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Author Correction: Disease-associated astrocyte epigenetic memory promotes CNS pathology

• Hong-Gyun Lee
• Joseph M. Rone
• Francisco J. Quintana

Self-targeting antibodies tied to lower malaria risk in kids

Findings support one idea about why self-directed immune responses are more common in some populations.

Gigantic oddball aurora seen from Earth for the first time

A camera captured the vast, diffuse glow produced after the solar wind dropped to a whisper.

• Alexandra Witze

‘Fantastic’ particle could be most energetic neutrino ever detected

The ultra-high-energy neutrino was spotted by deep-sea detectors and could point to a massive cosmic event.

• Davide Castelvecchi

The last few miles: how to prepare for the late-career stage in science

It can be daunting to see the final chapter of your career approaching. Planning ahead can help.

• Julie Gould

Gut microbiome discovery provides roadmap for life-saving cancer therapies

The balance between bacterial communities in the gut affects the likelihood of a positive response to drugs called checkpoint inhibitors.

• Giorgia Guglielmi

Author Correction: Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

• Katie A. Read
• Anoop S. Mahajan
• John M. C. Plane

How huge black holes sprouted just after the Big Bang

Hubble observations of faint galaxies suggest that such objects could have been the seeds of very early supermassive black holes.

What’s the state of hiring researchers in science? Share your insights with Nature

Our first global survey of research group leaders and other hiring managers seeks to capture recruitment highs and lows in the current climate.

• Linda Nordling

A mighty river’s radical shift changed the face of ancient Egypt

Samples taken near a capital of the pharaohs reveal an overhaul of the Nile 4,000 years ago.

‘Smart’ fabric protects against heat of city streets

Textile keeps its cool even when surrounded by urban surfaces that absorb and release heat.

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

Evidence from neuroscience and related fields suggests that language and thought processes operate in distinct networks in the human brain and that language is optimized for communication and not for complex thought.

• Evelina Fedorenko
• Steven T. Piantadosi
• Edward A. F. Gibson

An alternative broad-specificity pathway for glycan breakdown in bacteria

A screen of a human gut microbiome metagenomic library reveals a cluster of enzymes withan unconventional mechanism and an extremely broad substrate scope.

• Seyed Amirhossein Nasseri
• Aleksander C. Lazarski
• Stephen G. Withers

Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy

Hallucinations (confabulations) in large language model systems can be tackled by measuring uncertainty about the meanings of generated responses rather than the text itselfto improve question-answering accuracy.

• Sebastian Farquhar
• Jannik Kossen
• Yarin Gal

Control of proton transport and hydrogenation in double-gated graphene

Independent control of the electric field and charge-carrier density in double-gated graphene allows the decoupling of proton transport and lattice hydrogenation, enabling both accelerated proton transport and proton-based logic operations.

• J. Tong
• Y. Fu
• M. Lozada-Hidalgo

Room-temperature spin injection across a chiral perovskite/III–V interface

By using a chiral halide perovskite material, spin injection at room temperature into a conventional III–V semiconductor multiple quantum well light-emitting diode is demonstrated, resulting in a semiconductor platform that can also control spin.

• Matthew P. Hautzinger
• Xin Pan
• Matthew C. Beard

Large-scale neurophysiology and single-cell profiling in human neuroscience

This Perspective considers the implications of advances in human physiology, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and long-term culture of resected human brain tissue for the study of network-level activity in human neuroscience.

• Anthony T. Lee
• Edward F. Chang
• Tomasz J. Nowakowski

Tunable superconductivity in electron- and hole-doped Bernal bilayer graphene

Tunable superconductivity and a series of flavour-symmetry-breaking phases are observed in electron- and hole-doped Bernal bilayer graphene.

• Chushan Li
• Fan Xu
• Tingxin Li

Multiscale topology classifies cells in subcellular spatial transcriptomics

A method for topological automatic cell type classification across subcellular resolution spatial transcriptomic platforms is proposed, resolving cell type information and locating sparsely dispersed cells in human kidney and mouse kidney and brain.

• Katherine Benjamin
• Aneesha Bhandari
• Katherine R. Bull

Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought

Drought response is structured by water-table depth in higher-fertility Southern Amazonia, whereas lower-fertility Northern Amazonia supports more-drought-resilient forests independent of water-table depth.

• Shuli Chen
• Scott C. Stark
• Scott R. Saleska