1. Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone

2. CRISPR helps to show why a boy felt no pain

3. US–China tariff war threatens global public health

4. Salary negotiations: a guide for scientists

5. Audio long read: Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky

6. Daily briefing: Immune cell ‘spies’ give the brain information about the gut

7. ‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers

8. Black Death bacterium has become less lethal after genetic tweak

9. Rare ‘ambidextrous’ protein breaks rules of handedness

10. Forehead ‘e-tattoo’ tracks how hard you’re thinking

11. How a freezing pond could kick-start life''s self-replication

12. Mouse liver assembloids model periportal architecture and biliary fibrosis

13. How the natural world is inspiring the robot eyes of the future

14. Researchers who ‘pivot’ into new fields should not be given a citation penalty

15. Daily briefing: Chemical ‘shuttles’ carry large drugs across the blood-brain barrier

16. First Chinese mission to sample an asteroid starts its journey

17. Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ has prompted an outcry: here’s why

18. Molecular blueprint of a cellular sorting centre

19. Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact

20. Light reflects as a vortex off a metamaterial with unusual optical properties

21. How the brain spies on the gut: with help from newfound immune cells

22. The ‘pivot penalty’: scientists get cited less after switching fields, analysis finds

23. Reverse electron transport drives metabolic changes in obesity

24. Origins of the ‘vampire fungus’ that causes white-nose syndrome in bats

25. Electrical switching of a p-wave magnet 

26. Domesticated cannabinoid synthases amid a wild mosaic cannabis pangenome

27. Global dominance of seasonality in shaping lake-surface-extent dynamics

28. The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging

29. The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour

30. The pivot penalty in research

31. Dynamic basal ganglia output signals license and suppress forelimb movements

32. EndoMAP.v1 charts the structural landscape of human early endosome complexes

33. Unconventional solitonic high-temperature superfluorescence from perovskites

34. Light-triggered regionally controlled n-doping of organic semiconductors

35. Dating the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis using La-Ce geochronology

36. In vivo haemopoietic stem cell gene therapy enabled by postnatal trafficking

37. Air pollution modulates trends and variability of the global methane budget

38. The shaping of terrestrial planets by late accretions

39. Radiative forcing reduced by early twenty-first century increase in land albedo

40. Preoptic EP3R neurons constitute a two-way switch for fever and torpor

41. Astrocyte morphogenesis requires self-recognition

42. Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats

43. Detection of X-ray emission from a bright long-period radio transient

44. CoQ imbalance drives reverse electron transport to disrupt liver metabolism

45. Cross-tissue multicellular coordination and its rewiring in cancer

46. AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth’s core leaking?

47. Pt migration-lockup in zeolite for stable propane dehydrogenation catalyst

48. Protein-primed homopolymer synthesis by an antiviral reverse transcriptase

49. Electricity-driven enzymatic dynamic kinetic oxidation

50. Singapore’s fight to save its green spaces from development

51. Bed bugs boomed as the world’s first cities did

52. The perfect storm for dust storms, thanks to global warming

53. ‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turf

54. Archaeology field notebook

55. Daily briefing: Harvard has had nearly 1,000 research grants cancelled

56. Europe can capture the US brain drain — if it acts fast

57. Brain drugs can now cross the once impenetrable blood–brain barrier

58. Observing anyonization of bosons in a quantum gas

59. A coordinated cellular network regulates tolerance to food

60. The diet crazes of the nineteenth century

61. Fake AI images will cause headaches for journals

62. End racism in science: there shouldn’t be any argument about this goal

63. Time-management skills I honed as a PhD student now serve me well in industry

64. ‘Science saved my life’ — and it must save other at-risk scholars

65. Cancer-fighting immune cells could soon be engineered inside our bodies

66. Daily briefing: Contact lenses give people infrared vision

67. Gripping account of psychology’s cautionary tale is marred by flawed assumptions

68. Global measles eradication goal is urgently needed

69. The forest space age needs eyes on the ground

70. Address academic bullying through structural reform

71. Taking common medicines might matter for cancer treatment

72. Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor

73. Hong Kong universities woo Harvard international students targeted by Trump

74. Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus

75. These contact lenses let humans see invisible infrared light

