- February 19, 2024
Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
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Nuclear morphology is shaped by loop-extrusion programs
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A DNA clutch controls a golden nanomachine
Microscopic motors can be carefully controlled thanks to the inclusion of programmable DNA strands1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get
Daily briefing: ‘More nutty and harder’
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Ultrafast, nanoscale control of electrical currents using light
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The mysteries of seaweeds and stars, and other reads: Books in brief
Starborn Roberto Trotta Basic (2023) A chance observation of a meteor “draping the shoulders of Orion in a blazing ribbon”, witnessed by astrophysicist Roberto Trotta
Just 5 women have won a top maths prize in the past 90 years
Maryam Mirzakhani, who died in 2017, was the first woman to win a Fields Medal.Credit: Lee Young-ho/Sipa USA via Alamy On 30 January, mathematician Claire
RNA-editing therapies pick up steam
Tools to edit messenger RNA (artist’s illustration) are touted being as safer and more flexible than the CRISPR–Cas9 system, which changes the genome itself.Credit: Christoph