1. Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back

2. Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers

3. Alien planet glimpsed in star''s ''habitable zone''

4. How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers

5. Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care

6. ‘A biographer’s dream’: this physicist investigated UFOs and flew over Hiroshima

7. Daily briefing: Reflections from a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing

8. George E. Smith obituary: co-inventor of the charge coupled device, which ushered in an era of digital images

9. These genes can have the opposite effects depending on which parent they came from

10. The protein craze: scientists talk supplements — and who should take them

11. Publisher Correction: NINJ1 regulates plasma membrane fragility under mechanical strain

12. OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak

13. Daily briefing: This marsupial is biofluorescent — the month’s best science images

14. Does lithium deficiency contribute to Alzheimer’s disease?

15. AI learns from nature to design super-adhesive gels that work underwater

16. Parent-of-origin effects found for gene variants that affect human growth and metabolism

17. New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice

18. Ancient marine reptile was a silent swimmer

19. Highly efficient deep-blue LED devices made using hybrid copper–iodide compound

20. High levels of circular DNA made as immune cells develop increases the risk of leukaemia relapse

21. Stone tools suggest that hominins arrived on Indonesian island much earlier than thought

22. Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds

23. Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence

24. Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection

25. Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals

26. One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks

27. The science fiction science method

28. EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells

29. A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows

30. Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

31. Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces

32. Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function

33. Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels

34. A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees

35. Excised DNA circles from V(D)J recombination promote relapsed leukaemia

36. Structural basis of fast N-type inactivation in Kv channels

37. High-accuracy laser spectroscopy of {{\\bf{H}}}_{{\\bf{2}}}{{\\boldsymbol{}}} H 2 and the proton–electron mass ratio

38. NSD2 inhibitors rewire chromatin to treat lung and pancreatic cancers

39. Microglia regulate GABAergic neurogenesis in prenatal human brain through IGF1

40. In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control

41. RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis

42. Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene

43. Novel assembly of a head–trunk interface in the sister group of jawed vertebrates

44. Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants

45. Underwater glue shows its sticking power in rubber duck test

46. Why did researchers stick a duck to a rock? To show off their super glue

47. Microglia–neuron crosstalk via Hex–GM2–MGL2 maintains brain homeostasis

48. Inconclusive proof of ferroelectricity in peptide-VDF ribbons

49. Data anomalies and the economic commitment of climate change

50. Reply to: Inconclusive proof of ferroelectricity in peptide-VDF ribbons

51. Therapeutic genetic restoration through allogeneic brain microglia replacement

52. Nuclear-weapons risks are back — and we need to act like it

53. After you left

54. The real problems with America''s health

55. UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model

56. Author Correction: Persistent transcriptional programmes are associated with remote memory

57. Is your AI benchmark lying to you?

58. The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system

59. Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic

60. Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last

61. Does ResearchGate have a growing credibility problem?

62. Version control: how I combat the rise of generative AI in the classroom

63. Daily briefing: Respiratory illness can ‘wake up’ dormant cancer cells

64. Scientists can help stop a slide to nuclear war — don’t shut them out again

65. Baboons defend themselves by throwing stones

66. Why suppressing all wildfires has made today’s megafires worse

67. Protection from biological hazards at work arrives at last

68. Overcome threats to renewable energy through skilful statecraft

69. Protect Palestinian archaeological sites during war

70. Don’t train medical AI on patients’ data without their knowledge

71. Plan-B careers can be a force for good in science

72. Tackle fake citations generated by AI

73. Conserve marine migratory species to protect ecological links between land and sea

74. Breed giant prawns to withstand disease and climate change

75. ‘The Sun had fallen to Earth’ — a survivor’s recollection of the Hiroshima bombing

76. Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE

77. Why I co-developed a research career launchpad for first generation students

78. Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight

79. Direct identification of Ac and No molecules with an atom-at-a-time technique

80. Real-time in-situ magnetization reprogramming for soft robotics

81. How I’m electrifying transportation in Tanzania

82. Who’s to blame when AI agents mess up? We urgently need a new system of ethics

83. Environmental politics is doomed to fail — unless we tell better stories

84. What it’s like fighting racism and sexism in shark science

85. To save lives in heatwaves, focus on how human bodies work

86. Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images

87. This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.

88. ‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget

89. India to penalize universities with too many retractions

90. I could not have become an astronomer on my own

91. mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people

92. Potato, tomahto: the roots of the modern tater

93. Intricate origins of ice mummy’s ink revealed

94. The ocean''s deepest animal ecosystem

95. ‘Wind droughts’ driven by climate change put green power at risk

96. Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’

97. Daily briefing: What does quantum mechanics mean anyway?

98. My AI chatbot thinks my idea is fundable

99. How allergens make us cough and weeze — by poking holes in airway cells

100. SMART tool builds proteins on cell surfaces

101. Lava planets’ atmospheres give away what lies beneath

102. AI expands the repertoire of CRISPR-associated proteins for genome editing

103. ‘Smart’ tool pieces together proteins in response to combinations of cell-surface cues

