Elusive ‘nuclear clocks’ tick closer to reality — after decades in the making (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Static electricity is still a mystery — here’s what we know (www.nature.com)
I paused my PhD for 11 years to help save Madagascar’s seas (www.nature.com)
Paul R. Ehrlich obituary: pioneering ecologist who caused controversy by predicting a ‘population bomb’ (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: Are scientists funny? The evidence is in — and it''s no joke (www.nature.com)
Mighty mini-magnet is low in cost and light on energy use (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A PP1–PP2A phosphatase relay controls mitotic progression (www.nature.com)
Lab-grown oesophagus restores pigs’ ability to swallow (www.nature.com)
The mid-career reset: how to be strategic about your research direction (www.nature.com)
‘Unaffordable’ visa price hike threatens Australia’s researcher pipeline (www.nature.com)
Chemical pollutants are rife across the world’s oceans (www.nature.com)
Strength persists after a mid-life course of obesity drugs (www.nature.com)
Faster ticking of ‘biological clock’ predicts shorter lifespan (www.nature.com)
Stress can cause eczema to flare-up – now we know why (www.nature.com)
A breath of fresh air: solving Ulaanbaatar’s pollution issues — in photos (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: A FADD-dependent innate immune mechanism in mammalian cells (www.nature.com)
Project Hail Mary film builds dazzling new worlds — and grounds them in science (www.nature.com)
China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Funding calls plummet as NIH turns away from agency-directed science (www.nature.com)
Seeking an industry role? Sell yourself as a problem-solver, not a job-seeker (www.nature.com)
Masked mitochondria slip into cells to treat disease in mice (www.nature.com)
Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize (www.nature.com)
UK bets big on homegrown fusion and quantum — can it lead the world? (www.nature.com)
Brain’s protective barrier stays leaky for years after playing contact sports (www.nature.com)
Botanical mystery solved: how plants make a crucial malaria drug (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: China approves world-first brain–computer interface device (www.nature.com)
Thymus health is a predictor of lifelong well-being and immunotherapy effectiveness (www.nature.com)
An enzyme inside the bacterial-cell membrane chops up viral DNA on entry (www.nature.com)
CRISPR makes enhanced cancer-fighting immune cells inside mice (www.nature.com)
Our microbial ancestors were probably oxygen-tolerant (www.nature.com)
Mystery of how plants make a family of medicinal molecules has been solved (www.nature.com)
Quirky base pairing attracts rule-breaking enzymes to destroy microRNAs (www.nature.com)
Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it (www.nature.com)
A gene-editing method generates immunotherapeutic CAR T cells in the body (www.nature.com)
Leading the charge to explain static electricity (www.nature.com)
Hair-raising: how carbon contamination can drive static charging (www.nature.com)
Genome editing that avoids immune detection to integrate large DNA sequences (www.nature.com)
Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story (www.nature.com)
Catabolism of extracellular glutathione supplies cysteine to support tumours (www.nature.com)
A strong constraint on radiative forcing of well-mixed greenhouse gases (www.nature.com)
Climbing fibres recruit disinhibition to enhance Purkinje cell calcium signals (www.nature.com)
Adventitious carbon breaks symmetry in oxide contact electrification (www.nature.com)
The E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanism specifying targeted microRNA degradation (www.nature.com)
Integrated photonic neural network with on-chip backpropagation training (www.nature.com)
Biosynthesis of cinchona alkaloids (www.nature.com)
Proteasome-guided haem signalling axis contributes to T cell exhaustion (www.nature.com)
Contrasting thermophilization among forests, grasslands and alpine summits (www.nature.com)
Thymic health and immunotherapy outcomes in patients with cancer (www.nature.com)
Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years (www.nature.com)
Observation of self-bound droplets of ultracold dipolar molecules (www.nature.com)
Bistable superlattice switching in a quantum spin Hall insulator (www.nature.com)
Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes (www.nature.com)
Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years (www.nature.com)
Adaptive evolution of gene regulatory networks in mammalian neocortex (www.nature.com)
Thymic health consequences in adults (www.nature.com)
Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry (www.nature.com)
Synthetic circuits for cell ratio control (www.nature.com)
In vivo site-specific engineering to reprogram T cells (www.nature.com)
Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo (www.nature.com)
Integrated memristor for mitigating reverse-bias in perovskite solar cells (www.nature.com)
Evolution (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming (www.nature.com)
AI set to map risks of future climate disasters (www.nature.com)
Affordable mobility for all: why we need smaller, cheaper electric vehicles (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (www.nature.com)
Founders of quantum information win top prize in computer science (www.nature.com)
Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes mostly fall flat (www.nature.com)
Can weight-loss pills replace injectables? What the science says (www.nature.com)
Triple-junction solar cells with improved carrier and photon management (www.nature.com)
Molecular basis of oocyte cytoplasmic lattice assembly (www.nature.com)
Planar Li deposition and dissolution enable practical anode-free pouch cells (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How labs are coping with ‘RAMmageddon’ (www.nature.com)
Why the crisis in official statistics matters — and how it can be fixed (www.nature.com)
