensory system, serving as sensory extensions of the human body.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0460-0
Four transcription factors that specify keratinocyte cell fate, facilitate in vivo reprogramming of wound-resident mesenchymal cells, epithealization and regeneration of skin epithelial tissues in mice.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0477-4
The plant receptor kinase co-receptor BAK1 contains phosphosites that are required for immune function but not for brassinosteroid-regulated growth in Arabidopsis thaliana; an additional tyrosine phosphosite may be required for the function of many Arabidopsis receptor kinases.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0471-x
Integrative analyses identify host proteins that are modulated by Zika virus at multiple levels and provide a comprehensive framework for the understanding of Zika virus-induced changes to cellular pathways.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0484-5
Acute and chronic mitochondrial stress in mice require PINK1 and parkin to restrain STING-mediated innate immunity.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0448-9
During starvation, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) targets GTPase-activating proteins to inhibit multiple intracellular transport pathways, thereby promoting energy homeostasis.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0475-6
Cotranslational assembly is a prevalent mechanism for the formation of oligomeric complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with one subunit serving as scaffold for the translation of partner subunits.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0462-y