Guinea-Bissau suspends a US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives (www.nature.com)
Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
NIH ends support for some human fetal-tissue research – dismaying scientists (www.nature.com)
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Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why (www.nature.com)
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Publisher Correction: Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing (www.nature.com)
Hand stencils in Indonesian cave are world’s oldest known artworks (www.nature.com)
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Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes (www.nature.com)
A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia (www.nature.com)
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’ (www.nature.com)
Illuminating how the bird inner retina works without oxygen solves a 350-year-old structural mystery (www.nature.com)
More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining (www.nature.com)
Quantum effect observed for biggest objects yet (www.nature.com)
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS (www.nature.com)
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean (www.nature.com)
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders (www.nature.com)
Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk (www.nature.com)
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations (www.nature.com)
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44 (www.nature.com)
Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture (www.nature.com)
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome (www.nature.com)
Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum (www.nature.com)
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry (www.nature.com)
LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family (www.nature.com)
Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing (www.nature.com)
Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate (www.nature.com)
Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy (www.nature.com)
Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets (www.nature.com)
Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer (www.nature.com)
Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten (www.nature.com)
Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins (www.nature.com)
The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation (www.nature.com)
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits (www.nature.com)
Identification of an allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon (www.nature.com)
Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period (www.nature.com)
Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths (www.nature.com)
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi (www.nature.com)
Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter cortical interneuron subtypes (www.nature.com)
Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism (www.nature.com)
Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot (www.nature.com)
Extreme barocaloric effect at dissolution (www.nature.com)
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions (www.nature.com)
Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM (www.nature.com)
Why teens with ADHD are so vulnerable to the perils of social media (www.nature.com)
Why ADHD goes undiagnosed in girls (www.nature.com)
ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants (www.nature.com)
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Six highlights from ADHD research (www.nature.com)
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ADHD is on the rise, but why? (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury (www.nature.com)
The rich stopped buying yachts the year time went on sale (www.nature.com)
Seven technologies to watch in 2026 (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: The first documented case of tool use in cattle (www.nature.com)
Girls are starting puberty younger — why, and what are the risks? (www.nature.com)
US Congress set to reject Trump’s sweeping science budget cuts (www.nature.com)
The US is quitting 66 global agencies: what does it mean for science? (www.nature.com)
How much protein do you actually need? (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events (www.nature.com)
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains (www.nature.com)
Mistaken identity and the psychology of human recognition (www.nature.com)
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers (www.nature.com)
‘Every aspect of my work life has changed’ — scientists reflect on a year of Trump (www.nature.com)
Fossil-fuel phase out is not enough: countries must remove atmospheric carbon (www.nature.com)
Study decision-making to understand how technology will affect behaviour (www.nature.com)
US funding cuts harm aspiring young scientists, too (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Gifted dogs have word-learning skills on a par with human toddlers (www.nature.com)
Can ''toxic masculinity'' be measured? Scientists try to quantify controversial term (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: En passant neurotrophic action of an intermediate axonal target in the developing mammalian CNS (www.nature.com)
Collective intelligence for AI-assisted chemical synthesis (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Symbols on ancient pottery could be earliest evidence of mathematics (www.nature.com)
HPV vaccine could help to protect the unvaccinated against cervical cancer (www.nature.com)
Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans (www.nature.com)
Climate trends influence transatlantic flight times (www.nature.com)
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How do vaccine cutbacks affect public health? Ask Japan (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Cancer cells stay hidden using stolen mitochondria (www.nature.com)
Humanoid robots step up their game: how useful are the latest droids? (www.nature.com)
PhD students’ taste for risk mirrors their supervisors’ (www.nature.com)
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Campus protests and civil disobedience: does academia have a problem with activism? (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Why ‘harmless’ germs can be deadly for some people (www.nature.com)
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How ageing harms the body’s response to raging infection (www.nature.com)
US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year (www.nature.com)
Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking (www.nature.com)
Memories of items and their contexts are encoded by separate groups of human brain cells (www.nature.com)
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Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells (www.nature.com)
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LLMs behaving badly: mistrained AI models quickly go off the rails (www.nature.com)
AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole (www.nature.com)
Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing (www.nature.com)
Sub-zero Celsius elastocaloric cooling via low-transition-temperature alloys (www.nature.com)
Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus (www.nature.com)
Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus (www.nature.com)
