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# Nature 2020: all accepted papers

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1901. **[New polio vaccine poised to get emergency WHO approval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03045-2)**Aisling Irwin*5 citations*
1902. **[On the 50th Earth Day, take collective action for the planet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01123-z)**Emma Marris*5 citations*
1903. **[Pain-sensing neurons mobilize blood stem cells from bone marrow ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03577-7)**Anastasia N. Tikhonova, Iannis Aifantis*5 citations*
1904. **[Probing fine-scale connections in the brain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02947-5)**Esther Wei-Yun Landhuis*5 citations*
1905. **[Row over Africa’s largest dam in danger of escalating, warn scientists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02124-8)**Antoaneta Roussi*5 citations*
1906. **[Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01543-x)**Amy Maxmen*5 citations*
1907. **[Social media are fuelling the Amazon’s destruction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01078-1)**Charles Davis, Goia de Mattos Lyra, Caio Frederico e Silva et al.*5 citations*
1908. **[Social media sows consensus in disturbance ecology ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00006-7)**Emily B. Graham, Stefan Krause*5 citations*
1909. **[Strengthening society with contraception ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03530-8)**Emily Sohn*5 citations*
1910. **[Techniques converge to map the developing human heart at single-cell level ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00151-z)**Ragini Phansalkar, Kristy Red‐Horse*5 citations*
1911. **[The R0 journey: from 1950s malaria to COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01882-9)**Jake Baum, Geoffrey Pasvol, Richard Carter*5 citations*
1912. **[The pandemic is challenging China’s breakneck race to the top of science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01522-2)**David Cyranoski*5 citations*
1913. **[The robot recruits in China’s health-care system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01793-9)**Sarah O’Meara*5 citations*
1914. **[This pandemic is not an extended sabbatical ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01591-3)**Daphne S. Ling*5 citations*
1915. **[Three extraordinary women run the gauntlet of science — a documentary ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01912-6)**Alexandra Witze*5 citations*
1916. **[Time to invest in global resilience ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01951-z)**Jim A. Harris, David Denyer, Simon Harwood et al.*5 citations*
1917. **[To set coronavirus policy, model lives and livelihoods in lockstep ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01504-4)**Andy Haldane*5 citations*
1918. **[Tracking inequalities in education around the globe ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00750-w)**Monica J. Grant*5 citations*
1919. **[Untapped potential: More US labs could be providing tests for coronavirus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01154-6)**Amy Maxmen*5 citations*
1920. **[Wear your mask, but think about deaf students ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02823-2)**Olivier Pourret, Élodie Saillet*5 citations*
1921. **[Who are science’s frequent flyers? Climate researchers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03000-1)**Emiliano Rodríguez Mega*5 citations*
1922. **[Why more coronavirus testing won’t automatically help the hardest hit ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01781-z)**Amy Maxmen*5 citations*
1923. **[Why the World Bank ex-chief is on a mission to end coronavirus transmission ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01218-7)**Amy Maxmen*5 citations*
1924. **[Writing the perfect recommendation letter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02186-8)**Andy Kah Ping Tay*5 citations*
1925. **[Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00191-5)**David Cyranoski, Andrew L. Silver*5 citations*
1926. **[‘No one is allowed to go out’: your stories from the coronavirus outbreak ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00478-7)**Emma Stoye*5 citations*
1927. **[A receptor that lets dementia-associated tau proteins into neurons ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00874-z)**Katrin Deinhardt*4 citations*
1928. **[A screen of brain organoids to study neurodevelopmental disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03636-z)**Adriana Cherskov, Nenad Šestan*4 citations*
1929. **[A self-activating orphan receptor ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00411-y)**Brian Krumm, Bryan L. Roth*4 citations*
1930. **[Addendum: A lysosomal switch triggers proteostasis renewal in the immortal C. elegans germ lineage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2108-0)**Jerome F Goudeau, Madhuja Samaddar, K. Adam Bohnert et al.*4 citations*
1931. **[Ahead of the curve in the evolution of human feet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00472-z)**Glen A. Lichtwark, Luke A. Kelly*4 citations*
1932. **[Alexa, do science! Voice-activated assistants hit the lab bench ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01683-0)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*4 citations*
