-
A risk assessment framework for the future of forest microbiomes in a changing climate Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 C. E. Willing, P. T. Pellitier, M. E. Van Nuland, J. Alvarez-Manjarrez, L. Berrios, K. N. Chin, L. M. Villa, J. J. Yeam, S. D. Bourque, W. Tripp, V. O. Leshyk, K. G. Peay
-
I strive to make the Great Barrier Reef more resilient to heat stress Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Matthew Nitschke grows coral symbionts in a slowly warming tank to prepare reef life for climate change.
-
Superconductivity hunt gets boost from China's $220 million physics 'playground' Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
From extreme cold to strong magnets and high pressures, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) provides conditions for researching these potential wonder materials.
-
Elephant-nose fish ‘see’ farther by electric sensing when in groups Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
The elephant-nose fish detects electric pulses from its neighbours to extend the distance over which it senses objects.
-
85 million cells — and counting — at your fingertips Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Chan Zuckerberg CELL by GENE Discover aims to be a one-stop shop for single-cell RNA sequencing data storage, access and analysis.
-
Daily briefing: Gaze upon the most detailed Moon maps ever made Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
The new Geologic Atlas took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile. Plus, how gliding marsupials got their ‘wings’ and H5N1 bird flu virus material has been detected in US milk.
-
Leveraging engineered nanomaterials to support material circularity Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Leanne Gilbertson, Matthew Eckelman, Thomas L Theis
Materials are central to a circular economy. They enter one of two cycles, the biological (where materials serve a purpose and then degrade as nutrients for renewing natural resources) or the technical (where materials perpetuate in products, serving a single or multiple functions with each subsequent use). Given the ubiquity of engineered nanomaterials in products supporting nearly every facet of
-
Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan Furszyfer Del Rio, Kyle Herman, Marfuga Iskandarova, Joao M. Uratani, Steve Griffiths
-
Global production potential of green methanol based on variable renewable electricity Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mahdi Fasihi, Christian Breyer
-
Facets control charge separation during photoelectrochemical water oxidation with strontium titanate (SrTiO3) single crystals Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Samutr Assavachin, Chengcan Xiao, Kathleen Becker, Frank E. Osterloh
-
A comparison of molecular iodine evolution on the chemistry of lead and tin perovskites Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Thomas Webb, Saif A. Haque
-
Correction to “Trends of Total Applied Pesticide Toxicity in German Agriculture” Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Sascha Bub, Jakob Wolfram, Lara L. Petschick, Sebastian Stehle, Ralf Schulz
The Supporting Information has been corrected. The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c03427. Toxicity thresholds used in the study (XLSX) Tables S1–S5 and Figures S1–S10 with additional information on the data used in the study, as well as on the methods and results (PDF) Most electronic Supporting Information files are available without
-
Country-Specific External Costs of Abiotic Resource Use Based on User Cost Model in Life Cycle Impact Assessment Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ryosuke Yokoi, Masaharu Motoshita, Takeshi Matsuda, Norihiro Itsubo
-
Activated Carbon Application Simultaneously Alleviates Paddy Soil Arsenic Mobilization and Carbon Emission by Decreasing Porewater Dissolved Organic Matter Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Dunfeng Si, Song Wu, Haotian Wu, Dengjun Wang, Qing-long Fu, Yujun Wang, Peng Wang, Fang-jie Zhao, Dongmei Zhou
-
Molecular-Level Insights into the Relationship between Volatility of Organic Aerosol Constituents and PM2.5 Air Pollution Levels: A Study with Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Kai Wang, Yun Zhang, Haijie Tong, Jiajun Han, Pingqing Fu, Ru-Jin Huang, Hongyan Zhang, Thorsten Hoffmann
-
Nano-microflora Interaction Inducing Pulmonary Inflammation by Pyroptosis Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Meng Gao, Jie Chen, Changzhi Chen, Maomao Xie, Qianqian Xie, Wenjie Li, Jie Jiang, Xi Liu, Xiaoming Cai, Huizhen Zheng, Chengdong Zhang, Ruibin Li
-
Geogenic Phosphorus Enrichment in Groundwater due to Anaerobic Methane Oxidation-Coupled Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Yao Du, Yaojin Xiong, Yamin Deng, Yanqiu Tao, Hao Tian, Yanpeng Zhang, Qinghua Li, Yiqun Gan, Yanxin Wang
-
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jeffrey Braithwaite, Elle Leask, Carolynn L. Smith, Genevieve Dammery, Kalissa Brooke-Cowden, Ann Carrigan, Ella McQuillan, Lauren Ehrenfeld, Enrico Coiera, Johanna Westbrook, Yvonne Zurynski
-
Large methane mitigation potential through prioritized closure of gas-rich coal mines Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Qiang Liu, Fei Teng, Chris P. Nielsen, Yuzhong Zhang, Lixin Wu
-
Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity Nat. Clim. Change (IF 30.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Mark C. Urban, Marina Alberti, Luc De Meester, Yuyu Zhou, Brian C. Verrelli, Marta Szulkin, Chloé Schmidt, Amy M. Savage, Patrick Roberts, L. Ruth Rivkin, Eric P. Palkovacs, Jason Munshi-South, Anna N. Malesis, Nyeema C. Harris, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, Colin J. Garroway, Sarah E. Diamond, Simone Des Roches, Anne Charmantier, Kristien I. Brans
-
Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-27
Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source.