76. Landmark air-pollution lab under threat from Trump cuts — can it be saved?

77. Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts nearly 1,000 grants

78. Why do hailstones get so big? Scientists are chasing storms to find answers

79. The Last of Us science adviser: COVID changed our appetite for zombies

80. Author Correction: Chromosome end protection by RAP1-mediated inhibition of DNA-PK

81. I didn’t find AI useful. Then I let it teach me to code

82. A walk down memory lane and other stirring stories: Books in brief

83. I apply my aquatic-science training to empower Tanzania’s seaweed farmers

84. Daily briefing: Earth’s core could be leaking

85. How artificial intelligence is transforming pathology

86. How to delight your future boss at a science job interview

87. This ancient pathogen became deadlier when humans started wearing wool

88. Rare ‘spider star’ spotted consuming its companion

89. Publisher Correction: Imaging surface structure and premelting of ice Ih with atomic resolution

90. ‘Landmark’ evolution study shows how rice inherits tolerance to cold without DNA changes

91. These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut

92. Signatures of chiral superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene

93. Nations urged to ‘pick up the ball’ after DEI research cuts

94. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

95. ‘Powerful and horrifying’ — David Attenborough’s latest film is a cry to protect our oceans

96. AI listens for health conditions

97. Why space exploration must not be left to a few powerful nations

98. How and when North America’s deepest river gorge formed

99. Don’t feel the pain — these brain cells help with managing opioid withdrawal

100. Author Correction: Global methane emissions from rivers and streams

101. Author Correction: A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity

102. Daily briefing: ‘I used AI to design an awful protein’

103. Author Correction: Structure and topography of the synaptic V-ATPase–synaptophysin complex

104. Publisher Correction: Ageing limits stemness and tumorigenesis by reprogramming iron homeostasis

105. Publisher Correction: Multi-zonal liver organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

106. NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

107. Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet

108. Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy

109. Mice lacking this amino acid lost 30% of their body weight

110. Under the microscope: DNA damage tracked through cell generations

111. Patterns of DNA modifications provide a ‘barcode’ for cell-lineage tracing

112. Projections of Earth’s health under different environmental policies

113. The evolutionary origin of sensitive dental structures

114. Dying stars give a second wind to exoplanet formation

115. How axolotl cells ‘remember’ development to rebuild a lost limb

116. The path for AI in poor nations does not need to be paved with billions

117. Early barred galaxy raises questions about cosmic evolution

118. Antimalarial-treated bed nets could stop parasites developing in mosquitoes

119. The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons

120. Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models

121. In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control

122. Effect of phosphorylation barcodes on arrestin binding to a chemokine receptor

123. Molecular basis of positional memory in limb regeneration

124. PCSK9 drives sterol-dependent metastatic organ choice in pancreatic cancer

125. Ru and W isotope systematics in ocean island basalts reveals core leakage

126. Multigenerational cell tracking of DNA replication and heritable DNA damage

127. A foundation model for the Earth system

128. Stepwise ATP translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum by human SLC35B1

129. C-to-N atom swapping and skeletal editing in indoles and benzofurans

130. Glioblastoma-instructed astrocytes suppress tumour-specific T cell immunity

131. The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction

132. Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury

133. Quasar radiation transforms the gas in a merging companion galaxy

134. Large gas inflow driven by a matured galactic bar in the early Universe

135. Programmable control of spatial transcriptome in live cells and neurons

136. Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations reveals dynamics of blood ageing

137. A retrograde planet in a tight binary star system with a white dwarf

138. Unravelling cysteine-deficiency-associated rapid weight loss

139. These malaria drugs treat the mosquitoes — not the people

140. AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers

141. The Age of Reason

142. Before studying parasites, this PhD researcher was their host

143. #OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers

144. Daily briefing: What a precious handful of fossils is teaching us about Denisovans

145. Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?

