- — A toolkit for seeing how the fly brain’s visual system works
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at 4/2/25 12:16pmNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00885-8A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all the visual neurons have been quantified, and a large collection of genetically engineered fly lines have been shared, providing a comprehensive toolkit for studying fly vision.- — World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01028-9Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research suggesting that a shingles vaccination reduces the risk of dementia.
- — Photoinduced copper-catalysed deracemization of alkyl halides
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08784-8A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond cleavage.
- — A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08800-xUsing a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of 7 years by approximately one-fifth.
- — Mastering diverse control tasks through world models
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08744-2A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour by imagining future scenarios.
- — Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08796-4Neonatal antibiotic use is shown to reduce immune response to infant vaccines, accompanied by reduced abundance of Bifidobacteria in the gut microbiota, with experiments in mice indicating that probiotic therapy could be beneficial.
- — Near-field photon entanglement in total angular momentum
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08761-1Non-classical correlations between two photons in the near-field regime give rise to entanglement in their total angular momentum, leading to a completely different structure of quantum correlations of photon pairs.
- — Formation and composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08719-3A modelling study shows that the trace-element composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust is similar to that of the current average continental crust, severely compromising geochemical arguments for when and how plate tectonics began.
- — Metal–support frontier orbital interactions in single-atom catalysis
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08747-zThe acetylene hydrogenation activity and stability of a palladium single-atom catalyst are both controlled by the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the oxide support.
- — Millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic systems for electrotherapy
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08726-4A millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic system with an onboard power supply and a wireless, optical control mechanism is developed for general applications in electrotherapy and specific uses in temporary cardiac pacing.
- — A RISC-V 32-bit microprocessor based on two-dimensional semiconductors
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08759-9A RISC-V microprocessor capable of executing standard 32-bit instructions has been designed with 5,900 MoS2 transistors and a complete standard cell library based on 2D semiconductor technology.
- — Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08813-6A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action.
- — Clinically relevant clot resolution via a thromboinflammation-on-a-chip
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08804-7In thromboinflammation, early tissue plasminogen activator administration directly improves endothelial barrier function, prophylactic defibrotide and enoxaparin suppress microvascular thromboinflammation through endothelium-mediated mechanisms and combining enoxaparin with crizanlizumab reduces microvascular occlusion and protects endothelial function in sickle cell disease.
- — A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08828-zIllness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.
- — Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08814-5A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of regional-scale anthropogenic activity on plant diversity.
- — Haploid facultative parthenogenesis in sunflower sexual reproduction
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08798-2Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.
- — The RAD52 double-ring remodels replication forks restricting fork reversal
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08753-1A head-to-head double-ring complex of the human multifunctional DNA repair protein RAD52 mediates protection of stalled replication forks during replication stress, protecting them from reversal by SMARCAL1 motor.
- — Acoustic modes in M67 cluster stars trace deepening convective envelopes
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08760-2Measuring acoustic oscillations in 27 stars within the M67 cluster presents evidence of a rapidly evolving convective zone as stars evolve from subgiants to red giants.
- — Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage
- at 4/2/25 11:42amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08793-7Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
- — Minerals will shape future geopolitical order
- at 4/2/25 10:22amNature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01006-1Minerals will shape future geopolitical order
- — What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so
- at 4/2/25 9:51amNature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00973-9A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.
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