NATURE

Photo by Amy Ames Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Red Fox Struggling In The Wind” by Amy Ames. Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. “The wind was so strong this afternoon that this red fox could barely walk,” explains Ames. “You can see the hair standing up from the wind cutting through his fur. What a gorgeous sight to see in the white snow.” Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Amy Ames appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo By Kevin Cass Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Upper Tipsoo Lake After Sunset” by Kevin Cass. Location: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Kevin Cass appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo By Kevin Cass Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Upper Tipsoo Lake After Sunset” by Kevin Cass. Location: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Kevin Cass appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo By Matthew Morrissette Today’s Photo Of The Day is “In Defiance of Winter” by Matthew Morrissette. Location: Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado. “A meadowlark sings his song of spring during a snowstorm in Colorado,” describes Morrissette. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Matthew Morrissette appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 29 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03627-0 John Tregoning reflects on a year like no other.

Photo By Laura Schoenbauer Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Soft Winter Light” by Laura Schoenbauer. Lakeville, Minnesota. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Laura Schoenbauer appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Every time I walk past the photos that hang in my home, I think to myself how lucky I am. A huge smile radiates as I see images from the many states and different countries to which I’ve traveled. Within those photos, wild animals appear either in their environment or in full-frame grandeur. Some were made in warm early light and a number with golden late light. Guilt rushes through my system knowing I get paid to bring people to locations and teach photography—I truly feel as if I haven’t worked a day in my life. Lesson to be learned: find your passion and may the same gift fall upon you. For many, vacations are once a year events and expensive. If you return without good images, the option to go back to the site is slim. It behooves you to do as much prep work as possible before you depart. When the trip is over, memories and your images are the only reminders. When you bring back quality RAW files and optimize them to their fullest, it allows you to relive them time and time again...

Photo By Abe Blair Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Creamsicle” by Abe Blair. Location: Lake Tahoe. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Abe Blair appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo By Jola Charlton Today’s Photo Of The Day is “All Puffed Up” by Jola Charlton. Location: Republic, Washington. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Jola Charlton appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo Archie Tucker Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Pure As Snow” by Archie Tucker. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Archie Tucker appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Photo By Denis Dessoliers Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Water is Cold” by Denis Dessoliers. Location: Convict Lake, Mono County, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 .

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03057-y Stimulation of pain-sensing neurons, which can be achieved in mice by the ingestion of capsaicin, promotes the migration of haematopoietic stem cells from the bone marrow into the blood.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03064-z Chromothripsis—a process during which chromosomes are ‘shattered’—drives the evolution of gene amplification and subsequent drug resistance in cancer cells.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03055-0 The pairing of genes is essential for robust expression of segmentation clock genes during development in zebrafish embryos.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03069-8 Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the nucleosome-bound NSD2 and NSD3 histone methyltransferases reveal the molecular basis of their histone modification activity, and show how mutations in these proteins can lead to oncogenesis.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03050-5 The net PKA activities in each class of spiny projection neuron in the nucleus accumbens of the mouse are dichotomously modulated by asynchronous positive and negative dopamine signals during different phases of learning.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03074-x A class of compounds with a dual mechanism of action—direct targeting of IspH and stimulation of cytotoxic γδ T cells to enhance pathogen clearance—are active against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03053-2 Ancient DNA reveals genetic differences between stone-tool users and people associated with ceramic technology in the Caribbean and provides substantially lower estimates of population sizes in the region before European contact.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03060-3 In adult mice, astrocytes carry out phagocytosis of excitatory hippocampal synapses through MEGF10 to maintain synaptic and circuit homeostasis.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-3038-6 A chip-scale platform is developed for the conversion of a single microwave excitation of a superconducting qubit into optical photons, with potential uses in quantum computer networks.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03051-4 A reinforcement-learning algorithm that combines a tree-based search with a learned model achieves superhuman performance in high-performance planning and visually complex domains, without any knowledge of their underlying dynamics.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-3029-7 By combining the use of photoswitchable photoinitators and intersecting light beams, objects and complex systems can be produced rapidly with higher definition than is possible using state-of-the art macroscopic volumetric methods.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03075-w Expression of the Epstein–Barr virus protein LMP1 in B cells increases expression of—and promotes T cell responses to—tumour-associated antigens, delineating a mechanism of infection-induced anti-tumour immunity, which could inform immune-based approaches to cancer treatment.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-3030-1 Topological plasmonic spin textures are excited by shining light on a structured silver film, and imaging defines how these quasiparticle field and spin textures evolve on the nanometre and femtosecond scales.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03061-2 Rats learning to solve a succession of odour-sequence problems developed an orbitofrontal cortical representation that reflected the structure—or schema—common across problems.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03073-y In real-world spatial navigation and observation tasks, oscillatory activity in the human brain encodes representations of self and others, with oscillatory power increasing at locations near the boundaries of the room.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03071-0 RANK promotes the hormone-mediated development of thymic regulatory T cells during pregnancy; loss of RANK is associated with impaired maturation of maternal regulatory T cells, leading to fetal loss and the development of gestational diabetes.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03543-3 A 3D-printing technique has been developed that can produce millimetre- to centimetre-scale objects with micrometre-scale features. It relies on chemical reactions triggered by the intersection of two light beams.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03576-8 Oscillations in neuronal activity in the medial temporal lobe of the human brain encode proximity to boundaries such as walls, both when navigating while walking and when watching another person do so.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03577-7 Pain-sensing nerve cells can mobilize blood stem cells in mice, with a component of chilli peppers being one stimulus. The finding holds the promise of improving procedures for stem-cell transplantation.

