Fish can tell the direction of sounds — here’s how
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02518-yNew research finally unravels the mystery of how fish can hear directionally.
Structural switch in acetylcholine receptors in developing muscle
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07774-6Structures of fetal and adult muscle acetylcholine receptors reveal a developmental switch that alters channel biophysics and pharmacology to enable neuromuscular ju…
The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07778-2Across 46 proglacial landscapes worldwide, environmental properties and biodiversity have shown complex patterns of change since glaciers retreated.
Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07755-9We find that rhinoceros beetles passively deploy and retract their hindwings without muscular activity, demonstrating this with insect-like microrobots.
Dopamine biases decisions by limiting temporal integration
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07749-7In Drosophila, dopamine sets motivational state during mating by regulating the integration of competing drives in copulation decision neurons, potentially indicativ…
Histone serotonylation regulates ependymoma tumorigenesis
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07751-zSerotonin has a role in ependymoma tumorigenesis through modifying histones and thereby regulating key transcription factors and activating specific oncogenic transc…
FANCD2–FANCI surveys DNA and recognizes double- to single-stranded junctions
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07770-wFANCD2–FANCI is a sliding clamp that diffuses on double-stranded DNA but stalls when it reaches a single-stranded gap, providing a unified molecular mechanism that r…
Gut microbiota carcinogen metabolism causes distal tissue tumours
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07754-wA study links environmental nitrosamines to bladder cancer through their metabolism by specific commensal microorganisms occurring in the gastrointestinal tract of h…
Organ systems of a Cambrian euarthropod larva
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07756-8Youti yuanshi is a euarthropod species newly described from a fossilized larva from Yunnan Province, China dating approximately to late Atdabanian stage, Cambrian pe…
Turbinate-homing IgA-secreting cells originate in the nasal lymphoid tissues
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07729-xNasal vaccination induces B cell expansion in the nasal-associated lymphoid tissues, followed by homing to the nasal turbinates and glandular acinar structures.