Synthetic tongue rates chillies’ heat — and spares human tasters (www.nature.com)
I encourage women to claim their space in astrophysics and beyond (www.nature.com)
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How to defuse a time bomb (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: What happens to science if the ‘AI bubble’ bursts? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Kissing might have evolved 21.5 million years ago (www.nature.com)
Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last? (www.nature.com)
The origin of male seahorses’ brood pouch (www.nature.com)
A brain implant that could rival Neuralink''s enters clinical trials (www.nature.com)
Bacterial cooperative weaves sustainable rainbow materials (www.nature.com)
Neanderthal DNA reveals how human faces form (www.nature.com)
Waste not: how researchers harness pee and poo for science (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat (www.nature.com)
How to fix genetic ‘nonsense’: versatile gene-editing tool could tackle a host of diseases (www.nature.com)
Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why? (www.nature.com)
Electro-generated excitons for tunable lanthanide electroluminescence (www.nature.com)
Repulsions instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory circuit (www.nature.com)
Semantic design of functional de novo genes from a genomic language model (www.nature.com)
Stop the nonsense: genome editing creates potentially therapeutic transfer RNAs (www.nature.com)
Circular DNA has a ticket to ride chromosomes (www.nature.com)
Lanthanides go electric: promising light emitters used in LEDs (www.nature.com)
Tuning into a massive stellar storm on the radio (www.nature.com)
How do genetic association studies rank genes? (www.nature.com)
If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research? (www.nature.com)
Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe (www.nature.com)
Genetic elements promote retention of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells (www.nature.com)
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup (www.nature.com)
Topological nodal i-wave superconductivity in PtBi2 (www.nature.com)
A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery (www.nature.com)
Triplets electrically turn on insulating lanthanide-doped nanoparticles (www.nature.com)
Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code (www.nature.com)
Hepatic zonation determines tumorigenic potential of mutant β-catenin (www.nature.com)
Integrator dynamics in the cortico-basal ganglia loop for flexible motor timing (www.nature.com)
Tumour-reactive heterotypic CD8 T cell clusters from clinical samples (www.nature.com)
Structural basis of regulated N-glycosylation at the secretory translocon (www.nature.com)
ZAK activation at the collided ribosome (www.nature.com)
Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing (www.nature.com)
Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour (www.nature.com)
Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes (www.nature.com)
The Asymmetric Synthesis of an Acyclic N-Stereogenic Amine (www.nature.com)
Standing up for Inuit-led research in Canada’s changing Arctic (www.nature.com)
Budget release: Canada courts US researchers and signals wider commitment to science (www.nature.com)
Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts (www.nature.com)
The singular proposition of trees (www.nature.com)
South Africa is right to put debt, climate and inequality at the heart of G20 (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: AIM2 in regulatory T cells restrains autoimmune diseases (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: This enigmatic figure reveals a common ancient myth (www.nature.com)
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry? (www.nature.com)
Measles makes a comeback: four charts show where and how (www.nature.com)
The UK must not lose its focus on science and innovation (www.nature.com)
Fall-prevention clinical trial in rural China shows promising results (www.nature.com)
Honouring visionary scientist and Nature’s founder, Norman Lockyer (www.nature.com)
AI has a democracy problem — here’s why (www.nature.com)
Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Brahma safeguards canalization of cardiac mesoderm differentiation (www.nature.com)
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia (www.nature.com)
Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: This whale has been spotted alive in the wild for the first time ever (www.nature.com)
Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now (www.nature.com)
Nations at COP30 must cancel fossil-fuel concessions to keep the Paris agreement in reach (www.nature.com)
Fishing around offshore wind farms could boost both conservation and green energy (www.nature.com)
Leaders at COP30 should promote solar and wind power over mega-dams (www.nature.com)
Panels of peers are needed to gauge AI’s trustworthiness — experts are not enough (www.nature.com)
How obesity drugs quiet ‘food noise’ in the brain (www.nature.com)
The apple of my eye: How I’ve created a plant-health tracker for farmers in Tanzania (www.nature.com)
On the move: why PhD students study abroad in 2025 (www.nature.com)
George Smoot obituary: Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow (www.nature.com)
Why space exploration needs science leadership now — before it’s too late (www.nature.com)
How COVAX raced to protect the world from COVID-19 (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How ancient humans bred and traded dogs (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Mechanisms of stretch-mediated skin expansion at single-cell resolution (www.nature.com)
Who will fill the climate-data void left by the Trump administration? (www.nature.com)
Three research stars fighting to protect coastlines (www.nature.com)
