Structural Biology Planet

Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations

Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07474-y

Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions.

Reduced oxygen consumption by fat cells improves metabolic defects

Reduced oxygen consumption by fat cells improves metabolic defects, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07248-6

Low oxygen levels are a hallmark of expanding fat tissue in obesity, and can lead to type 2 diabetes. In addition to a lack of adequate blood supply, increased oxygen demand in fat cells now emerges as being key to this harmful state.

Daily briefing: Life on a shrinking planet

Daily briefing: Life on a shrinking planet, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07481-z

“A long escalator down to Hell”, a wake-up call for cancer immunotherapy and how quantum computers could hack the blockchain.

The first Mars rocks to return to Earth could come from this ancient lakebed

The first Mars rocks to return to Earth could come from this ancient lakebed, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07472-0

NASA has chosen the landing site for its next Mars rover, which is set to launch in 2020.

Change in future climate due to Antarctic meltwater

Change in future climate due to Antarctic meltwater, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0712-z

Accounting for meltwater from the Antarctic Ice Sheet in simulations of global climate leads to substantial changes in future climate projections and identifies a potential feedback mechanism that exacerbates melting.

VCAM-1⁺ macrophages guide the homing of HSPCs to a vascular niche

VCAM-1⁺ macrophages guide the homing of HSPCs to a vascular niche, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0709-7

In zebrafish embryogenesis, nascent haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), homing to a vascular niche for retention, are ushered by patrolling and guiding macrophages through integrin-mediated cell-cell recognition.

Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China

Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0710-1

Levallois stone-tool technology found at the Guanyindong Cave site in southwest China was dated to approximately 170,000–80,000 years ago, which is much earlier than previously thought.

The environment: what’s in a word?

The environment: what’s in a word?, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07463-1

Huw Lewis-Jones reflects on how conceptualizing nature anew changed our relationship to it.

Quantum computers put blockchain security at risk

Quantum computers put blockchain security at risk, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07449-z

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will founder unless they integrate quantum technologies, warn Aleksey K. Fedorov, Evgeniy O. Kiktenko and Alexander I. Lvovsky.

A switch by China’s home cooks helps to save millions of lives

A switch by China’s home cooks helps to save millions of lives, Published online: 19 November 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07470-2

Villagers clear the air by cutting consumption of ‘dirty’ fuels such as wood.