How understudied endometriosis causes pain for hundreds of millions of women
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03628-3But drugs used to treat migraines in people reduced painful lesions in mice.
Trump’s US election win: researchers must stay strong and united
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03648-zDespite many seeing the result as a step backwards, the research community should engage with the new administration with courage, tenacity, strength and unity.
‘Anyone engaging in scientific practice shouldn’t be excluded’: The United Kingdom’s only Black chemistry professor, on diversity
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02972-8Chemist Robert Mokaya works to advance equality in science for Black researchers in the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa.
Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03574-0Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often t…
Mysterious radio bursts mostly come from massive galaxies
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03465-4Powerful bursts of radio waves from distant galaxies are typically linked to young celestial objects. But observations reveal that they are more likely to occur …
Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08149-7Magnetostirring is used to rotate the magnetic field and set a dipolar supersolid composed of ultracold atoms spinning, revealing fundamental differences in vort…
A broadband hyperspectral image sensor with high spatio-temporal resolution
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08109-1A broadband hyperspectral image sensor fabricated using photolithography maintains high throughput with high spatial–temporal–spectral resolution, and has demons…
Postsynaptic competition between calcineurin and PKA regulates mammalian sleep–wake cycles
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08132-2Calcineurin–PP1 and PKA acting at excitatory post-synapses reciprocally regulate sleep duration in mice, whereby PKA promotes wakefulness and calcineurin–PP1 pro…
‘We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03635-4Trump’s decisive defeat of Kamala Harris spurs fear about the future of the United States among many researchers.
Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions
Nature, Published online: 06 November 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08097-2The collective-flow-assisted nuclear shape-imaging method images the nuclear global shape by colliding them at ultrarelativistic speeds and analysing the collect…