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# Nature 2021: all accepted papers

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1301. **[Cuba’s bet on home-grown COVID vaccines is paying off ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03470-x)**Sara Reardon*20 citations*
1302. **[Past, present and future stars that can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03596-y)**L. Kaltenegger, J. K. Faherty*20 citations*
1303. **[Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04167-x)**Isaac Waller, Ashton Anderson*20 citations*
1304. **[Quantum diamond sensors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00742-4)**Neil J. Savage*20 citations*
1305. **[Reply to: Issues with combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03165-9)**Yongjun Li, Luke Anthony Baton, Dongjing Zhang et al.*20 citations*
1306. **[Soft robot reaches the deepest part of the ocean ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00489-y)**Cecilia Laschi, Marcello Calisti*20 citations*
1307. **[Southeast Amazonia is no longer a carbon sink ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01871-6)**Scott Denning*20 citations*
1308. **[The start-ups chasing clean, carbon-free fusion energy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03401-w)**Philip Ball*20 citations*
1309. **[What’s the risk of dying from a fast-spreading COVID-19 variant? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00299-2)**Smriti Mallapaty*20 citations*
1310. **[‘A bloody mess’: Confusion reigns over naming of new COVID variants ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00097-w)**Ewen Callaway*20 citations*
1311. **[Caution over the use of ecological big data for conservation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03463-w)**Alastair V. Harry, Juan Matias Braccini*19 citations*
1312. **[Coronavirus variants get Greek names — but will scientists use them? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01483-0)**Ewen Callaway*19 citations*
1313. **[Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01897-w)**Heidi K. Ledford*19 citations*
1314. **[Effects of rising CO2 levels on carbon sequestration are coordinated above and below ground ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00737-1)**Ana Bastos, Katrin Fleischer*19 citations*
1315. **[Evidence of elusive Majorana particle dies — but computing hope lives on ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00612-z)**Davide Castelvecchi*19 citations*
1316. **[Fuel for world’s largest fusion reactor ITER is set for test run ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00408-1)**Elizabeth Gibney*19 citations*
1317. **[Journals adopt AI to spot duplicated images in manuscripts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03807-6)**Richard Van Noorden*19 citations*
1318. **[Photonic chip brings optical quantum computers a step closer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00488-z)**Ulrik L. Andersen*19 citations*
1319. **[Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03628-7)**Jeffrey M. Perkel*19 citations*
1320. **[RETRACTED ARTICLE: AI system outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01515-9)**Andrew B. Kahng*19 citations*
1321. **[Scientists cheer India’s ambitious carbon-zero climate pledge ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03044-x)**Gayathri Vaidyanathan*19 citations*
1322. **[Stagnating salaries present hurdles to career satisfaction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03041-0)**Chris Woolston*19 citations*
1323. **[Transporting and concentrating vibrational energy to promote isomerization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03081-y)**Jascha A. Lau, Li Chen, Arnab Choudhury et al.*19 citations*
1324. **[Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00592-0)**Tom Meyvis, Heeyoung Yoon*18 citations*
1325. **[Beware performative reproducibility ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01824-z)**Stuart Buck*18 citations*
1326. **[COVID-19 recovery: science isn’t enough to save us ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00731-7)**Hetan Shah*18 citations*
1327. **[Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of an amorphous solid ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03354-0)**Yao Yang, Jihan Zhou, Fan Zhu et al.*18 citations*
1328. **[Five principles for climate-resilient cities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02309-9)**Christian Albert, Samuel Rufat, Christian Kuhlicke*18 citations*
1329. **[Harness the world’s aquatic ‘blue’ food systems to help end hunger ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02476-9)***18 citations*
1330. **[Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who discovered biology of senses ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01283-6)**Heidi K. Ledford, Ewen Callaway*18 citations*
1331. **[More Alzheimer’s drugs head for FDA review: what scientists are watching ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03410-9)**Asher Mullard*18 citations*
1332. **[Pandemic: public feeling more positive about science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00542-w)**Eric Allen Jensen, Eric B. Kennedy, Ethan Greenwood*18 citations*
1333. **[Protect precious scientific collaboration from geopolitics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01386-0)***18 citations*