-
Want to make a difference? Try working at an environmental non-profit organization Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Moving to non-profit work requires researchers to shift their mindset to focus on applied science for policymaking and conservation practice.
-
Corporate emissions targets and the neglect of future innovators Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Yann Robiou du Pont, Joeri Rogelj, Angel Hsu, Detlef van Vuuren, Andreas G. F. Hoepner
Widely recognized as key partners for achieving international climate goals (1, 2), businesses like to indicate that their targets and activities are “Paris-aligned.” In response, research and initiatives have emerged to guide and assess whether companies’ targets represent an adequate mitigation effort to achieve the Paris Agreement. Here, we highlight conceptual limitations of effort-sharing approaches
-
A sound beginning of life starts before birth Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Hans Slabbekoorn
The acoustic environment of animals and humans has never been quiet, encompassing all sounds, from natural to those made by humans. The effect of sound on physiology and development starts before birth, which is why a world that grows increasingly more noisy, with loud outdoor entertainment, construction, and traffic, is a concern. On page 475 of this issue, Meillère et al. (1) report that exposure
-
Microbes and vitamin D aid immunotherapy Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Fabien Franco, Kathy D. McCoy
Tremendous progress has been made in improving cancer immunotherapy, which is now established as a pillar for cancer treatment. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) enhance antitumoral T cell responses by blocking interactions of the inhibitory receptors cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) or programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) that are expressed on T cells with their ligands. ICIs
-
Ciliopathy patient variants reveal organelle-specific functions for TUBB4B in axonemal microtubules Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Daniel O. Dodd, Sabrina Mechaussier, Patricia L. Yeyati, Fraser McPhie, Jacob R. Anderson, Chen Jing Khoo, Amelia Shoemark, Deepesh K. Gupta, Thomas Attard, Maimoona A. Zariwala, Marie Legendre, Diana Bracht, Julia Wallmeier, Miao Gui, Mahmoud R. Fassad, David A. Parry, Peter A. Tennant, Alison Meynert, Gabrielle Wheway, Lucas Fares-Taie, Holly A. Black, Rana Mitri-Frangieh, Catherine Faucon, Josseline
Tubulin, one of the most abundant cytoskeletal building blocks, has numerous isotypes in metazoans encoded by different conserved genes. Whether these distinct isotypes form cell type– and context-specific microtubule structures is poorly understood. Based on a cohort of 12 patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia as well as mouse mutants, we identified and characterized variants in the TUBB4B isotype
-
Dissociation mechanism of lithium salt by BaTiO3 with spontaneous polarization Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Shaoke Guo, Shendong Tan, Jiabin Ma, Likun Chen, Ke Yang, Qiannan Zhu, Yuetao Ma, Peiran Shi, Yinping Wei, Xufei An, Qingkang Ren, Yanfei Huang, Yingman Zhu, Ye Cheng, Wei Lv, Tingzheng Hou, Ming Liu, Yanbing He, Quanhong Yang, Feiyu Kang
In composite solid-state electrolytes, the functional fillers with ferroelectric properties have demonstrated their ability to prompt the dissociation of lithium salt (LiFSI), thereby significantly enhancing ionic conductivity. However, the underlying mechanism has been challenging to fully comprehend, which hinders further improvement in electrolyte performance. Herein, we elucidate the dissociation
-
Multi-Angle Tracking Synthetic Kinetics of Phase Evolution in Li-Rich Mn-Based Cathodes Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Shenyang Xu, Zhefeng Chen, Wenguang Zhao, Wenju Ren, Chenxin Hou, Jiajie Liu, Wu Wang, Chong Yin, Xinghua Tan, Xiaobing Lou, Xiangming Yao, Zhihai Gao, Hao Liu, Lu Wang, Zuwei Yin, Bao Qiu, Bingwen Hu, Tianyi Li, Cheng Dong, Feng Pan, Mingjian Zhang
As the commercial cathode with the highest practical capacity, the structural nature of Li-rich Mn-based cathodes (LMR), composite or solid solution, is still under debate. Due to the extreme structure similarity of two layered-phase components, monoclinic phase (C2/m) and rhombohedral phase (R-3m), no single tool can resolve this concern alone. Herein, we combined multiple advanced techniques to comprehensively
