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How can battery-powered aircraft get off the ground?

Getting electric planes to take off, and the latest from the Nature Briefing.

Benjamin Thompson
Nick Petrić Howe
News26 Jan 2022
Nature
After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure

Coaxing tiny colloid particles into a diamond structure, and manipulating cell death and homeostasis in neurodegenerative disease.

Benjamin Thompson
Nick Howe
News23 Sept 2020
Nature
Toxic red mud could be turned into ‘green’ steel

Researchers extract useful metal from industrial waste, and how analysis of blood proteins could help unravel the mystery of long COVID.

Benjamin Thompson
Shamini Bundell
News24 Jan 2024
Nature
Swapping in a bit of microbial 'meat' has big eco-gains

A forecast of the environmental benefits of switching to microbial protein, and the neurons that help mosquitoes home in on humans.

Benjamin Thompson
Nick Petrić Howe
News04 May 2022
Nature
Lizard-inspired building design could save lives

How knocking down a building helped researchers design a safer structure, and a sustainable 3D printing resin made from a bodybuilding supplement.

Benjamin Thompson
Elizabeth Gibney
News15 May 2024
Nature
Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test

Research suggests a combination of behaviours underlie the evolution of human cooperation, and researchers make an optical disc with enormous storage capacity.

Benjamin Thompson
Nick Petrić Howe
News21 Feb 2024
Nature
How the US is rebooting gun violence research

Funding for gun violence research in the US returns after a 20-year federal hiatus, and the glass sponges that can manipulate ocean currents.

Shamini Bundell
Benjamin Thompson
News21 Jul 2021
Nature
Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States

Access to green space has been a critical, and contentious, issue for neighbourhood inequality and health outcomes. This Analysis looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic interacts with availability of nature for urban residents.

Erica N. Spotswood
Matthew Benjamin
Robert I. McDonald
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2021
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 4, P: 1092-1098
Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease

Transplanted human cells integrate into rat brains, and an exoskeleton boot that adapts as people walk.

Benjamin Thompson
News12 Oct 2022
Nature
Public perceptions and support of climate intervention technologies across the Global North and Global South

This article establishes a global baseline of public perceptions of climate-intervention technologies. Publics across the global South are more favorable and supportive but concerned about impacts on mitigation and unequal burdens of risks on poor countries.

Chad M. Baum
Livia Fritz
Benjamin K. Sovacool
ResearchOpen Access06 Mar 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-15
Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonization

Industrial decarbonization poses both risks and benefits for communities. We show how community-based research can move pervasive yet nebulous calls for community engagement to processes that emphasize just and equitable governance.

Jessica Smith
Jennifer Hirsch
Benjamin Sovacool
ReviewsOpen Access08 Sept 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-10
Why is there a citations gender gap in Indian materials science?

Shobhana Narasimhan, chair of the Indian Academy of Science’s initiative on women in science, says attitudes in the field must change more quickly.

Benjamin Plackett
Special Features11 Dec 2024
Nature

Volume: 636, P: S18
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage

Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

Nada Salem
Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht
Johannes Krause
ResearchOpen Access02 Apr 2025
Nature

Volume: 641, P: 144-150
What is stopping a complete switch to clean energy?

Investment in renewables is hitting new heights, but uneven funding and geopolitical uncertainty are clouding the boom.

Benjamin Plackett
Special Features19 Mar 2025
Nature

Volume: 639, P: S30-S31
Latitudinal gradients in seed predation persist in urbanized environments

Seed predation increases from the Arctic to the tropics, but it is unknown whether urbanization disrupts this latitudinal pattern. An experimental study conducted across the Americas shows that the latitudinal gradient in predation holds in urban areas, even though total seed predation is reduced.

Anna L. Hargreaves
John Ensing
Esteban Suaréz
Research05 Sept 2024
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 8, P: 1897-1906
Analysing community-level spending behaviour contributing to high carbon emissions using stochastic block models

Ognyan Simeonov
Valerio Restocchi
Benjamin D. Goddard
ResearchOpen Access08 Aug 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-19
Intraocular lens models: Ecological distribution footprint and usage trends at a large ophthalmology centre

Benjamin Stern
Damien Gatinel
Alice Grise-Dulac
ResearchOpen Access20 May 2025
Eye

Volume: 39, P: 2260-2268
Programmable antivirals targeting critical conserved viral RNA secondary structures from influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2

Targeting conserved secondary structure of RNA viruses offers the potential for a customizable therapeutic approach to viral variants.