104. Inflammation during viral infection can rouse dormant cancer cells

105. Observation of elusive interaction between neutrinos and atomic nuclei

106. Cloud-motion data identify changes in atmospheric circulation

107. Allergy-triggering proteins share a common characteristic

108. The tiny mouse lemur could make for a mighty model organism

109. Changes in Mars’s habitability could have been driven by carbonate formation and transient oases

110. Laser beams programmed to form various shapes by nanodisk arrays

111. Miniature neutrino detector promises to test laws of physics

112. Chemicals seeping from the sea floor sustain an extreme-depth ecosystem

113. ‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu

114. Epithelial cell membrane perforation induces allergic airway inflammation

115. Mouse lemur cell atlas informs primate genes, physiology and disease

116. Design of highly functional genome editors by modelling CRISPR–Cas sequences

117. SuFEx-based antitubercular compound irreversibly inhibits Pks13

118. Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk

119. Diffusing protein binders to intrinsically disordered proteins

120. Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests

121. Securing the forest carbon sink for the European Union’s climate ambition

122. Determinants of successful AAV-vectored delivery of HIV-1 bNAbs in early life

123. A molecular cell atlas of mouse lemur, an emerging model primate

124. Transient APC/C inactivation by mTOR boosts glycolysis during cell cycle entry

125. Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

126. ACLY inhibition promotes tumour immunity and suppresses liver cancer

127. Invariance of dynamo action in an early-Earth model

128. Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering

129. Programmable protein ligation on cell surfaces

130. A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours

131. Synthesis of bulk hexagonal diamond

132. Remodelling of corticostriatal axonal boutons during motor learning

133. Repurposing haemoproteins for asymmetric metal-catalysed H atom transfer

134. Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

135. Earth''s deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea

136. Retraction Note: Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation

137. Powerful satellite will chart changes on Earth’s surface in exquisite detail — down to a centimetre

138. Things I miss about civilization

139. Author Correction: Dendritic, delayed, stochastic CaMKII activation in behavioural time scale plasticity

140. Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

141. Physicists should revel in the diversity of ways to understand quantum mechanics

142. Author Correction: Dual interfacial H-bonding-enhanced deep-blue hybrid copper–iodide LEDs

143. Sleuths and scientific institutions are not rivals

144. Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference

145. Daily briefing: The brain deploys immune cells at the mere sight of sickness

146. From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab

147. Cell''s sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution

148. Scientists mourn Tom Lehrer — nerdiest of singer-songwriters

149. Columbia researchers eager to restart science after university’s deal with Trump

150. Could machine learning help to build a unified theory of cognition?

151. The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies

152. The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms

153. Can science address painters’ problems?

154. AI models are neglecting African languages — scientists want to change that

155. Africa needs to invest in science communication — here’s how

156. Could bridging science and the arts be the key to better policies?

157. The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby

158. Daily briefing: Ageing accelerates after 50 — but not all organs age at the same rate

159. How China’s bold talent recruitment has shaped science

160. China reins in the spiralling construction costs of nuclear power — what can other countries learn?

161. Artificial diamonds are forever: 70 years of synthesizing these iconic gems

162. Daily briefing: ‘Arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — against its authors’ will

163. ‘For AI to change how economies work, it has to represent all of us’

