Many studies that link global warming to civil unrest are biased and exacerbate stigma about the developing world.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01875-9
The successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket was a stunning moment that opens the way for commercial exploration of deep space.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01877-7
Researchers have hidden secret notes in their manuscripts for decades, but there are risks.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01876-8
Historical record of wildfires points to climate patterns that could prime the region for an intense fire season.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01686-y
US president makes last-minute decision to abandon proposal for major cuts to National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s science office.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01985-4
Efforts to combat disfiguring skin disease fail to account for primate hosts.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01703-0
The expansion of a telescope network creates a thirst for more data-handling expertise and infrastructure.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01838-0
The National Science Foundation says institutions it supports must disclose when researchers are found to have violated policies or are put on leave pending investigation.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01744-5
量子の特異な性質を利用する量子テレポーテーションは、ネットワークのセキュリティーを根底から変える可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01835-3
脈動オーロラと呼ばれる地球大気の壮観な光のショーは、宇宙空間の過程と直接つながっている。数十年の研究を経て、こうしたオーロラを生み出す一連の事象が全て観測された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01669-z
複雑な社会生活を送る種の方が知能が高いかどうかは、議論の的であるとともに検証が難しい。今回野生のカササギフエガラスにおいて、認知能力とそれに伴う繁殖成功が、群れのサイズと関連付けられた。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01487-3
今回、脳の外側手綱核におけるニューロン活動が、アストロサイトに調節されて一斉に起こると、齧歯類でうつ様行動が生じることが分かった。この知見は、ある抗うつ薬の理解やより多くの抗うつ薬の開発に役立つ可能性がある。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01588-z
作業記憶は、過去の経験の影響を受ける。今回、最近の経験を表現するラットの脳領域が特定され、この領域を抑制すると、作業記憶や意思決定からバイアスが除かれることが分かった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01418-2
量子スピン液体は、長く探求されてきた物質の新奇な状態で、量子計算を変容させる可能性がある。今回、ハニカム格子の上にイリジウムイオンがある化合物で、そうした状態の特徴が観測された。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01747-2
乳がんのプログレッションでは、乳管で発生した腫瘍細胞が乳房の他の部分に広がる。今回、空間的に限定された単一細胞の分析によって、こうした侵入性の腫瘍細胞の起源が明らかになった。
doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01634-w
The origin, evolution and domestication of Citrus and the genealogy of the most important wild and cultivated citrus varieties.
doi: 10.1038/nature25447
The rapid antidepressant activity of ketamine results from reversal of increased burst firing and synchronization in the lateral habenula in rat and mouse models of depression.
doi: 10.1038/nature25509
Increased expression of the potassium channel Kir4.1 on astrocytes in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursting in rodent models of depression.
doi: 10.1038/nature25752
The transmembrane protein teneurin-3 is expressed in multiple topographically interconnected areas of the hippocampal region and acts in both projection and target neurons to control wiring specificity from CA1 to the subiculum.
doi: 10.1038/nature25463
Observations of a highly collimated, parsec-scale jet emitted from a massive young stellar object in the Large Magellanic Cloud indicate that jet launching and collimation are independent of stellar mass.
doi: 10.1038/nature25189
High-angular-resolution measurements allow the direct observation of the scattering of energetic electrons by chorus waves in the magnetosphere, which causes quasiperiodic electron precipitation that gives rise to pulsating aurorae.
doi: 10.1038/nature25505
A quantum-liquid state of spin–orbital-entangled magnetic moments is observed in the 5d-electron honeycomb iridate H3LiIr2O6, evidenced by the absence of magnetic ordering down to 0.05 kelvin.
doi: 10.1038/nature25482
Freezing on a spherical surface is shown to proceed by the sequestration of defects into 12 icosahedrally coordinated ‘seas’ that enable the formation of a crystalline ‘continent’ with long-range orientational order.
doi: 10.1038/nature25468
An Antarctic ice core reveals that, during the last ice age, the topography of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets shifted tropical Pacific convection eastward, increasing climate variability in the high southern latitudes.
doi: 10.1038/nature24669
Temperature variability decreased globally by a factor of four between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene epoch, as a result of changes in the meridional temperature gradient.
doi: 10.1038/nature25454
A method for modelling time-varying dynamic stability in a natural marine fish community finds that seasonal patterns in community stability are driven by species diversity and interspecific interactions.
doi: 10.1038/nature25504
Wild Australian magpies (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis) living in large groups show increased cognitive performance, which is associated with increased reproductive success.
doi: 10.1038/nature25503
A working memory task in rats demonstrates that the posterior parietal cortex is a critical locus for the representation and use of prior stimulus information.
doi: 10.1038/nature25510
The transcription factor c-MAF is required for the generation of Helicobacter-specific regulatory T cells that selectively restrain pro-inflammatory TH17 cells; the absence of c-MAF in mouse regulatory T cells results in pathobiont-dependent inflammatory bowel disease.
doi: 10.1038/nature25500
In a mouse model of breast cancer, asparagine bioavailability strongly influences metastasis and this is correlated with the production of proteins that regulate the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, which provides at least one potential mechanism for how a single amino acid could regulate metastatic progression.
doi: 10.1038/nature25465
Formation of inter-organelle contacts between mitochondria and lysosomes, regulated by lysosomal RAB7 GTP hydrolysis, allows for bidirectional regulation of mitochondrial and lysosomal dynamics.
doi: 10.1038/nature25486
A crystal structure of DNMT3A and its regulatory partner DNMT3L bound to DNA reveals the mechanistic basis for DNMT3A-mediated DNA methylation and establishes its aetiological link to human disease.
doi: 10.1038/nature25477
