4/16/2024

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc.) April 8-14

Nature 

[1] Mid-ocean ridge unfaulting revealed by magmatic intrusions

Jean-Arthur Olive, Göran Ekström, W. Roger Buck, Zhonglan Liu, Javier Escartín & Manon Bickert

[2] Survival of the nicest: have we got evolution the wrong way round? (Book Review))

Jonathan R. Goodman

[3] How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science (Nature Careers Podcast)

Julie Gould

[4] Ready or not, AI is coming to science education — and students have opinions

Sarah Wells

[5] The rise of eco-anxiety: scientists wake up to the mental-health toll of climate change

Helen Pearson

[6] Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds (Obituary)

Andrew Whiten

[7] Peter Higgs: science mourns giant of particle physics

Davide Castelvecchi


Science

[8] The scientific importance of the lunar environment

KATHLEEN E. MANDT

[9] Teach philosophy of science

H. HOLDEN THORP

[10] Clearer skies may be accelerating global warming

PAUL VOOSEN

[11] Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga

TYLER H. COALE, VALENTINA LOCONTE, KENDRA A. TURK-KUBO, BIEKE VANSLEMBROUCK, WING KWAN ESTHER MAK, SHUNYAN CHEUNG, AXEL EKMAN, JIAN-HUA CHEN, KYOKO HAGINO, YOSHIHITO TAKANO, TOMOHIRO NISHIMURA, MASAO ADACHI, MARK LE GROS, CAROLYN LARABELL, AND JONATHAN P. ZEHR

[12] US agency obstructs LGBTQ+ equity in science

JONATHAN B. FREEMAN

[13] Size, distribution, and vulnerability of the global soil inorganic carbon

YUANYUAN HUANG , XIAODONG SONG, YING-PING WANG, JOSEP G. CANADELL, YIQI LUO, PHILIPPE CIAIS, ANPING CHEN, SONGBAI HONG, YUGANG WANG, FENG TAO, WEI LI, YIMING XU, REZA MIRZAEITALARPOSHTI, HEBA ELBASIOUNY, IGOR SAVIN, DMITRY SHCHEPASHCHENKO, RAPHAEL A. VISCARRA ROSSEL, DANIEL S. GOLL, JINFENG CHANG, BENJAMIN Z. HOULTON, HUAYONG WU, FEI YANG, XIAOMING FENG, YONGZHE CHEN, YU LIU, SHULI NIU, AND GAN-LIN ZHANG

[14] I was a lonely Ph.D. student—until I learned to build community at work

DEQUN TENG

[15] A magnetic massive star has experienced a stellar merger

A. J. FROST, H. SANA, L. MAHY, G. WADE, J. BARRON, J.-B. LE BOUQUIN, A. MÉRAND, F. R. N. SCHNEIDER, T. SHENAR, R. H. BARBÁ, D. M. BOWMAN, M. FABRY, A. FARHANG, P. MARCHANT, N. I. MORRELL, AND J. V. SMOKER

[16] Brightest gamma ray burst of all time emerged from collapsing star

DANIEL CLERY


PNAS

[17] The dawn of the tropical Atlantic invasion into the Mediterranean Sea

Paolo G. Albano, Lotta Schultz, Johannes Wessely, Marco Taviani, Stefan Dullinger, and Silvia Danise

[18] The wooden artifacts from Schöningen’s Spear Horizon and their place in human evolution

Dirk Leder, Jens Lehmann, Annemieke Milks, Tim Koddenberg, Michael Sietz, Matthias Vogel, Utz Böhner, and Thomas Terberger

[19] Spatial spillovers of violent conflict amplify the impacts of climate variability on malaria risk in sub-Saharan Africa

Qiwei Yu, Ying Qu, Liqiang Zhang, Xin Yao, Jing Yang, Siyuan Chen, Hui Liu, Qihao Wang, Mengfan Wu, Junpei Tao, Chenghu Zhou, Isiaka Lukman Alage, and Suhong Liu

[20] Cyclone Jasper’s rains in the context of climate change

Kerry Emanuel

[21] Soil moisture decline in China’s monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

Yunqiang Wang, Wei Hu, Hui Sun, Yali Zhao et al.

[22] Complex deep-sea expeditions try to size up seabed mining impacts

Natasha Gilbert

[23] The length and spacing of river tributaries

Michael J. Robinson and Joel S. Scheingross


Geology

N/A


Nature Geoscience

[24] Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean

Kaushal Gianchandani, Itay Halevy, Hezi Gildor, Yosef Ashkenazy & Eli Tziperman

[25] Anthropogenic impacts on mud and organic carbon cycling

Thomas S. Bianchi, Lawrence M. Mayer, Joao H. F. Amaral, Sandra Arndt, Valier Galy, David B. Kemp, Steven A. Kuehl, Nicholas J. Murray & Pierre Regnier

[26] Crustal carbonate build-up as a driver for Earth’s oxygenation

Lewis J. Alcott, Craig Walton, Noah J. Planavsky, Oliver Shorttle & Benjamin J. W. Mills


Nature Communications

N/A


Nature Climate Change

[27] Climate change-driven cooling can kill marine megafauna at their distributional limits

Lubitz, N., Daly, R., Smoothey, A.F. et al.

[28] Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes

Carolina Bello, Thomas W. Crowther, Danielle Leal Ramos, Teresa Morán-López, Marco A. Pizo & Daisy H. Dent

[29] Western North Pacific tropical cyclone activity modulated by phytoplankton feedback under global warming

Han-Kyoung Kim, Jong-Yeon Park, Doo-Sun R. Park, Jong-Seong Kug, Sang-Wook Yeh & Jun-Hyeok Son

[30] Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming

Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Christoph Kittel, Daniel Farinotti, Stef Lhermitte, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Katherine Helen Joy & Frank Pattyn 


Scientific Reports

N/A


Science Advances

[31] Mixed diets can meet nutrient requirements with lower carbon footprints

YIN LONG, LIQIAO HUANG, JIE SU, YOSHIKUNI YOSHIDA, KUISHUANG FENG, AND ALEXANDROS GASPARATOS

[32] Evolution of groundwater system in the Pearl River Delta and its adjacent shelf since the late Pleistocene

CHONG SHENG, JIU JIMMY JIAO, JINPENG ZHANG, YANTAO YAO, XIN LUO, SHENGCHAO YU, YUGEN NI, SHIDONG WANG, RONG MAO, TAO YANG, AND LINSEN ZHA