• Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population 

      Ebenesersdóttir, Sigríður Sunna; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Gunnarsdóttir, Ellen D.; Jagadeesan, Anuradha; Guðmundsdóttir, Valdís B.; Thordardóttir, Elísabet L.; Einarsdóttir, Margrét S.; Moore, Kristjan H. S.; Sigurðsson, Ásgeir; Magnúsdóttir, Droplaug N.; Jónsson, Hákon; Snorradóttir, Steinunn; Hovig, Eivind; Møller, Pål; Kockum, Ingrid; Olsson, Tomas; Alfredsson, Lars; Hansen, Thomas F.; Werge, Thomas; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Gilbert, Edmund; Lalueza-Fox, Carles; Walser III, Joe W.; Kristjánsdóttir, Steinunn; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Arnadottir, Lilja; Magnússon, Ólafur Þ.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Stefánsson, Kári; Helgason, Agnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Opportunities to directly study the founding of a human population and its subsequent evolutionary history are rare. Using genome sequence data from 27 ancient Icelanders, we demonstrate that they are a combination of ...
    • Climate Events Synchronize the Dynamics of a Resident Vertebrate Community in the High Arctic 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Grøtan, Vidar; Aanes, Ronny; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Stien, Audun; Fuglei, Eva; Ims, Rolf Anker; Yoccoz, Nigel; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Recently accumulated evidence has documented a climate impact on the demography and dynamics of single species, yet the impact at the community level is poorly understood. Here, we show that in Svalbard in the high Arctic, ...
    • Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras 

      Kazandjian, Taline D.; Petras, Daniel; Robinson, Samuel D.; van Thiel, Jory; Greene, Harry W.; Arbuckle, Kevin; Barlow, Axel; Carter, David A.; Wouters, Roel M.; Whiteley, Gareth; Wagstaff, Simon C.; Arias, Ana Silvia; Albulescu, Laura-Oana; Plettenberg Laing, Anthony; Hall, Cara; Heap, A.; Penrhyn-Lowe, S.; McCabe, Cristopher V.; Ainsworth, Stuart; da Silva, Ricardo R.; Dorrestein, Pieter C.; Richardson, Michael K.; Gutiérrez, José Maria; Calvete, Juan J.; Harrison, Robert A.; Vetter, Irina; Undheim, Eivind Andreas Baste; Wüster, Wolfgang; Casewell, Nicholas Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Convergent evolution provides insights into the selective drivers underlying evolutionary change. Snake venoms, with a direct genetic basis and clearly defined functional phenotype, provide a model system for exploring the ...
    • Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age 

      Mühlemann, Barbara; Vinner, Lasse; Margaryan, Ashot; Wilhelmson, Helene; Castro, Constanza De La Fuente; Allentoft, Morten E.; Damgaard, Peter De Barros; Hansen, Anders J.; Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark; Strand, Lisa Mariann; Bill, Jan; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Pushkina, Tamara; Falys, Ceri; Khartanovich, Valeri; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Jørkov, Marie Louise Schjellerup; Sørensen, Palle Østergaard; Magnusson, Yvonne; Gustin, Ingrid; Schroeder, Hannes; Sutter, Gerd; Smith, Geoffrey L.; Drosten, Christian; Fouchier, Ron A. M.; Smith, Derek J.; Willerslev, Eske; Jones, Terry C.; Sikora, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Humans have a notable capacity to withstand the ravages of infectious diseases. Smallpox killed millions of people but drove Jenner's invention of vaccination, which eventually led to the annihilation of this virus, declared ...
    • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex 

      Grasby, Katrina L.; Jahanshad, Neda; Painter, Jodie N; Colodro-Conde, Lucía; Bralten, Janita; Agartz, Ingrid; Alnæs, Dag; Gurholt, Tiril Pedersen; Kaufmann, Tobias; Sønderby, Ida Elken; van der Meer, Dennis; Westlye, Lars Tjelta; Wolfers, Thomas; Djurovic, Srdjan; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Andreassen, Ole Andreas; Jönsson, Erik Gunnar; Steen, Vidar Martin; Medland, Sarah E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities, yet little is known about the specific genetic loci that influence human cortical structure. To identify genetic variants that affect cortical structure, ...
    • Grand challenges in the science of wind energy 

      Veers, Paul; Dykes, Katherine; Lantz, Eric; Barth, Stephan; Bottasso, Carlo L.; Carlson, Ola; Clifton, Andrew; Green, Johney; Green, Peter; Holttinen, Hannele; Laird, Daniel; Lehtomäki, Ville; Lundquist, Julie K.; Manwell, James; Marquis, Melinda; Meneveau, Charles; Moriarty, Patrick; Munduate, Xavier; Muskulus, Michael; Naughton, Jonathan; Pao, Lucy; Paquette, Joshua; Peinke, Joachim; Robertson, Amy; Rodrigo, Javier Sanz; Sempreviva, Anna Maria; Smith, J Charles; Tuohy, Aidan; Wiser, Ryan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Modern wind turbines already represent a tightly optimized confluence of materials science and aerodynamic engineering. Veers et al. review the challenges and opportunities for further expanding this technology, with an ...
    • Highly ductile amorphous oxide at room temperature and high strain rate 