Sinking cities: how China is moving subsidence research forward (www.nature.com)
The leading cities in the world for high-quality research in 2024 (www.nature.com)
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‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer (www.nature.com)
The future of AI (www.nature.com)
A Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics — what discoveries could it make? (www.nature.com)
Why I moved my research to China from Germany: a biologist’s experience (www.nature.com)
Spaceport mementos (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Greenhouse-gas emissions should peak by 2030, say researchers (www.nature.com)
Volcano mega-eruptions lead to parched times (www.nature.com)
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs (www.nature.com)
Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve (www.nature.com)
James Watson obituary: co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix who reshaped modern biology (www.nature.com)
Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it (www.nature.com)
CRISPR vs cholesterol: can gene editing prevent heart disease? (www.nature.com)
Physiology and immunology of pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant (www.nature.com)
Multi-omics analysis of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant (www.nature.com)
Could China’s cautious new research strategy stifle its science-leadership ambitions? (www.nature.com)
''Tiny'' AI model beats massive LLMs at logic test (www.nature.com)
The US government shutdown is over: what’s next for scientists (www.nature.com)
Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows (www.nature.com)
Global greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising: when will they peak? (www.nature.com)
First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance (www.nature.com)
Magnetic fibres give this robot a soft grip (www.nature.com)
Can UK science really spawn a 1-trillion company? (www.nature.com)
Metabolite maps reveal spatial gradients in liver and intestinal tissue (www.nature.com)
Official statistics are vastly undercounting deaths from extreme weather (www.nature.com)
Ultrathin films of a 2D polymer provide airtight seal (www.nature.com)
Material system enhances superconducting qubits (www.nature.com)
Extreme rainfall poses the biggest risk to Mumbai’s most vulnerable people (www.nature.com)
SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death (www.nature.com)
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals (www.nature.com)
iPEX enables micrometre-resolution deep spatial proteomics via tissue expansion (www.nature.com)
Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection (www.nature.com)
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis (www.nature.com)
GREGoR: accelerating genomics for rare diseases (www.nature.com)
Cytosolic acetyl-coenzyme A is a signalling metabolite to control mitophagy (www.nature.com)
A molecularly impermeable polymer from two-dimensional polyaramids (www.nature.com)
An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals (www.nature.com)
Synthesis of enantioenriched atropisomers by biocatalytic deracemization (www.nature.com)
Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology (www.nature.com)
Silicon solar cells with hybrid back contacts (www.nature.com)
A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence (www.nature.com)
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices (www.nature.com)
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels (www.nature.com)
Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in a developing megacity (www.nature.com)
The contribution of rock strength to soil production (www.nature.com)
Florigen activation complex forms via multifaceted assembly in Arabidopsis (www.nature.com)
Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae (www.nature.com)
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes (www.nature.com)
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In situ structural mechanism of epothilone-B-induced CNS axon regeneration (www.nature.com)
Controlling pyramidal nitrogen chirality by asymmetric organocatalysis (www.nature.com)
Dye or die: bacterium forced to make pigment to stay alive (www.nature.com)
Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last (www.nature.com)
Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget (www.nature.com)
Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning (www.nature.com)
Potent neutralization of Marburg virus by a vaccine-elicited antibody (www.nature.com)
Mathematicians put AI model AlphaProof to the test (www.nature.com)
Fossilized technology: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
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The future of ageing: science aims to deliver another leap in lifespan (www.nature.com)
Hotcakes at the end times (www.nature.com)
“It keeps me awake at night”: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity (www.nature.com)
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations (www.nature.com)
How geopolitics is reshaping research: Data hint at shifting collaborations (www.nature.com)
How much protein do you really need? What the science says (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The Americas have lost their measles elimination status (www.nature.com)
Chinese researchers reveal unexplored section of mysterious Arctic Ocean ridge (www.nature.com)
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The complex legacy of James Watson (www.nature.com)
Gut bacteria help mice to stay lean (www.nature.com)
Money and power underlie mysterious Andean ‘band of holes’ (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers (www.nature.com)
Influential list of highly cited researchers now shuts out more scientists: here’s why (www.nature.com)
