トルコ政府は「非常事態」を早く終わらせ、政治的混乱の渦中にある科学界が、安心感を取り戻せるようにすべきだ。
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Hundreds of academics and scientists are caught up in political crackdowns in the wake of petitions for peace.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01677-z
Hundreds of academics and scientists are caught up in political crackdowns in the wake of petitions for peace.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01677-z
Artificial intelligence is driving the next wave of innovations in the semiconductor industry.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01683-1
New categories of mathematics will be added to the 2020 update of the standard mathematical taxonomy.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01690-2
Some researchers say that statistical prediction of the ancestral blossom yielded an unlikely structure.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01539-8
Researchers sought to boost their children’s chances in university admissions.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01512-5
Governments are slowly advancing efforts to reduce climate and health impacts of soot.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01556-7
The trading bloc has withheld two-fifths of its expected grants.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01374-x
DNA analysis suggests the self-cloning species is a genetic hybrid that emerged in an aquarium in the 1990s.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01624-y
揺れ動く政治情勢の中で、アパルトヘイト時代を知る黒人の研究者たちが、南アフリカの科学を変えていこうとしている。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01696-w
今回、木材を圧縮する方法が改善され、木材の強度と剛性をかなり高くできるようになったため、天然木では弱過ぎるとされてきた工学的用途に木材を利用できる可能性が開かれた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01371-0
ある遺伝子の異常ががんと関連していて、ある薬剤がその遺伝子にコードされるタンパク質を標的としている場合に、その遺伝子の変異がさまざまながんで異なっているとすれば、薬剤に反応する患者をどうしたら特定できるのだろうか。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01312-x
多くの政府が、化石燃料の生産や消費に補助金を出している。予想に反して、こうした補助金を廃止しても全球の二酸化炭素排出量はあまり減らないことが、今回分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01495-3
今回、ライオンなどの野生動物のリモートセンシングデータから、捕食者と被食者は、狩りの際に速度ではなく敏捷性を最適化していることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01278-w
2017年に、中性子星と呼ばれる星の残骸が2つ合体して生じた重力波と電磁波が検出された。今回、その観測結果を解析して、こうした放射が合体によって放出される仕組みが明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01570-9
今回、ある実験手法によって、ソリトンと呼ばれる光の束が、物質中を伝わる際にその形状を3つの次元全てで維持できるようになった。こうした波束は、光情報処理に利用できる可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01470-y
1953年に、ジェームズ・ワトソンとフランシス・クリックは、まれに形成されるDNA塩基の異性体が、DNAの複製時に生じる自然変異の原因になると提案した。その65年後、彼らが正しかったと思われる証拠が示された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-00418-6
Analysis and modelling of locomotor characteristics of two pursuit predator–prey pairs show that hunts at lower speeds enable prey to use their maximum manoeuvring capacity and favour prey survival.
doi: 10.1038/nature25479
In a basket trial design, the efficacy of the pan-HER kinase inhibitor neratinib is tested in patients with 21 different tumour types, and responses are determined by mutation and tissue type, and are restricted to HER2-mutant cancers.
doi: 10.1038/nature25475
A kinetic model is proposed to predict the probability of dG•dT misincorporation across different polymerases, and provides mechanisms for sequence-dependent misincorporation.
doi: 10.1038/nature25487
Cryo-electron microscopy and single-molecule studies reveal that the adaptors BICDR1 and HOOK3 recruit two dynein molecules to dynactin and thereby increase the force and speed of the dynein–dynactin microtubule motor.
doi: 10.1038/nature25462
The observed electromagnetic emission from GW170817 suggests that a ‘cocoon’ of mildly relativistic material was released as a jet transferred its energy to the neutron-rich dynamical ejecta from the merger.
doi: 10.1038/nature25452
Measurements and modelling of a large confined eruption on the Sun show that its evolution is controlled by a multilayer magnetic cage containing a twisted flux rope, which can sometimes be ejective.
doi: 10.1038/nature24671
Experimental evidence is presented for isomer depletion through nuclear excitation by electron capture in molybdenum-93 nuclei.
doi: 10.1038/nature25483
Many-body two- and three-string states are realized experimentally in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg–Ising chain SrCo2V2O8 in strong longitudinal magnetic fields.
doi: 10.1038/nature25466
A process is described for the transformation of bulk wood into a low-cost, strong, tough, lightweight structural material, by the partial removal of lignin and hemicellulose followed by hot-pressing to densify the natural wood.
doi: 10.1038/nature25476
Contrary to the hopes of policymakers, fossil fuel subsidy removal would have only a small impact on global energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions and would not increase renewable energy use by 2030.
doi: 10.1038/nature25467
A dated phylogeny and spatial distribution data for Chinese angiosperms show that eastern China has tended to act as a refugium for older taxa whereas western China has acted as a centre for their evolutionary diversification.
doi: 10.1038/nature25485
Gene enhancer knockout phenotypes and analysis of enhancer activity patterns show that developmental genes are regulated by multiple redundant enhancers in mouse embryos.
doi: 10.1038/nature25461
The activity of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta before movement initiation affects the probability and vigour of future movements.
doi: 10.1038/nature25457
Measurement of human plasma amyloid-β biomarkers using immunoprecipitation coupled with mass spectrometry reliably predicts individual brain amyloid-β status and has potential clinical utility.
doi: 10.1038/nature25456
Distinct populations of lymphocytes act sequentially during development to direct maturation of the mammalian gut microbiota.
doi: 10.1038/nature25437
Analysis at high temporal and spatial resolution shows that the number and dynamics of SNARE proteins available during exocytosis determines the size and stability of fusion pores.
doi: 10.1038/nature25481
