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Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling.

How science could aid the US quest for environmental justice

Research tools to identify and help protect disadvantaged communities have been in the works for years. Scientists and activists want them put into action.

Jeff Tollefson
News 02 Jun 2022
Taliban rule takes toll on Afghanistan’s academics — especially women

Women in universities are restricted in what they can wear, and restricted from teaching men or attending classes with them.

Smriti Mallapaty
News 01 Jun 2022
Cilia metasurfaces for electronically programmable microfluidic manipulation

Artificial cilia composed of surface electrochemical actuators are combined in arrays to create arbitrary flow patterns in liquids, and, when integrated with light-powered CMOS circuits, enable programmable wireless operation at low voltage.

Wei Wang
Qingkun Liu
Itai Cohen
Article 25 May 2022
Daily briefing: The great resignation has hit academia

Why the pandemic has encouraged some researchers to quit academia. Plus, a guide to Omicron’s many subvariants and a new way to check whether a journal has been hijacked.

Helen Pearson
Nature Briefing 31 May 2022
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A surprise in the eye: long-lived T cells patrol the cornea

Scientists previously thought that specialized immune cells did not reside in the transparent cornea.

Smriti Mallapaty

News 03 Jun 2022
To boost South Korea’s basic science, look to values, not just budgets
So Young Kim
World View 02 Jun 2022
How the giraffe got its neck: ‘unicorn’ fossil could shed light on puzzle
Nicola Jones
News 02 Jun 2022
How science could aid the US quest for environmental justice
Jeff Tollefson
News 02 Jun 2022
NASA’s Perseverance rover begins key search for life on Mars
Alexandra Witze
News 02 Jun 2022
COVID death tolls: scientists acknowledge errors in WHO estimates
Richard Van Noorden
News Feature 01 Jun 2022
Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter
Diana Kwon
News Feature 01 Jun 2022

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Designer protein circuits enable safe cancer immunotherapy
  
  Synthetic receptor proteins can enable customized and flexible control of immune cells called T lymphocytes. A defined framework for the proteins’ design now improves their potential for use in cancer immunotherapy.
  
  Mohamad Hamieh
  Maria Themeli
  
  News & Views 02 Jun 2022
- A chromosome predisposed for sex
  
  A genome sequence for the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea reveals a chromosome that might be primed to become a sex chromosome. The finding offers a remarkable chance to study the evolution of sex determination.
  Yuying Lin
  Judith E. Mank
  
  News & Views 01 Jun 2022
- Multilayer 2D insulator shows promise for post-silicon electronics
  
  A method has been developed for fabricating thin films of the 2D insulator hexagonal boron nitride with a uniform crystal orientation. The advance makes this material a key contender for replacing silica substrates in future electronics.
  Soo Ho Choi
  Soo Min Kim
  
  News & Views 01 Jun 2022
- Blood’s life history traced through genomic scars
  
  Two studies of the mutations acquired by blood-forming cells over time provide insights into the dynamics of blood production in humans and its relationship to ageing.
  Aswin Sekar
  Benjamin L. Ebert
  
  News & Views 01 Jun 2022
- A radical way to forge carbon–carbon bonds
  
  Carbon–carbon single bonds are found in most organic molecules. A new electrocatalytic method can create such bonds by uniting different alkyl carboxylic acids, substantially shortening synthetic routes to useful molecules. The reaction uses inexpensive reagents in a simple and scalable set-up, and allows the inclusion of many other functional groups.
  
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  News & Views 01 Jun 2022
- Loops simplify a set-up to boost quantum computational advantage
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  News & Views 01 Jun 2022
- The road to fully programmable protein catalysis
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  Review Article 01 Jun 2022

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Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers

The systematic categorization of human enhancers by their cofactor dependencies provides a conceptual framework to understand the sequence and chromatin diversity of enhancers and their roles in different gene-regulatory programmes.

Christoph Neumayr
Vanja Haberle
Alexander Stark
Article 01 Jun 2022
Clonal dynamics of haematopoiesis across the human lifespan

Haematopoiesis has high clonal diversity up to about 65 years of age, after which diversity drops precipitously owing to positive selection acting on a handful of clones that expand exponentially throughout adulthood.

Emily Mitchell
Michael Spencer Chapman
Peter J. Campbell
Article Open Access 01 Jun 2022
Communicating doctors’ consensus persistently increases COVID-19 vaccinations

Correcting public misperceptions about the views of doctors on the COVID-19 vaccines can have lasting impacts on public uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Vojtěch Bartoš
Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Article Open Access 01 Jun 2022
Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor

Gaussian boson sampling is performed on 216 squeezed modes entangled with three-dimensional connectivity⁵, using Borealis, registering events with up to 219 photons and a mean photon number of 125.

Lars S. Madsen
Fabian Laudenbach
Jonathan Lavoie
Article Open Access 01 Jun 2022
Intermittent lab earthquakes in dynamically weakening fault gouge

Lab experiments show that spontaneously propagating ruptures navigate fault regions through intermittent slip with dramatic friction evolution, providing support that weakening mechanisms may allow ruptures to break through stable faults.

V. Rubino
N. Lapusta
A. J. Rosakis
Article 01 Jun 2022

As the first wave of the COVID pandemic washed across the world, it left devastation in its wake – devastation that was persistently most acute among disadvantaged people and in marginalized communities.

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