Rachel J. Hagey
Menashe Elazar
Jeffrey S. Glenn
Research18 Aug 2022
Nature Medicine

Volume: 28, P: 1944-1955
Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

Satellites provide clear evidence of greening trends in the Arctic, but high-resolution pan-Arctic quantification of these trends is lacking. Here the authors analyse high-resolution Landsat data to show widespread greening in the Arctic, and find that greening trends are linked to summer warming overall but not always locally.

Logan T. Berner
Richard Massey
Scott J. Goetz
ResearchOpen Access22 Sept 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
Water-processable, biodegradable and coatable aquaplastic from engineered biofilms

Built of bacterial biofilm proteins, aquaplastic is a biodegradable material that can easily be processed from a hydrogel state into bulk materials, is resistant to acids, bases and organic solvents, and is easily healable and weldable in water.

Anna M. Duraj-Thatte
Avinash Manjula-Basavanna
Neel S. Joshi
Research18 Mar 2021
Nature Chemical Biology

Volume: 17, P: 732-738
Biosourcing and optimization of fungal lipase production from cheap agro waste via solid state fermentation

Gboyega E. Adebami
Bukola C. Adebayo-Tayo
Moses A. Abiala
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-17
Imbalanced gut microbiota fuels hepatocellular carcinoma development by shaping the hepatic inflammatory microenvironment

Steatohepatitis is a chronic hepatic inflammation associated with increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma progression. Here the authors show that intestinal dysbiosis in mice lacking the inflammasome sensor molecule NLRP6 aggravates steatohepatitis and accelerates liver cancer progression, a process that can be delayed by antibiotic treatment.

Kai Markus Schneider
Antje Mohs
Christian Trautwein
ResearchOpen Access08 Jul 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-19
Haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial ALS and fronto-temporal dementia

The authors show that haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial forms of the neurodegenerative diseases ALS and FTD. Loss of binding of a TBK1 protein interaction domain to optineurin, a protein previously linked to ALS, is sufficient to cause the disease. Both proteins regulate autophagy and inflammation.

Axel Freischmidt
Thomas Wieland
Jochen H Weishaupt
Research24 Mar 2015
Nature Neuroscience

Volume: 18, P: 631-636
Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the self-amplifying mRNA ARCT-154 COVID-19 vaccine: pooled phase 1, 2, 3a and 3b randomized, controlled trials

In this randomized, controlled integrated phase 1/2/3a/3b clinical trial, the authors show that the self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine ARCT-154 shows good immunogenicity and is safe and efficient against COVID-19 (57% against any COVID-19, and 95% against severe COVID-19).

Nhân Thị Hồ
Steven G. Hughes
Xuan-Hung Nguyen
ResearchOpen Access14 May 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-13
Chemical intervention in plant sugar signalling increases yield and resilience

Treatment with signalling precursors of trehalose-6-phosphate allows light-triggered release of trehalose-6-phosphate in Arabidopsis thaliana and increases the yield and drought resistance of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum).

Cara A. Griffiths
Ram Sagar
Benjamin G. Davis
Research14 Dec 2016
Nature

Volume: 540, P: 574-578
m⁶A-LAIC-seq reveals the census and complexity of the m⁶A epitranscriptome

m⁶A-LAIC-seq quantifies the levels of N⁶-methyladenosine in isoforms of the same gene in a cell-type-specific manner.

Benoit Molinie
Jinkai Wang
Cosmas C Giallourakis
Research04 Jul 2016
Nature Methods

Volume: 13, P: 692-698
Cyclobutane-1,3-Diacid (CBDA): A Semi-Rigid Building Block Prepared by [2+2] Photocyclization for Polymeric Materials

Zhihan Wang
Benjamin Miller
Qianli R. Chu
ResearchOpen Access20 Oct 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-7
Wetting and drying trends under climate change

Wet getting wetter and dry getting dryer, or global aridification? This Review examines the applicability and limits of both hypotheses across different frameworks, scales and contexts, providing insights on hydrologic change and the future of water availability.

Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Matthew Rodell
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Reviews08 May 2023
Nature Water

Volume: 1, P: 502-513
Using DNA to program the self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles and microparticles

Grafting DNA strands onto colloidal nano- and microparticles endows them with sequence-specific interactions. This Review explains how these interactions emerge from reactions between the strands and how the DNA sequences can add information that tells the particles how to self-assemble.

