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[News & Analysis] Climate Policy: A More Modest Climate Agenda for Obama's Second Term?
[Report] Crystalline Inorganic Frameworks with 56-Ring, 64-Ring, and 72-Ring Channels
[Letter] Readers' Poll Results: Funding Environment
[Review] Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia
[Perspective] Physics: Measuring Mass in Seconds
[News & Analysis] Primate Studies: Research in Limbo as Harvard Moves to Close Center
[Report] Photoredox Activation for the Direct β-Arylation of Ketones and Aldehydes
[Report] Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations
[Report] An Inhibitor of Mutant IDH1 Delays Growth and Promotes Differentiation of Glioma Cells
[Report] ESCRT-III Assembly and Cytokinetic Abscission Are Induced by Tension Release in the Intercellular Bridge
[Perspective] Cell Biology: Unconventional Secretion, Unconventional Solutions
Findings
[Report] Decameric SelA•tRNASec Ring Structure Reveals Mechanism of Bacterial Selenocysteine Formation
[Report] Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot
This Week in Science
[Research Article] A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary
[News & Analysis] Physics: Congress Tries Again to Head Off Looming Helium Crisis
[Report] Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis
[News & Analysis] Research Funding: Graphene and Brain Projects Win European Jackpot
[Report] Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa: Valuing the Scale-Up of HIV Treatment
[Special Issue Review] Outside the Pipeline: Reimagining Science Education for Nonscientists
[Perspective] Computer Science: Toward a Green Internet
[Report] Avoiding a Spanning Cluster in Percolation Models
[Research Article] Morals and Markets
[Perspective] Cell Biology: Making a Point with Wnt Signals
[Letter] Misuse of Scientific Data in Wolf Policy
[Technical Comment] Comment on “Bateman in Nature: Predation on Offspring Reduces the Potential for Sexual Selection”
[Report] Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees
[Report] Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces
[Letter] University Rankings Could Bias Funding
[Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Root Cause Analysis for Young Engineers
[News & Analysis] Conservation Biology: A Rescue Mission for Amphibians at the Brink of Extinction
[News Focus] Battle for the Barrel
[Technical Comment] Comment on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon”
[Report] A Tissue-Like Printed Material
[Book Review] Social Sciences: The Price of Objectivity
[Books et al.] Books Received
[Editorial] Am I Wrong?
[Editorial] Why National Science Academies?
[Report] Actin-Propelled Invasive Membrane Protrusions Promote Fusogenic Protein Engagement During Cell-Cell Fusion
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[Report] A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years
[Report] A Functional [NiFe]Hydrogenase Mimic That Catalyzes Electron and Hydride Transfer from H2
[Report] Compartmentalization of GABAergic Inhibition by Dendritic Spines
[Special Feature] 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Posters & Graphics
[News & Analysis] Biomedicine: Human Stem Cells From Cloning, Finally
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Report] High Coverage of ART Associated with Decline in Risk of HIV Acquisition in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
[Report] Emergence of a Measurement Basis in Atom-Photon Scattering
[Research Article] Soft-Chemistry–Based Routes to Epitaxial α-Quartz Thin Films with Tunable Textures
[Perspective] Biochemistry: Integrative Structural Biology
[Books et al.] Books Received
[Report] Delineating Antibody Recognition in Polyclonal Sera from Patterns of HIV-1 Isolate Neutralization
[Special Issue Review] Professional Development for Science Teachers
[Perspective] Applied Physics: Metamaterials with Quantum Gain
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 26 April Show
[Report] Disparate Individual Fates Compose Robust CD8+ T Cell Immunity
[Report] Multicompartment Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Branched Shapes: An Epitaxial Growth Mechanism
[Special Issue Perspective] Teacherpreneurs: A Bold Brand of Teacher Leadership for 21st-Century Teaching and Learning
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 10 May Show
[Letter] China's Food Security Soiled by Contamination
[Review] Cellular Self-Defense: How Cell-Autonomous Immunity Protects Against Pathogens
[Books et al.] Books Received
[Report] Emergence and Diversification of Fly Pigmentation Through Evolution of a Gene Regulatory Module
[Report] Gene Transfer from Bacteria and Archaea Facilitated Evolution of an Extremophilic Eukaryote
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Report] A KRAB/KAP1-miRNA Cascade Regulates Erythropoiesis Through Stage-Specific Control of Mitophagy
[News & Analysis] Cosmology: Universe's High-Def Baby Picture Confirms Standard Theory
[News & Analysis] Human Evolution: More Genomes From Denisova Cave Show Mixing of Early Human Groups
[Report] Rif1 Prevents Resection of DNA Breaks and Promotes Immunoglobulin Class Switching
[News Focus] Understanding the Enemy
[Letter] No Excuse for Habitat Destruction
[News Focus] The New Generation of Sea Scientist
[News Focus] Ardi's a Hominin—But How Did She Move?
