心地良い和音や不協和音など音に関する認識は、文化によって違うらしい。
The people who don’t get ‘Eleanor Rigby’ p.199
Happy music and sad sounds are not universal.
doi: 10.1038/535199b
Happy music and sad sounds are not universal.
doi: 10.1038/535199b
A US Senate decision on labelling genetically modified foods paves the way for a redirection of resources.
doi: 10.1038/535199a
Measuring hurt is harder than inflicting it.
doi: 10.1038/535200a
Economic instability and campus violence have thrown labs into crisis.
doi: 10.1038/535207a
The US government is considering a plan to allow wireless firms to share radio frequencies used in weather forecasts.
doi: 10.1038/535208a
Allen Brain Observatory releases unprecedented survey of activity in the mouse visual cortex.
doi: 10.1038/535209a
Senior staff at leading journals want to end inappropriate use of the measure.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20224
Poster-child for renewables strives to make wind and solar power more grid-friendly.
doi: 10.1038/535212a
The apparent trend has been on the rise over the past two decades.
doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20176
南アフリカが実施してきた世界最大規模の抗HIVプログラムが、抗レトロウイルス薬の効果を長期的に検証できる貴重な機会となっている。
doi: 10.1038/535214a
中国で発見された化石によって、現生人類の進化に関する見方が変わりつつある。
doi: 10.1038/535218a
有糸細胞分裂の際にKi-67が果たす役割はこれまで謎だった。詳細な画像化を行った結果、陽電荷を多数持つこのタンパク質が染色体を覆い、崩れてひとかたまりにならないようにしていることが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/nature18904
細菌の中には磁性を帯びたナノ粒子からなるひもを含むものがあり、このような細菌はそのため、磁場に沿って整列する。天然に存在するこのような構造からヒントを得て、こうした粒子の合成一次元アレイが作られた。
doi: 10.1038/535235a
さまざまな種にわたって見られる季節生物学的事象が気候変動に感受性を示すのは1年の内のどの時期で、どの程度の感受性が見られるのだろうか。このような疑問に対する答えが大量の長期間データセットの解析から得られた。
doi: 10.1038/nature18905
生まれてすぐの恒星を取り囲む、塵とガスからなる円盤の観測から、円盤内の水が氷となる恒星からの距離であるスノーラインが変動することが分かった。この変動は惑星形成を妨害している可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/535237a
量子効果は、さまざまな量を計測する装置に使われてきたが、電場の計測に使われたことはなかった。今回、電位計の感度が、量子重ね合わせ現象を使うことで改良された。
doi: 10.1038/535238a
An ambitious study has used more than 10,000 datasets to examine how the phenological characteristics—such as the timing of reproduction—of various taxa alter in response to climate change, and suggests that differing levels of climate sensitivity could lead to the desynchronization of seasonal events over time.
doi: 10.1038/nature18608
Disparate modes of suppression of the let-7 microRNA family are selectively and inversely related in neuroblastoma.
doi: 10.1038/nature18632
This paper reports the identification of a new cereblon-modulating agent, CC-885, which targets the translation termination factor GSPT1 and demonstrates anti-tumour activity in patient-derived tumour cells; the crystal structure of the cereblon–DDB1–GSPT1–CC-885 complex reveals a common motif for cereblon-substrate recruitment.
doi: 10.1038/nature18611
The snow-line is the distance from a protostar at which a particular volatile gas condenses; images of the protostar V883 Ori suggest that the water snow-line migrated outwards during a protostellar outburst, with implications for our understanding of the formation of planetary systems such as our own.
doi: 10.1038/nature18612
A highly sensitive electrometer is reported that is based on a Schrödinger-cat state in a Rydberg atom, that reaches a sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit and can compete with state-of-the-art electric field measurements performed using electromechanical resonators and single-electron transistors.
doi: 10.1038/nature18327
Electronic transport measurements in a magnetic field on the topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 identify the predicted Weyl orbits that weave Fermi arcs and bulk states together; the Weyl orbits enable transfer of chirality from one node to another, and open up the possibility of controlling topological properties electronically.
doi: 10.1038/nature18276
The controllable self-assembly of graphene ribbons on a substrate is shown, demonstrating an effect which could be applied to patterning and actuating devices made from two-dimensional materials.
doi: 10.1038/nature18304
The structure and accretion modes of two end-member types of oceanic lithosphere are described using a detailed seismicity survey along 390 kilometres of an ultraslow ridge axis, indicating deeper seismicity in amagmatic regions and explaining the uneven crustal production at ultraslow-spreading ridges.
doi: 10.1038/nature18277
Butterflies diversify their retinal mosaics by producing three stochastic types of ommatidia instead of the two types found in Drosophila; this study shows that butterfly retinas use two R7-like photoreceptors per ommatidium that each make an independent stochastic decision to express the transcription factor Spineless, which controls photoreceptor and ommatidial fate.
doi: 10.1038/nature18616
Activity in regions of the brain have been correlated with decision making but determining whether such relationships are correlative or causative has been challenging; using a technique to reversibly inactivate brain areas in monkeys reveals that although there is decision-related activity in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area, LIP is not critical for the perceptual decisions studied here.
doi: 10.1038/nature18617
Analysis of the transcriptome of more than 1,200 cells from gastrulating mouse embryos using single-cell sequencing, gathering unexpected insights into early mesoderm formation during gastrulation.
doi: 10.1038/nature18633
The zebrafish cloche gene is required for the formation of most endothelial and haematopoietic cells, however, it has been difficult to isolate; this study reveals that cloche encodes a PAS-domain-containing bHLH transcription factor, and a mammalian orthologue can partially rescue cloche mutants, indicating a possible conserved role in mammals.
doi: 10.1038/nature18614
Live imaging and single-cell analyses are used to show that decision-making by differentiating haematopoietic stem cells between the megakaryocytic–erythroid and granulocytic–monocytic lineages is not initiated by stochastic switching between the lineage-specific transcription factors PU.1 and GATA1, which challenges the previous model of early myeloid lineage choice.
doi: 10.1038/nature18320
In mice, deficiency in the high-density lipoprotein gene T39 stabilizes liver X receptor (LXR), reducing both atherosclerosis and steatohepatitis, suggesting that T39 inhibition could be an effective strategy for reducing these diseases.
doi: 10.1038/nature18628
During cell division, chromosomes are maintained as individual units; this process is shown to be mediated by the cell proliferation marker Ki-67, which has biophysical properties similar to those of surfactants.
doi: 10.1038/nature18610