164. How I’m helping to develop more-resilient food systems

165. Why space foods aren’t just for space

166. Physicists unleashed the power of the atom — but to what end?

167. Hard paths: how courage differs from bravery in science

168. Postdocs get more equipment time when applications are anonymized

169. Mystery food in Neanderthal diet might be maggots

170. Author Correction: Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment

171. How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement

172. Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others

173. Author Correction: Human HDAC6 senses valine abundancy to regulate DNA damage

174. Daily briefing: Damaging the climate could violate international law, court rules

175. Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States

176. Unexpected danger lurks in this giant fault in the Yukon

177. Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back

178. Spain bids 400 million to host mega telescope at risk in US budget cuts

179. I won three competitive grants in a row. Here’s how I learnt what to do

180. DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

181. This fish-inspired suction cup can stick to your organs

182. Daily briefing: Scans reveal that optimists share similar brain-activity patterns

183. Researchers in dismay as US exits world science body UNESCO . . . again

184. The deep sea is a globally connected habitat

185. Solid gold superheated to 14 times its melting temperature

186. Meet Aeneas: the AI that can fill in the gaps of damaged Latin texts

187. AI for Latin inscriptions supplies missing text and predicts date and location

188. Superheated gold stays solid well past its predicted melting point

189. Missing steps uncovered in a pathway plants use to produce the defence molecule salicylic acid

190. Unusual fossil skin appendage is not a feather

191. Molecule eases neurological symptoms of mitochondrial deficiency in coenzyme Q10

192. Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected

193. Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold

194. Complete biosynthesis of salicylic acid from phenylalanine in plants

195. The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice

196. Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing

197. A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

198. Spatiotemporal faunal connectivity across global sea floors

199. Driving a protective allele of the mosquito FREP1 gene to combat malaria

200. Eye structure shapes neuron function in Drosophila motion vision

201. Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin

202. Mechanical underwater adhesive devices for soft substrates

203. Deciphering phenylalanine-derived salicylic acid biosynthesis in plants

204. Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments

205. Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks

206. Integrated biotechnological and AI innovations for crop improvement

207. A gut sense for a microbial pattern regulates feeding

208. Magnon spectroscopy in the electron microscope

209. Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles

210. Precisely defining disease variant effects in CRISPR-edited single cells

211. Humoral determinants of checkpoint immunotherapy

212. NNMT inhibition in cancer-associated fibroblasts restores antitumour immunity

213. Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes

214. Three-step biosynthesis of salicylic acid from benzoyl-CoA in plants

215. Nanobody therapy rescues behavioural deficits of NMDA receptor hypofunction

216. Reply to: Experiments implementing small commuting models lack gravitational features

217. Giant laser heats solid gold to 14 times its melting point

218. Experiments implementing small commuting models lack gravitational features

219. Pre-rRNA spatial distribution and functional organization of the nucleolus

220. Daily briefing: The restaurant at the centre of the mathematical universe

221. The last parliament

222. Lethal malaria parasite’s weaknesses revealed

223. There’s a new acid in our rain — should we be worried?

224. Protect the integrity of the US National Institutes of Health

225. Ageing stem cells in the knees drive arthritis damage

226. Rumble in the Miocene: terror bird versus caiman

227. Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field

228. Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

229. People’s brains aged faster during the COVID pandemic — even the uninfected

230. Breaking point: mechanical stress helps NINJ1 protein to rupture membranes

231. Help save 2 million lives: close the vaccine funding gap

232. The optimistic brain: scans reveal thought patterns shared by positive thinkers

233. A natural nuclear reactor

234. Author Correction: Stress dynamically modulates neuronal autophagy to gate depression onset

235. Author Correction: Early versus deferred use of CDK4/6 inhibitors in advanced breast cancer

236. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth

237. How I’m advocating in Congress for the next generation of US scientists

238. Fund scholars who tackle urgent issues — from misinformation to error spotting

239. Made-to-order DNA goes big: new tech doubles size of custom genetic sequences

240. China is boosting its Antarctic research. What does that mean for the world?

241. Daily briefing: NASA staff speak out against Trump cuts

242. Brazil must not weaken environmental planning rules

243. Encouraging a ‘data sufficiency’ mindset is key for responsible research

244. Why publishing referee reports could backfire on public trust

245. China’s fossil-fuel challenge — how to build a bridge to renewables

246. ‘Immortal’ stars have an elixir of youth: dark matter

247. AI, bounties and culture change, how scientists are taking on errors

248. Budget brainwaves: low-cost system collects brain data outside the lab

249. How AI can deepen inequities for non-native English speakers in science

250. Biggest trial of four-day work week finds workers are happier and feel just as productive

251. Solving aviation’s climate-action conundrum

252. Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading

253. ‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts

254. Daily briefing: How the brain boots up from sleep to wakefulness

255. ‘We have less than ten minutes’: how I communicate with spacecraft from the ground

256. Meet the biotech-company founders driven by their child’s rare disease

257. Why evaluating the impact of AI needs to start now

258. Should we treat rivers as living things?

259. How your research can survive a US federal grant termination

260. Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part

261. Asia’s haze affects ice and weather on the Frozen Continent

262. Pathology-oriented multiplexing enables integrative disease mapping

263. This ancient mega-predator was built for stealth

264. Should I tell anyone that I suspect misconduct in a paper I’m reviewing?

265. Class of 2025: five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts

266. Daily briefing: The birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for the first time

267. To the Moon and quack: Books in brief

268. Google tapped billions of mobile phones to detect quakes worldwide — and send alerts

269. AI and misinformation are supercharging the risk of nuclear war

270. How to avoid nuclear war in an era of AI and misinformation

271. How sugar overload in early life affects the brain later

272. How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans

273. Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence

274. Heart from organ donor restarted outside the body — technique offers new source of organs

275. ‘Controlled chaos’: how to create an environment that fosters genius

276. How the brain wakes up from sleep — and produces that morning feeling

277. Daily briefing: The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory

278. ‘Landmark’ study: three-person IVF leads to eight healthy children

279. ‘Another DeepSeek moment’: Chinese AI model Kimi K2 stirs excitement

280. Liquid–liquid interfacial tension stabilized Li-metal batteries

281. ‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey

282. Birds use a tiny RNA fragment to balance sex chromosomes

283. Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible

284. Plant immune receptor engineered to protect against more than 100 viruses

285. Super-resolution spectroscopy with ‘spiky’ X-ray lasers

286. Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time

287. Genome doubling fuels ovarian cancer evolution and immune dysregulation

288. Gut bacteria make a molecule that promotes plaque build-up in arteries

289. The origin of the oldest solid objects in the Solar System

290. Human activity redistributes nitrogen fixation across the terrestrial biosphere

291. Star flares when an orbiting planet gets too close

292. Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny

293. Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture

294. Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays

295. Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk

296. Biphasic liquids with shape-shifting and bistable microdomains

297. Detecting structural heart disease from electrocardiograms using AI

298. Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change

299. Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies

300. Dual interfacial H-bonding-enhanced deep-blue hybrid copper–iodide LEDs