      Frankberg, Erkka J.; Kalikka, Janne; García Ferré, Francisco; Joly- Pottuz, Lucile; Salminen, Turkka; Hintikka, Jouko; Hokka, Mikko; Koneti, Siddardha; Douillard, Thierry; Le Saint, Bérangère; Kreiml, Patrice; Cordill, Megan J.; Epicier, Thierry; Stauffer, Douglas; Vanazzi, Matteo; Roiban, Lucian; Akola, Jaakko; Di Fonzo, Fabio; Levänen, Erkki (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Oxide glasses are an integral part of the modern world, but their usefulness can be limited by their characteristic brittleness at room temperature. We show that amorphous aluminum oxide can permanently deform without ...
    • An integrated materials approach to ultrapermeable and ultraselective CO2 polymer membranes 

      Sandru, Marius; Sandru, Eugenia-Mariana; Ingram, Wade F.; Deng, Jing; Stenstad, Per Martin; Deng, Liyuan; Spontak, Richard J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A challenge in the design of polymeric membranes for gas separation is the tradeoff between permeability, or how fast gases can flow through the membrane, and selectivity, the ability to separate one gas from another. In ...
    • Limited climatic space for alternative ecosystem states in Africa 

      Higgins, Steven I.; Conradi, Timo; Kruger, Laurence M.; O’Hara, Robert B.; Slingsby, Jasper A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • Mandatory disclosure is key to address climate risks 

      Carattini, Stefano; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Melkadze, Givi; Shrader, Jeffrey G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Investors have known about climate change for decades. Yet it is only recently that several countries—including France, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—have developed policies requiring large public companies ...
    • Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity 

      Murray, Gemma G.R.; Soares, André E.R.; Novak, Ben J.; Schaefer, Nathan K.; Cahill, James A.; Baker, Allan J.; Demboski, John R.; Doll, Andrew; Da Fonseca, Rute R.; Fulton, Tara L.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Heintzman, Peter D.; Letts, Brandon; McIntosh, George; O'Connell, Brendan L.; Peck, Mark; Pipes, Marie-Lorraine; Rice, Edward S.; Santos, Kathryn M.; Sohrweide, A. Gregory; Vohr, Samuel H.; Corbett-Detig, Russell B.; Green, Richard E.; Shapiro, Beth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The extinct passenger pigeon was once the most abundant bird in North America, and possibly the world. Although theory predicts that large populations will be more genetically diverse, passenger pigeon genetic diversity ...
    • Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking 

      Bellmund, Jacob Lukas Sarid; Gärdenfors, Peter; Moser, Edvard Ingjald; Doeller, Christian Fritz Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Ever since Tolman's proposal of cognitive maps in the 1940s, the question of how spatial representations support flexible behavior has been a contentious topic. Bellmund et al. review and combine concepts from cognitive ...
    • Small-molecule inhibitor of OGG1 suppresses proinflammatory gene expression and inflammation 

      Visnes, Torkild; Armando, Cazares-Körner; Wenjing, Hao; Wallner, Olov; Masuyer, Geoffrey; Loseva, Olga; Mortusewicz, Oliver; Wiita, Elisee; Sarno, Antonio; Manoilov, Aleksandr; Astorga-Wells, Juan; Jemth, Ann-Sofie; Pan, Lang; Sanjiv, Kumar; Karsten, Stella; Gokturk, Camilla; Grube, Maurice; Evert J, Homan; Hanna, Bishoy Magdi Fekry; Cynthia, Paulin BJ; pham, Therese; Rasti, Azita; Warpman Berglund, Ulrika; von Nikolai, Catharina; Benitez-Buelga, Carlos; Koolmeister, Tobias; Ivanic, Dag; Iliev, Petar; Scobie, Martin; Krokan, Hans Einar; Baranczewski, Pawel; Artursson, Per; Altun, Mikael; Jenmalm-Jensen, Annika; Kalderen, Christina; Xueqing, Ba; Zubarev, Roman A.; Stenmark, Pål; Boldogh, Istvan; Helleday, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The onset of inflammation is associated with reactive oxygen species and oxidative damage to macromolecules like 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) in DNA. Because 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1) binds 8-oxoG and ...
    • Stellate cells drive maturation of the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit 

      Donato, Flavio; Jacobsen, R Irene; Moser, May-Britt; Moser, Edvard I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The neural representation of space relies on a network of entorhinal-hippocampal cell types with firing patterns tuned to different abstract features of the environment. To determine how this network is set up during early ...
    • Subterahertz spin pumping from an insulating antiferromagnet 

      Vaidya, Priyanka; Morley, Sophie A.; van Tol, Johan; Liu, Yan; Cheng, Ran; Brataas, Arne; Lederman, David; del Barco, Enrique (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Spin-transfer torque and spin Hall effects combined with their reciprocal phenomena, spin pumping and inverse spin Hall effects (ISHEs), enable the reading and control of magnetic moments in spintronics. The direct observation ...