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Searching for the rules that govern hadron construction
Just as quantum electrodynamics describes how electrons are bound in atoms by the electromagnetic force, mediated by the exchange of photons, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) describes how quarks are bound inside hadrons by the strong force, mediated by the exchange of gluons. QCD seems to allow hadrons constructed from increasingly many quarks to exist, just as atoms with increasing numbers of electrons exist, yet such...
An Amazon shopping spree, courtesy of Apple: How the $400M e-book settlement works
Apple this week started paying out a $ 400 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit for e-book price fixing, and you might get some free stuff out of it.
Eligible customers — people who bought an e-book published by Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books or...
H4K20me0 marks post-replicative chromatin and recruits the TONSL–MMS22L DNA repair complex
After DNA replication, chromosomal processes including DNA repair and transcription take place in the context of sister chromatids. While cell cycle regulation can guide these processes globally, mechanisms to distinguish pre- and post-replicative states locally remain unknown. Here we reveal that new histones incorporated during DNA replication provide a signature of post-replicative chromatin, read by the human TONSL–MMS22L homologous recombination complex. We identify the TONSL...
NASA picks Firmamentum to build a 3-D printer/recycler that works in space
Firmamentum, a division of Tethers Unlimited Inc. in...
Mitochondrial unfolded protein response controls matrix pre-RNA processing and translation
The mitochondrial matrix is unique in that it must integrate the folding and assembly of proteins derived from the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) senses matrix protein misfolding and induces a program of nuclear gene expression, including mitochondrial chaperonins, to promote mitochondrial proteostasis. While misfolded mitochondrial-matrix-localized ornithine transcarbamylase induces chaperonin expression, our understanding of mammalian UPRmt...
Seattle’s tunnel machine Bertha reaches pit stop; workers face hyperbaric challenge 120 feet down
Particle physics: Quantum simulation of fundamental physics
Gauge theories underpin the standard model of particle physics, but are difficult to study using conventional computational methods. An experimental quantum system opens up fresh avenues of investigation. See Letter p.516
Nature 534 480 doi: 10.1038/534480a
World View pivots from stratospheric tourism to ‘Stratollites’ lofted by balloons
World View Enterprises made a splash with its plans to send...
Structural basis of potent Zika–dengue virus antibody cross-neutralization
Zika virus is a member of the flavivirus genus that had not been associated with severe disease in humans until the recent outbreaks, when it was linked to microcephaly in newborns in Brazil and to Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults in French Polynesia. Zika virus is related to dengue virus, and we report here that a category of antibodies isolated from dengue patients and targeting...