UK general election: five reasons it matters for science
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02110-4Visa rules, funding and evolving net-zero targets are among scientists’ concerns as UK citizens prepare to vote next week.
Brain Chimeroids reveal individual susceptibility to neurotoxic triggers
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07578-8An analysis in 3D multidonor Chimeroids—a scalable multidonor human brain organoid model—shows that human genetic background may be an important mediator of neurotox…
Measuring gravitational attraction with a lattice atom interferometer
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07561-3Using an optical lattice to suspend atoms, the gravitational attraction of a miniature source mass can be determined by an atom interferometer with much greater accu…
Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07582-yArtificial thermal refugia—sites heated to temperatures higher than that of the surrounding environment—provide a way to protect an endangered Australian frog specie…
Deep-sea dye confirms turbulent-mixing theory — with implications for climate
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01647-8Carbon storage in Earth’s oceans is controlled by deep-sea mixing processes, but the details have proved difficult to test. Ambitious efforts to track ocean mixing u…
An intermediate Rb–E2F activity state safeguards proliferation commitment
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07554-2Cells actively sense external and internal signals to stay quiescent or proliferate, and this trigger relies on being in a reversible primed G1 state of partial reti…
Experimental observation of repulsively bound magnons
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07599-3Comparison of terahertz spectroscopy measurements with theoretical results for the Heisenberg–Ising chain antiferromagnet demonstrates the existence of repulsively b…
Controlled stacking of boron nitride layers for ferroelectric memory applications
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02111-3Rhombohedral boron nitride films have a unique combination of properties that make them desirable in electronic and optical applications. An innovative method can be…
Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07570-2Using cryo-electron microscopy, the structural mechanism by which non-coding bridge RNA confers target and donor DNA specificity to IS110 recombinases for programmab…
Powerful laser miniaturized from tabletop to microchip
Nature, Published online: 26 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01646-9Lasers are essential in scientific laboratories and medical clinics across the globe, but integrating them into other technologies is not easy. A material platform t…