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Ultrasonic speakers steer tiny bead to generate displays that you can touch and hear.

PhDs: the tortuous truth

Nature’s survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research.
Chris Woolston

Career Feature 13 Nov 2019
More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors

The practice was probably used to improve the children’s chances of securing a university place.
Mark Zastrow

News 12 Nov 2019
CRISPR tool modifies genes precisely by copying RNA into the genome

The ultimate goal of genome editing is to be able to make any specific change to the blueprint of life. A ‘search-and-replace’ method for genome editing takes us a giant leap closer to this ambitious goal.
Randall J. Platt

News & Views 11 Nov 2019
Daily briefing: Plastic outnumbers baby fish seven to one in marine nursery

Larval fish are eating tiny pieces of plastic in the waters off Hawaii, briefcase-sized labs could transform drug development and regulators have approved the first vaccine against Ebola.
Flora Graham

Nature Briefing 13 Nov 2019
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Next stop Earth: Hayabusa2 bids farewell to asteroid Ryugu

Japanese craft’s mission is the first to gather material from under an an asteroid’s surface.
Davide Castelvecchi

News 14 Nov 2019
Physics institute focused on developing countries gets a new leader
Davide Castelvecchi
Munyaradzi Makoni

News 14 Nov 2019
Avert catastrophe now in Africa’s Sahel
Alisha Graves
Lorenzo Rosa
Djimé Adoum

Comment 13 Nov 2019
The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention

Editorial 13 Nov 2019
Shared consciousness, artificial imagination, and the Universe’s first seconds: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson

Book Review 13 Nov 2019
Star Wars-style 3D images created from single speck of foam
Elizabeth Gibney

News Feature 13 Nov 2019
PhDs: the tortuous truth
Chris Woolston

Career Feature 13 Nov 2019

Latest Reviews & Analysis

- Microbial clues to a liver disease
  
  Treatment options are limited for alcoholic hepatitis, a liver disease associated with high alcohol intake. Studies in mice reveal that the microorganisms responsible for this condition can be tackled by a viral treatment.
  
  Martha R. J. Clokie
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019
- Link between antimatter and dark matter probed
  
  Ultrasensitive experiments on trapped antiprotons provide a window onto possible differences between matter and antimatter. Now they could also shed light on the identity of dark matter — the ‘missing’ mass in the Universe.
  
  Gianpaolo Carosi
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019
- How to print multi-material devices in one go
  
  A multi-nozzle system has been devised that allows the 3D printing of objects using several viscous materials, thereby allowing control over the material properties of objects at the submillimetre scale.
  
  Johannes T. B. Overvelde
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019
- Snapshots of a genetic cut-and-paste
  
  Transposase proteins mediate the movement of ‘parasitic’ DNA segments in genomes. A series of structures of a transposase catches it in action, and highlights how these proteins evolved for use in immune systems.
  
  Orsolya Barabas
  
  News & Views 13 Nov 2019
- From the archive
  
  How Nature reported historic changes in medical practice in 1919, and call for doctors and nurses to receive computer training in 1969.
  
  News & Views 12 Nov 2019
- CRISPR tool modifies genes precisely by copying RNA into the genome
  
  Randall J. Platt
  
  News & Views 11 Nov 2019
- A genetically tailored education for birds
  
  Ofer Tchernichovski
  Dalton Conley
  
  News & Views 11 Nov 2019
- Small molecule combats cancer-causing KRAS protein at last
  
  Roy S. Herbst
  Joseph Schlessinger
  
  News & Views 08 Nov 2019
- Soft microbots programmed by nanomagnets
  
  Xuanhe Zhao
  Yoonho Kim
  
  News & Views 06 Nov 2019
- Fossil ape hints at how walking on two feet evolved
  
  Tracy L. Kivell
  
  News & Views 06 Nov 2019

Latest Research

Activity of caspase-8 determines plasticity between cell death pathways

Alternative cell death pathways are revealed in the absence of caspase-8-dependent apoptosis and MLKL-dependent necroptosis.
Kim Newton
Katherine E. Wickliffe
Vishva M. Dixit

Article 13 Nov 2019
Marine Proteobacteria metabolize glycolate via the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle

Marine Proteobacteria use the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle to assimilate glycolate, which is secreted by algae on a petagram scale, providing evidence of a previously undescribed trophic interaction between autotrophic phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacterioplankton.
Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski
Francesca Severi
Tobias J. Erb

Article 13 Nov 2019
Voxelated soft matter via multimaterial multinozzle 3D printing

Voxelated soft matter is designed and fabricated using multimaterial multinozzle three-dimensional printing, which switches between different viscoelastic inks along the same print filament to print multiple materials simultaneously.
Mark A. Skylar-Scott
Jochen Mueller
Jennifer A. Lewis

Article 13 Nov 2019
Bacteriophage targeting of gut bacterium attenuates alcoholic liver disease

In patients with alcoholic hepatitis, cytolysin-positive Enterococcus faecalis strains are correlated with liver disease severity and increased mortality, and in mouse models these strains can be specifically targeted by bacteriophages.
Yi Duan
Cristina Llorente
Bernd Schnabl

Article 13 Nov 2019
A volumetric display for visual, tactile and audio presentation using acoustic trapping

A volumetric display that can simultaneously deliver visual, tactile and auditory content is demonstrated.
Ryuji Hirayama
Diego Martinez Plasencia
Sriram Subramanian

Article 13 Nov 2019

The ocean is an integral element of our planet’s climate system. Understanding the physical processes at work within the ocean is therefore crucial to making accurate predictions about where climate change is likely to lead.

Nature Outlook 13 Nov 2019