Beware the rise of the radical right p.599
Academic freedom is on the hit list when radical politicians gain office — as they have done in Europe.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07527-2
Academic freedom is on the hit list when radical politicians gain office — as they have done in Europe.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07527-2
Planners can help stop neighbouring sites blocking the wind.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07528-1
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The startling announcement by a Chinese scientist represents a controversial leap in the use of genome editing.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07545-0
Joint US-French-German mission will monitor seismic activity for clues to Mars’s internal structure.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07482-y
A suite of automated tools is now available to assist with peer review but humans are still in the driver's seat.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07245-9
The Neural Information Processing Systems meeting is trying to be more inclusive, but a recent survey reveals there is a long way to go.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07552-1
Several projects are trying to develop animal models that more closely mimic how the brain disease affects people.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07484-w
Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the planet’s temperature.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07533-4
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Variable brain-specific mutations have been observed in Alzheimer’s disease. One mechanism underlying this mosaicism involves integration of variant gene copies back into the neuronal genome.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07334-9
In the debate about how bacterial mutations arise, an experiment in 1943 showed that they can occur spontaneously and independently of a selection pressure. This study also popularized the use of maths-driven analysis of biological data.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07521-8
Have Neanderthals gained an unfair reputation for having led highly violent lives? A comparison of skulls of Neanderthals and prehistoric humans in Eurasia reveals no evidence of higher levels of trauma in these hominins.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07343-8
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The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hard-to-treat human infections. It now seems that, if the bacterium is infected by a virus, a viral enzyme helps the microbe to evade detection by the immune system.
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