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# Nature 2020: all accepted papers

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1501. **[Smallpox and other viruses plagued humans much earlier than suspected ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02083-0)**Laura Spinney*16 citations*
1502. **[Species that can make us ill thrive in human habitats ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02189-5)**Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing*16 citations*
1503. **[Strong chemical reducing agents produced by light ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00872-1)**Radek Cibulka*16 citations*
1504. **[The artist who co-authored a paper and expanded my professional network ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00575-7)**Matthias C. Rillig, Karine Bonneval*16 citations*
1505. **[The future of tissue-agnostic drugs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02679-6)**Julianna Photopoulos*16 citations*
1506. **[The pros and cons of screening ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00841-8)**Natasha Gilbert*16 citations*
1507. **[What’s the risk that animals will spread the coronavirus? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01574-4)**Smriti Mallapaty*16 citations*
1508. **[Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02797-1)***16 citations*
1509. **[Why a landmark treaty to stop ocean biopiracy could stymie research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00912-w)**Olive Heffernan*16 citations*
1510. **[150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2858-8)**Chris Venditti, Joanna Baker, Michael J. Benton et al.*15 citations*
1511. **[CRISPR gene therapy shows promise against blood diseases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03476-x)**Heidi K. Ledford*15 citations*
1512. **[Coronavirus in context: Scite.ai tracks positive and negative citations for COVID-19 literature ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01324-6)**Roxanne Khamsi*15 citations*
1513. **[Coronavirus: everyone wins when patents are pooled ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01441-2)***15 citations*
1514. **[Diabolical ironclad beetles inspire tougher joints for engineering applications ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02840-1)**Po-Yu Chen*15 citations*
1515. **[How health research will support China’s ageing population ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00279-y)**Sarah O’Meara*15 citations*
1516. **[How to address the coronavirus’s outsized toll on people of colour ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01470-x)**Nidhi Subbaraman*15 citations*
1517. **[How to stop COVID-19 fuelling a resurgence of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02334-0)***15 citations*
1518. **[Imagine a world without hunger, then make it happen with systems thinking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00086-5)***15 citations*
1519. **[Jaw roll and jaw yaw in early mammals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2365-y)**David M. Grossnickle*15 citations*
1520. **[Long COVID: don’t consign ME/CFS to history ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03136-0)**Peter White*15 citations*
1521. **[New class of molecule targets proteins outside cells for degradation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02211-w)**Claire Whitworth, Alessio Ciulli*15 citations*
1522. **[Plug COVID-19 research gaps in detection, prevention and care ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02004-1)**Trudie A. Lang*15 citations*
1523. **[Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3)**Smriti Mallapaty*15 citations*
1524. **[Racism in academia, and why the ‘little things’ matter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02471-6)**Kevin N. Laland*15 citations*
1525. **[Reply to: Heat detection by the TRPM2 ion channel ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2511-6)**Marie Mulier, Ine Vandewauw, Joris Vriens et al.*15 citations*
1526. **[Reply to: The effect of interventions on COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3026-x)**Seth R Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, James Scott et al.*15 citations*
1527. **[Reply to: Transformation of naked mole-rat cells ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2411-9)**Jing Zhao, Xiao Tian, Yabing Zhu et al.*15 citations*
1528. **[Russia aims to revive science after era of stagnation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00753-7)**Quirin Schiermeier*15 citations*
1529. **[Russia announces positive COVID-vaccine results from controversial trial ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03209-0)**Ewen Callaway*15 citations*
1530. **[The kill-switch for CRISPR that could make gene-editing safer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00053-0)**Elie Dolgin*15 citations*
1531. **[University redundancies, furloughs and pay cuts might loom amid the pandemic, survey finds ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02265-w)**Madeline Bodin*15 citations*
1532. **[Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02671-0)**Julie Leask*15 citations*
1533. **[What a Joe Biden presidency would mean for five key science issues ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02786-4)**Amy Maxmen, Nidhi Subbaraman, Jeff Tollefson et al.*15 citations*
