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Can COVID spread from frozen wildlife? Scientists probe pandemic origins

Studies from China suggest that the coronavirus can be transmitted on frozen surfaces — but scientists say that’s unlikely to be how the pandemic started.

Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record

The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.
Nidhi Subbaraman

News 26 Feb 2021
How Europe’s €100-billion science fund will shape 7 years of research

As Horizon Europe issues its first call for grants, Nature reviews some big changes — from open science to goal-oriented ‘missions’.
Quirin Schiermeier

News 25 Feb 2021
Spatiotemporal dissection of the cell cycle with single-cell proteogenomics

Spatial and temporal variations among individual human cell proteomes are comprehensively mapped across the cell cycle using proteomic imaging and transcriptomics.
Diana Mahdessian
Anthony J. Cesnik
Emma Lundberg

Article 24 Feb 2021
Daily briefing: Spectacular video of rover’s Mars landing

High-resolution, full-colour video of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars. Plus, a life-sized kangaroo is the oldest known rock art in Australia and scientists are closing in on a complete human genome.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 23 Feb 2021
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Plan to create UK version of DARPA lacks detail, say researchers

The process of setting up a funding agency for high-risk research in the United Kingdom is under way. But questions remain about how it will benefit science.
Holly Else

News 26 Feb 2021
Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record
Nidhi Subbaraman

News 26 Feb 2021
Can COVID spread from frozen wildlife? Scientists probe pandemic origins
Dyani Lewis

News 26 Feb 2021
COVID research updates: A COVID vaccine passes a real-world test with flying colours

News 26 Feb 2021
How Europe’s €100-billion science fund will shape 7 years of research
Quirin Schiermeier

News 25 Feb 2021
Rich countries should tithe their vaccines
Gavin Yamey

World View 24 Feb 2021
Collaborations with artists go beyond communicating the science

Editorial 24 Feb 2021

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Exercise generates immune cells in bone
  
  A specialized type of bone-cell progenitor has been identified in the bone marrow, and shown to support the generation of immune cells called lymphocytes in response to movement.
  
  Mehmet Saçma
  Hartmut Geiger
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2021
- Cancer aided by greasy traitors
  
  Cancer can evade destruction by the immune system if aided by immunosuppressive regulatory T cells. These cells depend on a lipid-production pathway in the tumour environment, a vulnerability that might be used to target them.
  
  Caroline Perry
  Ulf H. Beier
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2021
- Breaks in mitochondrial DNA rig the immune response
  
  Damage to DNA in a cellular organelle called the mitochondrion triggers an immune response in the nucleus. Mechanistic insights into this process shed light on how organelles communicate.
  
  Nandhitha Uma Naresh
  Cole M. Haynes
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2021
- Accelerator-based light sources get a boost
  
  The structure of matter can be explored using the light emitted by particle accelerators. An experiment demonstrates how the properties of two such light sources — synchrotrons and free-electron lasers — can be combined.
  
  Alexander Brynes
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2021
- Antimatter in the proton is more down than up
  
  Protons are found in all atoms, so it might be surprising to learn that they contain antimatter. It now emerges that there is an imbalance in the types of antimatter in the proton — a finding for which there is no agreed theoretical explanation.
  
  Haiyan Gao
  
  News & Views 24 Feb 2021
- Glowing nanocrystals enable 3D X-ray imaging
  
  Albano N. Carneiro Neto
  Oscar L. Malta
  
  News & Views 17 Feb 2021
- Cells use loop extrusion to weave and tie the genome
  
  Leonid A. Mirny
  
  News & Views 17 Feb 2021
- High-performance plastic made from renewable oils is chemically recyclable by design
  
  Charlotte K. Williams
  Georgina L. Gregory
  
  News & Views 17 Feb 2021
- Million-year-old DNA provides a glimpse of mammoth evolution
  
  Alfred L. Roca
  
  News & Views 17 Feb 2021

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Latest Research articles

SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G change enhances replication and transmission
Bin Zhou
Tran Thi Nhu Thao
Martin Beer

Article 26 Feb 2021
Deterministic multi-qubit entanglement in a quantum network

High-fidelity deterministic quantum state transfer and multi-qubit entanglement are demonstrated in a quantum network comprising two superconducting quantum nodes one metre apart, with each node including three interconnected qubits.
Youpeng Zhong
Hung-Shen Chang
Andrew N. Cleland

Article 24 Feb 2021
A mechanosensitive peri-arteriolar niche for osteogenesis and lymphopoiesis

A peri-arteriolar niche in the bone marrow for osteogenesis and lymphopoiesis is maintained by mechanical stimulation and is depleted during ageing.
Bo Shen
Alpaslan Tasdogan
Sean J. Morrison

Article 24 Feb 2021
Reset of hippocampal–prefrontal circuitry facilitates learning

Exposure to a novel experience can ‘reset’ connections between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in mice, allowing them to overcome an existing learned behaviour and to replace it with a new one.
Alan J. Park
Alexander Z. Harris
Joshua A. Gordon

Article 24 Feb 2021
Multi-kingdom ecological drivers of microbiota assembly in preterm infants

Absolute microbial abundances delineate longitudinal dynamics of bacteria, fungi and archaea in the infant gut microbiome, uncovering drivers of microbiome development masked by relative abundances and revealing notable parallels to macroscopic ecosystem assemblies.
Chitong Rao
Katharine Z. Coyte
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

Article 24 Feb 2021