NIH pivots away from agency-directed science (www.nature.com)
When artificial lightning strikes (www.nature.com)
How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career (www.nature.com)
AI is programmed to hijack human empathy — we must resist that (www.nature.com)
Dopamine takes a hit: how neuroscience is rethinking the ‘feel-good’ chemical (www.nature.com)
AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI tool now includes protein pairing (www.nature.com)
How wealthy tech entrepreneurs seek to shape politics, culture and the future — and why we must resist (www.nature.com)
Marine conservation cities: a model for ocean governance (www.nature.com)
How the Pokémon franchise has helped to shape neuroscience (www.nature.com)
Autism in older adults: the health system must recognize its effects (www.nature.com)
Rethinking AI’s role in survey research: from threat to collaboration (www.nature.com)
A single course of antibiotics can cause lingering changes in gut microbes (www.nature.com)
Data from smart watches reveal early signs of insulin resistance (www.nature.com)
PhDs are turning to side hustles to make ends meet, finds Nature poll (www.nature.com)
Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers (www.nature.com)
Direct conversion from alkenes to alkynes (www.nature.com)
China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first (www.nature.com)
AI and the PhD student: friend or foe? (www.nature.com)
Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Genomes shake up the shark family tree (www.nature.com)
The real story behind China’s technology triumph (www.nature.com)
Top brass in China reaffirm goal to be world leaders in tech, AI (www.nature.com)
‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Vaccine-carrying mosquitoes could inoculate bats against rabies (www.nature.com)
The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer (www.nature.com)
‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game (www.nature.com)
Polymers with purpose: molecules can squirm free of the pack (www.nature.com)
How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science (www.nature.com)
‘Baked, not fried’: five highlights from nutrition research (www.nature.com)
Youthful antics predict lifespan — at least for these fish (www.nature.com)
Nervous networker or conference presenter? Just care less, says voice coach Susie Ashfield (www.nature.com)
‘Einstein‘ bot sharpens debate over AI in the classroom (www.nature.com)
No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing (www.nature.com)
How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers (www.nature.com)
Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a high publication rate doesn’t always reflect success (www.nature.com)
AI can ''same-ify'' human expression — can some brains resist its pull? (www.nature.com)
Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases (www.nature.com)
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (www.nature.com)
Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention (www.nature.com)
Gut microbes affect cognition during ageing (www.nature.com)
A fellowship of the rings in plant defence (www.nature.com)
Universities have become property businesses. What does that mean for research? (www.nature.com)
Dynamics of circulating tumour DNA can guide treatment decisions for improved outcomes (www.nature.com)
A silicon chip that enables the creation of 4D cameras (www.nature.com)
Photonic ‘ski jump’ steers light beam from silicon chip (www.nature.com)
Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects (www.nature.com)
How an all-female fish species defies evolutionary expectations (www.nature.com)
Ultra-bright supernova wobbles like a spinning top (www.nature.com)
Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice (www.nature.com)
A mechanism to initiate emergency type 2 myelopoiesis (www.nature.com)
Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species (www.nature.com)
Risk-adaptive therapy guided by dynamic ctDNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (www.nature.com)
Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response (www.nature.com)
Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis (www.nature.com)
Immune evasive DNA donors and recombinases license kilobase-scale writing (www.nature.com)
A big-push community intervention reduced rates of child marriage by 80% (www.nature.com)
Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning (www.nature.com)
B cell imprinting in children impairs antibodies to the haemagglutinin stalk (www.nature.com)
A sorghum pangenome reference improves global crop trait discovery (www.nature.com)
Assembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a coiled-coil NLR (www.nature.com)
Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline (www.nature.com)
Snapshots of the dynamic basis of NTSR1 G protein subtype promiscuity (www.nature.com)
Facile induction of immune tolerance by an interleukin-2–TGFβ surrogate agonist (www.nature.com)
Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova (www.nature.com)
Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics (www.nature.com)
Structures of Marburgvirus glycoprotein and its complex with NPC1 receptor (www.nature.com)
Multidimensional profiling of heterogeneity in supratentorial ependymomas (www.nature.com)
Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance (www.nature.com)
A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor (www.nature.com)
The dynamic basis of G-protein recognition and activation by a GPCR (www.nature.com)
This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates (www.nature.com)
This supernova is too bright – now astronomers might know why (www.nature.com)
‘Black rain’ in Tehran — what are the health effects? (www.nature.com)
What is the science behind ‘science-backed’ supplements? (www.nature.com)
First bot, singular (www.nature.com)
Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Gut stem cell necroptosis by genome instability triggers bowel inflammation (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A daily multivitamin slows the signs of biological ageing (www.nature.com)
National statistics are in crisis around the world — and the impacts will be severe (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Protein folding caught in real time (www.nature.com)
China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science (www.nature.com)
Physics at risk: UK science leader on what''s wrong with the latest funding cuts (www.nature.com)
How ‘Pele’s hair’ sprouts from erupting lava (www.nature.com)
‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division (www.nature.com)
Stop the use of AI in war until laws can be agreed (www.nature.com)
Live parrots were carried across the Andes before the Incas’ rise (www.nature.com)
Alcohol group migration by proximity-enhanced H atom abstraction (www.nature.com)
Maximizing carrier extraction in hybrid back-contact silicon solar cells (www.nature.com)
How data can help to guide NIH funding policy (www.nature.com)
Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers (www.nature.com)
Could flies sniff out contraband chemicals? (www.nature.com)
From cancer to Alzheimer’s: could a renewed focus on energy transform biomedicine? (www.nature.com)
Privilege, power and vulnerability in science: precarious funding can prompt unethical ties (www.nature.com)
The ethical risks of open-access agreements being used for authorship leverage (www.nature.com)
Prevent pandemics through One Health commitments (www.nature.com)
Artificial general intelligence must be assessed in its scientific and societal context (www.nature.com)
Forget SkinTok: the real science of skincare and why it matters for your health (www.nature.com)
Daily multivitamin slows signs of biological ageing (www.nature.com)
How pollutants and poo paint a picture of past civilizations (www.nature.com)
My PhD student is stuck. How do I teach them perseverance and problem solving? (www.nature.com)
How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment (www.nature.com)
How Congress can restore the independence of US science (www.nature.com)
Eight common errors I see in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How koalas escaped a genetic bottleneck (www.nature.com)
The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by (www.nature.com)
Monthly HIV-drug injections offer potent alternative to daily tablets (www.nature.com)
Celebrate women in research and the networks that sustain them (www.nature.com)
Peanut-processing microbes ward off dangerous allergic shock (www.nature.com)
Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart (www.nature.com)
Uncharted: Understanding women’s health across the body (www.nature.com)
The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade (www.nature.com)
The missing pieces of menopause science (www.nature.com)
Cracked, but still there: the glass ceiling persists for senior women in science (www.nature.com)
What a viral TikTok taught me about personal storytelling in science (www.nature.com)
Modelling the cosmos and imagining a future without meat: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Electric-vehicle batteries toughen up to beat the heat (www.nature.com)
Genetically modified pig liver keeps man alive until human organ transplant (www.nature.com)
How these koalas bounced back from the brink of extinction (www.nature.com)
First ‘half Möbius’ carbon chain wows chemists (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Programmable 200 GOPS Hopfield-inspired photonic Ising machine (www.nature.com)
How AI is being used in war — and what’s next (www.nature.com)
Mysterious brain cells clear proteins that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease (www.nature.com)
The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they? (www.nature.com)
Inside Mexico’s stem-cell industry (www.nature.com)
High-rise transistors can be used to build space-saving circuits (www.nature.com)
The Epstein scandal is a wake-up call — new rules are needed on links with rich donors (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The return of the snail — the month''s best science images (www.nature.com)
Women in science are not a ‘problem to be fixed’ (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Galileo’s notes discovered in the margins of an ancient book (www.nature.com)
Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart? (www.nature.com)
Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise (www.nature.com)
Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet (www.nature.com)
Hunt for reactive metabolites uncovers unusual chemistry in a human pathogen (www.nature.com)
Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres (www.nature.com)
Skin cells boost distant antibody responses (www.nature.com)
Do wet or dry soils trigger thunderstorms? It depends on how the wind blows (www.nature.com)
A genetic switch turns off parental behaviour and drives infanticide in male striped mice (www.nature.com)
Magnetic fluid offers better seal in heart-plugging medical procedure (www.nature.com)
AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life? (www.nature.com)
Stress-hormone signalling protects spreading cancer cells from immune system (www.nature.com)
Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects (www.nature.com)
Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence (www.nature.com)
Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters (www.nature.com)
Wide-swath altimetry maps bank shapes and storage changes in global rivers (www.nature.com)
Exapted CRISPR–Cas12f homologues drive RNA-guided transcription (www.nature.com)
Homologous recombination deficiency and hemizygosity drive resistance in breast cancer (www.nature.com)
Structural basis of RNA-guided transcription by a dCas12f–σE–RNAP complex (www.nature.com)
Wind shear enhances soil moisture influence on rapid thunderstorm growth (www.nature.com)
Advancing operational global aerosol forecasting with machine learning (www.nature.com)
