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# Nature 2020: all accepted papers

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1201. **[Why Beirut’s ammonium nitrate blast was so devastating ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02361-x)**Giorgia Guglielmi*49 citations*
1202. **[A brainstem peptide system activated at birth protects postnatal breathing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2991-4)**Yingtang Shi, Daniel S. Stornetta, Robert Reklow et al.*48 citations*
1203. **[Coronavirus vaccines: five key questions as trials begin ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00798-8)**Ewen Callaway*48 citations*
1204. **[Detection of metastable electronic states by Penning trap mass spectrometry ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2221-0)**Rima X. Schüssler, H. Bekker, M. Braß et al.*48 citations*
1205. **[High sensitivity of tropical precipitation to local sea surface temperature ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2887-3)**Peter Good, Robin S. Chadwick, Christopher E. Holloway et al.*48 citations*
1206. **[How do children spread the coronavirus? The science still isn’t clear ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01354-0)**Smriti Mallapaty*48 citations*
1207. **[How scientists can stop fooling themselves over statistics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02275-8)**Dorothy Bishop*48 citations*
1208. **[Revealed: two men in China were first to receive pioneering stem-cell treatment for heart disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01285-w)**Smriti Mallapaty*48 citations*
1209. **[Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00272-5)**Sara Reardon*48 citations*
1210. **[Deep learning takes on tumours ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01128-8)**Esther Wei-Yun Landhuis*47 citations*
1211. **[The best time to argue about what a replication means? Before you do it ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02142-6)**Brian A. Nosek, Timothy M. Errington*47 citations*
1212. **[What can you do to make your lab greener? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01368-8)**Jyoti Madhusoodanan*47 citations*
1213. **[An orbital water-ice cycle on comet 67P from colour changes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1960-2)**G. Filacchione, F. Capaccioni, M. Ciarniello et al.*46 citations*
1214. **[Dozens to be deliberately infected with coronavirus in UK ‘human challenge’ trials ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02821-4)**Ewen Callaway*46 citations*
1215. **[Fluorescent bicolour sensor for low-background neutrinoless double β decay experiments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2431-5)**Iván Rivilla, Borja Aparicio, Juan M. Bueno et al.*46 citations*
1216. **[Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01363-z)**Helen Shen*46 citations*
1217. **[Phase and context shape the function of composite oncogenic mutations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2315-8)**Alexander N. Gorelick, Francisco J. Sánchez Rivera, Yanyan Cai et al.*46 citations*
1218. **[Revealing enigmatic mucus structures in the deep sea using DeepPIV ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2345-2)**Kakani Katija, Giancarlo Troni, Joost Daniels et al.*46 citations*
1219. **[Speaking truth to power about the SDGs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02373-7)**Jeffrey Sachs, Guido Schmidt‐Traub, Guillaume Lafortune*46 citations*
1220. **[Transformation of naked mole-rat cells ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2410-x)**Fazal Hadi, Yavuz Kulaberoglu, Kyren A. Lazarus et al.*46 citations*
1221. **[COVID-19 mental-health responses neglect social realities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01313-9)**Rochelle A. Burgess*45 citations*
1222. **[How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01747-1)**Heidi K. Ledford*45 citations*
1223. **[How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03461-4)**Michael Marshall*45 citations*
1224. **[Labs rush to study coronavirus in transgenic animals — some are in short supply ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00698-x)**Ewen Callaway*45 citations*
1225. **[The outbreak that invented intensive care ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01019-y)**Hannah Wunsch*45 citations*
1226. **[The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00173-7)**Nicky Phillips, Bianca Nogrady*45 citations*
1227. **[When antibodies mislead: the quest for validation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02549-1)**Monya Baker*45 citations*
1228. **[China: clamp down on violations of wildlife trade ban ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00378-w)**Zhao-Min Zhou, Christina Dagmar Buesching, David Whyte Macdonald et al.*44 citations*
1229. **[Early climate models successfully predicted global warming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00243-w)**Jennifer E. Kay*44 citations*
1230. **[How China is getting its farmers to kick their antibiotics habit ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02889-y)**Kevin Schoenmakers*44 citations*
1231. **[Late Cretaceous bird from Madagascar reveals unique development of beaks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2945-x)**Patrick M. O’Connor, Alan H. Turner, Joseph Groenke et al.*44 citations*
1232. **[Redesign open science for Asia, Africa and Latin America ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03052-3)**Sandersan Onie*44 citations*
1233. **[What Pfizer’s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03166-8)**Ewen Callaway*44 citations*
