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Home testing for syphilis gains support in wake of COVID

With cases of sexually transmitted infections growing, researchers hope self-tests — made popular by the pandemic — could stem the tide.

Galaxies without dark matter perplex astronomers

Researchers say a cosmic collision could have created two galaxies that don’t contain the mysterious substance — but others cast doubt on the claim.

Elizabeth Gibney
News 19 May 2022
The pandemic’s true health cost: how much of our lives has COVID stolen?

Researchers are trying to calculate how many years have been lost to disability and death.

Holly Else
News Feature 18 May 2022
Programmable heating and quenching for efficient thermochemical synthesis

By using a programmable electric current to allow rapid pulsed heating and quenching, a non-equilibrium, continuous synthesis technique shows improved performance in thermochemical reactions, as well as lower energy costs.

Qi Dong
Yonggang Yao
Liangbing Hu
Article 18 May 2022
Daily briefing: Ten innovative face-mask designs

How to build a better mask to protect again pollution and pathogens. Plus, monkeypox has been detected in Europe and the United States, and pollution causes one in six deaths worldwide.

Flora Graham
Nature Briefing 19 May 2022
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Female dominance, and coding for kids: Books in brief

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

Andrew Robinson

Book Review 20 May 2022
Showcasing Africa’s contributions to science
Kendall Powell
Career Feature 20 May 2022
Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert
Max Kozlov
News 20 May 2022
COVID delays are frustrating the world’s plans to save biodiversity
Smriti Mallapaty
News 20 May 2022
Frustration builds over lengthy delay in revamping Mexico’s science law
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
News 20 May 2022
Home testing for syphilis gains support in wake of COVID
Carrie Arnold
News 19 May 2022
Galaxies without dark matter perplex astronomers
Elizabeth Gibney
News 19 May 2022

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Volatile neurons unite to stabilize visual experience
  
  It has been unclear how the brain creates stable visual experiences from the highly variable activity of individual neurons. Imaging from thousands of neurons across the entire mouse visual cortex provides an explanation.
  
  Tatiana Engel
  
  News & Views 19 May 2022
- Metabolic diversity drives cancer cell invasion
  
  The migration and growth of cancer cells at sites far from the initial tumour is usually fatal. Metabolic heterogeneity — variable expression of an enzyme in the initial tumour — is identified as an early step in this deadly process.
  Sanjeethan C. Baksh
  Lydia W. S. Finley
  
  News & Views 18 May 2022
- A lab-on-a-chip that takes the chip out of the lab
  
  A microfluidic system achieves miniaturization without the need for extra equipment, bringing chip-based devices closer to mainstream commercial reality, with a framework that could be widely applied to diagnostics.
  Mazher Iqbal Mohammed
  
  News & Views 18 May 2022
- Giant collision created galaxies devoid of dark matter
  
  Two galaxies that are curiously lacking in dark matter — the most abundant matter in the Universe — might have formed when a collision between dwarf galaxies separated ordinary matter from its dark counterpart.
  Eun-jin Shin
  Ji-hoon Kim
  
  News & Views 18 May 2022
- Maternal enzyme reprograms paternal DNA for healthy offspring
  
  It emerges that high blood sugar deregulates the enzyme TET3 in the eggs of female mice, preventing it from properly modifying sperm-derived DNA when eggs are fertilized. This leads to metabolic defects in adult progeny.
  Yumiko K. Kawamura
  Antoine H. F. M. Peters
  
  News & Views 18 May 2022
- From the archive: wildlife landscapes, and retaliation against rats
  
  News & Views 17 May 2022
- Young cerebrospinal fluid improves memory in old mice
  Miriam Zawadzki
  Maria K. Lehtinen
  
  News & Views 11 May 2022
- Chance discovery sheds light on exploding stars
  Frederick M. Walter
  
  News & Views 11 May 2022
- Tumour driver mutations compromise between cancer growth and immune responses
  
  Research Briefing 11 May 2022

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Latest Research articles

Compatibility rules of human enhancer and promoter sequences

Drew T. Bergman
Thouis R. Jones
Jesse M. Engreitz
Article 20 May 2022
Neoantigen quality predicts immunoediting in survivors of pancreatic cancer

The human immune system naturally edits cancers of high-quality neoantigens.

Marta Łuksza
Zachary M. Sethna
Vinod P. Balachandran
Article Open Access 19 May 2022
Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication

The mouse neocortex supports sensory performance through transient increases in sensory coding redundancy, neural codes that are robust to cellular variability, and inter-area fluctuation modes that transmit sensory data and task responses in non-interfering channels.

Sadegh Ebrahimi
Jérôme Lecoq
Mark J. Schnitzer
Article 19 May 2022
People construct simplified mental representations to plan

Strategically perceiving and conceiving problems facilitates the effective use of limited cognitive resources.

Mark K. Ho
David Abel
Thomas L. Griffiths
Article 19 May 2022
Limited cross-variant immunity from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron without vaccination

Rahul K. Suryawanshi
Irene P. Chen
Melanie Ott
Article 18 May 2022