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Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States

Evaluation of death certificates from national database paints grim picture for pregnant women.

Scientist Rebellion: researchers join protestors at COP26

Scientists are among hundreds of demonstrators at the COP26 climate conference — and want more to join them.

Tosin Thompson
News 12 Nov 2021
New FDA chief will face COVID woes and calls for drug-approval reform

After long delay, US President Joe Biden picks Robert Califf to once again head the US Food and Drug Administration.

Max Kozlov
News 12 Nov 2021
Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells

Palmitic acid induces stable transcriptional and chromatin changes that lead to long-term stimulation of metastasis in orthotopic models of cancer through the secretion by tumour-associated Schwann cells of a specialized proregenerative extracellular matrix, the ablation of which inhibits metastasis initiation.

Gloria Pascual
Diana Domínguez
Salvador Aznar Benitah
Article 10 Nov 2021
Daily briefing: US and China issue joint climate pledge

The two biggest greenhouse-gas emitters have issued a surprise joint declaration at COP26. Plus, how Merck and Pfizer’s antiviral pills might reshape the pandemic, and the origin story of the arXiv.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 11 Nov 2021
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Protein vaccines 101 and rising temperatures — the week in infographics

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

News 12 Nov 2021
New FDA chief will face COVID woes and calls for drug-approval reform
- Max Kozlov
News 12 Nov 2021
Homicide is a top cause of maternal death in the United States
- Nidhi Subbaraman
News 12 Nov 2021
Scientist Rebellion: researchers join protestors at COP26
- Tosin Thompson
News 12 Nov 2021
Diamond delivers long-sought mineral from the deep Earth
- Alexandra Witze
News 11 Nov 2021
Sleeplessness and anxiety: PhD supervisors on toll of COVID pandemic
- Holly Else
News 11 Nov 2021
How do people resist COVID infections? Hospital workers offer a hint
- Max Kozlov
News 11 Nov 2021

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Tracking the origin of Transeurasian languages
  
  A triangulation of linguistic, archaeological and genetic data suggests that the Transeurasian language family originated in a population of grain farmers in China around 9,000 years ago, and that agriculture underpinned its spread.
  
  Peter Bellwood
  
  News & Views 10 Nov 2021
- Global temperature changes mapped across the past 24,000 years
  
  Palaeoclimate data and models have been used to produce a comprehensive report of Earth’s temperature changes over the past 24 millennia. The results suggest that modern warming differs from the gradual rise of the past 10,000 years.
  Shaun A. Marcott
  Jeremy D. Shakun
  
  News & Views 10 Nov 2021
- From the archive
  
  Nature’s pages feature a textbook that takes a new approach for covering science, and an obituary of Charles Babbage.
  
  News & Views 09 Nov 2021
- Fifty years of the brain’s sense of space
  
  Neurons in a brain region called the hippocampus were found to be selectively active when rats are in a specific spatial location during natural navigation. The discovery launched research efforts into how the brain supports spatial memory.
  Isabel I. C. Low
  Lisa M. Giocomo
  
  News & Views 04 Nov 2021
- Mice with disrupted mitochondria used to model Parkinson’s disease
  
  Mice in which organelles called mitochondria are disrupted in vulnerable neuronal cells provide a new model of Parkinson’s disease. The pattern of neurodegeneration challenges long-held ideas about the disease’s motor symptoms.
  Zak Doric
  Ken Nakamura
  
  News & Views 03 Nov 2021
- GABA molecules made by B cells can dampen antitumour responses
  Daniel L. Kaufman
  
  News & Views 03 Nov 2021
- A whale of an appetite revealed by analysis of prey consumption
  Victor Smetacek
  
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- A seagrass harbours a nitrogen-fixing bacterial partner
  Douglas G. Capone
  
  News & Views 03 Nov 2021
- A mediator of metabolic signals influences puberty and growth
  Alejandro Lomniczi
  
  News & Views 03 Nov 2021

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Latest Research articles

Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2

Leo Swadling
Mariana O. Diniz
Mala K. Maini
Article 10 Nov 2021
Bubble casting soft robotics

An all-in-one methodology for fabricating soft robotics reported here uses interfacial flows in elastomers that cure to produce actuators that can be tailored to suit applications from artificial muscles to grippers.

Trevor J. Jones
Etienne Jambon-Puillet
P.-T. Brun
Article 10 Nov 2021
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum

Paleoclimate datasets are integrated with a climate model to reconstruct global surface temperature since the Last Glacial Maximum, showing sustained warming until the mid-Holocene.

Matthew B. Osman
Jessica E. Tierney
Christopher J. Poulsen
Article 10 Nov 2021
Dynamic slab segmentation due to brittle–ductile damage in the outer rise

Numerical subduction models used to determine the consequences of bending-induced plate damage show that slab weakening and segmentation can occur at the outer-rise region of the subducting plate.

T. V. Gerya
D. Bercovici
T. W. Becker
Article 10 Nov 2021
Diverse alterations associated with resistance to KRAS(G12C) inhibition

Multiple treatment-emergent alterations appear in patients with advanced-stage cancer who were treated with a KRAS inhibitor.

Yulei Zhao
Yonina R. Murciano-Goroff
Piro Lito
Article 10 Nov 2021