Nature Portfolio

04/08/2025

A Comment article in Nature discusses the integration of physiological models and weather data to estimate people’s ‘heat-health risk.’

Strategies for heat-health preparedness should concentrate on cooling people, not just the air.

04/08/2025

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats.

The findings could enable the development of recovery strategies for coastal marine ecosystems affected by this disease.

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04/08/2025

Two polypeptides synthesized by common bacterial strains in human gut microbiota lower body fat and blood glucose and increase bone density, improving the metabolism of rodents, according to a paper in Nature Microbiology.

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04/08/2025

A technology feature in Nature reports on a tool that manufactures working proteins directly on the surfaces of specific cells by targeting several molecular features at once, which could one day produce therapeutics at sites in the body where they are needed.

Nature News & Comment

03/08/2025

Unique biological, exposomal, economic and sociocultural factors shape resilience and brain health across the globe. A Review in Nature Medicine discusses underlying mechanisms of resilience.

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03/08/2025

Timing of fracture is a major uncertainty in ice sheet models. A paper in Nature Communications shows ocean tides can create peaks in stress, enabling crack growth. Calving of an iceberg from the Brunt Ice Shelf in 2023 coincided with a peak spring tide.

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03/08/2025

A feature from Nature Careers gives a look inside Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science, possibly the world’s wildest biology conference, which aims to encourage collaboration through creativity.

Nature Careers

02/08/2025

A feature in Nature explores how research into developing ways to probe layers of consciousness in the human brain could inform how scientists search for awareness in all its possible forms.

Nature News & Comment

02/08/2025

A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics.

Nature Reviews Physics

02/08/2025

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution examines tooth wear patterns in Late Jurassic sauropod faunas and demonstrates how megaherbivore dental wear can reveal diet, behavior, and ecology in extinct ecosystems.

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01/08/2025

Research in Scientific Reports suggests that the structure of Eastern Antarctic leopard seal songs appears more similar in predictability to children’s nursery rhymes than classical music. This song structure may help to prevent the individual seal’s ‘signal’ from degrading as it travels.

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01/08/2025

A Primer in Nature Reviews Disease Primers discusses the increasing prevalence of prediabetes, its pathophysiology and diagnosis as well as the importance of early intervention to improve adverse outcomes in patients.

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