Author Correction: Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignment
Nature, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07065-0
Author Correction: Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignmentOrigami fabric robot slithers like a snake
Nature, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00126-4
The folded robot can squeeze through tight spaces with linear motion.This robot grows like a vine — and could help navigate disaster zones
Nature, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00140-6
Plant-inspired machines could one day prove useful in search-and-rescue scenarios.Publisher Correction: Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
Nature, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07044-5
Publisher Correction: Population genomics of post-glacial western EurasiaAlphaFold found thousands of possible psychedelics. Will its predictions help drug discovery?
Nature, Published online: 18 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00130-8
Researchers are working out how to deploy the revolutionary protein-structure tool to discover medicines.Daily briefing: Can scientists ever agree on how consciousness works?
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00153-1
Projects to test competing theories of consciousness are raising hopes that we’re making progress on one of science’s most intractable questions. Plus, a cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time and what a 92-year-old elite athlete teaches us about healthy ageing.A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07052-5
A small and vigorous black hole in the early UniverseSulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07040-9
Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39bThis AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00145-1
How ‘AlphaGeometry’ solves Mathematical Olympiad-level problems, and what happens to an ecosystem after a mass predator die-off.Affinity-optimizing enhancer variants disrupt development
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06922-8
Low-affinity transcription factor binding sites are prevalent across the genome, and single nucleotide changes that increase binding affinity even slightly can cause gain-of-function gene expression and phenotypes (such as polydactyly).Multifunctional ytterbium oxide buffer for perovskite solar cells
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06892-x
Ytterbium oxide buffer layer for use in perovskite solar cells yields a certified power conversion efficiency of more than 25%, which enhances stability across a wide variety of perovskite compositions.Alternative splicing of latrophilin-3 controls synapse formation
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06913-9
Latrophilin-3 organizes synapses through a convergent dual-pathway mechanism in which Gαs signalling is activated and phase-separated postsynaptic protein scaffolds are recruited.Tuning commensurability in twisted van der Waals bilayers
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06904-w
Using valley-resolved scanning tunnelling spectroscopy, twisted WSe2 bilayers are studied, including incommensurate dodecagon quasicrystals at 30° and commensurate moiré crystals at 21.8° and 38.2°.Autoreactive T cells target peripheral nerves in Guillain–Barré syndrome
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06916-6
Autoreactive T cells that target myelin antigens in the peripheral nerves are present in patients with the demyelinating form of Guillain–Barré syndrome, and these T cells are likely to contribute to disease pathophysiology.Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06890-z
Examination of nucleation during self-assembly of multicomponent structures illustrates how ubiquitous molecular phenomena inherently classify high-dimensional patterns of concentrations in a manner similar to neural network computation.Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06747-5
A new neuro-symbolic theorem prover for Euclidean plane geometry trained from scratch on millions of synthesized theorems and proofs outperforms the previous best method and reaches the performance of an olympiad gold medallist.Top-down control of flight by a non-canonical cortico-amygdala pathway
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06912-w
This study describes a projection from the medial prefrontal cortex to the central amygdala that is involved in the regulation of defensive responses to threat.Ubiquitous acceleration in Greenland Ice Sheet calving from 1985 to 2022
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06863-2
Analysis of more than 236,000 observations of glacier terminus positions shows that accelerated calving reduced the ice area of Greenland by about 5,000 km2 since 1985, producing over 1,000 Gt of freshwater that could influence ocean salinity and circulation.Predator mass mortality events restructure food webs through trophic decoupling
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06931-7
Predator mass-mortality events lead to the proliferation of diverse consumer and producer communities resulting from weakened top-down predator control and stronger bottom-up effects through predator decomposition.Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI
Nature, Published online: 17 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06868-x
We present comprehensive thermodynamic and spectroscopic evidence for an antiferromagnetically ordered heavy-fermion ground state in the van der Waals metal CeSiI.