1933. **[An umbrella approach to test lung cancer therapies ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02062-5)**Alexander Edward Dela Cruz Drilon, Matthew David Hellmann*4 citations*
1934. **[Arthur Ashkin (1922–2020) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03380-4)**Steven Chu*4 citations*
1935. **[Behind the scenes in the biosafety office ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00593-5)**Kendall Powell*4 citations*
1936. **[Better birth control ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03532-6)**Elizabeth Svoboda*4 citations*
1937. **[Brain rhythms that help us to detect borders ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03576-8)**Hugo J. Spiers*4 citations*
1938. **[COVID-19: save lives with open intellectual-property licences ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02233-4)**Jorge L. Contreras, Michael B. Eisen, Diane M. Peters*4 citations*
1939. **[CRISPR tool scales up to interrogate a huge line-up of viral suspects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01447-w)**Gregory A. Storch*4 citations*
1940. **[Caspase-8 protein cuts a brake on immune defences ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02994-y)**Igor E. Brodsky*4 citations*
1941. **[China set to retrieve first Moon rocks in 40 years ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03064-z)**Smriti Mallapaty*4 citations*
1942. **[Climate action and poverty alleviation must go hand-in-hand ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01122-0)***4 citations*
1943. **[Contact-tracing apps: contested answers to ethical questions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02084-z)**Matthias Braun, Patrik Hummel*4 citations*
1944. **[Coronavirus fears cancel world’s biggest physics meeting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00609-0)**Davide Castelvecchi*4 citations*
1945. **[DNA-binding proteins meet their mismatch ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02658-x)**Kale Kundert, James S. Fraser*4 citations*
1946. **[Evolution of circuits for machine learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00002-x)**Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin*4 citations*
1947. **[Five tips for boosting diversity on campus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02367-5)**Danielle McCullough, Ruth Gotian*4 citations*
1948. **[Genetic variability of memory performance is explained by differences in the brain’s thalamus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03195-3)**Michael M. Halassa*4 citations*
1949. **[German science on the world stage: visualized ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03320-2)***4 citations*
1950. **[Grant lottery: don’t stall ideas and careers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00136-y)**Howard Vindin*4 citations*
1951. **[Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01818-3)**Giuliana A. Viglione*4 citations*
1952. **[Heat and coronavirus can be twin killers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01627-8)**Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafà, Luis Ortiz*4 citations*
1953. **[How Germany retains one of the world’s strongest research reputations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03318-w)**Hristio Boytchev*4 citations*
1954. **[How cancer invasion takes shape ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02490-3)**Karolina Punovuori, Sara A. Wickström*4 citations*
1955. **[How lactate links cannabis to social behaviour ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01975-5)**Pierre Julius Magistretti*4 citations*
1956. **[How quickly does the Wuhan virus spread? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00146-w)**Nicky Phillips, Smriti Mallapaty, David Cyranoski*4 citations*
1957. **[How scientific societies are weathering the pandemic’s financial storm ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01553-9)**Diana Kwon*4 citations*
1958. **[How scientists can help lawyers on climate action ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01150-w)**Dennis Van Berkel*4 citations*
1959. **[How the coronavirus pandemic is changing virtual science communication ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02075-0)**Nikki Forrester*4 citations*
1960. **[How the flame lily synthesizes a therapeutic natural product ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01675-0)**Jing‐Ke Weng*4 citations*
1961. **[Hundreds of Israel’s archaeological sites are vanishing under concrete ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01811-w)**Josie Glausiusz*4 citations*
1962. **[Innovative plant breeding could deliver crop revolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00186-2)**Sven Anders, Ashwani Pareek, Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek et al.*4 citations*
1963. **[International regulations have paused a jet-stream shift in the Southern Hemisphere ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00787-x)**Alexey Yu. Karpechko*4 citations*
1964. **[Is lightning striking the Arctic more than ever before? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03561-1)**Alexandra Witze*4 citations*
1965. **[Leveraging change: the power of peer pressure ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00111-7)**Thomas M. Dietz*4 citations*
1966. **[Light-activated neurons deep in the brain control body heat ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02481-4)**Gary J. Schwartz*4 citations*
