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Inappropriate use of cooling breaks in the World Cup is undermining trust in heat-health research, says Harry Brown go.nature.com/4f5Gyxt

Time to give hydration breaks the red card? What science says about keeping cool

Nature - Inappropriate use of cooling breaks in sport is undermining trust in heat-health research.

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Rice plants have found a way to resist heatwaves go.nature.com/4wiQHxB

Plant membranes shuffle lipids around to stay firm under heat stress

Nature - High temperatures make cell membranes weak and leaky. Rice plants rapidly counteract this effect by adjusting membrane lipid content, enabling them to resist heatwaves.

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Nature research paper: Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability go.nature.com/4pjMkjT

Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability

Nature - Replication stress induces the formation of transient chromatin loops that enclose de novo heterochromatin-enriched stalled replication forks.

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Your morning coffee is critically endangered go.nature.com/44bafYQ

Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction

Nature - Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

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Can a PhD be pursued 9-5? go.nature.com/4vfppHr

Can you actually do a nine-to-five PhD? Nature readers weigh in

Nature - Nature readers share their PhD time-management woes.

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Nature research paper: A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells go.nature.com/3SXQVMd

A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells

Nature - SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.

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New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’ go.nature.com/3SyCSwH

Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research

Nature - New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

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Once the realm of science fiction, the idea of making Mars habitable is gaining traction Play our game to see how you'd rise to this challenge: go.nature.com/4gkJ2dv go.nature.com/4f4YmZI
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A journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality go.nature.com/4vJMCme

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

Nature - A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Many researchers are worrying about the public's reduced trust in science - where do the real problems lie? go.nature.com/4ploWCB

Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

Nature - Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

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Nature research paper: Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to projectomes in the mouse visual cortex go.nature.com/4wnNzkc

Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to projectomes in the mouse visual cortex

Nature - In the mouse visual cortex, multimodal cell-type definitions, gene expression patterns and cell location predict long-range projection targets of excitatory neurons, linking transcriptomic...

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Most epigenetic-editing platforms, rather than making changes to the DNA itself, modify the markers attached to DNA go.nature.com/4gjzr6T

CRISPR’s next act: the companies editing the epigenome to treat disease

Nature - A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high cholesterol to a rare muscular disorder.

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Nature research paper: Isomeric multi-hydrogen-bonding enables blue perovskite LEDs go.nature.com/4eWHGmQ

Isomeric multi-hydrogen-bonding enables blue perovskite LEDs

Nature - Hydrogen-bonding networks engineered with isomeric molecules enable stable, saturated blue perovskite LEDs with record external quantum efficiencies up to 22.0%, advancing high-performance...

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Nature research paper: Dual tumour–myeloid targeting of glioblastoma with GPNMB CAR-T cells go.nature.com/3QCD910

Dual tumour–myeloid targeting of glioblastoma with GPNMB CAR-T cells

Nature - Integrated multi-omic profiling of glioblastoma reveals GPNMB as a shared antigen in tumour cells and the surrounding microenvironment, and GPNMB-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T cells...

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Nature research paper: Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue go.nature.com/4vLJQNw

Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue

Nature - By using a fibre-optical analogue of the physics of black holes, theoretical and experimental evidence is presented for the process underpinning the generation of Hawking radiation and its...

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A particle detected at the South Pole was born in a galaxy that churned out stars when the Universe was young go.nature.com/44b5Yoh

Neutrino’s nursery found: the ‘Shadow Blaster’

Nature - A particle detected at the South Pole was born in a galaxy that churned out stars when the Universe was young.

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Researchers have now found that a protein in the blood of middle-aged people might help to identify those likely to develop dementia later in life go.nature.com/4y3PRGP

Dementia risk in middle-aged people linked to a blood protein

Nature - Those under 55 with relatively high levels of the molecule GDF15 had an elevated risk of developing dementia.

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China’s main research funding agency will increase its number of prestigious grants for early-career scientists by 50% go.nature.com/4ffQcP8

China boosts prestigious grants for young scientists — will it ease competition?

Nature - The National Natural Science Foundation of China says it will fund an extra 12,000 projects from this year.

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Nature research paper: Moderate volcanic eruptions and extreme wildfires humidify the stratosphere go.nature.com/4eIdgG8

Moderate volcanic eruptions and extreme wildfires humidify the stratosphere

Nature - Observations and modelling show that volcanic eruptions and extreme wildfires have systematically increased stratospheric water vapour since 2005, revealing that these episodic aerosol...

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A previously hidden landscape of malaria vaccine targets has been revealed go.nature.com/4xVNDZX

Seeking universal malaria-vaccine targets

Nature - Evolutionarily conserved targets have been identified that are shared across malaria-parasite species and their life stages and are recognized by the human immune system.

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