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Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes

Abstract The enantioselective construction of small-ring carbocycles provides organic chemists with an enduring challenge1. Despite their commercial importance, enantioselective synthetic ro...

Soft robot steers itself down the human airway

Structural basis of fast N-type inactivation in Kv channels

Abstract Action potentials are generated by opening of voltage-activated sodium (Nav) and potassium (Kv) channels1, which can rapidly inactivate to shape the nerve impulse and contribute to...

Atomic-scale imaging of frequency-dependent phonon anisotropy

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

A plant-forward menu is linked to lower diabetes risk

How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism

Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function

Analogue speech recognition based on physical computing

Mysterious changes near Earth’s core revealed by satellites in space

Rare comet photobombs telescope’s view of the cosmos

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

Weird ‘time crystals’ are made visible at last

Smoke-dried mummies pre-date Egypt’s embalmed bodies

LIGO is 10 years old: black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’

Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time

Trump team disbands controversial US climate panel

Author Correction: A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions

Observing differential spin currents by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours

Editorial Expression of Concern: Recovery of learning and memory is associated with chromatin remodelling

Determinants of successful AAV-vectored delivery of HIV-1 bNAbs in early life

Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry