- — New schizophrenia drug could treat Alzheimer’s disease
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03707-5Half a dozen drugs are in trials for conditions of the brain, but success is not guaranteed.
- — AI could pose pandemic-scale biosecurity risks. Here’s how to make it safer
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03815-2AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity.
- — This dwarf planet might have its very own ice volcano
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03856-7Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.
- — Farmers’ fires leave long-lasting smudge on African weather
- Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03797-1A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.
- — A cell atlas foundation model for scalable search of similar human cells
- Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08411-yA cell atlas foundation model for scalable search of similar human cells
- — Photocatalytic C–F bond activation in small molecules and polyfluoroalkyl substances
- Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08327-7Photocatalytic C–F bond activation in small molecules and polyfluoroalkyl substances
- — The Human Cell Atlas from a cell census to a unified foundation model
- Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08338-4The Human Cell Atlas from a cell census to a unified foundation model
- — Concerns regarding proposed groundwater Earth system boundary
- Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08082-9Concerns regarding proposed groundwater Earth system boundary
- — How to create psychedelics’ benefits without the ‘trip’
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03800-9Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.
- — Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03803-6The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.
- — Daily briefing: Why the man behind a ‘mouse utopia’ disappeared from the scientific literature
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03861-wWe learn that our friends, and our friends’ friends, have an influence on our gut microbiome and revisit the work of a once-influential behavioural researcher.
- — DNA need not apply: Books in brief
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03863-8Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- — Epiphanies
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03785-5All or nothing.
- — How I’m creating career opportunities for researchers back home in Mexico
- Nature, Published online: 22 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03562-4David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.
- — ‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03784-6Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
- — Bacteria found on a space rock turn out to be Earth-grown
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03806-3Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.
- — Chimps tickle and wrestle in play to pave the way for teamwork
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03802-7Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.
- — Next-generation snakebite therapies could reduce death toll
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03818-zVenomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. Treatments that are simpler to administer and more effective than conventional antivenom could curb this number.
- — Synergistic photobiocatalysis for enantioselective triple radical sorting
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08399-5Synergistic photobiocatalysis for enantioselective triple radical sorting
- — Notching up a win: fresh tools for activating Notch
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03822-3Synthetic protein agonists could boost T-cell biomanufacturing and therapeutic strategies.
- — I had three children during my PhD: here’s what I learnt
- Nature, Published online: 21 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03823-2Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication.
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