From ancient temples to bomb craters: explore Laos’s layered history — in photos (www.nature.com)
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China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct (www.nature.com)
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Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (www.nature.com)
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Robust partitioning of cell contents by physical instabilities and biological clocks (www.nature.com)
Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe? (www.nature.com)
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Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics (www.nature.com)
Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen (www.nature.com)
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells (www.nature.com)
Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain (www.nature.com)
Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules (www.nature.com)
Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (www.nature.com)
Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value (www.nature.com)
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source (www.nature.com)
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Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet (www.nature.com)
Targeting excessive cholesterol deposition alleviates secondary lymphoedema (www.nature.com)
SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer (www.nature.com)
Months-long stability of the head-direction system (www.nature.com)
Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory (www.nature.com)
Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs (www.nature.com)
Pre-incision structures reveal principles of DNA nucleotide excision repair (www.nature.com)
Conformational diversity and fully opening mechanism of native NMDA receptor (www.nature.com)
Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction (www.nature.com)
Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys (www.nature.com)
CSN5i-3 is an orthosteric molecular glue inhibitor of COP9 signalosome (www.nature.com)
Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes (www.nature.com)
Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound (www.nature.com)
An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help (www.nature.com)
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies'' brains (www.nature.com)
Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data (www.nature.com)
African countries must take control of health policy (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Caffeine might reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline (www.nature.com)
18,000,000 minutes (www.nature.com)
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My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong (www.nature.com)
What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized? (www.nature.com)
Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall (www.nature.com)
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief (www.nature.com)
Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook (www.nature.com)
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent (www.nature.com)
Public-speaking tips from the experts: what scientists can learn from comics, musicians and actors (www.nature.com)
China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead (www.nature.com)
Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability (www.nature.com)
Publishing less won’t save the research system (www.nature.com)
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Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown (www.nature.com)
Coffee drinking linked to slower brain ageing (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The dark side of the battery boom (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Bonobo’s tea party is first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human (www.nature.com)
My mission to make life more user friendly for the disability community (www.nature.com)
Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed (www.nature.com)
How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science (www.nature.com)
The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost? (www.nature.com)
Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk? (www.nature.com)
Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions (www.nature.com)
US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency (www.nature.com)
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known (www.nature.com)
Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: ''External lungs'' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant (www.nature.com)
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Tumours use neurons as hotline to the brain (www.nature.com)
‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’ (www.nature.com)
Universities in exile: displaced scholars count the costs of starting afresh (www.nature.com)
Not just a chip off the old block: nanoparticles reveal odd traits (www.nature.com)
This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans (www.nature.com)
Beetle is locked in to an eternal dance ― with an ant (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding (www.nature.com)
Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis (www.nature.com)
NASA’s latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership (www.nature.com)
First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers (www.nature.com)
These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable (www.nature.com)
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects (www.nature.com)
How a protein repurposes vitamin B12 as a light sensor (www.nature.com)
A way to gauge the equity of ocean-related initiatives (www.nature.com)
Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain (www.nature.com)
Evolutionary insights into a skin fold (www.nature.com)
Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age (www.nature.com)
How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells (www.nature.com)
Particle collisions cast light on how matter forms from seemingly empty space (www.nature.com)
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right (www.nature.com)
Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss (www.nature.com)
A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences (www.nature.com)
Machine learning slashes the testing needed to work out battery lifetimes (www.nature.com)
Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation (www.nature.com)
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement (www.nature.com)
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads (www.nature.com)
Integrated structural dynamics uncover a new B12 photoreceptor activation mode (www.nature.com)
Mosquito–capsid interactions contribute to flavivirus vector specificity (www.nature.com)
Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin (www.nature.com)
Activated ATF6α is a hepatic tumour driver restricting immunosurveillance (www.nature.com)
