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More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
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More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02959-3
The textiles industry urgently needs input from researchers to help it to embrace the circular economy.
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Huge advances in artificial intelligence mean researchers can design completely original molecules in seconds instead of months.
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Symptoms of severe disease differ from those seen during past outbreaks, causing researchers to re-evaluate their assumptions.
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A mutation present in modern humans seems to drive greater neuron growth than does an ancient hominin version.
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Most of the people mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II were not close to her — research can shed light on the nature of their grief.
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The global tsunami and atmospheric waves that followed the eruption of the Tongan volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai were observed around the world. Analysing the data could reshape our understanding of such events.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01855-0
Specialized neurons that are activated after infection have been identified in the brain. These neurons orchestrate an array of sickness behaviours that help the body to cope with disease and to fight infection.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02321-7
A structure with precisely engineered layers produces a giant strain in an electric field. The interplay between structural distortions and electric dipoles at the interfaces between layers could aid material and device design.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02948-6
When combined, two drugs alter the activity of a protein complex called target of rapamycin complex 1 such that it is inhibited in the brain but not the body, enabling the treatment of brain tumours in mice without systemic toxicity.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02892-5
Analysis of early human embryos reveals that DNA duplication after fertilization is highly inefficient. This causes DNA damage, chromosome breaks and abnormal numbers of chromosomes, impairing embryo development.
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