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# Nature 2021: all accepted papers

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1901. **[World commits to a pandemic-response pact: what’s next ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03596-y)**Amy Maxmen*4 citations*
1902. **[cGAS-like receptors put a sting into the evolution of immune defence ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02119-z)**Cara C West, Neal Silverman*4 citations*
1903. **[‘BRICS’ nations are collaborating on science but need a bigger global platform ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03568-2)***4 citations*
1904. **[A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02096-3)**Smriti Mallapaty*3 citations*
1905. **[A step closer to compact X-ray lasers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01892-1)**Luca Giannessi*3 citations*
1906. **[Achilles heel spotted for promising HIV-prevention drug ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00618-7)**Amy Maxmen*3 citations*
1907. **[An mRNA vaccine industry in the making ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02913-9)**Neil J. Savage*3 citations*
1908. **[Attempt to charge Mexican scientists with ‘organized crime’ prompts international outcry ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02816-9)**Sara Reardon*3 citations*
1909. **[Award-winning mentors share their secrets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00081-4)**Chris Woolston*3 citations*
1910. **[Balancing carbon storage under elevated CO2 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01117-5)**César Terrer*3 citations*
1911. **[Bouncing droplets mimic spin systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02077-6)**Nicolas Vandewalle*3 citations*
1912. **[Breastfeeding influences the neonatal virome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01112-w)**Frederic D. Bushman, Guanxiang Liang*3 citations*
1913. **[COVID-19 vaccines: call for global push to maintain efficacy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00273-y)**Klaus Stöhr, Nancy Cox*3 citations*
1914. **[COVID: treatment trials are still urgent ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01470-5)**Steve Rauchman*3 citations*
1915. **[China creates vast research infrastructure to support ambitious climate goals ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03491-6)**Smriti Mallapaty*3 citations*
1916. **[Coronapod: everything we know about the new COVID variant ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03562-8)**Noah Baker, Richard Van Noorden*3 citations*
1917. **[Could mitochondria help athletes to make gains? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00817-2)**Anthony King*3 citations*
1918. **[Daily briefing: Omicron — what scientists know so far ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03652-7)**Flora Graham*3 citations*
1919. **[Daily briefing: Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine protects against worrying variants ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01269-4)**Flora Graham*3 citations*
1920. **[Daily briefing: Satellite light pollution is everywhere ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00874-7)**Flora Graham*3 citations*
1921. **[Daily briefing: The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02019-2)**Flora Graham*3 citations*
1922. **[Daily briefing: What we know about vaccines and long COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03531-1)**Flora Graham*3 citations*
1923. **[Deadly Myanmar mine disaster caused by poor planning, say data sleuths ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01740-2)**Andrew L. Silver*3 citations*
1924. **[Declare how you are limiting your environmental impact ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02130-4)**Paul Grogan, Kate M. Buckeridge, Anders Priemé*3 citations*
1925. **[Deranged chromatin drives uterine fibroid tumours ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02005-8)**Zehra Ordulu*3 citations*
1926. **[Disabled scientists’ networks call for more support ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00544-8)**Maria Niedernhuber, Hamied A. Haroon, Nicole Brown*3 citations*
1927. **[Dispatches from a world aflame ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02426-5)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1928. **[Fifty years of the brain’s sense of space ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03010-7)**Isabel I. C. Low, Lisa M. Giocomo*3 citations*
1929. **[First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00782-w)**Heidi K. Ledford*3 citations*
1930. **[Gender gap in US patents leads to few inventions that help women ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02298-9)**Sara Reardon*3 citations*
1931. **[Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02895-8)**Holly Else*3 citations*
1932. **[Gut microbes regroup to aid defence after infection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00642-7)**Melissa M. Kendall, Vanessa Sperandio*3 citations*
1933. **[Hertha Ayrton’s Nature obituary: a monument to sexism in science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00472-7)**Danita S. Brandt*3 citations*
1934. **[How COVID-19 has stomped on scientists’ travel plans ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01389-x)**Chris Woolston*3 citations*