W. Benjamin Rogers
William M. Shih
Vinothan N. Manoharan
Reviews01 Mar 2016
Nature Reviews Materials

Volume: 1, P: 1-14
Does substrate colour affect the visual appearance of gilded medieval sculptures? Part I: colorimetry and interferometric microscopy of gilded models

Qing Wu
Meret Hauldenschild
David Ganz
ResearchOpen Access23 Nov 2020
Heritage Science

Volume: 8, P: 1-15
Uncertainty in land-use adaptation persists despite crop model projections showing lower impacts under high warming

The extent and cost of adapting agriculture to climate change depend on regional impacts and past adjustments, but uncertainties associated with a high-emissions scenario persist, according to simulations with a global land-use model based on multiple crop and climate projections.

Edna J. Molina Bacca
Miodrag Stevanović
Alexander Popp
ResearchOpen Access10 Aug 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-13
Evaluation of a novel, multi-functional inhibitor compound for prevention of biofilm formation on carbon steel in marine environments

Benjamin Tuck
Elizabeth Watkin
Laura L. Machuca
ResearchOpen Access03 Aug 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
An Australian perspective on clinical, economic and regulatory considerations in emerging nanoparticle therapies for infections

Benjamin W. Muir
Jennifer A. E. Payne
Branwen Morgan
ReviewsOpen Access18 Feb 2025
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

Volume: 3, P: 1-6
Dopaminergic neurons differentiating from LRRK2 G2019S induced pluripotent stem cells show early neuritic branching defects

Laurence Borgs
Elise Peyre
Laurent Nguyen
ResearchOpen Access19 Sept 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-11
Coupled molecular and isotopic evidence for denitrifier controls over terrestrial nitrogen availability

Erin F E Lennon
Benjamin Z Houlton
Research09 Dec 2016
The ISME Journal

Volume: 11, P: 727-740
Digital technologies for construction sustainability: Status quo, challenges, and future prospects

Weisheng Lu
Jinfeng Lou
Fan Xue
ReviewsOpen Access01 May 2024
npj Materials Sustainability

Volume: 2, P: 1-10
Eyes, economics and the environment: should green issues drive changes in ophthalmic care? –Yes

J E A Somner
A Connor
L Benjamin
Research21 May 2010
Eye

Volume: 24, P: 1309-1311

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How can battery-powered aircraft get off the ground?

After decades of trying, scientists coax plastic particles into a diamond-like structure

Toxic red mud could be turned into ‘green’ steel

Swapping in a bit of microbial 'meat' has big eco-gains

Lizard-inspired building design could save lives

Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test

How the US is rebooting gun violence research

Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States

Human brain organoids implanted into rats could offer new way to model disease

Public perceptions and support of climate intervention technologies across the Global North and Global South

Community-based research supports more just and equitable industrial decarbonization

Why is there a citations gender gap in Indian materials science?

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage

What is stopping a complete switch to clean energy?

Latitudinal gradients in seed predation persist in urbanized environments

Analysing community-level spending behaviour contributing to high carbon emissions using stochastic block models

Intraocular lens models: Ecological distribution footprint and usage trends at a large ophthalmology centre

Programmable antivirals targeting critical conserved viral RNA secondary structures from influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

Water-processable, biodegradable and coatable aquaplastic from engineered biofilms

Biosourcing and optimization of fungal lipase production from cheap agro waste via solid state fermentation

Imbalanced gut microbiota fuels hepatocellular carcinoma development by shaping the hepatic inflammatory microenvironment

Haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial ALS and fronto-temporal dementia

Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the self-amplifying mRNA ARCT-154 COVID-19 vaccine: pooled phase 1, 2, 3a and 3b randomized, controlled trials

Chemical intervention in plant sugar signalling increases yield and resilience

m⁶A-LAIC-seq reveals the census and complexity of the m⁶A epitranscriptome

Cyclobutane-1,3-Diacid (CBDA): A Semi-Rigid Building Block Prepared by [2+2] Photocyclization for Polymeric Materials

Wetting and drying trends under climate change

Using DNA to program the self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles and microparticles

Does substrate colour affect the visual appearance of gilded medieval sculptures? Part I: colorimetry and interferometric microscopy of gilded models

Uncertainty in land-use adaptation persists despite crop model projections showing lower impacts under high warming

Evaluation of a novel, multi-functional inhibitor compound for prevention of biofilm formation on carbon steel in marine environments

An Australian perspective on clinical, economic and regulatory considerations in emerging nanoparticle therapies for infections

Dopaminergic neurons differentiating from LRRK2 G2019S induced pluripotent stem cells show early neuritic branching defects

Coupled molecular and isotopic evidence for denitrifier controls over terrestrial nitrogen availability

Digital technologies for construction sustainability: Status quo, challenges, and future prospects

Eyes, economics and the environment: should green issues drive changes in ophthalmic care? –Yes

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