The time points beyond which individual Antarctic ice shelves could no longer exist in their current form have been estimated under several anthropogenic emission scenarios. These projections take into account uncertainties related to ice, atmosphere and ocean processes, including those concerning poorly understood processes such as ice fracturing and iceberg formation.

A large consortium of researchers has mapped how brain cells establish diverse identities throughout neurodevelopment and across species.

Recent studies integrating multi-omics data with cell atlases across development for brains of humans and model organisms are revealing conserved and divergent patterns of brain development at the molecular and cellular levels, and linking these to complex behavioural and neuropsychiatric phenotypes.

Crop prices correlate with an 11-year solar period, and a meteor detonates over Ireland, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.