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# Nature 2020: all accepted papers

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1401. **[How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02558-0)**Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Catherine Richards, Peter Inglesby*23 citations*
1402. **[Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01993-3)**Carrie N. Arnold*23 citations*
1403. **[Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00031-6)**Dalmeet Singh Chawla*23 citations*
1404. **[Wildfires: count lives and homes, not hectares burnt ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02740-4)**Crystal A. Kolden*23 citations*
1405. **[30 years of the iron hypothesis of ice ages ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00393-x)**Heather Marie Stoll*22 citations*
1406. **[A race to determine what drives COVID-19 severity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01915-3)**Marios Koutsakos, Katherine Kedzierska*22 citations*
1407. **[AI will change the world, so it’s time to change AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03412-z)**Tess Posner, Li Fei-Fei*22 citations*
1408. **[An estimation of undetected COVID cases in France ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03513-9)**Jeffrey L. Shaman*22 citations*
1409. **[COVID vaccine confidence requires radical transparency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02738-y)***22 citations*
1410. **[Can aquaculture overcome its sustainability challenges? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03446-3)**Sarah DeWeerdt*22 citations*
1411. **[Coronavirus: global solutions to prevent a pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00457-y)**Charlotte H. Watts, Patrick J. Vallance, C. W. M. Whitty*22 citations*
1412. **[Could COVID delirium bring on dementia? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03360-8)**Carrie N. Arnold*22 citations*
1413. **[Evolutionary trees can’t reveal speciation and extinction rates ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01021-4)**Mark D. Pagel*22 citations*
1414. **[Flipping the switch on the body’s thermoregulatory system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01600-5)**Clifford B. Saper, Natalia Machado*22 citations*
1415. **[Four ways Trump has meddled in pandemic science — and why it matters ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03035-4)**Giuliana A. Viglione*22 citations*
1416. **[Lockdown in Italy: personal stories of doing science during the COVID-19 quarantine ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01001-8)**Marta Paterlini*22 citations*
1417. **[Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02830-3)**Niall P. Hanan, Julius Y. Anchang*22 citations*
1418. **[Smart cities for emergency management ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00523-5)**Hui Liu, Yanfei Li*22 citations*
1419. **[The controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02545-5)**Carrie N. Arnold*22 citations*
1420. **[The researchers taking a gamble with antibody tests for coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01163-5)**Amy Maxmen*22 citations*
1421. **[Why emergency COVID-vaccine approvals pose a dilemma for scientists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03219-y)**David Cyranoski*22 citations*
1422. **[‘It’s like we’re going back 30 years’: how the coronavirus is gutting diversity in science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02288-3)**Chris Woolston*22 citations*
1423. **[China’s research-misconduct rules target ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake studies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02445-8)**Smriti Mallapaty*21 citations*
1424. **[Combine resilience and efficiency in post-COVID societies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03482-z)**Benjamin D. Trump, Igor Linkov, William M. Hynes*21 citations*
1425. **[Coronavirus lockdown: What I learnt when I shut my cancer lab in 48 hours ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00826-7)**Alberto Bardelli*21 citations*
1426. **[Half-minute-scale atomic coherence and high relative stability in a tweezer clock ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3009-y)**Aaron W. Young, William J. Eckner, William R. Milner et al.*21 citations*
1427. **[Nerve agents: from discovery to deterrence ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01910-8)**Leiv K. Sydnes*21 citations*
1428. **[Reply to: Reevaluating bipedalism in Danuvius ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2737-3)**Madelaine Böhme, Nikolaï Spassov, Jeremy M. DeSilva et al.*21 citations*
1429. **[Stop the Wuhan virus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00153-x)***21 citations*
1430. **[The United Nations must get its new biodiversity targets right ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00450-5)***21 citations*
1431. **[Brain’s immune cells put the brakes on neurons ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02713-7)**Thomas Pfeiffer, David Attwell*20 citations*
1432. **[How extracellular vesicles can enhance drug delivery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01769-9)**Amanda B. Keener*20 citations*
1433. **[How we accelerated clinical trials in the age of coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02416-z)**Nicole Mather*20 citations*