1935. **[How I tackled post-PhD imposter syndrome ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02215-0)**Kelsey Inouye*3 citations*
1936. **[How quantum diamonds work: from imaging magnetic fields to detecting viruses ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00743-3)**Neil J. Savage*3 citations*
1937. **[I critiqued my past papers on social media — here’s what I learnt ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01879-y)**Nicholas P. Holmes*3 citations*
1938. **[Inside the lawsuit that ended US gene patenting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02905-9)**Heidi K. Ledford*3 citations*
1939. **[Keep online option at conferences — it makes them more inclusive ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02752-8)**Rocío Joo*3 citations*
1940. **[Key COVID research hit by cut to UK foreign-aid budget ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01134-4)**Holly Else*3 citations*
1941. **[Life on Venus claim faces strongest challenge yet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00249-y)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1942. **[Loss of Australia’s largest lab animal supplier will leave ‘huge gap’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01896-x)**Smriti Mallapaty*3 citations*
1943. **[Mars’s core has been measured — and it’s surprisingly large ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00696-7)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1944. **[Migratory birds aid the redistribution of plants to new climates ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01547-1)**Barnabas H. Daru*3 citations*
1945. **[Mutation alters chromatin changes during injury response to drive cancer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00211-y)**Dane Vassiliadis, Mark A. Dawson*3 citations*
1946. **[NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in first planetary-defence test ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03471-w)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1947. **[Neuroprosthetic device maintains blood pressure after spinal cord injury ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00087-y)**Patrice G. Guyenet*3 citations*
1948. **[One scientist couple’s five suggestions to solve the ‘two body problem’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00917-z)**Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun*3 citations*
1949. **[Optics shine a light on dental imaging ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02925-5)**Neil J. Savage*3 citations*
1950. **[Outcry as men win outsize share of Australian medical-research funding ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03536-w)**Holly Else*3 citations*
1951. **[Ovarian cancer and the microbiome: a complex relationship ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03716-8)**Julianna Photopoulos*3 citations*
1952. **[Peace-making: new technologies are no panacea ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00410-7)**Oliver P. Richmond, Gëzim Visoka*3 citations*
1953. **[Plan for Africa’s first synchrotron light source starts to crystallize ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02938-0)**Sarah Wild*3 citations*
1954. **[Plasmons dragged by drifting electrons ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01599-3)**Hugen Yan*3 citations*
1955. **[Proposed NIH windfall raises hopes — and fears ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02064-x)**Chris Woolston*3 citations*
1956. **[Quantum compass might help birds 'see' magnetic fields ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01715-3)**Benjamin A. Thompson, Nick Petrić Howe*3 citations*
1957. **[Ranking the risk of heart disease ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01452-7)**Michael S. Eisenstein*3 citations*
1958. **[Reboot AI with human values ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02693-2)**Reema Patel*3 citations*
1959. **[Record number of first-time observers get Hubble telescope time ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03538-8)**Dalmeet Singh Chawla*3 citations*
1960. **[Rethink how we plan research to shrink COVID health disparities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00258-x)**Lisa A. Cooper*3 citations*
1961. **[Revamp of UK CRISPR regulation will require public trust ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00672-1)***3 citations*
1962. **[Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01936-6)**Michael R Dietrich*3 citations*
1963. **[Science diversified: Tackling an ‘ableist’ culture in research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00317-3)**Dom Byrne*3 citations*
1964. **[Scientists’ fears of racial bias surge amid US crackdown on China ties ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02976-8)**Nidhi Subbaraman*3 citations*
1965. **[Signs of self-sustained inflammatory circuits in severe COVID pneumonia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00296-5)**Kara J. Mould, William J. Janssen*3 citations*
1966. **[Silk Road becomes the one less travelled as China lures science talent home ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01402-3)**Catherine Armitage, Chris Woolston*3 citations*
1967. **[Social and political justice hit by UK aid cuts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00955-7)**Rana Basem Dajani, Heather D. Flowe, Ben T. C. Warwick*3 citations*