1534. **[AI finds microbial signatures in tumours and blood across cancer types ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00637-w)**Nadim J. Ajami, Jennifer Ann Wargo*14 citations*
1535. **[Averting hunger in sub-Saharan Africa requires data and synthesis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02281-w)**Jaron Porciello, Hale Tufan, Jemimah Njuki et al.*14 citations*
1536. **[Boosting South Korea’s basic research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01464-9)**Mark Zastrow*14 citations*
1537. **[COVID vaccines: the world’s medical regulators need access to open data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03458-z)***14 citations*
1538. **[Can dogs smell COVID? Here’s what the science says ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03149-9)**Holly Else*14 citations*
1539. **[Cancer cells stock up in lymph vessels to survive ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02383-5)**Barbara M. Grüner, Sarah‐Maria Fendt*14 citations*
1540. **[China is closing gap with United States on research spending ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00084-7)**Giuliana A. Viglione*14 citations*
1541. **[How fake news about coronavirus became a second pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01409-2)***14 citations*
1542. **[How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00760-8)**Amy Maxmen*14 citations*
1543. **[How to build a genome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00511-9)**Michael S. Eisenstein*14 citations*
1544. **[Method to combat Parkinson’s disease by astrocyte-to-neuron conversion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01817-4)**Ernest Arenas*14 citations*
1545. **[Online learning cannot just be for those who can afford its technology ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02709-3)***14 citations*
1546. **[People will not trust unkind science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00269-0)**Gail Cardew*14 citations*
1547. **[Prioritizing where to restore Earth’s ecosystems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02750-2)**Simon Ferrier*14 citations*
1548. **[Reply to: APP gene copy number changes reflect exogenous contamination ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2523-2)**Ming-Hsiang Lee, Christine S. Liu, Yunjiao Zhu et al.*14 citations*
1549. **[Simulating the pandemic: What COVID forecasters can learn from climate models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03208-1)**David Adam*14 citations*
1550. **[Sputnik moment or budget breaker: How will the pandemic alter research funding? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01519-x)**Nidhi Subbaraman*14 citations*
1551. **[The WHO’s chief scientist on a year of loss and learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03556-y)**Soumya Swaminathan*14 citations*
1552. **[The archaeology of Armageddon ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00510-w)**Andrew Robinson*14 citations*
1553. **[The coronavirus pandemic has forced rapid changes in care protocols for cystic fibrosis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02112-y)**Jane Carolyn Davies*14 citations*
1554. **[‘Avalanche’ of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00287-y)**Giuliana A. Viglione*14 citations*
1555. **[Bacteria-eating viruses could provide a route to stability in cystic fibrosis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02109-7)**Elizabeth Svoboda*13 citations*
1556. **[China set to clamp down permanently on wildlife trade in wake of coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00499-2)**Smriti Mallapaty*13 citations*
1557. **[China’s coronavirus vaccine shows military’s growing role in medical research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02523-x)**Dyani Lewis*13 citations*
1558. **[Countdown to Mars: three daring missions take aim at the red planet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01861-0)**Alexandra Witze, Smriti Mallapaty, Elizabeth Gibney*13 citations*
1559. **[Don’t be a prig in peer review ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02512-0)**Jeff C. Clements*13 citations*
1560. **[Editorial Expression of Concern: Quantized Majorana conductance ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2252-6)**Hao Zhang, Chun-Xiao Liu, Saša Gazibegović et al.*13 citations*
1561. **[From plastic toys to Industry 4.0: How Taiwan is using science to upgrade its manufacturing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00060-1)**Sarah O’Meara*13 citations*
1562. **[Health-care inequality could deepen with precision oncology ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02678-7)**Jyoti Madhusoodanan*13 citations*
1563. **[How to help the free market fight coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00888-7)**Stephen Kevin Burley*13 citations*
1564. **[Inclusive science: ditch insensitive terminology ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01034-z)**Simon Baeckens, Simon P. Blomberg, Richard Shine*13 citations*
1565. **[Is a racially-biased algorithm delaying health care for one million Black people? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03419-6)**Jyoti Madhusoodanan*13 citations*
1566. **[Lung-cancer researchers and clinicians must pay more attention to women ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03151-1)**Narjust Duma*13 citations*
1567. **[Maternal microbes support fetal brain wiring ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02657-y)**Katherine R. Meckel, Drew D. Kiraly*13 citations*
