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Nature, Published online: 17 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00130-4But scientists see chance to control invasive species and study ecosystem disruption.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00127-zBiologists say they need clearer guidelines on funding rules for this nascent field.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00138-w300 million years of Earth’s history in breathtaking detail, the extent of “spooky action at a distance” might be unknowable and how economic ideas untethered by evidence manage to…

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00123-3‘Asgard archaea’ isolated from deep-sea sediment and painstakingly grown over 12 years. Plus: a damning survey of scientific careers and a proposal for a Human Screenome Project.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00120-6Proof at the nexus of pure mathematics and algorithms puts ‘quantum weirdness’ on a whole new level.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1954-0Structure of the M2 muscarinic receptor–β-arrestin complex in a lipid nanodisc

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00099-0A four-satellite network takes advantage of forces that would hamper other spacecraft.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00100-wThe toxoplasmosis parasite can hide in a person’s organs after infection and re-emerge years later.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1953-1Structure of the neurotensin receptor 1 in complex with β-arrestin 1

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00117-1Palaeontologists have charted 300 million years of Earth’s history in breathtaking detail.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00093-6The reintroduction of ruminant herbivores to a national park in Mozambique has controlled the encroachment of a notoriously invasive plant species.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00121-5Carbon-14 dating reveals that an ‘antique’ Scotch is roughly 150 years younger than claimed.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00098-1Restoration and strict controls help a saltwater marsh in China to absorb greenhouse gases.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00083-8Young wolves’ enthusiasm for retrieving toys hints at an ability to read cues from humans.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00088-3The latest science news, in brief.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00107-3The last stand of wild Wollemia nobilis trees was protected by a secret firefighting mission. Plus: human body temperature is dropping and the anti-CRISPR proteins that put the brakes on…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1901-0The nonlinearity of hopping conduction in a disordered network of boron dopant atoms in silicon is used to perform nonlinear classification and feature extraction.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1894-8Understanding the dynamics between bacteria and bacteriophages could enable the development of phage-based therapies and biotechnological tools and provide insights into the ecology and…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1899-3Heteroepitaxy is used to precisely control the growth of Mn3O4 shells on the faces of a Co3O4 nanocube crystal, producing uniform grain boundary defects and highly ordered multigrain…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00101-9Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00002-xThe fundamental machine-learning task of classification can be difficult to achieve directly in ordinary computing hardware. Unconventional silicon-based electrical circuits can be…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1883-yThe Galactic Centre is orbited by two objects that look like gas and dust clouds but behave more like stars, and now four additional similar objects are reported.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1937-1Synthesis of rare sugar isomers through site-selective epimerization

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1912-xIn a mouse model of glioblastoma, treatment with VEGF-C increases lymphatic drainage in the central nervous system and improves the immune response, suggesting that modulating meningeal…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1893-9Directional solidification of a simple AgCl-KCl lamellar eutectic material is modified by the presence of a pillar template, leading to disordered, trefoil, quatrefoil, cinquefoil and…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1886-8The semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6 is used for the direct detection of thermal neutrons at room temperature, demonstrating good energy resolution.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1918-4Inhibitor pairs that suppress the crystallization of haematin, which is a part of malaria parasites’ physiology, show unexpected antagonism due to attenuation of step pinning by kink…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00032-5To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on our screens.

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1924-6Analyses of single-cell recordings from mouse ventral tegmental area are consistent with a model of reinforcement learning in which the brain represents possible future rewards not as a…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00084-7The United States is no longer the ‘uncontested leader’ in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.