Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever p.169

Science and politics are inseparable — and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months.

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Long COVID: let patients help define long-lasting COVID symptoms p.170

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What a Joe Biden presidency would mean for five key science issues p.177

The coronavirus pandemic, climate change and space exploration are among the issues that Biden will influence if he wins the upcoming US election.

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India pushes bold ‘one nation, one subscription’ journal-access plan p.181

Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

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Life on Venus? Scientists hunt for the truth p.182

Interest in Earth’s hellish neighbour explodes after the detection of phosphine, a potential marker of life.

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What Trump’s Supreme Court pick could mean for science p.183

If confirmed, Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation, scientific expertise and agency transparency, say legal scholars.

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Face masks: what the data say p.186

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How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover p.190

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Encounters with inequality lead to demands for taxes on the rich p.201

A field experiment reveals that people are more likely to demand that rich members of society should pay more taxes when reminded about ongoing inequality through exposure to a symbol of wealth.

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Inductors enter the world of quantum mechanics p.202

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Maternal microbes support fetal brain wiring p.203

Resident bacteria in the maternal gut are important for normal fetal brain development in mice. It emerges that this effect is driven by bacterially produced metabolite molecules that signal to the fetal brain.

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Early onset of planet formation observed in a nascent star system p.205

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Programmable photonic circuits p.207

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Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century p.217

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Four annular structures in a protostellar disk less than 500,000 years old p.228

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Emergent electromagnetic induction in a helical-spin magnet p.232

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Near-perfect photon utilization in an air-bridge thermophotovoltaic cell p.237

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Intercepting fleeting cyclic allenes with asymmetric nickel catalysis p.242

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A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks p.248

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Local exposure to inequality raises support of people of low wealth for taxing the wealthy p.257

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Innovations present in the primate interneuron repertoire p.262

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A hypothalamic novelty signal modulates hippocampal memory p.270

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Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration p.275

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The maternal microbiome modulates fetal neurodevelopment in mice p.281

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Na⁺ controls hypoxic signalling by the mitochondrial respiratory chain p.287

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Repeat expansions confer WRN dependence in microsatellite-unstable cancers p.292

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Tumoural activation of TLR3–SLIT2 axis in endothelium drives metastasis p.299

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CTCF orchestrates long-range cohesin-driven V(D)J recombinational scanning p.305

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Structural basis of salicylic acid perception by Arabidopsis NPR proteins p.311

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Structures of fungal and plant acetohydroxyacid synthases p.317

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