1968. **[Solar geoengineering research needs formal global debate ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01957-1)**János Pásztor*3 citations*
1969. **[Sound emission and annihilations in a programmable quantum vortex collider ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04047-4)**Woo Jin Kwon, Giulia Del Pace, Klejdja Xhani et al.*3 citations*
1970. **[Support letters: mostly ghost-written, always glowing. What’s the point? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02374-0)**Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutiérrez*3 citations*
1971. **[Surprise dip in UK COVID cases baffles researchers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02125-1)**Philip Ball*3 citations*
1972. **[Sustainable Development Goals research speaks to city strengths and priorities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02405-w)**Bec Crew*3 citations*
1973. **[The African Academy of Sciences is in crisis — responsibility must be shared ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02991-9)***3 citations*
1974. **[The answer to the biodiversity crisis is not more debt ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02891-y)***3 citations*
1975. **[The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans (vol 581, pg 434, 2020) ↗](https://www.cheric.org/research/tech/periodicals/view.php?seq=1846811)**Konrad J. Karczewski, Laurent C. Francioli, Grace Tiao et al.*3 citations*
1976. **[The science helping athletes to beat the heat ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00815-4)**Sarah O’Meara*3 citations*
1977. **[The search for people who never get COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02978-6)**Smriti Mallapaty*3 citations*
1978. **[These cellular clocks help explain why elephants are bigger than mice ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01086-9)**Michael Marshall*3 citations*
1979. **[Think outside the brain box ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02169-3)**Alison Abbott*3 citations*
1980. **[Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01250-1)**Thomas Richards*3 citations*
1981. **[Three million COVID deaths is a grim milestone ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01037-4)***3 citations*
1982. **[Touch down! NASA’s Mars landing sparks new era of exploration ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00432-1)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1983. **[Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01412-1)**Joice Ruggeri, Lucas Rodriguez Forti*3 citations*
1984. **[Turning transient structures into drug targets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01668-7)**Elie Dolgin*3 citations*
1985. **[UK biodiversity: close gap between reality and rhetoric ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01819-w)**Sophus zu Ermgassen, Joseph W. Bull, Ben Groom*3 citations*
1986. **[UNESCO embraces open science to shape society’s future ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01338-8)**Audrey Azoulay*3 citations*
1987. **[US urged to invest in sun-dimming studies as climate warms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00822-5)**Jeff Tollefson*3 citations*
1988. **[Universal health care must be a priority — even amid COVID ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01313-3)***3 citations*
1989. **[Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00893-4)**Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Funmbi Okoya, Don Eliseo Lucero‐Prisno*3 citations*
1990. **[WHO names researchers to reboot outbreak origin investigations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02813-y)**Amy Maxmen*3 citations*
1991. **[WHO should lead on genome-editing policy, advisers say ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01922-y)**Heidi K. Ledford*3 citations*
1992. **[We Need to Ground Truth Assumptions about Gene Therapy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02735-9)**Marla Broadfoot*3 citations*
1993. **[Webb telescope blasts off successfully — launching a new era in astronomy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03655-4)**Alexandra Witze*3 citations*
1994. **[What Biden’s $2-trillion spending bill could mean for climate change ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03787-7)**Jeff Tollefson*3 citations*
1995. **[What the landmark Brexit deal means for science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00009-y)**Elizabeth Gibney*3 citations*
1996. **[Who is allowed to have wild ideas in physics? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02526-2)**Anil Ananthaswamy*3 citations*
1997. **[Why universities are key to tackling inequality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00392-6)***3 citations*
1998. **[Will COVID force public health to confront America’s epic inequality? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00943-x)**Amy Maxmen*3 citations*
1999. **[You can help to create a new researcher-reward system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01208-3)**Karen Stroobants*3 citations*
2000. **[‘Hard’ skills from our PhDs remain relevant beyond academia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03756-0)**Jonathan McGuire, Samantha Baggott*3 citations*

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