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Coral Biology Under Climate Stress
Editors invite manuscripts that advance the scientific understanding of coral stress responses and climate resilience across molecular, physiological, ecological, and restoration focused dimensions.
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Evolution in Medicine
Pressing medical issues such as cancer, infectious disease and drug resistance are products of evolution.
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of global peatlands
This collection focuses on the biodiversity of microorganisms, flora and fauna and their linkages to ecosystem functioning of global peatlands from the poles to the tropics and from coasts to alpine regions.
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Celebrating Bates
2025 marks 200 years since the birth of Henry Walter Bates, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in butterflies.
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Understanding species redistributions under global climate change
With this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of articles that use modern approaches to advance the understanding in species redistributions under global climate change.
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Archaeology & Environment
In this cross-journal Collection, we invite research that provides insight into the interactions between humans and our environment throughout our evolutionary history.
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100 years of Australopithecus
On 7 February 1925, Nature published a curious paper on a ‘missing link’ – the fossil of a form intermediate between apes and humans.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".
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Dinosaur 200th Anniversary Collection
2024 marks 200 years since William Buckland reported his research on Megalosaurus, later recognised as the first non-avian dinosaur genus to be formally named by science.
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Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
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Impacts of extreme events on biodiversity