1334. **[Signatures of bosonic Landau levels in a finite-momentum superconductor ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03915-3)**Aravind Devarakonda, T. Suzuki, Shiang Fang et al.*18 citations*
1335. **[Text-message nudges encourage COVID vaccination ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02043-2)**Mitesh S. Patel*18 citations*
1336. **[Three-dimensional magnetic stripes require slow cooling in fast-spread lower ocean crust ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03831-6)**S. M. Maher, J. S. Gee, M. J. Cheadle et al.*18 citations*
1337. **[Want research integrity? Stop the blame game ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03493-4)**Malcolm Robert Macleod*18 citations*
1338. **[Wolbachia goes to work in the war on mosquitoes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02914-8)**Sandy Ong*18 citations*
1339. **[‘Less pipetting and more thinking’: scientists carry on through the pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01075-y)**Chris Woolston*18 citations*
1340. **[Cloud droplets aid the production of formic acid in the atmosphere ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01206-5)**J. A. de Gouw, Delphine K. Farmer*17 citations*
1341. **[Evidence-based medicine: how COVID can drive positive change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01255-w)***17 citations*
1342. **[Pfizer COVID vaccine protects against worrying coronavirus variants ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01222-5)**Ewen Callaway*17 citations*
1343. **[Replicating scientific results is tough — but essential ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03736-4)***17 citations*
1344. **[Six caveats to valuing ecosystem services ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00894-3)**Ralf Buckley, Aliénor L. M. Chauvenet*17 citations*
1345. **[The next 20 years of human genomics must be more equitable and more open ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00328-0)***17 citations*
1346. **[What my retraction taught me ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00073-4)**Benjamin de Haas*17 citations*
1347. **[What the science says about lifting mask mandates ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01394-0)**Lynne Peeples*17 citations*
1348. **[Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00161-5)**Dalmeet Singh Chawla*17 citations*
1349. **[COVID vaccines and blood clots: what researchers know so far ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02291-2)**Heidi K. Ledford*16 citations*
1350. **[COVID-19: use intersectional analyses to close gaps in outcomes and vaccination ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00577-z)**Janna R. Shapiro, Sabra L. Klein, Rosemary Morgan*16 citations*
1351. **[Experimental relativistic zero-knowledge proofs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03998-y)**Pouriya Alikhani, Nicolas Brunner, Claude Crépeau et al.*16 citations*
1352. **[Global temperature changes mapped across the past 24,000 years ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03011-6)**Shaun A. Marcott, Jeremy D. Shakun*16 citations*
1353. **[Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01436-7)**Richard Van Noorden*16 citations*
1354. **[Issues with combining incompatible and sterile insect techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03164-w)**Riccardo Moretti, Maurizio Calvitti*16 citations*
1355. **[It is dangerous to normalize solar geoengineering research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01724-2)**Frank Biermann*16 citations*
1356. **[Multitude of coronavirus variants found in the US — but the threat is unclear ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00564-4)**Ewen Callaway*16 citations*
1357. **[Pseudogap in a crystalline insulator doped by disordered metals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03683-0)**Sae Hee Ryu, Minjae Huh, Do Yun Park et al.*16 citations*
1358. **[Scientist Rebellion: researchers join protesters at COP26 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03430-5)**Tosin Thompson*16 citations*
1359. **[Shark mortality cannot be assessed by fishery overlap alone ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03396-4)**Hilário Murua, Shane P. Griffiths, Alistair James Hobday et al.*16 citations*
1360. **[Structural strains of misfolded tau protein define different diseases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02611-6)**Henning Stahlberg, Roland Riek*16 citations*
1361. **[Sublimation-driven convection in Sputnik Planitia on Pluto ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04095-w)**Adrien Morison, S. Labrosse, G. Choblet*16 citations*
1362. **[Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02152-y)**Lee McIntyre*16 citations*
1363. **[The high burden of infectious disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02909-5)**Catherine Armitage*16 citations*
1364. **[The quest to find genes that drive severe COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01827-w)**Ewen Callaway*16 citations*
1365. **[Ubiquitin protein helps cells to recover from stress ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02197-z)**Titus M. Franzmann, Simon Alberti*16 citations*
1366. **[Unravelling the enigma of bird magnetoreception ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01596-6)**Eric J. Warrant*16 citations*
1367. **[Why is it so hard to investigate the rare side effects of COVID vaccines? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00880-9)**Ariana Remmel*16 citations*
