Will AI scoop your science? Some researchers see a gloomy future (www.nature.com)
Plague scare: what scientists know — and what Russia won’t say (www.nature.com)
Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame (www.nature.com)
How to build a mouse: Embryo development captured in stunning detail (www.nature.com)
US proposes 100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work (www.nature.com)
Women are talking about menopause — health systems must listen (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Chemistry Nobel goes to mirror-molecule researchers (www.nature.com)
UAE completes Arab world''s first solo space probe – and sets course for an asteroid (www.nature.com)
Woody ‘blankets’ deployed on Arctic permafrost to reduce carbon emissions (www.nature.com)
The science of superintelligence and why AI is still a useful word (www.nature.com)
NASA releases trove of Moon data from historic Artemis II flight (www.nature.com)
Nobel Prizes 2026: brain switches, ‘ghost’ particle hunter, and ''the chemistry of life'' (www.nature.com)
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms (www.nature.com)
5-oxoETE links redox control of epithelial damage detection and resilience (www.nature.com)
Observation of critical topological phase transition (www.nature.com)
A gut microbial odd-chain fatty acid alleviates atherosclerosis in mice (www.nature.com)
Human lung organoid modelling of tissue-resident antiviral T cell responses (www.nature.com)
A Jurassic mammaliaform swimmer and transformation of the mammalian pharynx (www.nature.com)
Cryo-EM structure of a methanogen nitrogenase–PII protein supercomplex (www.nature.com)
A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal (www.nature.com)
Spatially deterministic nucleation of 2D semiconductors by etching flux (www.nature.com)
Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes (www.nature.com)
Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change (www.nature.com)
Dynamics of human cardiogenesis and its disruption in trisomy 21 (www.nature.com)
A chiral superlattice route to spin-split topological antiferromagnetism (www.nature.com)
tRNA dosage regulates lineage dependency and resistance in prostate cancer (www.nature.com)
Overcoming key challenges in the evolutionary transition to multicellularity (www.nature.com)
A 7-eV bandgap semiconductor based on silicon-doped α-(AlxGa1x)2O3 (www.nature.com)
Mechanism of spliceosome termination (www.nature.com)
A preinvasive regulatory T cell axis for lung cancer interception (www.nature.com)
Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans (www.nature.com)
Experimental observation of critical topology (www.nature.com)
Alveolar stem cells transdifferentiate to drive bronchiolar regeneration (www.nature.com)
Hydrogen bonding in water under extreme confinement (www.nature.com)
A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th (www.nature.com)
Structural basis for regulating lipopolysaccharide transmembrane transport (www.nature.com)
A thorium-229 optical nuclear clock with feedback loop (www.nature.com)
RNA catalysis emerges from dynamic structural ensembles (www.nature.com)
Observation of relativistic bond weakening in seaborgium hexacarbonyl (www.nature.com)
How to control where semiconductor crystals start growing (www.nature.com)
Revealed: How this common gut microbe protects against heart disease (www.nature.com)
Australia’s bush fires got worse after British colonization — this is why (www.nature.com)
An early predecessor to mammals could swim, suckle and swallow (www.nature.com)
Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys (www.nature.com)
Retrofitted LLM can count the letter ‘i’s in ‘artificial intelligence’ (www.nature.com)
Nuclear clocks tick for the first time (www.nature.com)
Genome accessibility reveals disease risk that gene expression misses (www.nature.com)
Semiconductors pushed into insulator territory (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Physics Nobel for founder of neutrino-hunting observatory (www.nature.com)
How we ditched presentations and embraced silence in our lab meetings (www.nature.com)
Why we must advocate for proper care on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak (www.nature.com)
‘When prevention disappears, infections rise’: can the world still end AIDS? (www.nature.com)
Why sound, strong science alone isn’t enough in pandemic preparedness (www.nature.com)
A guide to Nature Index tables (www.nature.com)
Blend (www.nature.com)
Chemistry Nobel for solving mystery of how ‘handed’ organic molecules can emerge (www.nature.com)
Can your brain grow new neurons? How researchers are solving a century-old puzzle (www.nature.com)
Unprecedented hole opened up in Antarctic winter sea ice (www.nature.com)
The Solar System could die one billion times earlier than thought (www.nature.com)
Strong evidence that ‘baryon junctions’ give proton its identity (www.nature.com)