Photo By Valerie Millett Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Hunt’s Mesa At Sunrise” by Valerie Millett. Location: Hunt’s Mesa, Monument Valley, Arizona. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Valerie Millett appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03553-1 The latest science news, in brief.

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03611-8 For the first time, the organizers of NeurIPS required speakers to consider the societal impact of their work.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03605-6 Models estimate that travel restrictions worked early in the pandemic, but became less effective throughout the year.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03087-6 Publisher Correction: Inhibition of LTβR signalling activates WNT-induced regeneration in lung

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03635-0 The expertise of local people could help to protect an extremely rare Philippine species.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03560-2 From the COVID pandemic to a momentous US election, Nature’s editorials provide a lens through which to view an extraordinary year.

Photo By Max Foster Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Razor’s Edge” by Max Foster. Location: Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Max Foster appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03090-x Author Correction: Molecular dissection of amyloid disaggregation by human HSP70

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03651-0 Climate change and COVID-19 vaccines are among the themes set to shape research.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03598-2 Figures reveal stark regional differences in the distribution of funding as the European Union's 2014–20 research programme draws to a close.

Nature, Published online: 21 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03485-w As the US president-elect announces his advisers and agency heads, Nature’s guide tracks the appointees who matter most to science.

Nature, Published online: 21 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03610-9 Can you spot the penguin?

Nature, Published online: 21 December 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03637-y A look at apps that predict the chance of infection and illness depending on what you’re doing and where you are.

Congratulations to Donnell Allen for winning the recent Last Frame Assignment with the image, “There’s Something On My Foot, Isn’t There?” This image was taken at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Colorado. See more of Allen’s photography at donnellallen.myportfolio.com . View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment  here  and enter your best shots! [ See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com ] The post Last Frame Assignment Winner Donnell Allen appeared first on Outdoor Photographer .

Nature, Published online: 21 December 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03088-5 Publisher Correction: Galactosaminogalactan activates the inflammasome to provide host protection

Photo By Robert Henderson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Young Yellow Baboon” by Robert Henderson. Location: Ruaha National Park, Tanzania. “We sat quietly in the early morning while a troop of baboons foraged in a nearby tree,” describes Henderson. “After a while, the youngest baboons got more and more curious and picked branches closer and closer to our truck. If you magnify the full resolution image sufficiently, you can actually see the truck reflected in the young baboon’s eyes.”  Canon EOS 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS II USM lens at 230mm, Canon 1.4x III teleconverter. Exposure: 1/320 sec., f/7.1, ISO 400. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including  Assignments ,  Galleries  and  Contests . Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook ,  Twitter  and  Instagram . To get your photos in the runni...