Systemic racism: science must listen, learn and change p.147

Nature commits to working to end anti-Black practices in research.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01678-x

Grieving and frustrated: Black scientists call out racism in the wake of police killings p.155

An academic strike is planned for this week, alongside marches and demonstrations worldwide.

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‘It opens up a whole new universe’: Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time p.156

Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier that will allow the workings of proteins to be probed in unprecedented detail.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01658-1

How the coronavirus pandemic slashed carbon emissions — in five graphs p.158

Near-real-time data on carbon emissions reveal the sectors, countries and events that had the most impact, but it is unclear how long the dip will last.

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High-profile coronavirus retractions raise concerns about data oversight p.160

Retracted studies had relied on health-record analyses from a company that declined to share its raw data for an audit.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01695-w

Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis p.162

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Sputnik moment or budget breaker: How will the pandemic alter research funding? p.164

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How scientific conferences will survive the coronavirus shock p.166

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Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing? p.167

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Scientists’ worlds will shrink in the wake of the pandemic p.169

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The pandemic is challenging China’s breakneck race to the top of science p.170

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The coronavirus outbreak could make it quicker and easier to trial drugs p.172

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The pandemic mixed up what scientists study – and some won’t go back p.173

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01525-z

Short-term tests validate long-term estimates of climate change p.185

Six-hour weather forecasts have been used to validate estimates of climate change hundreds of years from now. Such tests have great potential — but only if our weather-forecasting and climate-prediction systems are unified.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01484-5

Quantum matter orbits Earth p.186

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CRISPR tool scales up to interrogate a huge line-up of viral suspects p.188

Rapid, reliable identification of an unknown viral infection is challenging. Use of CRISPR technology can simultaneously detect nucleic acids of many viruses and pinpoint specific ones, such as the virus that causes COVID-19.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01447-w

Force takes control in mountain-height debate p.189

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Genes silenced down the generations, thanks to tails on messenger RNA p.191

It emerges that strings of nucleotides are added to messenger RNAs that are undergoing silencing in nematode worms. The composition of these nucleotide tails promotes the formation of small RNAs that drive heritable gene regulation.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01417-2

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensates in an Earth-orbiting research lab p.193

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2346-1

Cascade of electronic transitions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene p.198

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Cascade of phase transitions and Dirac revivals in magic-angle graphene p.203

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Topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted α-MoO₃ bilayers p.209

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Leveraging excited-state coherence for synthetic control of ultrafast dynamics p.214

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2353-2

Self-templating assembly of soft microparticles into complex tessellations p.219

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Megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins p.225

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The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views p.230

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A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals p.234

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Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals p.240

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Molecular design of hypothalamus development p.246

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2266-0

Basement membrane remodelling regulates mouse embryogenesis p.253

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2264-2

Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology p.259

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2222-z

Sialylation of immunoglobulin E is a determinant of allergic pathogenicity p.265

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2311-z

A calcineurin–Hoxb13 axis regulates growth mode of mammalian cardiomyocytes p.271

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2228-6

Massively multiplexed nucleic acid detection with Cas13 p.277

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2279-8

poly(UG)-tailed RNAs in genome protection and epigenetic inheritance p.283

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2323-8

Structure of M^pro from SARS-CoV-2 and discovery of its inhibitors p.289

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2223-y

The architecture of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall p.294

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