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser (www.nature.com)
CFAP20 salvages arrested RNAPII from the path of co-directional replisomes (www.nature.com)
Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of mammalian metabolites (www.nature.com)
Ultra-high-throughput mapping of genetic design space (www.nature.com)
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons (www.nature.com)
N1-Methylpseudouridine directly modulates translation dynamics (www.nature.com)
The ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 drives resistance to CD8 T cell dysfunction (www.nature.com)
A nowhere-to-hide mechanism ensures complete piRNA-directed DNA methylation (www.nature.com)
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays (www.nature.com)
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Global subsidence of river deltas (www.nature.com)
Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice (www.nature.com)
Ligand-specific activation trajectories dictate GPCR signalling in cells (www.nature.com)
3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators (www.nature.com)
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Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons (www.nature.com)
Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment (www.nature.com)
Direct observation of the Migdal effect induced by neutron bombardment (www.nature.com)
Exciplex-enabled high-efficiency, fully stretchable OLEDs (www.nature.com)
Microbiota-induced T cell plasticity enables immune-mediated tumour control (www.nature.com)
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis (www.nature.com)
Mosaic lateral heterostructures in two-dimensional perovskite (www.nature.com)
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AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope (www.nature.com)
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Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears (www.nature.com)
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Should the Loch Ness Monster have a scientific name? (www.nature.com)
The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us (www.nature.com)
AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think (www.nature.com)
How did birds evolve? The answer is wilder than anyone thought (www.nature.com)
AlphaFold can help African researchers to do cutting-edge structural biology (www.nature.com)
AI writing tools could lead scholars from low-income countries to erase their own voices (www.nature.com)
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Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce (www.nature.com)
US scientists push back as Trump eyes Greenland (www.nature.com)
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Student mental health is in crisis — here’s how to help (www.nature.com)
AIs are biased toward some Indian castes — how can researchers fix this? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit (www.nature.com)
Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia (www.nature.com)
Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas (www.nature.com)
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost (www.nature.com)
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We need to talk about salaries in science (www.nature.com)
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This shapeshifting polymer was inspired by octopus skin (www.nature.com)
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Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next (www.nature.com)
Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times (www.nature.com)
Chatbots in therapy: do AI models really have ''trauma''? (www.nature.com)
Huge Chinese cell atlas reveals surprising immune variation among peoples (www.nature.com)
Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage (www.nature.com)
Will mpox go global again? Research shows it''s evolving in curious ways (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Structural insights into BCDX2 complex function in homologous recombination (www.nature.com)
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Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans’ technological talents (www.nature.com)
Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand (www.nature.com)
Blood protein thwarts deadly fungal disease (www.nature.com)
A way to identify the biological basis of gene–trait associations (www.nature.com)
Exotic quasiparticles glimpsed in graphene (www.nature.com)
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How viral RNAs escape a host mechanism that controls translation (www.nature.com)
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Ultra-low-density exoplanets observed around a young star (www.nature.com)
The complex role of nutrients in cancer spread (www.nature.com)
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Stress controls heterochromatin inheritance via histone H3 ubiquitylation (www.nature.com)
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex (www.nature.com)
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime (www.nature.com)
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Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context (www.nature.com)
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Intratumoural vaccination via checkpoint degradation-coupled antigen presentation (www.nature.com)
Mitochondrial transfer from glia to neurons protects against peripheral neuropathy (www.nature.com)
Soft photonic skins with dynamic texture and colour control (www.nature.com)
Aharonov–Bohm interference in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states (www.nature.com)
Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared (www.nature.com)
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Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants (www.nature.com)
Genetic switch between unicellularity and multicellularity in marine yeasts (www.nature.com)
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage (www.nature.com)
Soft biodegradable implants for long-distance and wide-angle sensing (www.nature.com)
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Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours (www.nature.com)
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High-voltage anode-free sodium–sulfur batteries (www.nature.com)
An expanded registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements (www.nature.com)
Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons (www.nature.com)
RNA-triggered Cas12a3 cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity (www.nature.com)
Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks (www.nature.com)
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Systematic analyses of lipid mobilization by human lipid transfer proteins (www.nature.com)
Electrochemical defluorinative Matteson-type homologation (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Animals without brains sleep too — hinting at why we sleep at all (www.nature.com)
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Sub-Saharan Africa has lost almost one-quarter of its pre-industrial biodiversity (www.nature.com)
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Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health (www.nature.com)
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Random heteropolymers as enzyme mimics (www.nature.com)
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