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[News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Pesky Perchlorates All Over Mars
[Perspective] Physics: Beating Classical Computing Without a Quantum Computer
[Report] A Terradynamics of Legged Locomotion on Granular Media
[News & Analysis] Germany: Plagiarism Hunters Take Down Research Minister
[News Focus] Pesticides Under Fire For Risks to Pollinators
[Perspective] Biochemistry: A Protease for the Ages
[News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: Snapshots From the Meeting
[Report] Geometric Catalysis of Membrane Fission Driven by Flexible Dynamin Rings
[News Focus] Marine Conservation: As Threats to Corals Grow, Hints of Resilience Emerge
[News Focus] Physiology: Opsins: Not Just for Eyes
[Perspective] Materials Science: Exceptional Properties by Design
[Letter] Old Trees: Extraction, Conservation Can Coexist
[News & Analysis] Exoplanets: Kepler Snags Super-Earth-Size Planet Squarely in a Habitable Zone
[Book Review] Plant Biology: The Life and Times of a Living Fossil
[Editorial] Young Researchers in Japan
[Letter] Biosecurity's Weakest Link
[News Focus] A Sea Change for U.S. Oceanography
[Letter] Little Emperors Pose Behavioral Challenges
[Report] Rats and Humans Can Optimally Accumulate Evidence for Decision-Making
[Policy Forum] European Policy: Is Europe Evolving Toward an Integrated Research Area?
[Special Issue Review] Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information: An Outlook
[News & Analysis] Dual Use Research: New U.S. Rules Increase Oversight of H5N1 Studies, Other Risky Science
Findings
[Report] The Bacteriophage T7 Virion Undergoes Extensive Structural Remodeling During Infection
[Report] Genome-Wide Quantitative Enhancer Activity Maps Identified by STARR-seq
[Report] Multiscale Modeling of Membrane Rearrangement, Drainage, and Rupture in Evolving Foams
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Report] Universal Computation by Multiparticle Quantum Walk
[News Focus] The Pacific Swallows Fukushima's Fallout
[News Focus] Taking the Pulse of a Ravaged Ocean
[Special Issue Research Article] The Lower Limb and Mechanics of Walking in Australopithecus sediba
[Introduction to Special Issue] Introduction: Plenty of Challenges for All
[Special Issue Review] Diagnostic Cancer Genome Sequencing and the Contribution of Germline Variants
[News Focus] Environmental Science: Pollutants Capture the High Ground in the Himalayas
[Policy Forum] Arms Control: Beyond Arms-Control Monitoring
[Report] Networks of bZIP Protein-Protein Interactions Diversified Over a Billion Years of Evolution
[Report] Cyclic GMP-AMP Is an Endogenous Second Messenger in Innate Immune Signaling by Cytosolic DNA
[Report] Lorentz Meets Fano in Spectral Line Shapes: A Universal Phase and Its Laser Control
[Report] DNA Gridiron Nanostructures Based on Four-Arm Junctions
[Perspective] Biochemistry: Red Wine, Toast of the Town (Again)
[Policy Forum] Ecology: Hurdles and Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 12 April Show
[Perspective] Neuroscience: RNA That Gets RAN in Neurodegeneration
[Report] Nuclear Actin Network Assembly by Formins Regulates the SRF Coactivator MAL
[News & Analysis] Europe: Drug Watchdog Ponders How to Open Clinical Trial Data Vault
[Special Feature] 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Illustration
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Report] Sex Differences in the Gut Microbiome Drive Hormone-Dependent Regulation of Autoimmunity
[Book Review] Statistics: Mr. Bayes Goes to Washington
[News of the Week] Random Sample
[Letter] Data Re-Identification: Societal Safeguards
This Week in Science
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Report] Observation of Radiation Pressure Shot Noise on a Macroscopic Object
[Policy Forum] Research Ethics: Global Research Integrity Training
[Research Article] A Neural Circuit for Memory Specificity and Generalization
[News Focus] The Metropole, Superspreaders, and Other Mysteries
[News Focus] Profile: Laurent Keller: Chasing Ants—and Robots—to Understand How Societies Evolve
[Report] Heterogeneous Differentiation Patterns of Individual CD8+ T Cells
[Perspective] Behavior: Animal Conformists
[Report] Aire-Dependent Thymic Development of Tumor-Associated Regulatory T Cells
[Perspective] Neuroscience: A Trace of Your Place
Nature.com: Research
A new anode material for oxygen evolution in molten oxide electrolysis
