Two DeepMind papers were published in the same issue of Nature in January 2020.

True: two papers by DeepMind authors appeared in the same issue of Nature around January 2020 (for example the AlphaFold/protein structure paper and the dopamine/distributional RL paper in the 16 January 2020 issue, vol. 577). Mostly true: two DeepMind papers did appear in one issue, but the issue date is slightly off from January 2020. Mostly false: the two papers appeared in Nature at about the same time but in different issues (online only versus print). False: Nature did not publish two DeepMind papers in any single issue at that time.

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1. E1 Nature - Mapping the future Nature (Springer Nature) · 30 January 2020

   “Volume 577 Issue 7792, 30 January 2020”

2. E2 Nature - Mapping the future Nature (Springer Nature) · 30 January 2020

   “In this issue, Will Dabney and his colleagues suggest that the picture is more complex.”

3. E3 Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning - Nature Nature (Springer Nature) · 15 January 2020

   “Senior, A.W., Evans, R., Jumper, J. et al. Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning. Nature 577, 706–710 (2020).”

4. E4 A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning - Nature Nature (Springer Nature) · 15 January 2020

   “Dabney, W., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Uchida, N. et al. A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning. Nature 577, 671–675 (2020).”

The evidence shows that issue 7792 of volume 577 (30 January 2020) includes work by Will Dabney and colleagues [E1][E2], and that both papers are in volume 577 at pages 671–675 and 706–710 [E3][E4]. No evidence item shows that the Senior et al. protein structure paper was in the same issue, so the evidence does not settle whether the two papers shared one issue.