1234. **[A measure of the size of the magnetospheric accretion region in TW Hydrae ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2613-1)**R. Garcia Lopez, A. Natta, A. Caratti o Garatti et al.*43 citations*
1235. **[Heat detection by the TRPM2 ion channel ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2510-7)**Bruno Vilar, Chun‐Hsiang Tan, Peter Anthony McNaughton*43 citations*
1236. **[Structure and function of virion RNA polymerase of a crAss-like phage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2921-5)**Arina V. Drobysheva, Софья Андреевна Панафидина, Matvey V. Kolesnik et al.*43 citations*
1237. **[Why snakes probably aren’t spreading the new China virus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00180-8)**Ewen Callaway, David Cyranoski*43 citations*
1238. **[Addendum: International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2679-9)**Scott Mayer McKinney, Marcin Sieniek, Varun Godbole et al.*42 citations*
1239. **[How DIY technologies are democratizing science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03193-5)**Sandeep Ravindran*42 citations*
1240. **[Neuroimaging results altered by varying analysis pipelines ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01282-z)**Martin A. Lindquist*42 citations*
1241. **[The skin microbiome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03523-7)**Michael S. Eisenstein*42 citations*
1242. **[The software that powers scientific illustration ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01404-7)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*42 citations*
1243. **[How #BlackInTheIvory put a spotlight on racism in academia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01741-7)**Nidhi Subbaraman*41 citations*
1244. **[How obesity could create problems for a COVID vaccine ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02946-6)**Heidi K. Ledford*41 citations*
1245. **[Pairing of segmentation clock genes drives robust pattern formation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03055-0)**Oriana Q. H. Zinani, Kemal Keseroǧlu, Ahmet Ali Ay et al.*41 citations*
1246. **[Pandemic researchers — recruit your own best critics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01392-8)**Daniël Lakens*41 citations*
1247. **[Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2532-1)**Heidi N. Becker, James W. Alexander, S. K. Atreya et al.*41 citations*
1248. **[Why schools probably aren’t COVID hotspots ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02973-3)**Dyani Lewis*41 citations*
1249. **[AI weighs in on debate about universal facial expressions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03509-5)**Lisa Feldman Barrett*40 citations*
1250. **[Antibody tests suggest that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01095-0)**Smriti Mallapaty*40 citations*
1251. **[China coronavirus: how many papers have been published? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00253-8)**Emma Stoye*40 citations*
1252. **[Ice front blocking of ocean heat transport to an Antarctic ice shelf ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2014-5)**Anna K. Wåhlin, Nadine Steiger, Elin Darelius et al.*40 citations*
1253. **[Separase-triggered apoptosis enforces minimal length of mitosis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2187-y)**Susanne Hellmuth, Olaf Stemmann*40 citations*
1254. **[The Amazon: biofuels plan will drive deforestation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00005-8)**Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside*40 citations*
1255. **[Uncertain prospects for postdoctoral researchers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03381-3)**Chris Woolston*40 citations*
1256. **[‘Apocalyptic’ fires are ravaging the world’s largest tropical wetland ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02716-4)**Emiliano Rodríguez Mega*40 citations*
1257. **[COVID and 2020: An extraordinary year for science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03437-4)**Ewen Callaway, Heidi K. Ledford, Giuliana A. Viglione et al.*39 citations*
1258. **[COVID-19 poses a riddle for the immune system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02379-1)**Stanley M. Perlman*39 citations*
1259. **[Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya face devastating drought ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02698-3)**Chris C. Funk*39 citations*
1260. **[How coronavirus lockdowns stopped flu in its tracks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01538-8)**Nicola Jones*39 citations*
1261. **[National COVID numbers — Benford’s law looks for errors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01565-5)**Malcolm S. Sambridge, Andrew Jackson*39 citations*
1262. **[Why scientists are turning to Rust ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03382-2)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*39 citations*
1263. **[COVID-vaccine results are on the way — and scientists’ concerns are growing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02706-6)**Smriti Mallapaty, Heidi K. Ledford*38 citations*
1264. **[Can lab-grown brains become conscious? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02986-y)**Sara Reardon*38 citations*
1265. **[Chloroquine hype is derailing the search for coronavirus treatments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01165-3)**Heidi K. Ledford*38 citations*
1266. **[Confusion over Europe’s data-protection law is stalling scientific progress ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02454-7)**Robert B. Eiss*38 citations*