-
Societal Co-benefits of Zero-Emission Vehicles in the Freight Industry Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Sara Torbatian, Marc Saleh, Junshi Xu, Laura Minet, Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage, Daniel Yazgi, Shoma Yamanouchi, Matthew J. Roorda, Marianne Hatzopoulou
-
Missing Measurements of Sesquiterpene Ozonolysis Rates and Composition Limit Understanding of Atmospheric Reactivity Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Graham Frazier, Jeff Willison, Celia Faiola
-
Semirational Design Strategy To Enhance the Thermostability and Catalytic Activity of Cytochrome P450 105D7 for the Degradation of the Pharmaceutically Active Compounds: Diclofenac Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ledong Zhu, Guochao Xu, Qingzhu Zhang, Guoqiang Wang, Wenxing Wang, Qiao Wang
-
Selective Modifier-Assisted Humic Acid Extraction: Implications for Soil Quality Enhancement Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Zixin Zhang, Qi Chen, Kunyu Xu, Kexin Zhang, Min Zhang, Yingjie Qi, Wenrui Zhang, Yang Liu, Zhanbo Wei, Zhiguang Liu
-
Urinary Metabolites of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons of Rural Population in Northwestern China: Oxidative Stress and Health Risk Assessment Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Liting Hua, Yafei Gao, Sai Guo, Hongkai Zhu, Yiming Yao, Beibei Wang, Jing Fang, Hongwen Sun, Fuliu Xu, Hongzhi Zhao
-
Unveiling the Function of Oxygen Vacancy on Facet-Dependent CeO2 for the Catalytic Destruction of Monochloromethane: Guidance for Industrial Catalyst Design Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Yuetan Su, Bowen Han, Qingjie Meng, Xueqing Luo, Zhongbiao Wu, Xiaole Weng
-
A Data-Driven Computational Framework for Assessing the Risk of Placental Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ruining Guan, Ruitong Cai, Binbin Guo, Yawei Wang, Chunyan Zhao
-
Potential Strategy to Control the Organic Components of Condensable Particulate Matter: A Critical Review Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Zhengkang Peng, Hanxiao Liu, Chuxuan Zhang, Yunfei Zhai, Wei Hu, Yuyao Tan, Xiaomin Li, Zijian Zhou, Xun Gong
-
Air Pollution and Cardiac Arrest: A More Significant Intermediate Role of COPD than Cardiac Events Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Huihuan Luo, Qingli Zhang, Xia Meng, Haidong Kan, Renjie Chen
-
Direct Observation of Particle-To-Particle Variability in Ambient Aerosol pH Using a Novel Analytical Approach Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Hanjin Yoo, Dongkwon Seo, Dongha Shin, Chul-Un Ro
-
Indoor Emissions Contributed the Majority of Ultrafine Particles in Chinese Urban Residences Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Chen Chen, Bin Zhao
-
New Insights into Aggregation Behaviors of the UV-Irradiated Dissolved Biochars (DBioCs) in an Aqueous Environments: Effects of Water Chemistries and Variation in the Hamaker Constant Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Ning Tang, Yihui Guo, Ziqian Zhu, Longbo Jiang, Na Li, Tingting Hu, Lan Lu, Jingyi Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Jie Liang
-
Trade-off between Endocrine-Disrupting Compound Removal and Water Permeance of the Polyamide Nanofiltration Membrane: Phenomenon and Molecular Insights Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Jiansuxuan Chen, Tianlin Wang, Ruobin Dai, Zhichao Wu, Zhiwei Wang
-
Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
-
Could a rare mutation that causes dwarfism also slow ageing? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
People with Laron syndrome have a low risk of heart disease and a number of other age-related disorders, hinting at strategies for new treatments.
-
Future of Humanity Institute shuts: what’s next for ‘deep future’ research? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Researchers from several disciplines hope to predict — and prevent — scenarios that pose risks to humanity.
-
Garden-variety fungus is an expert at environmental clean-ups Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
The common fungus Aspergillus niger removes both heavy metals and organic pollutants from its surroundings.