1368. **[‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist Alondra Nelson to top science post ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00159-z)**Nidhi Subbaraman*16 citations*
1369. **[A microscopy technique that images single reaction events in total darkness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02098-1)**Frédéric Kanoufi, Nešo Šojić*15 citations*
1370. **[Academia’s ableist mindset needs to change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02907-7)**Kendall Powell*15 citations*
1371. **[Active membrane rupture spurs a range of cell deaths ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00297-4)**Sebastian Hiller, Petr Brož*15 citations*
1372. **[Burnout urgently needs robust research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00896-1)**Christiaan H. Vinkers, Frederieke G. Schaafsma*15 citations*
1373. **[COVID boosters for wealthy nations spark outrage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02109-1)**Amy Maxmen*15 citations*
1374. **[Exercise generates immune cells in bone ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00419-y)**Mehmet Saçma, Hartmut Geiger*15 citations*
1375. **[Fibroblast cells reveal their ancestry ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01204-7)**Christopher Dominic Buckley*15 citations*
1376. **[How the human genome transformed study of rare diseases ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00294-7)**Fowzan Sami Alkuraya*15 citations*
1377. **[How to make macroscale non-crystalline diamonds ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02957-x)**A. San Miguel*15 citations*
1378. **[Huge gaps in detection networks plague emissions monitoring ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01967-z)**Ray F. Weiss, A. R. Ravishankara, Paul A. Newman*15 citations*
1379. **[Indian government should heed its scientists on COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01140-6)**T. V. Padma*15 citations*
1380. **[Lift off! First flight on Mars launches new way to explore worlds ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00909-z)**Alexandra Witze*15 citations*
1381. **[Natural killer cells lull tumours into dormancy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01381-5)**Noëlla Lopes, Éric Vivier*15 citations*
1382. **[Pandemic upheaval offers a huge natural experiment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02092-7)**Julia Rosén*15 citations*
1383. **[Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00479-0)**Jos Lelieveld*15 citations*
1384. **[Remember Beta? New data reveal variant’s deadly powers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02177-3)**Ewen Callaway*15 citations*
1385. **[Researchers’ career insecurity needs attention and reform now, says international coalition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01548-0)**Chris Woolston*15 citations*
1386. **[The COVID pandemic has harmed researcher productivity – and mental health ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03045-w)**Dyani Lewis*15 citations*
1387. **[The world’s species are playing musical chairs: how will it end? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02088-3)**Gayathri Vaidyanathan*15 citations*
1388. **[US achieves laser-fusion record: what it means for nuclear-weapons research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02338-4)**Jeff Tollefson*15 citations*
1389. **[What costs half a year’s pay for African scholars? Open access ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02173-7)**Addisu Dagnaw Mekonnen, Colleen Thelma Downs, Edu O. Effiom et al.*15 citations*
1390. **[What new COVID variants mean for schools is not yet clear ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00139-3)**Dyani Lewis*15 citations*
1391. **[Why a pioneering plan to distribute COVID vaccines equitably must succeed ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00044-9)***15 citations*
1392. **[Why science needs a new reward and recognition system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01952-6)**Edyta Swider, Katalin Solymosi, Mangala Srinivas*15 citations*
1393. **[Will COVID become a disease of the young? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01862-7)**Smriti Mallapaty*15 citations*
1394. **[Young people’s mental health is finally getting the attention it needs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02690-5)***15 citations*
1395. **[A virtual drug-screening approach to conquer huge chemical libraries ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03682-1)**Charlotte Mary Deane, Maranga Mokaya*14 citations*
1396. **[After the WHO report: what’s next in the search for COVID’s origins ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00877-4)**Smriti Mallapaty*14 citations*
1397. **[Climate change implicated in Germany’s deadly floods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02330-y)**Holly Else*14 citations*
1398. **[Climate science is supporting lawsuits that could help save the world ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02424-7)**Quirin Schiermeier*14 citations*
1399. **[Ebola virus can lie low and reactivate after years in human survivors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02378-w)**Robert F. Garry*14 citations*
1400. **[Europe’s reformed agricultural policy disappoints ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02047-y)**Jeroen Candel, Sebastian Lakner, Guy Pe’er*14 citations*

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