1267. **[Evolution of the endothelin pathway drove neural crest cell diversification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2720-z)**Tyler A. Square, Dávid Jandzík, James L. Massey et al.*38 citations*
1268. **[How COVID-19 lockdowns could lead to a kinder research culture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01144-8)**Gemma Derrick*38 citations*
1269. **[How the coronavirus pandemic slashed carbon emissions — in five graphs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01497-0)**Jeff Tollefson*38 citations*
1270. **[Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01393-7)**Joshua Evan Blumenstock*38 citations*
1271. **[Mirror-symmetry violation in bound nuclear ground states ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2123-1)**Daniel E.M. Hoff, Andrew M. Rogers, S. M. Wang et al.*38 citations*
1272. **[Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00018-3)**Jo Marchant*38 citations*
1273. **[Animal source of the coronavirus continues to elude scientists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01449-8)**Smriti Mallapaty*37 citations*
1274. **[Climate change: making decisions in the face of deep uncertainty ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01147-5)**Judy Lawrence, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Robert J. Lempert*37 citations*
1275. **[The biggest mystery: what it will take to trace the coronavirus source ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01541-z)**David Cyranoski*37 citations*
1276. **[The busy lives of academics have hidden costs — and universities must take better care of their faculty members ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00661-w)**Hilal Ahmed Lashuel*37 citations*
1277. **[‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00938-0)**David Cyranoski*37 citations*
1278. **[Coronavirus vaccine trials have delivered their first results — but their promise is still unclear ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01092-3)**Ewen Callaway*36 citations*
1279. **[Coronavirus: why a permanent ban on wildlife trade might not work in China ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00377-x)**Joana Ribeiro, Pedro Bingre, Diederik Strubbe et al.*36 citations*
1280. **[Highly cited researcher banned from journal board for citation abuse ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00335-7)**Richard Van Noorden*36 citations*
1281. **[How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02949-3)**Kendall Powell, Ruth Terry, Sophia Chen*36 citations*
1282. **[Learning to love virtual conferences in the coronavirus era ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01489-0)**Chris Woolston*36 citations*
1283. **[The complex relationship between drugs and the microbiome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00196-0)**Neil Savage*36 citations*
1284. **[Get the Sustainable Development Goals back on track ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03907-4)***35 citations*
1285. **[How research funders are tackling coronavirus disruption ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01120-2)**Emma Stoye*35 citations*
1286. **[Antibody therapies could be a bridge to a coronavirus vaccine — but will the world benefit? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02360-y)**Heidi K. Ledford*34 citations*
1287. **[Diversity in science: next steps for research group leaders ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02681-y)**Nikki Forrester*34 citations*
1288. **[Fighting cancer with microbes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00199-x)**Elie Dolgin*34 citations*
1289. **[How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00794-y)**Alexandra Witze*34 citations*
1290. **[In vivo quantification of mitochondrial membrane potential ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2366-x)**Nathaniel M. Alpert, Matthieu Pelletier‐Galarneau, Yoann Petibon et al.*34 citations*
1291. **[Myanmar: palaeontologists must stop buying conflict amber ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02432-z)**Michael S. Engel*34 citations*
1292. **[Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00904-w)**Alexandra Witze*34 citations*
1293. **[Stress, anxiety, harassment: huge survey reveals pressures of scientists’ working lives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00101-9)**Alison Abbott*34 citations*
1294. **[Study the role of hubris in nations’ COVID-19 response ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02596-8)**Martha L. Lincoln*34 citations*
1295. **[What the data say about border closures and COVID spread ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03605-6)**Smriti Mallapaty*34 citations*
1296. **[Who gets a COVID vaccine first? Access plans are taking shape ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02684-9)**Nidhi Subbaraman*34 citations*
1297. **[COVID-19: review Indigenous peoples’ data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01032-1)**Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo*33 citations*
1298. **[Shared yet dissociable neural codes across eye gaze, valence and expectation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2740-8)**Raviv Pryluk, Yosef Shohat, Anna Morozov et al.*33 citations*
1299. **[Systemic racism: science must listen, learn and change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01678-x)***33 citations*
1300. **[The sprint to solve coronavirus protein structures — and disarm them with drugs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01444-z)**Megan Scudellari*33 citations*

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