The modern horse was domesticated around 2200 years BCE in the northern Caucasus. In the centuries that followed it spread throughout Asia and Europe. An international team of 162 scientists collected, sequenced and compared 273 genomes from ancient horses scattered across Eurasia to come up with this finding.

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Origin of domestic horses finally established

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03864-xPreliminary modelling of airborne microplastics suggests that they may be exerting a minor cooling influence on the present-day atmosphere, and continued production could have increasing effects on the climate system in future.

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Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics

During social interactions, choices are more powerfully influenced by violations of emotion expectations (“I feel worse than expected”) than by reward prediction errors (“I received less than expected”).

How do emotions and reward guide social decisions?

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04008-xIn this Perspective, a group representing a range of stakeholders makes the case for a set of five proposed globally applicable ethical guidelines for ancient human DNA research.

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Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines

An ~5 km³ volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte formed between May 2018 and May 2019 by rapid magma intrusion through the entire lithosphere, according to an analysis of marine observations and geophysical data.

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Nature, Published online: 20 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02844-5I turned down the role of adviser to a de-extinction company — that task belongs to everyone.

Before making a mammoth, ask the public

Publisher Correction: A pan-serotype dengue virus inhibitor targeting the NS3–NS4B interaction

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02847-2Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.

Why fossil fuel subsidies are so hard to kill

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