The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 (www.nature.com)
A glucocorticoid–FAS axis controls immune evasion during metastatic seeding (www.nature.com)
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (www.nature.com)
Bulk hexagonal diamond (www.nature.com)
The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period (www.nature.com)
Cell-free chromatin state tracing reveals disease origin and therapy responses (www.nature.com)
Mechanism of co-transcriptional cap snatching by influenza polymerase (www.nature.com)
Microbiota-mediated induction of beige adipocytes in response to dietary cues (www.nature.com)
Merlin: a computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset (www.nature.com)
Lipid metabolism drives dietary effects on T cell ferroptosis and immunity (www.nature.com)
Long-term thrombus-free left atrial appendage occlusion via magnetofluids (www.nature.com)
A metabolic alarmin from keratinocytes potentiates systemic humoral immunity (www.nature.com)
Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature (www.nature.com)
DICER cleavage fidelity is governed by 5′-end binding pockets (www.nature.com)
Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 (www.nature.com)
Magnetic gel injected into the heart could stop strokes (www.nature.com)
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes (www.nature.com)
Shared neural substrates of prosocial and parenting behaviours (www.nature.com)
Under pressure: the reality of Mexico’s research system (www.nature.com)
How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels (www.nature.com)
All the world is staged (www.nature.com)
Funding from individual donors: lessons from the Epstein case (www.nature.com)
Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies — but disaster is not inevitable (www.nature.com)
Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work? (www.nature.com)
Jam-packed star system is most compact of its kind ever found (www.nature.com)
My relationship with my PhD supervisor has become toxic — what do I do? (www.nature.com)
Climate shocks, not just warming, threaten malaria control efforts in Africa (www.nature.com)
How can fast-evolving DNA retain a fundamental function in cell division? (www.nature.com)
Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history (www.nature.com)
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud (www.nature.com)
See raining iguanas and coral from the inside out — February’s best science images (www.nature.com)
Going ‘beyond GDP’ should not mean sidelining the SDGs (www.nature.com)
From the first telephone to videoconferencing in 100 years (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Healthy forests safeguard traditional wild meat food systems in Amazonia (www.nature.com)
US climate actions must continue, despite setbacks (www.nature.com)
Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology (www.nature.com)
How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse (www.nature.com)
Climate research is global — risks and responsibilities should also be distributed (www.nature.com)
South Korea’s AI framework act focuses on rights and safety (www.nature.com)
Releasing open-weight AI in steps would alleviate risks (www.nature.com)
Earth''s oldest crystals suggest an early start for plate tectonics (www.nature.com)
BCDX2–CX3 and DX2–CX3 complexes assemble and stabilize RAD51 filaments (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Root microbiota drive direct integration of phosphate stress and immunity (www.nature.com)
Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? (www.nature.com)
‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science (www.nature.com)
AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: This Utah family line might be evidence of ‘selfish genes’ in humans (www.nature.com)
The hidden lives behind China’s great Internet firewall (www.nature.com)
The squeal of peeling tape, explained (www.nature.com)
I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities (www.nature.com)
Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: The gene product Murr1 restricts HIV-1 replication in resting CD4 lymphocytes (www.nature.com)
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets (www.nature.com)
Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Stem-cell treatment strengthens people with age-related frailty (www.nature.com)
Brain mysteries and Bronze Age diplomacy: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Is a ‘selfish gene’ making a Utah family have twice as many boys as girls? (www.nature.com)
World-first stem-cell therapy shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb (www.nature.com)
Neanderthal dad, human mum: study reveals ancient procreation pattern (www.nature.com)
Ultra-sensitive CAR T cells eliminate hard-to-treat tumours in mice (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Myocardial reprogramming by HMGN1 underlies heart defects in trisomy 21 (www.nature.com)
Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The new alternatives to animal testing (www.nature.com)
AI impacts to be scrutinized by UN''s new scientific advisory panel (www.nature.com)
Health effects linger 20 generations after rats are exposed to fungicide (www.nature.com)
This compound enhances long-term memory of mice — but only in females (www.nature.com)
Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein (www.nature.com)
How an exercise-activated enzyme helps to keep the brain young (www.nature.com)
CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly (www.nature.com)
Brains of ‘super agers’ are still strong producers of new neurons (www.nature.com)
Lipid nanoparticles engineered to target therapeutic RNA to the pancreas (www.nature.com)
Sea-urchin spines generate electrical signals in flowing water (www.nature.com)
Light-confining device can control superconductivity — even in the dark (www.nature.com)
Protein engineering fixes a major crop trade-off (www.nature.com)
Amplified X-ray laser pulses achieved using mirror set-up (www.nature.com)