1568. **[Meet the relatives of our cellular ancestor ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00039-y)**Christa Schleper, Filipa L. Sousa*13 citations*
1569. **[More testing alone will not get us out of this pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02495-y)**Shobita Parthasarathy*13 citations*
1570. **[NASA has launched the most ambitious Mars rover ever built: here’s what happens next ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02257-w)**Alexandra Witze*13 citations*
1571. **[Nanostructured alloys light the way to silicon-based photonics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00976-8)**Anna Fontcuberta i Morral*13 citations*
1572. **[Ordered absences observed in porous framework materials ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00329-5)**Adam Jaffe, Jeffrey R. Long*13 citations*
1573. **[Progress report on the coronavirus pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02414-1)***13 citations*
1574. **[Reply to: On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2217-9)**Jifeng Liu, Roberto Soria, Zheng Zheng et al.*13 citations*
1575. **[Safety fears over drug hyped to treat the coronavirus spark global confusion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01599-9)**Heidi K. Ledford*13 citations*
1576. **[Scientists relieved as Joe Biden wins tight US presidential election ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03158-8)**Jeff Tollefson*13 citations*
1577. **[Social scientists battle bots to glean insights from online chatter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00141-1)**Heidi K. Ledford*13 citations*
1578. **[Stillbirth rate rises dramatically during pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02618-5)**Clare Watson*13 citations*
1579. **[Tension in tumour cells keeps metabolism high ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00314-y)**Nadia M.E. Ayad, Valerie Marie Weaver*13 citations*
1580. **[The era of massive cancer sequencing projects has reached a turning point ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00308-w)***13 citations*
1581. **[The new science of volcanoes harnesses AI, satellites and gas sensors to forecast eruptions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01445-y)**Jane Palmer*13 citations*
1582. **[The race to make COVID antibody therapies cheaper and more potent ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02965-3)**Heidi K. Ledford*13 citations*
1583. **[Versatile strategy for making 2D materials ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00094-5)**Wei Sun Leong*13 citations*
1584. **[What counts as climate finance? Define urgently ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03481-0)**Romain Weikmans, J. Timmons Roberts, Stacy‐ann Robinson*13 citations*
1585. **[What’s on the agenda for post-pandemic meetings? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02254-z)**Nic Fleming*13 citations*
1586. **[‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires’ devastating aftermath ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00043-2)**Dyani Lewis*13 citations*
1587. **[‘Our epidemic could exceed a million cases’ — South Africa’s top coronavirus adviser ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02216-5)**Linda Nordling*13 citations*
1588. **[Africa declared free from wild polio — but vaccine-derived strains remain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02501-3)**Giorgia Guglielmi*12 citations*
1589. **[African nations missing from coronavirus trials ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01010-7)**Antoaneta Roussi, Amy Maxmen*12 citations*
1590. **[Cancer diagnosis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00840-9)**Herb Brody*12 citations*
1591. **[China’s research-evaluation revamp should not mean fewer international collaborations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00625-0)***12 citations*
1592. **[Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00175-5)**Giuliana A. Viglione*12 citations*
1593. **[Climate vs coronavirus: Why massive stimulus plans could represent missed opportunities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00941-5)**Jeff Tollefson*12 citations*
1594. **[Coronavirus vaccines leap through safety trials — but which will work is anybody’s guess ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02174-y)**Ewen Callaway*12 citations*
1595. **[Cull, release or bring them home: Coronavirus crisis forces hard decisions for labs with animals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00964-y)**Julian Nowogrodzki*12 citations*
1596. **[Documentary follows implosion of billion-euro brain project ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03462-3)**Alison Abbott*12 citations*
1597. **[Extended US travel ban harms global science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00588-2)**Nnaemeka Darlington Ndodo*12 citations*
1598. **[How to stop restaurants from driving COVID infections ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03140-4)**David Cyranoski*12 citations*
1599. **[Hundreds of scientists have peer-reviewed for predatory journals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00709-x)**Richard Van Noorden*12 citations*
1600. **[Mitochondrial genome editing gets precise ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01974-6)**Magomet Aushev, Mary Herbert*12 citations*

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