US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science p.5
A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07238-8
A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07238-8
The election of Jair Bolsonaro is bad for research and the environment.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07236-w
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07237-9
Little-studied ethnic groups on the continent are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived there tens of thousands of years ago.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07164-9
One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07216-0
Researchers are feeling the pinch and demanding exemptions for plant science and agriculture.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07166-7
Cross-disciplinary thinking was key to realizing the potential of electron diffraction to organic chemistry.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07213-3
A group that helped create the Nepal Climate Observatory - Pyramid approaches a deal with the Italian funding agency that once bankrolled it.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06846-8
The warming power of the Sun could help to explain why the level of gas in the atmosphere changes with the seasons.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07177-4
Researchers are developing wristbands and apps to predict moods — but the technology has pitfalls as well as promise.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07181-8
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The parasite Trypanosoma brucei causes sleeping sickness. It evades human defences by changing the version of a protein that coats its surface. Analysis of its genome and nuclear structure clarifies this variation process.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07008-6
During development, some synaptic connections between neurons are removed by immune cells called microglia, and others are retained. The discovery of a ‘don’t eat me’ signal that prevents excess pruning sheds light on this process.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07165-8
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A new technique, in which forebrain-precursor cells are ablated from early-stage mouse embryos and replaced with embryonic stem cells, promises to facilitate our ability to study the central nervous system.
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