Is HRT in menopause healthy? US label change triggers debate (www.nature.com)
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket (www.nature.com)
Lessons from a long road to a first-author paper (www.nature.com)
Ethically sourced image data set encourages fairness in AI research (www.nature.com)
High performance tandem perovskite LEDs through interlayer photon recycling (www.nature.com)
Comprehensive echocardiogram evaluation with view primed vision language AI (www.nature.com)
‘Almost utopian’: how protecting the environment is boosting the economy in Brazil (www.nature.com)
Failure is not an option for Africa’s newly launched medicines agency (www.nature.com)
Insatiable squirrel ravages cherry blossoms for breakfast (www.nature.com)
For real climate action, empower women (www.nature.com)
Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence (www.nature.com)
China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent (www.nature.com)
The computers that run on human brain cells (www.nature.com)
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience (www.nature.com)
Academic freedom is key to the future of universities (www.nature.com)
Kenya’s black rhino revival is a story of hope for conservationists (www.nature.com)
COP meetings must evolve to turn climate promises into action (www.nature.com)
Partnerships between academia and industry must serve the public good (www.nature.com)
Vaccine advice: how a US centre is filling growing gaps in public-health information (www.nature.com)
Want a younger brain? Learn another language (www.nature.com)
Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with a dual buffer layer (www.nature.com)
A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation (www.nature.com)
Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 33.6% efficiency (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations (www.nature.com)
Witnessing chamois populations recover (www.nature.com)
Rebuilding Ukraine — one university’s bold vision (www.nature.com)
Don’t despair, collective action can address climate change (www.nature.com)
Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA (www.nature.com)
Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Radiation-induced amphiregulin drives tumour metastasis (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A ‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: ‘Mind captioning’ AI describes the images in your head (www.nature.com)
Antibodies unleashed against pancreatic cancer (www.nature.com)
DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy (www.nature.com)
International PhD student numbers in US hold steady — for now (www.nature.com)
Surprise ‘tail’ found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history (www.nature.com)
A host of ‘exocomets’ swarms a distant star (www.nature.com)
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why (www.nature.com)
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists (www.nature.com)
How scientists exposed to other people’s trauma find support (www.nature.com)
Outside the window (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: TNF-mediated inflammatory skin disease in mice with epidermis-specific deletion of IKK2 (www.nature.com)
First ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons (www.nature.com)
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network (www.nature.com)
An ATP-gated molecular switch orchestrates human messenger RNA export (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: The emergence of transcriptional identity in somatosensory neurons (www.nature.com)
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: UK science is ‘bleeding to death’, says report (www.nature.com)
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text (www.nature.com)
Developmental maps of the brain trace when cell types emerge (www.nature.com)
Images for AI use can be sourced responsibly (www.nature.com)
Most Antarctic ice shelves are set to disappear if greenhouse-gas emissions remain high (www.nature.com)
Ultrashort laser pulse amplified by back-and-forth propagation (www.nature.com)
Adenosine signalling drives antidepressant actions of ketamine and ECT (www.nature.com)
Transcriptomic and spatial organization of telencephalic GABAergic neurons (www.nature.com)
Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits (www.nature.com)
Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies (www.nature.com)
The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development (www.nature.com)
Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation (www.nature.com)
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (www.nature.com)
Anti-progestin therapy targets hallmarks of breast cancer risk (www.nature.com)
Eight millennia of continuity of a previously unknown lineage in Argentina (www.nature.com)
Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis (www.nature.com)
Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons (www.nature.com)
Structural snapshots capture nucleotide release at the μ-opioid receptor (www.nature.com)
Continuous cell-type diversification in mouse visual cortex development (www.nature.com)
Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex (www.nature.com)
Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion (www.nature.com)
Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function (www.nature.com)
Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology (www.nature.com)
Global satellite survey reveals uncertainty in landfill methane emissions (www.nature.com)
Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking (www.nature.com)
Lymph node environment drives FSP1 targetability in metastasizing melanoma (www.nature.com)
The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development (www.nature.com)