Manipulation of small Rho GTPases is a pathogen-induced process detected by NOD1
Structural biology: Active arrestin proteins crystallized
Extensive transcriptional heterogeneity revealed by isoform profiling
Dynamics extracted from fixed cells reveal feedback linking cell growth to cell cycle
Dicalcium nitride as a two-dimensional electride with an anionic electron layer
Non-optimal codon usage is a mechanism to achieve circadian clock conditionality
Dynamics of a Snowball Earth ocean
Modulation of TET2 expression and 5-methylcytosine oxidation by the CXXC domain protein IDAX
Neuroscience: To go or not to go
Cell biology: Receptor signals come in waves
Insolation-induced mid-Brunhes transition in Southern Ocean ventilation and deep-ocean temperature
Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods
Environmental science: The shape of nitrogen to come
Crystal structure of pre-activated arrestin p44
Techniques: 3D imaging of crystal defects
Complex systems: Spatial signatures of resilience
A central role for TFIID in the pluripotent transcription circuitry
Visualization of an endogenous retinoic acid gradient across embryonic development
Hierarchy of orofacial rhythms revealed through whisking and breathing
Biogeochemistry: Nitrogen deposition and forest carbon
A conformational switch in HP1 releases auto-inhibition to drive heterochromatin assembly
Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America
Planetary science: Plumbing the depths of Uranus and Neptune
Is the ocean food provision index biased?
Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era
Tubicolous enteropneusts from the Cambrian period
Public health: Broad reception for coronavirus
Photonic Floquet topological insulators
Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices
X-ray analysis on the nanogram to microgram scale using porous complexes
Nuclear physics: Exotic pear-shaped nuclei
Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse
Melt-rich channel observed at the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary
Critical role of Trib1 in differentiation of tissue-resident M2-like macrophages
Water and hydrogen are immiscible in Earth’s mantle
The TLR4 antagonist Eritoran protects mice from lethal influenza infection
Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations in a nanoparticle at atomic resolution
Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye
Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones
Cell biology: Alternative energy for neuronal motors
Mapping molecular motions leading to charge delocalization with ultrabright electrons
Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome
Astrophysics: An accurate distance to the nearest galaxy
EGFR modulates microRNA maturation in response to hypoxia through phosphorylation of AGO2
An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent
Functional organization of human sensorimotor cortex for speech articulation
Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise
High-fidelity readout and control of a nuclear spin qubit in silicon
A two-step mechanism for TRF2-mediated chromosome-end protection
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting
The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet
Does consumption rate scale superlinearly?
Hypothalamic programming of systemic ageing involving IKK-β, NF-κB and GnRH
Discrete clouds of neutral gas between the galaxies M31 and M33
Earth science: All rise for the case of the missing magma
Adaptive dynamics under development-based genotype–phenotype maps
Simple organic molecules as catalysts for enantioselective synthesis of amines and alcohols
Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing
Diverse type VI secretion phospholipases are functionally plastic antibacterial effectors
Activating RNAs associate with Mediator to enhance chromatin architecture and transcription
Cancer: A metabolic metamorphosis
Science News
Nature.com: Research
Solar physics: Towards ever smaller length scales
Sciencemag.org
[Perspective] Immunology: Sensing the Dark Side of DNA
[Perspective] Biochemistry: Integrative Structural Biology
[Review] Cellular Self-Defense: How Cell-Autonomous Immunity Protects Against Pathogens
[Report] Spreading Depression Triggers Headache by Activating Neuronal Panx1 Channels
[Report] Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum
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