Astronomy’s ‘adrenaline junkies’: Nobel prize captures the thrill of neutrino physics (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation (www.nature.com)
How to mobilize the agile science needed in a crisis (www.nature.com)
Flu season could kick off ‘incredibly’ early — what scientists are watching (www.nature.com)
Scientists take a radiometer for a spin in a hot-air balloon (www.nature.com)
Circular DNA exposes a weakness in cancer cells (www.nature.com)
Brain organoids grafted into cortex-free mice will advance human brain research (www.nature.com)
Nobel physics prize awarded for detection of ghostly neutrinos (www.nature.com)
Cells, who needs them? Biochemists turn to proteins in a tube (www.nature.com)
Rising numbers of Asian and African PhD students choose to study in China (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Medicine Nobel prize goes to optogenetics (www.nature.com)
Why smart glasses are about to create a major privacy crisis (www.nature.com)
How digital breakdowns affect supply chains — and endanger the global economy (www.nature.com)
AI could undermine scientific independence in subtle ways (www.nature.com)
Preprints must not leak sensitive research information (www.nature.com)
The Great Barrier Reef requires special attention in the developing super El Niño (www.nature.com)
Maintaining global science collaboration during conflict requires fairer rules (www.nature.com)
The top cancer success stories of the past 50 years, by the numbers (www.nature.com)
‘What took them so long?’ This year’s medicine Nobel winner is overdue (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Can you name every female Nobel laureate? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The sky as you’ve never seen it — the month’s best science images (www.nature.com)
AI biohazard hype must not divert attention from the real risks we face now (www.nature.com)
How big tech is building a military–industrial complex in the age of AI (www.nature.com)
Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates (www.nature.com)
Location, location, location: how to edit genes only in the cells you want (www.nature.com)
Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? (www.nature.com)
‘Learning about physics changed my life’: author Hernan Diaz on his new novel Ply (www.nature.com)
Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them (www.nature.com)
Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial (www.nature.com)
How to respond to hate speech without fuelling it further (www.nature.com)
Can we have class outside? Seven tips to breeze through outdoor lectures (www.nature.com)
Von Neumann’s party (www.nature.com)
Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs'' distinctive path to flight (www.nature.com)
Can pancreatic cancer be stopped in its tracks? Radical tactic raises hopes (www.nature.com)
A black hole’s jets have a halo effect (www.nature.com)
Sign of the times: AI lingo muscles into esteemed dictionary (www.nature.com)
Retraction Note: Ribosomal frameshifting in the CCR5 mRNA is regulated by miRNAs and the NMD pathway (www.nature.com)
Battle of the Anthropocene: allegations re-ignite row over proposed geologic epoch (www.nature.com)
Gaze into the cosmos and through the eyes of a bee — September’s best science images (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How to save corals from the El Niño (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Vaping has ‘alarming’ risks for children (www.nature.com)
The ‘missed disease’ that affects 190 million: endometriosis drug shows early promise (www.nature.com)
This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition (www.nature.com)
AI ‘speech clock’ assesses how fast you’re ageing from your voice (www.nature.com)
Population-scale immune multiome atlas reveals regulatory disease mechanisms (www.nature.com)
Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ (www.nature.com)
How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers (www.nature.com)
Who’s the loudest of them all? The bare-throated bellbird vies for the prize (www.nature.com)
A two-hit mechanism triggers autoimmune hair loss (www.nature.com)
A TBK1/ULK1 signalling axis couples lysosomal stress to TFEB activation (www.nature.com)
Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins (www.nature.com)
Self-aligned optical microcomb emerging between octave-separated lasers (www.nature.com)
Butterfly wing patterns in flight create powerful illusory motion cues (www.nature.com)
Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod (www.nature.com)
Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information (www.nature.com)
Spatiotemporal clonal architecture of the newborn mouse forebrain (www.nature.com)
γδ T cell receptor dependencies define a unique immunosurveillance modality (www.nature.com)
GPCR antagonism via rewiring of receptor trafficking and degradation (www.nature.com)