1967. **[Locust alarm, scientific rigour and a debate over risky disease experiments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00172-8)***4 citations*
1968. **[Meet the engineer behind China’s first robot-run coronavirus ward ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01794-8)**Sarah O’Meara*4 citations*
1969. **[Mountain height might be controlled by tectonic force, rather than erosion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01601-4)**Kelin Wang*4 citations*
1970. **[My lab is closed to me because of the coronavirus. Here’s how I’m planning to stay productive ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00986-6)**Lei Su*4 citations*
1971. **[Myanmar amber fossils: a legal as well as ethical quagmire ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03006-9)**Paul M. Barrett, Zerina Johanson*4 citations*
1972. **[NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to reveal Solar System’s secrets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02910-4)**Alexandra Witze*4 citations*
1973. **[Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00436-3)**Laura Spinney*4 citations*
1974. **[Phase transformations observed at the interfaces between crystalline grains in pure metals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00765-3)**Eugen Rabkin*4 citations*
1975. **[Plan now to speed vaccine supply for future pandemics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02798-0)**Kate Bingham*4 citations*
1976. **[Plant vesicles inspire methods to protect crops ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01771-1)**Roxanne Khamsi*4 citations*
1977. **[Publishers launch joint effort to tackle altered images in research papers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01410-9)**Richard Van Noorden*4 citations*
1978. **[Quantum matter orbits Earth ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01653-6)**Maike Diana Lachmann, Ernst Maria Rasel*4 citations*
1979. **[Regenerative medicine could pave the way to treating baldness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01568-2)**Leo L. Wang, George Cotsarelis*4 citations*
1980. **[Researchers: show world leaders how to behave in a crisis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00926-4)***4 citations*
1981. **[Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03403-0)**Heidi K. Ledford*4 citations*
1982. **[Satellite megaclusters could fox night-time migrations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03007-8)**Chris J. Lintott, Paul R. Lintott*4 citations*
1983. **[Scathing COVID-19 book from Lancet editor — rushed but useful ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01839-y)**Stephen Buranyi*4 citations*
1984. **[Scientists are harnessing viruses to treat tumours ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03226-z)**Carolyn Brown*4 citations*
1985. **[Scientists question China’s decision not to report symptom-free coronavirus cases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00434-5)**David Cyranoski*4 citations*
1986. **[Scientists strongly back Joe Biden for US president in Nature poll ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02963-5)**Giuliana A. Viglione*4 citations*
1987. **[Scientists’ worlds will shrink in the wake of the pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01523-1)**Smriti Mallapaty*4 citations*
1988. **[Screams on a Zoom call: the theory of homeworking with kids meets reality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01296-7)**Anne‐Laure Mahul‐Mellier*4 citations*
1989. **[Should virus-naming rules change during a pandemic? The question divides virologists ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02243-2)**Smriti Mallapaty*4 citations*
1990. **[Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03119-1)**Andrew D. Huberman*4 citations*
1991. **[Snakebite steals millions of years of quality life in India ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03327-9)**Carrie N. Arnold*4 citations*
1992. **[SpaceX’s astronaut launch is a boost for the International Space Station ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01620-1)***4 citations*
1993. **[Statistical dark arts endanger democracy — and life ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02280-x)**Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers*4 citations*
1994. **[Super-precise CRISPR tool enhanced by enzyme engineering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00340-w)**Heidi K. Ledford*4 citations*
1995. **[Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00916-6)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*4 citations*
1996. **[Tech tools to make research more open and inclusive ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00216-z)**Kendall Powell*4 citations*
1997. **[Temprian Therapeutics: developing a gene-based treatment for vitiligo ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01808-5)**Charles Schmidt*4 citations*
1998. **[Ten work–life balance tips for researchers based at home during the pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01059-4)**Lucy A. Taylor*4 citations*
1999. **[The art of infection prevention ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02885-2)**Kristina Campbell*4 citations*
2000. **[The mathematician who helped to reshape physics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02297-2)**Davide Castelvecchi*4 citations*

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