Daily briefing: Interactive COVID map estimates the risk of meeting up

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03241-0

Nature

Daily briefing: Interactive COVID map estimates the risk of meeting up

A ‘weather map’ for COVID, the fraught story of hydroxychloroquine and the search for an all-encompassing definition of a particle.

Author Correction: Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2953-x

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Author Correction: Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment

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Audio long-read: The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03200-9

Nature

Audio long-read: The enigmatic organisms of the Ediacaran Period

Nature - Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature feature article.

Simulating the pandemic: What COVID forecasters can learn from climate models

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03208-1

Nature

Simulating the pandemic: What COVID forecasters can learn from climate models

Methods that are routine in computation-heavy fields could lead to more reliable pandemic predictions.

COVID mink analysis shows mutations are not dangerous — yet

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03218-z

Nature

COVID mink analysis shows mutations are not dangerous — yet

The analysis found the mutations probably won’t jeopardize vaccines, but scientists say the rampant spread means the animals still need to be killed.

Daily briefing: Positive early results for Sputnik V vaccine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03233-0

Nature

Daily briefing: Positive early results for Sputnik V vaccine

Good news about a controversial Russian COVID vaccine. Plus: what Ebola can teach us about stopping COVID, and the sex life of LECA, the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

Scientists’ drill accidentally unleashes a flood of icy water — and data

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03216-1

Nature

Scientists’ drill accidentally unleashes a flood of icy water — and data

A borehole in an ice cap gives researchers an unexpected close-up of a glacial flood, or jökulhlaup.

Phenotypic variation of transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2907-3

Nature

Phenotypic variation of transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex

Nature - Single-cell transcriptomic, morphological and electrophysiological characteristics are combined to classify more than 1,300 neurons from mouse motor cortex.