Transcription pause and elongation regulators mediate somatic hypermutation (www.nature.com)
Written in development and lost in ageing: the grammar of cellular identity (www.nature.com)
Wafer-scale epitaxy growth of high-mobility p-type boron carbon nitride (www.nature.com)
Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain (www.nature.com)
Human genetics implicates a BACH2–NRF2 axis in fetal haemoglobin activation (www.nature.com)
Osteoclasts intercept meningeal lymphatic paths for dural metastasis (www.nature.com)
Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea (www.nature.com)
An amygdala to anterior hypothalamic circuit gates stress sensitivity (www.nature.com)
Carbene transfer from thianthrenium ylides for cyclopropanation (www.nature.com)
Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity (www.nature.com)
X-ray liquidography decodes complex motions in azobenzene isomerization (www.nature.com)
Global mangrove distribution on the open coast is controlled by waves (www.nature.com)
Type 2 immune history trains lung macrophages for viral disease tolerance (www.nature.com)
Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption (www.nature.com)
Pipework problems when cancer spreads to an area bordering the brain (www.nature.com)
Harmful tau spreads like self-propagating prion proteins (www.nature.com)
Sugar amplifies antibiotic disruption of gut microbes (www.nature.com)
Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature (www.nature.com)
2D semiconductor aims to turbocharge development of high-performance electronics (www.nature.com)
These optical illusions are whybutterflies are so hard to catch (www.nature.com)
Restoring hearing in people with a rare form of deafness (www.nature.com)
How to spend 25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way (www.nature.com)
Is exposomics the key to making personalized medicine a reality? (www.nature.com)
The buck stops with me (www.nature.com)
Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards (www.nature.com)
I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong? (www.nature.com)
Beware sham scientific societies: the research community must be more vigilant (www.nature.com)
The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them? (www.nature.com)
Emissions after the Paris accord made Europe’s heatwaves more severe (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Proteasome-guided haem signalling axis contributes to T cell exhaustion (www.nature.com)
Lab-grown brain organoids: time for international oversight (www.nature.com)
AI-powered medical devices must be tested in real-world settings (www.nature.com)
Strange and beautiful creatures spotted on the Challenger expedition (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Old hearts ‘de-age’ in younger people (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Landmark bat study suggests they evolved in Europe (www.nature.com)
How to put people first in cyberspace (www.nature.com)
A new chapter in targeting kinase enzymes in cancer (www.nature.com)
China wants to build world-leading science journals — can it be done? (www.nature.com)
The cost of lost labour on a warming planet (www.nature.com)
AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable (www.nature.com)
Why AI-authorship debates miss a deeper shift in how scholarly knowledge is produced (www.nature.com)
Patents alone won’t unlock critical-mineral supply chains (www.nature.com)
Biodiversity protection must include language preservation (www.nature.com)
PhD training should encourage ethical dissent (www.nature.com)
Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals (www.nature.com)
Bigger than CRISPR? A guide to the latest genome editors (www.nature.com)
Vaping in childhood has bigger health risks than we’d thought (www.nature.com)
Stephen Hawking biography explores an ‘exceptionally clear, uncluttered mind’ (www.nature.com)
Transplanted hearts adjust their biological age to that of their host (www.nature.com)
China now leads the world in trials for next-gen CAR-T therapies (www.nature.com)
Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next? (www.nature.com)
OpenAI''s research chief talks of ‘cultural reset’ after wild few weeks (www.nature.com)
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers (www.nature.com)
Nepal’s floods expose issues with climate-disaster funding — firmer policies are needed fast (www.nature.com)
Chemists struggle to ditch hazardous solvents — even after decades of ‘green’ efforts (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: Why scientists made papyrus scrolls, then burnt them (www.nature.com)
Why science wouldn’t exist without alchemy, curiosity and great writing: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Will AI really be the death of us all? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Read the text inside a charred, rolled-up scroll (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The mystery of the ‘little red dots’ (www.nature.com)
AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time (www.nature.com)
GLP-1 drugs fail to help some people lose weight — scientists are on a quest for answers (www.nature.com)
AlphaFold ''goes viral'': database adds protein complexes of common viruses (www.nature.com)
AI system helps lab devices ‘talk’ with each other — streamlining research (www.nature.com)
Bumblebees don’t mind a little plastic in their honeypots (www.nature.com)
Youthful fans of YouTube sports videos stick to the sofa (www.nature.com)
AI agent hacks government website for first time: why this breach matters (www.nature.com)
This weird form of boron is a million times more conductive than chemists expected (www.nature.com)
Surprising protein links dietary restriction to increased lifespan in flies (www.nature.com)
Genome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolution (www.nature.com)
Conifer trees can prosper half a world away from their usual home (www.nature.com)
A widespread agricultural practice is an unexpected CO2 sink (www.nature.com)
Best clock ever: timekeeper based on lutetium atoms wows researchers (www.nature.com)
Gravitational forces inside Earth drag some decades out — and make others fly by (www.nature.com)
The human skeleton’s unique adaptations relied on gene regulatory changes (www.nature.com)
Vast cellular gene-expression atlas could transform how scientists understand brain ageing and disease (www.nature.com)
Landmark map of human brain’s gene activity holds clues to Alzheimer’s disease and more (www.nature.com)
A plant that reproduces sexually but has clone-like offspring (www.nature.com)
Gravitational tug-of-war inside Earth is changing the length of our days (www.nature.com)
Efficient yet stable large perovskite solar modules made using surface treatment (www.nature.com)
Brain lipids are organized into zones — and reorganized during pregnancy (www.nature.com)
The mutational dynamics of the Arabidopsis centromeres (www.nature.com)
Organic two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (www.nature.com)
Neuronal detection of social actions directs collective escape behaviour (www.nature.com)
A quadruped robot designed to complete a marathon on a single battery charge (www.nature.com)
MMEJ repair of breaks at TA repeats maintains ecDNA and cancer fitness (www.nature.com)
Single-cell atlas of transcriptomic vulnerability across brain disorders (www.nature.com)
The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain (www.nature.com)
Lsp2 links early-life diet to adult translation and lifespan in Drosophila (www.nature.com)
Lsp2 links mTORC1 to TOP mRNA translation and lifespan in Drosophila (www.nature.com)
TRAM promotes Toll-like-receptor-free myddosome signal transduction (www.nature.com)
Stacking-induced direct band gap in CVD-grown 1H MoS2 bilayers (www.nature.com)
Agricultural liming is a carbon sink in the Mississippi River Basin (www.nature.com)
Lifespan single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the human prefrontal cortex (www.nature.com)
Anomalous metal and superconducting phases in rhombohedral graphene (www.nature.com)
Targeting ZMYND8 unleashes IL-2 signalling to override T cell exhaustion (www.nature.com)
mTORC1 drives cell-autonomous astrocyte reactivity in tuberous sclerosis (www.nature.com)
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography (www.nature.com)
A methanogen hydrolase reveals the structure of archaeal peptidoglycan (www.nature.com)
A design approach for bitopic kinase inhibitors (www.nature.com)
Hepatocytes promote liver metastasis of pancreatic cancer by providing serine (www.nature.com)
Banking records reveal characteristics of financial abuse (www.nature.com)
Sequence-encoded hexagonal lattices in multichannel peptide nanofibrils (www.nature.com)
Lu optical frequency references with accuracy verified at the 19th digit (www.nature.com)
Single-nucleus transcriptome-wide association study of human brain disorders (www.nature.com)
Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day (www.nature.com)
The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases (www.nature.com)
The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton (www.nature.com)
Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control (www.nature.com)
Chiral oxazolidinones via biocatalytic aziridination of unactivated alkenes (www.nature.com)
What is needed for regenerative medicine to flourish? (www.nature.com)
A guide to the Nature Index (www.nature.com)
‘Remarkably encouraging’: stem-cell treatments for autoimmune diseases enter new phase (www.nature.com)
Lack of female researchers and participants in regenerative-medicine research holds everyone back (www.nature.com)
Competition heats up in the regenerative-medicine ranks (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling (www.nature.com)
The courier (www.nature.com)
