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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in the Reduction of Arenes by SmI2–Water Complexes

Journal of American Chemical Society - Wed, 08/26/2015 - 08:27

Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07518
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Corrigendum: Lanosterol reverses protein aggregation in cataracts

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Corrigendum: Lanosterol reverses protein aggregation in cataracts

Nature 526, 7574 (2015). doi:10.1038/nature15253

Authors: Ling Zhao, Xiang-Jun Chen, Jie Zhu, Yi-Bo Xi, Xu Yang, Li-Dan Hu, Hong Ouyang, Sherrina H. Patel, Xin Jin, Danni Lin, Frances Wu, Ken Flagg, Huimin Cai, Gen Li, Guiqun Cao, Ying Lin, Daniel Chen, Cindy Wen, Christopher Chung, Yandong Wang, Austin Qiu, Emily Yeh, Wenqiu Wang, Xun Hu, Seanna Grob, Ruben Abagyan, Zhiguang Su, Harry Christianto Tjondro, Xi-Juan Zhao, Hongrong Luo, Rui Hou, J. Jefferson P. Perry, Weiwei Gao, Igor Kozak, David Granet, Yingrui Li, Xiaodong Sun, Jun Wang, Liangfang Zhang, Yizhi Liu, Yong-Bin Yan & Kang Zhang

Nature523, 607–611 (2015); doi:10.1038/nature14650In this Letter, author Yong-Bin Yan was incorrectly associated with affiliation number 5 (Department of Ophthalmology, Xijing Hospital) instead of affiliation number 4 (State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences,

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Erratum: Genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Erratum: Genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone

Nature 526, 7574 (2015). doi:10.1038/nature15255

Authors: Yi-Gang Tong, Wei-Feng Shi, Di Liu, Jun Qian, Long Liang, Xiao-Chen Bo, Jun Liu, Hong-Guang Ren, Hang Fan, Ming Ni, Yang Sun, Yuan Jin, Yue Teng, Zhen Li, David Kargbo, Foday Dafae, Alex Kanu, Cheng-Chao Chen, Zhi-Heng Lan, Hui Jiang, Yang Luo, Hui-Jun Lu, Xiao-Guang Zhang, Fan Yang, Yi Hu, Yu-Xi Cao, Yong-Qiang Deng, Hao-Xiang Su, Yu Sun, Wen-Sen Liu, Zhuang Wang, Cheng-Yu Wang, Zhao-Yang Bu, Zhen-Dong Guo, Liu-Bo Zhang, Wei-Min Nie, Chang-Qing Bai, Chun-Hua Sun, Xiao-Ping An, Pei-Song Xu, Xiang-Li-Lan Zhang, Yong Huang, Zhi-Qiang Mi, Dong Yu, Hong-Wu Yao, Yong Feng, Zhi-Ping Xia, Xue-Xing Zheng, Song-Tao Yang, Bing Lu, Jia-Fu Jiang, Brima Kargbo, Fu-Chu He, George F. Gao & Wu-Chun Cao

Nature524, 93–96 (2015); doi:10.1038/nature14490This Letter should have contained an associated Creative Commons statement in the Author Information section. In addition, the Fig. 3c legend should have stated that the bar chart was adapted, with permission, from

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FDA vulnerability revealed

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

FDA vulnerability revealed

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524387a

A politically charged advisory committee meeting may have tipped the scales in favour of a mildly effective female libido drug.

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We must build resilience into our communities

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

We must build resilience into our communities

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/524389a

Author: Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Innovative approaches can better equip society to deal with natural disasters and other shocks, says Erwann Michel-Kerjan.

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Animal behaviour: Hummingbirds sip using mini pumps

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Animal behaviour: Hummingbirds sip using mini pumps

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524390a

Hummingbirds draw nectar into their bills using long tongues that act like tiny pumps.It was long thought that liquid travels passively up the birds' tongues without suction. But Alejandro Rico-Guevara and his colleagues at the University of Connecticut in Storrs found a different mechanism

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Chemistry: Better catalyst for carbon conversion

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Chemistry: Better catalyst for carbon conversion

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524390b

A porous, crystalline compound can speed up the conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in water.Omar Yaghi and Christopher Chang at the University of California, Berkeley, and their colleagues used structures called covalent organic frameworks (COFs) — grid-like arrangements of carbon, nitrogen and

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Animal behaviour: Stinging cells help jellyfish to mate

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Animal behaviour: Stinging cells help jellyfish to mate

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524390c

Some box jellyfish display elaborate mating behaviours and even use their toxic stinging cells to ensure successful fertilization.Many jellyfish reproduce using external fertilization, but in a few box jellyfish, fertilization can occur internally. In one species (Copula sivickisi; pictured), the male

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Astrophysics: Dark-energy search narrows

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Astrophysics: Dark-energy search narrows

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524390d

Two groups have tightened the limits on the search for elusive dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the Universe.Physicists have proposed that dark energy could come from a 'chameleon' field: a force that would act in the low

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Human evolution: Old finger with modern traits

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Human evolution: Old finger with modern traits

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524391a

A 1.84-million-year-old finger bone from Tanzania is the oldest known hominin hand bone with human-like features.Ancient human relatives used stone tools 2 million to 3 million years ago, but had hands that were suited to living in trees. A team led by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

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Atmospheric science: Carbon dioxide levels peak up high

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Atmospheric science: Carbon dioxide levels peak up high

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524391b

The carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's upper atmosphere is increasing at more than twice the average rate observed at the surface.Jia Yue of Hampton University in Virginia and his colleagues analysed CO2 measurements at different atmospheric heights and latitudes between 2002 and

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Medical microbiology: Lung pathogen evolves in isolation

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Medical microbiology: Lung pathogen evolves in isolation

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524391c

Bacteria that infect the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis evolve into different forms in various parts of the lungs.Pradeep Singh at the University of Washington in Seattle and his team dissected the infected lungs of ten people with the disease who were having

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Information technology: Suspended rods serve as bits

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Information technology: Suspended rods serve as bits

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524391d

Rod-shaped nanoparticles suspended in water can store the zeroes and ones of digital computing on the basis of the rods' physical location.Most digital memories are made of solid matter. But Madhavi Krishnan at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and her colleagues stored bits

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Astrophysics: Cosmic neutrinos abound

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Astrophysics: Cosmic neutrinos abound

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). doi:10.1038/524391e

Super-high-energy neutrinos from outside the Milky Way pepper Earth from all directions.Neutrinos are created in the Universe's most violent environments and travel through it almost unimpeded, providing a way to study distant astronomical objects. A team at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South

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The week in science: 21–27 August 2015

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

The week in science: 21–27 August 2015

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/524392a

Endangered bird mix-up, methane emission restrictions, and ice lab drifts home

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Biohackers gear up for genome editing

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

Biohackers gear up for genome editing

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/524398a

Author: Heidi Ledford

Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.

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How cities can beat the heat

Nature - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 23:00

How cities can beat the heat

Nature 524, 7566 (2015). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/524402a

Author: Hannah Hoag

Rising temperatures are threatening urban areas, but efforts to cool them may not work as planned.

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