Press releases

A fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings has been discovered in northeastern China. The specimen bridges a critical gap in the transition from dinosaurs to birds, and reveals new insights into the origin evolution of feathers.

Nature Communications will publish high-quality peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences, and will be the first online-only Nature-branded journal

Summaries of newsworthy papers include A safe space for humanity, El Niño in a warmer world, Speeding on thinning ice, White dwarf’s slow spin is not just skin-deep, Direct RNA sequencing, Quantifying the carbon cycle, Bell’s inequality violated in solid-state system, Irreversible evolution

In Nature China this week: Researchers in Shanghai have identified a protein that not only detects invading viruses but also helps remove infectious bacteria

Press Release - Japanese researchers have unlocked the secret to ABA, a single plant hormone which play a key role to developing stress resistant crops.

A neuroscience research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Chinese Academy of Science has led to the discovery of the novelty detection mechanism in the gateway to the cerebral cortex.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals - Genetics: Variants in prostate cancer, Medicine: Losing weight without too much energy, Geoscience: Deltas in decline, Chemical Biology: HCV lost in translation, Cell Biology: Stopping Listeria spread and Neuroscience: While you were sleeping.

A high-resolution spectrometer to unravel the secrets of nuclear structure

Peiyan Wong Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Several regions of the primate brain’s prefrontal cortex have distinct functions in high-level cognitive tasks

Unusual behavior in an exotic isotope of neon challenges the traditional foundations of nuclear physics

The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) Director General (DG), Dato’ Dr Abd. Latif Mohmod, led a delegation of 11 management staff to Sungai Buloh Hospital on 11 September 2009 to bring cheers to the young patients.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature Research Journals including: Genetics: Hepatitis C treatment response, Climate: Understanding the Antarctic transition, Geoscience: Well-behaved geomagnetic field and Neuroscience: Itching to quit

The 12th summer program at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI)

Hybrid mice help researchers zoom in on a gene with a potential role in controlling allergic responses

Imaging electron movements that cause chemical reactions is now possible by using high-speed lasers

Researchers in Malaysia have identified key laboratory and clinical features of an emerging new form of malaria infection.

Summaries of newsworthy papers An ocean of magma, Symptomless deer produce infectious faeces, The rise of oxygen, Data sharing, Source-sink mechanism aids embryonic patterning, Ultrathin catalysts made to order and Save our spuds!

Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines.

According to an independent survey on the worldwide research productivity in production and operations management over half a century, Prof. Edwin Cheng of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has emerged as the most productive author in the field...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will confer Honorary Doctorates upon Dr Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, Dr Stefano Marzano, Professor Robert A. Mundell, Professor Poon Chung-kwong and Dr Samuel Yin Yen-liang in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions at its 15th Congregation...

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature Research Journals: Channels for stroke treatment, Holding off HIV, Driving down ozone, Ten thousand embryos - and counting, Black burial and Genetics: Susceptibility to ALS

PRESS RELEASE - RIKEN Plant Science Center marks a major step forward in plant cell growth

INTERVIEW - Conversation between Ryoji Noyori and Susumu Tonegawa. At the inauguration of the new director of the Brain Science Institute

Hierarchical networks of transcription factors maintain self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells

OPINION/ COMMENTARY - When reflecting on the passing of Jackson, one cannot help thinking of other public cultural figures whose personal integrity and astounding talent helped paved the way for America’s “crossover” in the election of Barack Obama as president.

OPINION/ COMMENTARY - The ceremony to celebrate the completion of restoration work on the northern library at Bayon was to be held on September 29, 1999. This work was the result of the first phase of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor (JSA)’s commitment.

In recent years, environmental and energy issues have been a primary focus in the automotive field, and there has been an increasingly strong public demand for cleaner ICEVs (Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle) and for the development of alternative automobiles.

The COOLBIZ campaign has had a very positive effect on Japanese people, as psychological resistance and social barriers to informal dress have been removed, and as each individual has been encouraged to consider saving energy.

OPINION/ COMMENTARY - With the end of the rainy season, I have high hopes for good weather in the Tukhuar Islands and the Bonin Islands, which are expected to have views of a total eclipse of the sun.