How do I rekindle my motivation for earning my PhD? (www.nature.com)
Huge hoard of metal bars hints at vast Iron Age trade (www.nature.com)
How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking (www.nature.com)
In praise of human teachers: universities must resist outsourcing everything to AI (www.nature.com)
Dust in the wind is on the decline (www.nature.com)
This super-cold microscope could spur a quantum revolution (www.nature.com)
Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate (www.nature.com)
Nepal floods pose biggest test yet for UN climate loss and damage fund (www.nature.com)
About to give your first lecture? Read this first (www.nature.com)
Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype (www.nature.com)
What happens in Vegas: one lecturer’s hunt for a projector (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The first new cat species described by science in a century (www.nature.com)
All the ways a cell can die — and why the variety matters (www.nature.com)
Hundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging fees (www.nature.com)
Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them (www.nature.com)
The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare (www.nature.com)
A global safety net for climate-risk intelligence is urgently needed (www.nature.com)
Why insects need their own protected areas (www.nature.com)
Biosecurity must protect human functional capacity (www.nature.com)
''Epigenetic'' editing is here: gene-tagging technique banishes hepatitis B virus (www.nature.com)
China punishes prominent academics exposed by research sleuth (www.nature.com)
Edible batteries power medical devices in the body (www.nature.com)
Chemist-aligned retrosynthesis by ensembling diverse inductive bias models (www.nature.com)
AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How to turn a paper into an AI agent (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Fresh evidence for hidden chambers at Tutankhamun’s tomb (www.nature.com)
Losing your way of life to climate change matters — and we need a way to measure it (www.nature.com)
Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities (www.nature.com)
How do I change labs gracefully during my PhD? (www.nature.com)
AI cracked the Navier–Stokes challenge. What does that mean for physics? (www.nature.com)
How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun''s tomb (www.nature.com)
Europe pushes for space independence amid geopolitical rifts (www.nature.com)
How research funding took me out of the lab and into leadership (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Asgards — the microorganisms that might have begat us all (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Reading for pleasure linked to big brain benefits (www.nature.com)
First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment (www.nature.com)
Chinese companies doubled down on science after US tech restrictions (www.nature.com)
Cognitive resilience helps to predict Alzheimer’s dementia (www.nature.com)
Mercury is shrinking with age — faster than thought (www.nature.com)
How a team of AIs discovered a promising lung-cancer drug (www.nature.com)
How fast are you ageing? Ask AI (www.nature.com)
Take a risk or play it safe? Neuronal tug-of-war helps the brain decide (www.nature.com)
Schoolhouse meals serve up an income bump (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer (www.nature.com)
OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate about who gets credit in age of AI (www.nature.com)
Exclusive: New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun’s tomb (www.nature.com)
Why most stars don’t have outbursts like our Sun’s (www.nature.com)
AI tool turns any paper into an ‘agent’ that can collaborate and answer complex queries (www.nature.com)
Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex (www.nature.com)
Virus-like particles observed assembling in real time (www.nature.com)
Tumour cells shape their environment to protect them from the immune system (www.nature.com)
Human brain cells transplanted into mice in ‘most extensive’ integration ever (www.nature.com)
Nearly one in seven young, male white voters in the US support white nationalism (www.nature.com)
Turning scientific research papers into interactive AI agents (www.nature.com)
Molecular computation that rolls energetically downhill (www.nature.com)
Antimatter: coming soon to a lab near you? (www.nature.com)
Marine bacteria cooperate to break down complex algal carbohydrates (www.nature.com)
A thermodynamically favoured molecular computer (www.nature.com)
Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States (www.nature.com)
Identification of broadly tumour-reactive γδ TCRs from multiple myeloma (www.nature.com)
Assessing biological degradation of non-hydrolysable synthetic polymers (www.nature.com)
Cohesin reshapes replication fork contacts to aid fork slowing and reversal (www.nature.com)