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San Rafael Swell is a vast area of almost 2,000 square miles of uplifted layered rocks eroded into canyons, mesa, buttes, rock towers and natural arches. It’s Bureau of Land Management real estate bisected by Interstate 70, which provides much of the access to the area. As you leave Green River, Utah, westbound on I-70, a sign advises “No Services for the Next 106 Miles.” You’ll see a similar sign if you’re traveling eastbound on I-70 from the San Rafael Swell. A maze of gravel roads maintained by Emery County is suitable for automobile and light truck travel, though a few roads in the area require a four-wheel-drive vehicle. The San Rafael Swell is ringed by the towns of Price, Green River, Hanksville, Caineville, Emery, Castle Dale, Huntington and Cleveland. In addition to I-70, other roads that circumnavigate the Swell include Utah State Route 10 on the west side between Price and I-70, U.S. Route 6 connecting Price and Green River on the northeast side of the Swell, and Utah Stat...

Nature, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2711-0 Human germinal centres engage memory and naive B cells after influenza vaccination

Nature, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2709-7 Neurotoxic microglia promote TDP-43 proteinopathy in progranulin deficiency

Photo By Walt Mather Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Badlands National Park” by Walt Mather. Location: South Dakota. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Walt Mather appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02500-4 Flow-cytometry manager Armando Pacheco describes how he helps researchers to plan experiments that involve categorizing and counting individual cells.

Nature, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02498-9 The poisonous legacy of industry holds lessons, two books show.

“Clear skies, temps in the low 70s, no wind and cloudless skies for the next two days,” states the weather person on the local news channel. “Oh well,” I mutter out loud, “more of the same mundane conditions with no mood or drama.” No shots of saturated, wind-blown autumn leaves blanketing a curved country dirt road while radiating red, yellow and orange. No images of dramatic thunderheads entering the skyline above the mountain lake. No moody fog coursing its way through the stand of redwoods and ferns. No possibility to get reflected city lights in a puddle with streaks of car lights mirrored on drenched streets. I really wanted to use the red umbrella I purchased while I release the shutter with my remote trigger to capture a photo of me walking down that beautiful S-curved road. I’m being a bit cynical, but there’s truth and validity in the above words. I fully concede that first light as the sun crests the horizon and last light right before the sun goes to sleep provide gorgeou...

Photo By Denis Dessoliers Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Bandon Sunset” by Denis Dessoliers. Location: Bandon Beach, Oregon. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Denis Dessoliers appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Bugaboo Splendor” by David Connel. Location: Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia. “My climbing buddy and I climbed Pigeon Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada,” explains Connel. “I debated about bringing my DSLR camera, not wanting to haul the extra weight up the peak. Since I did bring the camera with me, I spent the whole climb looking for that unique perspective to capture the drama of climbing and the rugged beauty of the mountains. When we got to a saddle, I knew immediately that this was the image I wanted. If you look very closely, you can see my climbing buddy in a red jacket on the ridge. I’m so glad that I carried the extra weight.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in t...

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02501-3 No new cases of wild poliovirus have been recorded on the continent since 2016, but other types of the virus persist.

Nature, Published online: 28 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02483-2 A slew of detailed studies has now quantified the increased risk the virus poses to older people, men, and other groups.

Photo By Hank Miller Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Matanuska River” by Hank Miller. Location: Alaska. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Hank Miller appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Congratulations to Heather Nicole for winning the Lazy Summer Days Assignment with the image, “Sleepy Siblings.” See more of Nicole’s work at momentsbyheathernicole.com . [ See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com ] The post Lazy Summer Days Assignment Winner Heather Nicole appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 27 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02492-1 Infecting the insects with a bacteria that stops disease spread produces ‘staggering’ reduction in cases of the infection.

Photo By Jody Partin Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Blue Hour at Mono Lake” by Jody Partin. Location: Mono County, California. See more of Jody Partin’s photography at jody-partin.pixels.com . Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Jody Partin appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 27 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02446-7 The spill released a new type of low-sulfur fuel, and its ecological effects aren't well studied, says environment advocate Jaqueline Sauzier.

Nature, Published online: 27 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02482-3 Hardy bacteria thrive on an antimicrobial metal — and turn it to their advantage.