1434. **[Millions of students are returning to US universities in a vast unplanned pandemic experiment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02419-w)**Emma Marris*20 citations*
1435. **[Neurodegenerative diseases distinguished through protein-structure analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00131-3)**Juan Gerez, Roland Riek*20 citations*
1436. **[One-way supercurrent achieved in an electrically polar film ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02380-8)**Toshiya Ideue, Yoshihiro Iwasa*20 citations*
1437. **[Quantum computer race intensifies as alternative technology gains steam ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03237-w)**Elizabeth Gibney*20 citations*
1438. **[Scientists fear coronavirus spread in countries least able to contain it ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00405-w)**Smriti Mallapaty*20 citations*
1439. **[Should scientists infect healthy people with the coronavirus to test vaccines? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00927-3)**Ewen Callaway*20 citations*
1440. **[The COVID vaccine challenges that lie ahead ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03334-w)***20 citations*
1441. **[Working Scientist podcast: How to craft and communicate a simple science story ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02117-7)**Pakinam Amer*20 citations*
1442. **[APP gene copy number changes reflect exogenous contamination ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2522-3)**Junho Kim, Boxun Zhao, August Yue Huang et al.*19 citations*
1443. **[Big data and simple models used to track the spread of COVID-19 in cities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02964-4)**Kevin C. Ma, Marc Lipsitch*19 citations*
1444. **[Coronavirus: three things all governments and their science advisers must do now ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00772-4)***19 citations*
1445. **[Defining predatory journals: no peer review, no point ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00911-x)**Leonhard Dobusch, Maximilian Heimstädt, Katja Mayer et al.*19 citations*
1446. **[Facebook needs to share more with researchers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00828-5)**Simon Hegelich*19 citations*
1447. **[Ghostly metabolic messages from dying cells ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00641-0)**Douglas R. Green*19 citations*
1448. **[How blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00895-8)**Amy Maxmen*19 citations*
1449. **[Meet the scientists investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03402-1)**Smriti Mallapaty*19 citations*
1450. **[Open-access Plan S to allow publishing in any journal ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02134-6)**Richard Van Noorden*19 citations*
1451. **[Oxford COVID-vaccine paper highlights lingering unknowns about results ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03504-w)**Heidi K. Ledford*19 citations*
1452. **[Publishers: let transgender scholars correct their names ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02145-3)**Theresa Jean Tanenbaum*19 citations*
1453. **[Reproducibility: bypass animals for antibody production ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01474-7)**Alison C. Gray, Andrew M. Bradbury, Stefan Dübel et al.*19 citations*
1454. **[Scientists fear that ‘covidization’ is distorting research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03388-w)**David Adam*19 citations*
1455. **[Therapeutic microbes to tackle disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00201-6)**Claire Ainsworth*19 citations*
1456. **[Will a test to detect early pancreatic cancer ever be possible? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00846-3)**Eric Bender*19 citations*
1457. **[A conceptual advance that gives microrobots legs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02421-2)**Allan M. Brooks, Michael S. Strano*18 citations*
1458. **[Are we ready for a new era of high-impact and high-frequency epidemics? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01079-0)**Peng Jia, Shujuan Yang*18 citations*
1459. **[Brain–spleen connection aids antibody production ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01168-0)**Flurin Cathomas, Scott J. Russo*18 citations*
1460. **[COVID-19 vaccines: time to talk about the uncertainties ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02944-8)**Kanta Subbarao*18 citations*
1461. **[Calcium channel in plants helps shut the door on intruders ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02504-0)**Keiko Yoshioka, Wolfgang Moeder*18 citations*
1462. **[Carbon dioxide loss from tropical soils increases on warming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02266-9)**Eric A. Davidson*18 citations*
1463. **[Forty years of ice-core records of CO2 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00809-8)**Jean‐Robert Petit, Dominique Raynaud*18 citations*
1464. **[How COVID-19 could ruin weather forecasts and climate records ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00924-6)**Giuliana A. Viglione*18 citations*
1465. **[How to write a superb literature review ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03422-x)**Andy Kah Ping Tay*18 citations*
1466. **[India expands use of controversial drug for coronavirus despite safety concerns ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01619-8)**Priyanka Pulla*18 citations*