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors (www.nature.com)
Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness (www.nature.com)
Regulation of STING activation by phosphoinositide and cholesterol (www.nature.com)
Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistor (www.nature.com)
Spin-wave band-pass filters for 6G communication (www.nature.com)
ZFTA–RELA ependymomas make itaconate to epigenetically drive fusion expression (www.nature.com)
Single-molecule dynamics of the TRiC chaperonin system in vivo (www.nature.com)
Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth (www.nature.com)
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis (www.nature.com)
Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes (www.nature.com)
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder (www.nature.com)
Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor (www.nature.com)
A pore-forming antiphage defence is activated by oligomeric phage proteins (www.nature.com)
Signatures of fractional charges via anyon–trions in twisted MoTe2 (www.nature.com)
Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers (www.nature.com)
Discovery Learning predicts battery cycle life from minimal experiments (www.nature.com)
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models (www.nature.com)
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays (www.nature.com)
Atmospheric H2 variability over the past 1,100 years (www.nature.com)
PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling (www.nature.com)
Biofluid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias (www.nature.com)
Regulatory grammar in human promoters uncovered by MPRA-based deep learning (www.nature.com)
Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming (www.nature.com)
A universal concept for melting in mantle upwellings (www.nature.com)
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate (www.nature.com)
AI could transform research assessment — and some academics are worried (www.nature.com)
What my cave stay taught me about sensors (www.nature.com)
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The smart sensors improving the world’s biggest cities (www.nature.com)
Eviction notice (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes revealed by ribosome profiling (www.nature.com)
NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern (www.nature.com)
Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: What people with no ‘mind’s eye’ can tell us about consciousness (www.nature.com)
Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution (www.nature.com)
Author knows best? Top AI conference asks for self-ranked papers amid paper deluge (www.nature.com)
More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds (www.nature.com)
Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells (www.nature.com)
Now is not the time to defund human fetal tissue research (www.nature.com)
A history of hocus pocus: witchcraft down the ages (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling (www.nature.com)
I know science can’t fix the world — here’s why I do it anyway (www.nature.com)
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? (www.nature.com)
The ''bible for psychiatry'' is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM (www.nature.com)
The global plastics treaty can be saved — here’s how to break the deadlock (www.nature.com)
Who does academic consulting serve? (www.nature.com)
Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues (www.nature.com)
Embrace diverse PhD supervision styles — but enforce essential standards (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Scientists delve into the smells of history (www.nature.com)
China’s relationship with foreign scientific powers is changing rapidly (www.nature.com)
OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? (www.nature.com)
Long-lived remote ion-ion entanglement for scalable quantum repeaters (www.nature.com)
A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB (www.nature.com)
How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars (www.nature.com)
See the Sun expand and contract like a pufferfish — January’s best science images (www.nature.com)
Science finds its song (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Why we enjoy things more when they’re hard to get (www.nature.com)
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear (www.nature.com)
Is this journal legitimate? This tool can help you decide (www.nature.com)
Are health influencers making us sick? (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis (www.nature.com)
This robot hand detaches and walks by itself (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing (www.nature.com)
China is betting on ‘optical’ computer chips – will they power AI? (www.nature.com)
Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Brain–immune crosstalk worsens the damage of heart attacks (www.nature.com)
How DeepMind''s genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries (www.nature.com)
Can academia handle my religious faith? (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia (www.nature.com)
Light-powered bacteria become living chemical factories (www.nature.com)
Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable (www.nature.com)
Still conscious? Brain marker signals when anaesthesia takes hold (www.nature.com)
Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands (www.nature.com)
48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant (www.nature.com)
This AI has chemical expertise — and helps synthesize 35 new drugs and materials (www.nature.com)
ArXiv says submissions must be in English: are AI translators up for the job? (www.nature.com)
Five ways to make the academic workplace happier and healthier this year (www.nature.com)
Developmental convergence and divergence in human stem cell models of autism (www.nature.com)
Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers (www.nature.com)
AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection (www.nature.com)
Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests (www.nature.com)
A bendable AI chip for wearable technology (www.nature.com)
Pesticide cocktails negatively affect soil biodiversity (www.nature.com)
Expert-level test is a head-scratcher for AI (www.nature.com)
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields (www.nature.com)
Scraps of viral DNA in biobank samples reveal secrets of Epstein–Barr virus (www.nature.com)
A step towards building miniature human livers (www.nature.com)
Chill out: freezing temperatures produced by letting a stressed alloy relax (www.nature.com)
Structure and mechanism of the human bile acid transporter OSTα–OSTβ (www.nature.com)
Vagal blood volume receptors compensate for haemorrhage and posture change (www.nature.com)
Optical switching of a moiré Chern ferromagnet (www.nature.com)
Observation of a superfluid-to-insulator transition of bilayer excitons (www.nature.com)
Structures of Ostα/β reveal a unique fold and bile acid transport mechanism (www.nature.com)
Pre-assembly of biomolecular condensate seeds drives RSV replication (www.nature.com)
GlycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signalling (www.nature.com)
A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities (www.nature.com)
Holistic motor control of zebra finch song syllable sequences (www.nature.com)
Disentangling multiple gas kinematic drivers in the Perseus galaxy cluster (www.nature.com)
Optical control over topological Chern number in moiré materials (www.nature.com)
A flexible digital compute-in-memory chip for edge intelligence (www.nature.com)
The Ocean Equity Index (www.nature.com)
Ferromagnet-like binary switching of a Stoner–Wohlfarth antiferromagnet (www.nature.com)
Optofluidic three-dimensional microfabrication and nanofabrication (www.nature.com)
Limit of atomic-resolution-tomography reconstruction of amorphous nanoparticles (www.nature.com)
Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated Gi signalling (www.nature.com)
Vacuum ultraviolet second-harmonic generation in NH4B4O6F crystal (www.nature.com)
A cross-population compendium of gene–environment interactions (www.nature.com)
A cavity-array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing (www.nature.com)
Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome (www.nature.com)
Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability (www.nature.com)
A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread (www.nature.com)
Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance (www.nature.com)
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth (www.nature.com)
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction (www.nature.com)
PAF15–PCNA exhaustion governs the strand-specific control of DNA replication (www.nature.com)
Frequency reproducibility of solid-state thorium-229 nuclear clocks (www.nature.com)
Human and bacterial genetic variation shape oral microbiomes and health (www.nature.com)
Bandwidth-tuned Mott transition and superconductivity in moiré WSe2 (www.nature.com)
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source (www.nature.com)
Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils (www.nature.com)
Population-scale sequencing resolves determinants of persistent EBV DNA (www.nature.com)
Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy (www.nature.com)
Optical control of integer and fractional Chern insulators (www.nature.com)
Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour (www.nature.com)
Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut–brain axis (www.nature.com)
Accurate determination of the 3D atomic structure of amorphous materials (www.nature.com)
Radiation-tolerant atomic-layer-scale RF system for spaceborne communication (www.nature.com)
Multimodal learning with next-token prediction for large multimodal models (www.nature.com)
Prethermalization by random multipolar driving on a 78-qubit processor (www.nature.com)
Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors (www.nature.com)
Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa (www.nature.com)
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work (www.nature.com)
Technologies to give a clearer view of the lungs (www.nature.com)
How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy (www.nature.com)
Could the regenerative power of the lungs help to reverse disease? (www.nature.com)
Six highlights from lung-health research (www.nature.com)
Treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are on the horizon (www.nature.com)
Funding cuts could put research into emerging threats to lung health at risk (www.nature.com)
Exposome studies can improve lung health (www.nature.com)
Act now to clean up air (www.nature.com)
Preserving the respiratory system (www.nature.com)
The unfortunate embossing of Subsector XZ-74 (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The battle over the identity of the first animals (www.nature.com)
Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on (www.nature.com)
Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious ‘dark oxygen’ (www.nature.com)
The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise (www.nature.com)
How much exercise do you really need? (www.nature.com)
Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum (www.nature.com)
Sensors are transforming the world — work together to maximize their benefits (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Nutrient-sensing nuclear receptors coordinate autophagy (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Blister beetles hoodwink bees with floral smells (www.nature.com)
Volcanic personality: the man who recognized volcanoes as a planet-shaping force of nature (www.nature.com)
Would forced retirement solve the academic job crisis? (www.nature.com)
How to eat well and within Earth’s limits (www.nature.com)
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end (www.nature.com)
Spotting viral invaders in koala family trees (www.nature.com)
African science needs to cut reliance on foreign donors (www.nature.com)
Street-dog policy in India is barking up the wrong tree (www.nature.com)
Social-media bans: why corporate fines could backfire (www.nature.com)
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI (www.nature.com)
Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks (www.nature.com)
Why do women like me get diagnosed with ADHD late? (www.nature.com)
Quantum spinning effect observed in a levitating magnet (www.nature.com)
Defending endangered trees against climate change and hungry goats (www.nature.com)
Exceeding 1.5 C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy (www.nature.com)
As we breach 1.5 C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Why cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s disease (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Largest ever ‘superposition’ pushes quantum boundary (www.nature.com)
Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing (www.nature.com)
Greenland is important for global research: what''s next for the island''s science? (www.nature.com)
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes (www.nature.com)
What a 1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans (www.nature.com)
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)
Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 (www.nature.com)
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why (www.nature.com)
Microplastic levels in the air have been overestimated, but are still a big concern (www.nature.com)
What your breath says about the bacteria in your gut (www.nature.com)
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click (www.nature.com)
‘Bodies like ours aren’t considered in academia’ (www.nature.com)
Canny cattle: at least one cow knows how to use tools (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Trump — one year in (www.nature.com)
Cause of vision loss discovered in overlooked genes (www.nature.com)
‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells (www.nature.com)
The biggest ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition (www.nature.com)
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)
An eye-popping discovery: early vertebrates had four eyes rather than two (www.nature.com)