Nature, Published online: 27 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2708-8 A mouse-adapted model of SARS-CoV-2 to test COVID-19 countermeasures

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2644-7 The adaptability of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana to different temperatures is regulated by the ability of its ELF3 protein to undergo liquid–liquid phase separation, in a manner that is dependent on the protein’s prion-like domain.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2702-1 The calcium-permeable channel OSCA1.3 regulates plant stomatal immunity

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2651-8 In individuals who have achieved natural control of HIV-1 without drug treatment, intact proviral sequences are integrated into genomic regions that are not permissive to active viral transcription, indicating deep latency of the virus.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2647-4 Keratins are determinants of cell fate during mammalian embryogenesis, and are distributed asymmetrically between daughter cells during cell division.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2613-1 The size of the inner disk of the T Tauri star TW Hydrae is determined using optical long-baseline interferometric observations, indicating that hydrogen emission comes from a region approximately 3.5 stellar radii across.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02442-x Temperature determines the geographical distribution of plants and their rate of growth and development, but how they sense high temperatures to mount a response was unclear. Now a process underlying this responsiveness is known.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2619-8 Ionizing radiation from environmental radioactivity and cosmic rays increases the density of broken Cooper pairs in superconducting qubits, reducing their coherence times, but can be partially mitigated by lead shielding.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2638-5 In Bacillus subtilis, unlike in Escherichia coli, transcription and translation of genes are not tightly coupled, and pioneering ribosomes lag substantially behind RNA polymerases.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02421-2 Tiny devices have been developed that can act as the legs of laser-controlled microrobots. The compatibility of these devices with microelectronics systems suggests a path to the mass manufacture of autonomous microrobots.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2626-9 A new class of voltage-controllable electrochemical actuators that are compatible with silicon processing are used to produce over one million sub-hundred-micrometre walking robots on a single four-inch wafer.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2632-y The multipotency of basal stem cells is directly regulated by luminal cells through the secretion of TNF, and, following luminal cell ablation, the Notch, Wnt and EGFR signalling pathways reactivate basal cell multipotency.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2652-7 Analyses of the genomes of cichlid species reveal that the combination of ecological opportunity, sexual selection and exceptional genomic potential is the key to understanding explosive adaptive radiation in cichlids.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02438-7 In a few people living with HIV, the virus remains under control without antiretroviral therapy. It emerges that, in these people, the viral DNA that is integrated into the host genome is in a deeply transcriptionally repressed state.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2648-3 In a study performed in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, ‘closed mitosis’ is shown to occur via local disassembly of the nuclear envelope within the narrow bridge connecting segregating daughter nuclei, and a key role is identified for Les1, which restricts nuclear envelope breakdown to the bridge.

Photo By Scherbroeck Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Half Moon Rising” by Scherbroeck. Location: Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada. “While driving along the Alaskan Highway looking for wildlife, we saw the large half moon rising above the Kluane Mountains as the sun was setting,” says Scherbroeck. “What a beautiful sight.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Scherbroeck appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02465-4 Yulong Ding explains how he is collaborating with teams in China to improve energy technologies.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02464-5 Innovations in energy-storage technology are a mainstay of the nation’s bid to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02469-0 A more perfect union.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02456-5 Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli bounced ideas off each other, Paul Halpern’s book shows.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02455-6 The latest science news, in brief.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02453-8 Researchers are starting to understand the behaviour of insects ravaging parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This work must be furthered, funded and field-tested.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02329-x Staying connected with other single-parent academics through a Facebook group was one of four steps taken by Antica Culina to survive the lockdown.

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2700-3 Sex differences in immune responses that underlie COVID-19 disease outcomes

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2662-5 Publisher Correction: Structural basis of DNA targeting by a transposon-encoded CRISPR–Cas system

Nature, Published online: 25 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02478-z Political meddling, disorganization and years of neglect of public-health data management mean the country is flying blind.

Nature, Published online: 25 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02467-2 Cooling particles in a volcanic plume intensified the drought that toppled the Ming dynasty.

Photo By Patrick Nowotny Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Relaxing Puma” by Patrick Nowotny. Location: Patagonia. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments ,  Galleries  and the  OP Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage,  Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Patrick Nowotny appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 25 August 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02454-7 Two steps will help collaborations worldwide to share information and comply with EU privacy rules.