1467. **[Neutrophil ‘safety net’ causes cancer cells to metastasize and proliferate ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01672-3)**Emma Nolan, Ilaria Malanchi*18 citations*
1468. **[New lung-cancer drugs extend survival times ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03154-y)**Michael S. Eisenstein*18 citations*
1469. **[Our best weapons against cancer are not magic bullets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00116-2)**Vinay K. Prasad*18 citations*
1470. **[Precision oncology ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02673-y)**Richard Hodson*18 citations*
1471. **[Reactivation of latent HIV moves shock-and-kill treatments forward ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00010-x)**Mathias D. Lichterfeld*18 citations*
1472. **[Reply to: Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2804-9)**Timothy D. Clark, Graham D. Raby, Dominique G. Roche et al.*18 citations*
1473. **[Safely conducting essential research in the face of COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01027-y)**Virginia L. Gewin*18 citations*
1474. **[The Himalaya should be a nature reserve ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01809-4)**Maharaj K. Pandit*18 citations*
1475. **[The next chapter for African genomics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00454-1)**Amy Maxmen*18 citations*
1476. **[The pandemic mixed up what scientists study – and some won’t go back ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01525-z)**Elizabeth Gibney*18 citations*
1477. **[What to do when your grant is rejected ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00455-0)**James Mitchell Crow*18 citations*
1478. **[A blue ring nebula from a stellar merger several thousand years ago ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2893-5)**Keri L. Hoadley, D. Christopher Martin, Brian D. Metzger et al.*17 citations*
1479. **[A dendritic cell multitasks to tackle cancer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02339-9)**Marianne Burbage, Sebastián Amigorena*17 citations*
1480. **[China’s massive effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scientists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01984-4)**David Cyranoski*17 citations*
1481. **[Identifying gut microbes that affect human health ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03069-8)**Sigal Leviatan, Eran Segal*17 citations*
1482. **[Mature forest shows little increase in carbon uptake in a CO2-enriched atmosphere ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00962-0)**Yiqi Luo, Shuli Niu*17 citations*
1483. **[Mentoring during the COVID-19 pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01028-x)**Ruth Gotian*17 citations*
1484. **[Predatory journals: evolution keeps them under the radar ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00910-y)**Fahmi H. Kakamad, Abdulwahid Mohammed Salih, Shvan Hussein Mohammed*17 citations*
1485. **[Tens of thousands of scientists are redeploying to fight coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00905-9)**Giuliana A. Viglione*17 citations*
1486. **[Tired of science being ignored? Get political ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02854-9)**Mary Travis Bassett*17 citations*
1487. **[Tumour metabolites hinder DNA repair ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01569-1)**Leilei Chen, Yue Xiong*17 citations*
1488. **[Unexpected emission pattern adds to the enigma of fast radio bursts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01713-x)**Bing Zhang*17 citations*
1489. **[White men still dominate in UK academic science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00759-1)**Chris Woolston*17 citations*
1490. **[‘The epidemic is growing very rapidly’: Indian government adviser fears coronavirus crisis will worsen ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01865-w)**Priyanka Pulla*17 citations*
1491. **[Astronauts have conducted nearly 3,000 science experiments aboard the ISS ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03085-8)**Alexandra Witze*16 citations*
1492. **[Closing the gender gap in migraine research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02867-4)**Michael S. Eisenstein*16 citations*
1493. **[Coronavirus drugs trials must get bigger and more collaborative ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01391-9)***16 citations*
1494. **[How anti-ageing drugs could boost COVID vaccines in older people ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02856-7)**Cassandra Willyard*16 citations*
1495. **[Human activities have changed the shapes of river deltas ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00047-y)**Nick van de Giesen*16 citations*
1496. **[Matter–antimatter symmetry violated ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01000-9)**Silvia Pascoli, Jessica Turner*16 citations*
1497. **[Mitochondrial distress call moves to the cytosol to trigger a response to stress ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00552-0)**Bradford P. Tremblay, Cole M. Haynes*16 citations*
1498. **[Paris taught me how to do what is necessary to combat climate change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00112-6)**Christiana Figueres*16 citations*
1499. **[Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1988-3)**Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim et al.*16 citations*
1500. **[Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02029-6)**Chris Woolston*16 citations*

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