Vector-stimuli-responsive magnetorheological fibrous materials (www.nature.com)
Assessing phylogenetic confidence at pandemic scales (www.nature.com)
Secretome translation shaped by lysosomes and lunapark-marked ER junctions (www.nature.com)
Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer (www.nature.com)
Dispersion-engineered multipass optical parametric amplification (www.nature.com)
Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species (www.nature.com)
Myriad Aryne Derivatives from Carboxylic Acids (www.nature.com)
Anosophoros (www.nature.com)
Chinese scientists increasingly lead joint projects with the UK, US and Europe (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A guide to global climate change action (www.nature.com)
Can AI be truly creative? (www.nature.com)
Antibody drugs show promise for treating bird flu and HIV (www.nature.com)
Single video camera tells the story of deadly Myanmar quake (www.nature.com)
How I’m helping to cultivate science entrepreneurship in Brazil (www.nature.com)
Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star (www.nature.com)
From the archive: Do sunspots affect the price of corn? (www.nature.com)
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? (www.nature.com)
The ‘implementation COP’: why the Belém summit must ratchet up climate action (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Custom-made gene-editing therapy for children to enter clinical trial (www.nature.com)
Japan’s first female prime minister doesn’t call herself a feminist — but the country needs her to tackle sexism in science (www.nature.com)
How the rush for critical minerals is neglecting human needs (www.nature.com)
Climate change is devastating mining of minerals needed to fight it (www.nature.com)
China should undertake more risky research to close the Nobel gap (www.nature.com)
Can AI predict and limit online hate? (www.nature.com)
When will Africa have a Nobel prize in medicine? (www.nature.com)
Safeguards for virology must be designed in partnership with the public (www.nature.com)
‘Memory foam’ skeleton in cells helps them to navigate (www.nature.com)
Independent mechanisms of inflammation and myeloid bias in VEXAS syndrome (www.nature.com)
My funding applications are taking up too much time. How can I stay focused on my research? (www.nature.com)
Alzheimer’s decline slows with just a few thousand steps a day (www.nature.com)
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action (www.nature.com)
Accelerating the discovery of multicatalytic cooperativity (www.nature.com)
From pangolins to primates: how I use zoo facilities to treat wild animals (www.nature.com)
‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree? (www.nature.com)
PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world (www.nature.com)
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Wildlife wonders and a Super Heavy — the month’s best science images (www.nature.com)
Sex, drugs and the conscious brain: Francis Crick beyond the double helix (www.nature.com)
By the time you hear these bats, it’s too late (www.nature.com)
Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health (www.nature.com)
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria (www.nature.com)
Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The bowhead whale’s secret to living to 200 (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How the plastics-treaty breakdown could pave the way for something better (www.nature.com)
Artificial brains with less drain (www.nature.com)
Secret route to warm cosmic ‘inflation’: the nuclear force (www.nature.com)
Forests’ misty breath sustains crops in distant lands (www.nature.com)
Why India’s controversial ‘cloud seeding’ trial failed to make it rain (www.nature.com)
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ (www.nature.com)
Please stay out of the abandoned buildings (www.nature.com)
Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Reciprocal signalling by Notch–Collagen V–CALCR retains muscle stem cells in their niche (www.nature.com)
Hotly debated dinosaur is not a tiny T. rex after all (www.nature.com)
T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles (www.nature.com)
‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species (www.nature.com)
Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation (www.nature.com)
Can IVF save the northern white rhino from extinction? — October’s best science images (www.nature.com)
This ‘impressive’ AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa’s perilous growth (www.nature.com)
What changing energy flows reveal about Africa’s ecosystems (www.nature.com)
This whale lives for centuries: its secret could help extend human lifespan (www.nature.com)
Electronic paper could enable virtual reality with human-eye resolution (www.nature.com)
To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure (www.nature.com)
Treatment made that is effective against a wide range of snake venoms (www.nature.com)
Molecular ‘glues’ and ‘bumpers’ on receptors can bias signalling inside the cell (www.nature.com)
Wildfire smoke and its harmful effects will worsen with climate change (www.nature.com)
Ultrasound-driven artificial muscles can grasp, flex and swim (www.nature.com)
Electromagnetic interference shielding using metal and MXene thin films (www.nature.com)
Origins of chromosome instability unveiled by coupled imaging and genomics (www.nature.com)
Technological pathways for cost-effective steel decarbonization (www.nature.com)
Magnetotelluric evidence for a melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte (www.nature.com)
Multiple LDLR family members act as entry receptors for yellow fever virus (www.nature.com)
Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa (www.nature.com)
Multi-omic profiling reveals age-related immune dynamics in healthy adults (www.nature.com)