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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 12, 2024

Volume 636 Issue 8042

Nature Magazine – December 11, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Digestive Tracks’ – Fossilized vomit and poo reveal how dinosaurs came to dominate ancient ecosystems…

Do you drink coffee? Ask your gut

Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.

Has Venus ever had an ocean? Its volcanoes hint at an answer

Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.

Ancient stacks of dishes tell tale of society’s dissolution

Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 5, 2024

Volume 636 Issue 8041

Nature Magazine – December 3, 2024: The latest issue features ‘In The Clouds’ – Isoprene drives formation of new particles in the upper troposphere…

Humble scientists earn more trust

Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible.

The cells that help the immune system fight lung cancer

Neighbouring cells bolster the immune cells’ tumour-fighting abilities.

Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.

This dwarf planet might have its very own ice volcano

Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 28, 2024

Volume 635 Issue 8040

Nature Magazine – November 13, 2024: The latest issue features

How to create psychedelics’ benefits without the ‘trip’

Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.

Farmers’ fires leave long-lasting smudge on African weather

A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.

How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 14, 2024

Volume 635 Issue 8038

Nature Magazine – November 13, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Head Start’ – Well preserved fossil skull offers insight into archaic bird brains…

Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites

Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.

China’s thriving forests are stockpiling vast amounts of carbon

Satellite observations validate national reports on forest coverage and carbon storage.

No hearing aids needed: bats’ ears stay keen well into old age

Elderly big brown bats showed little sign of age-related degradation in the inner ear.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 7, 2024

Volume 635 Issue 8037

Nature Magazine – November 6, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Outside Influence’ – Exploring the contribution extrachromosomal DNA makes to cancer….

Naked mole rats vanquish genetic ghosts — and achieve long life

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

The midlife crisis is not universal

Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.

The seas are on the rise — and that surge is accelerating

Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.

Hidden wonders: laser data reveal a dense network of ancient Maya settlements

Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8036

Nature Magazine – October 30, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – Cancer cell atlases explore the landscape of tumour evolution…

Atomic smash-ups hold promise of record-breaking elements

Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.

This plankton balloons in size to soar upwards through the water

A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.

Giant Turkish quake shifted the ground hundreds of kilometres away

The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 17, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8034

Nature Magazine – October 17, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Rock Family Tree’ – The ancestry and origin of the most common meteorites..

Kids in the classroom flow like water vapour

Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.

Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb

A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.

Sewage lurks in coastal waters — often unnoticed by widely used test

Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.

Two comb jellies fuse their bodies and then act as one

The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 10, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8033

Nature Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Cold Comfort’ – Permafrost helps protect rivers from errosian and migration..

Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data

Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.

Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air

Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand, point their heads towards the surface and make their way out onto the beach.

How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer.

A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank

The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 3, 2024

Volume 634 Issue 8032

Nature Magazine – October 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Wiring Diagram’ – A complete map of neuronal connections in an adult fruit fly’s brain…

Why cannibal queens make a meal of fungus-ridden larvae

Ant larvae infected with a pathogenic fungus had better watch out for Mum.

Bronze Age clash was Europe’s oldest known interregional battle

Artefacts found in modern-day Germany suggest that northern and southern peoples clashed in the Tollense Valley millennia ago.

Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept. 26, 2024

Volume 633 Issue 8031

Nature Magazine – September 18, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Hostile Takeover’ – Parasitic wasp targets adult fruit flies to host its offspring…

Black holes as big as atoms might be speeding through the Solar System

Primordial black holes, which are smaller than their better-known cousins, visit the inner Solar System once a decade, simulations suggest.

This ‘scuba diving’ lizard has a self-made air supply

A bubble of air on its snout extends the water anole’s underwater time by more than a minute.

Thalidomide-like drug staunches bleeding from genetic disease

Severe nosebleeds caused by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia dwindled in people who took a drug used to treat cancer