The inspiring story of the Tara and its 20-year message from the corals p.213

A remarkable research ship’s voyages to understand marine biodiversity show how visionary thinking can boost understanding of the natural world — and help to better preserve it.

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Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video p.214

Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

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Turkey’s researchers fear loss of freedom after Erdoğan re-elected p.219

Researchers expect the administration to further restrict autonomy and free speech. Some say they will move away or retire.

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US will vaccinate birds against avian flu for first time — what researchers think p.220

The country plans to vaccinate endangered condors in an effort to curb unprecedented H5N1 outbreaks.

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Chronic stress can inflame the gut — now scientists know why p.221

Signals originating in the brain make their way to gut nerve cells, leading to a release of inflammatory chemicals.

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AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research p.222

Text- and image-generating tools present a new hurdle for efforts to tackle the growing number of fake papers making their way into the academic literature.

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The human brain’s characteristic wrinkles help to drive how it works p.223

A model of the brain’s geometry better explains neuronal activity than a model based on the ‘connectome’.

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China is using satellites to police the protection of nature — but will it work? p.224

Scientists say the system will help safeguard nature, but they want more transparency about the zones chosen for conservation.

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Saving the iconic Colorado River — scientists say latest plan is not enough p.225

US states pledge to cut their use of water from the river, which has been drained by climate change and drought.

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Ancient giants p.228

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Tree islands boost biodiversity in oil-palm plantations p.239

The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem functioning without notably lowering crop yields.

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AI learns to write sorting software on its own p.240

Deep reinforcement learning has been used to improve computer code by treating the task as a game — with no special knowledge needed on the part of the player. The result has already worked its way into countless programs.

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Molecule in mothers’ milk nurses pups’ heart cells to maturity p.242

A fatty acid in the milk of nursing mice has been found to trigger a transformation in the metabolic pathways that are active in pups’ heart muscle cells, enabling the cells to rapidly mature after birth.

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Golden jubilee for an iconic financial formula p.243

Fifty years ago, an equation called the Black–Scholes formula revolutionized finance, leading to a rapid growth of markets and stimulating quantitatively oriented minds. But, with time, its simplicity became a liability — and yet its legacy persists.

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People, not search-engine algorithms, choose unreliable or partisan news p.245

Analysis of people’s web searches and visited websites suggests that it is more likely that they are choosing to engage with partisan or unreliable news than that they are being unduly exposed to it by search-engine algorithms.

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Lithium filaments wedge open cracks in solid-state batteries p.247

The development of a promising type of battery has been plagued by an issue that causes these devices to fail — lithium filaments grow in the electrolyte. An investigation of this failure mechanism could help to solve the problem.

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Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes p.252

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Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning p.257

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Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor p.264

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Observing the onset of pressure-driven K-shell delocalization p.270

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Dynamic optical response of solids following 1-fs-scale photoinjection p.276

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X-ray-to-visible light-field detection through pixelated colour conversion p.281

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Dendrite initiation and propagation in lithium metal solid-state batteries p.287

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Enantioconvergent Cu-catalysed N-alkylation of aliphatic amines p.294

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Copper-catalysed enantioconvergent alkylation of oxygen nucleophiles p.301

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Dynamics, interactions and delays of the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture sequence p.308

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Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes p.316

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The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes p.322

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Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant p.328

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Pan-cancer whole-genome comparison of primary and metastatic solid tumours p.333

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Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search p.342

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Myelin dysfunction drives amyloid-β deposition in models of Alzheimer’s disease p.349

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A Pseudomonas aeruginosa small RNA regulates chronic and acute infection p.358

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γ-Linolenic acid in maternal milk drives cardiac metabolic maturation p.365

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Tumour extracellular vesicles and particles induce liver metabolic dysfunction p.374

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Deterministic evolution and stringent selection during preneoplasia p.383

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Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum p.394

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Heteromeric clusters of ubiquitinated ER-shaping proteins drive ER-phagy p.402

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Nuclear export of pre-60S particles through the nuclear pore complex p.411

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