-
Air-travel climate-change emissions detailed for nearly 200 nations Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Carbon emissions from flights that departed from low- and middle-income countries in 2019 totalled 417 million tonnes.
-
Rat neurons repair mouse brains — and restore sense of smell Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Scientists develop hybrid mice by filling in missing cells and structures in their brains with rat stem cells.
-
Hello puffins, goodbye belugas: changing Arctic fjord hints at our climate future Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Stunning images show an ecosystem’s upheaval as it warms at an alarming pace.
-
Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
By joining a collecting society, researchers can ensure they are paid when copyrighted book content and papers are reproduced.
-
Daily briefing: How an unlikely friendship with Jung influenced Pauli’s physics Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
A patient-analyst relationship to psychoanalyst Carl Jung that evolved into a friendship deeply influenced physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s work. Plus, organoids shed light on cancer and other diseases, and medieval graves reveal secrets of a mysterious nomadic people.
-
NIH pay raise for postdocs and PhD students could have US ripple effect Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Salary increases for the 17,000-plus recipients of an NIH research award could lead to increases in other academic settings.
-
Bird flu in US cows: is the milk supply safe? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Pasteurized milk is probably not a threat to people, but fresh milk droplets on milking equipment could be spreading the virus in a herd.
-
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Ranga Dias sued his university, in part, for allegedly conducting a biased investigation, which found he had committed extensive scientific misconduct.
-
Daily briefing: The origins of bioluminescence in animals date back over half a billion years Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Octocorals probably evolved the ability to make light when the first animals developed eyes. Plus, the WHO has redefined ‘airborne transmission’ and how artificial intelligence is changing weapons of war.
-
How DNA encodes the start of transcription Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jun Wang, Vikram Agarwal
The central dogma of molecular biology outlines the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins. With a limited vocabulary of four nucleotides (A, C, G, and T), DNA encodes an extensive instruction set, including the chromosomal positions where RNAs begin to be transcribed and the magnitudes of their expression. This process, known as transcription initiation (1), begins at transcription
-
A new mechanism for visible light photocatalysis: Generation of intraband by adsorbed organic compounds with wide-bandgap semiconductors Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Teng Wang, Jiachun Cao, Juan Li, Juntian Li, Didi Li, Shaobin Wang, Zhimin Ao
Wide-bandgap semiconductors are generally effective for photocatalytic degradation of VOCs under UV light irradiation. However, we found that various VOCs could be effectively degraded and even mineralized by a variety of wide-bandgap semiconductors under visible light irradiation. The findings of our study indicate adsorption of VOCs on catalysts generated a narrow band gap between the ground state
-
Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots-Enhanced Machine Learning for Accurate Detection and Quantification of Hg2+ and Fe3+ in Real Water Samples Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Mauricio Llaver, Santiago Daniel Barrionuevo, Jorge Martín Martin Nuñez, Agostina Chapana, Rodolfo G. Wuilloud, Myriam Haydee Aguirre, Francisco Javier Ibañez
Selective, accurate, fast, and with minimal usage of instrumentation has become paramount nowadays in areas of environmental monitoring. Here, we chemically modified fluorescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and trained a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm for the selective quantification of Hg2+ and Fe3+ ions present within real water samples. The probe is obtained by an electrosynthesis of CVD graphene
-
Practical considerations to optimize aquatic testing of particulate material, with focus on nanomaterials Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Simon Luederwald, Jordan Davies, Teresa F. Fernandes, Antonia Praetorius, Jacques-Aurélien Sergent, Kristi Tatsi, Joan Tell, Niels Timmer, Stephan Wagner
-
Enhanced flushing mechanism of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated sandy soil by air nano bubbles Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Chunjiang Liu, Minghui Xiang, Chen Yang, Yiran Chen, Zhongyuan Li, Wu Wang, Wei Yin, Hui Li, Yuan Huang
-
Soil mimetic eco-friendly fertilizer gate: Nanoclay reinforced binary carbohydrate for crop effeciency Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Bandana Kumari Sahu, Kanchan Swami, Neelesh Kapoor, Ankit Agrawal, sarita kataria, Parul Sharma, Priya Kundu, Hema Thangavel, Anusree Vattakkuniyil, Om Prakash Chaurasia, Vijayakumar Shanmugam
Potassium play an important role in crop physiology, hence recommended as a basal macronutrient. It is highly mobile, and leaches quickly to become phyto-unavailable, hence for the first time nano material-assisted coating on muriate of potash (KCl), which serves 80 % of potassium fertilizer needs is attempted. Rotary drum coater has been used to coat binary carbohydrates viz., chitosan and lignin