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Photo Of The Day By Sharon Philpott

What should humans do when things go wrong on a wildlife cam?

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Photo Of The Day By Colleen Bartkovich

This bird with a haunting song can pretend to be a branch

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Daily briefing: Australia’s feral cats ravage native animals

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Nature, Published online: 28 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02055-z Australia’s feral cats kill 459 million native mammals every year, NASA will send a nuclear-powered drone to explore Titan and why calloused bare feet are better than cushioned shoes.

Why California dumped 96 millions plastic balls into a reservoir

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Why NASA is sending a winged robot to Saturn's moon, Titan

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The US opioid epidemic is driving a spike in infectious diseases

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Nature, Published online: 28 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02019-3 Researchers around the country are scrambling to understand these outbreaks, but lack solid data on case numbers.

How DNA ‘hotspots’ snarl the search for cancer genes

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Nature, Published online: 27 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02011-x Clusters of mutations can mislead researchers.

Tamron 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD Gets Price And Release Date

'Up in Arms': Book reveals more of the story behind the Bundys' takeover of national lands

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Photo Of The Day By Joanna Proffitt

22 awesome projects for Raspberry Pi

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Rebroadcast: Nature PastCast, June 1876

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Nature, Published online: 28 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01883-3 We delve into the archives to tell the stories behind some of Nature’s biggest papers.

Is your dog's trendy diet the best choice?

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Why hydrangeas and the Azores are inextricably linked

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Shape-shifting, colour-switching ‘octopus’ emerges from a 3D printer

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Nature, Published online: 28 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02005-9 Recipe includes specialized polymer and pigments that change colour when temperature rises or falls.

Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

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Nature, Published online: 28 June 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1342-9 Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

NASA drone will soar over Saturn's largest moon

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Nature, Published online: 27 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02027-3 The Dragonfly mission will explore Titan's atmosphere and hydrocarbon lakes.

Why not wearing shoes does a body good

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What to see in the night sky in July

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Why is a spill that started in 2004 still leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico?

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The Creative Power Of A Photo Study

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As you could expect of most landscape photographers living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, my choices of scenery at the time were predominantly focused on waterfalls, forests and creeks. I’ve seen more verdant, mossy trees than I ever could have imagined growing up in New York City. And, like most people, I developed a habit of sorts and would frequent the same locations over and over with my camera. It’s not that they were easy to get to or anything like that. Rather, these familiar locations offered such a variety of photo opportunities that I never found myself complaining that, “I’ve shot that place a thousand times already.” Don’t get me wrong. I’ve certainly muttered that complaint to myself many times, and I’d be willing to bet that there are more than a handful of you out there who would also raise your hands and attest to the same. It’s especially true if you live somewhere that isn’t exactly “target rich” for photography. Still, I call rubbish to that becaus...

Daily briefing: Triumphant success of HPV vaccine

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Nature, Published online: 27 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02026-4 Hope for the end of cervical cancer in some countries, the fledgling field of palaeoproteomics and one scientist’s story of surviving China’s gaokao — the biggest exam in the world.

3 more reasons you should avoid triclosan

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Photo Of The Day By Nikki Sumrow

Step up to leadership for mid-career growth

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Nature, Published online: 27 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01936-7 It’s easy to get stuck in an endless whirl of grants and papers. Jeffrey McDonnell offers tips for becoming a leader in your field to ascend to the next professional level.

Orbit map of the solar system reveals gorgeous planetary perspective

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These students came up with an ingenious way to keep buildings cool

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Well, here's a good reason to go to bed earlier

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Discrimination drives LGBT+ scientists to think about quitting

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Nature, Published online: 27 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02013-9 Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey.

Hidden brain activity revealed in people with coma

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01995-w Hospital patients who appear unresponsive after commands show evidence of brain activity.

Best Cameras For Wildlife Photography

Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1322-0 Sustained flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing aerial vehicle weighing just 259 milligrams that does not need to fly tethered to an off-board power supply is demonstrated.

Distinct structural classes of activating FOXA1 alterations in advanced prostate cancer

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1347-4 Comprehensive genomic analyses and mechanistic studies uncover three structural, functional and clinical classes of activating FOXA1 mutations and locus rearrangements in prostate cancer.

Developmental dynamics of lncRNAs across mammalian organs and species

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1341-x A transcriptome dataset from seven organs and seven mammalian species throughout development is used to analyse the expression of long noncoding RNAs in tissues within and between species, and at different stages of organ development.

The huge carbon footprint of cement (and what we can do about it)

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7 clever behaviors of octopuses

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Europe prepares for devastating heat wave

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Daily briefing: Some ‘stem-cell doctors’ are naturopaths and dentists

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02017-5 Some US stem cell clinics don’t employ physicians with the necessary medical training. Plus: the trauma of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’ is still affecting children today, and James Lovelock, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords.

Q&A: A list of postgraduate resources for minority students hits the mark

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01997-8 A planetary-science PhD student created a much-needed collection and began tweeting about it.

Photo Of The Day By Peter Coskun

Adventures of a space archaeologist

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01972-3 A personal take on panning out to see the past both grips and frustrates Jo Marchant.

Proposal to close UK mouse-research centre is ‘major threat’

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02002-y Country’s mouse-genetics programme is at risk, say researchers at MRC Harwell Institute.

How safe are e-cigarettes?

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In a first, renewables generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for a month

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The Ozark chestnut, thought to be long gone, is making a comeback

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Trading in futures

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01990-1 A sound investment?

Mars methane spike, stem-cell clinics and India’s space plans

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01984-z The week in science: 21–27 June 2019.

Lessons learnt from doing research amid a humanitarian crisis

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Nature, Published online: 26 June 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01989-8 Carrying on with data collection and model creation can be harrowing, but there are rewards in the chance to make a difference.