146. What big eyes this whale has — but not the better to see you with

147. Explosive volcanoes can bury carbon —a climate boon

148. Telescope team reads the fine print — from more than a kilometre away

149. Bird-flu vaccine for cattle aces early test

150. How much ultra-processed food do you eat? Blood and urine record it

151. Trump’s cuts to international aid are stifling Africa’s HIV research

152. Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour

153. NSF plan to slash ‘indirect’ science funding: will it stick?

154. One-carbon homologation of alkenes

155. Turning the tide on ocean conservation

156. I told AI to make me a protein. Here’s what it came up with

157. Does lightning make trees swish?

158. Richard Garwin obituary: designer of the hydrogen bomb who advocated for arms control

159. Philanthropic funders: team up to jump-start innovative science

160. Author Correction: Earth’s ambipolar electrostatic field and its role in ion escape to space

161. Who were the ancient Denisovans? Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans

162. Daily briefing: The world’s first human bladder transplant

163. How ‘organized looting and plunder’ drove Britain’s second scientific revolution

164. Don’t forget the lessons of the McCarthy era

165. Data resources must be protected from political interference

166. AI-generated literature reviews threaten scientific progress

167. AI bots threaten online scientific infrastructure

168. Mother–infant bonds in wild chimpanzees resemble those of humans

169. Author Correction: Inhibitory specificity from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex

170. Author Correction: Soft–hard zwitterionic additives for aqueous halide flow batteries

171. AI tool flags people at high risk of postpartum depression

172. AI is more persuasive than people in online debates

173. Genomics reveals zoonotic and sustained human Mpox spread in West Africa

174. World first: ultra-powerful CRISPR treatment trialled in a person

175. Exclusive: NIH grant rejections have more than doubled amid Trump chaos

176. People and dogs team up to protect sea turtles in Cabo Verde

177. Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role of uncertainty

178. When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do

179. Daily briefing: Meet the baby who received the world’s first personalized CRISPR therapy

180. Mighty microbes — the invisible forces that can save the world

181. ‘Minimalist’ quantum computer simulates movements of molecules

182. Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on

183. Daily briefing: Yes, you can find love during your PhD

184. Atacama sunshine helps to pull water from thin air

185. Can NIH-funded research on racism and health survive Trump’s cuts?

186. US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad

187. The world’s richest people have an outsized role in climate extremes

188. How CAR-T cancer therapies could harm the brain

189. Powerful CRISPR system inserts whole gene into human DNA

190. World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease

191. Stem cells coaxed into most advanced amniotic sacs ever grown in the lab

192. Ku limits RNA-induced innate immunity to allow Alu-expansion in primates

193. AI language models develop social norms like groups of people

194. Seeking a job in science? How hiring practices across industry and academia compare

195. Daily briefing: These award-winning photos show scientists at work

196. Daily briefing: Five secrets of super-healthy seniors

197. PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you

198. Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers

199. Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

200. Earth’s climatic past illuminates future South Asian monsoon patterns

201. Marsupial embryos lack the epigenetic reset seen in placental mammals

202. Genomes from a four-generation family reveal the rate of new mutations

203. DeepMind unveils ‘spectacular’ general-purpose science AI

204. Track record: unexpectedly early reptile claw prints found

205. Black hole flings out clumps of gas

206. Black hole fly-by modelled with landmark precision

207. Immune control of metastatic cancer at the edge of the central nervous system

208. Fossil claw marks show reptiles arose far earlier than thought

209. ‘I don’t have the bandwidth’: how to juggle dating alongside a PhD

210. Thermal asymmetry in the Moon’s mantle inferred from monthly tidal response

211. Prefrontal encoding of an internal model for emotional inference

212. Water ice in the debris disk around HD 181327

213. Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal

214. Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering

215. Unconventional domain tessellations in moiré-of-moiré lattices

216. Solid phase transitions as a solution to the genome folding paradox

217. Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification

218. Oncogenic fusions converge on shared mechanisms in initiating astroblastoma

219. Quantum error correction of qudits beyond break-even

220. Genome diversity and signatures of natural selection in mainland Southeast Asia

221. Tunable vacuum-field control of fractional and integer quantum Hall phases

222. Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry

223. Interferon-γ orchestrates leptomeningeal anti-tumour response

224. Bulk–spatiotemporal vortex correspondence in gyromagnetic zero-index media

225. STAT5 and STAT3 balance shapes dendritic cell function and tumour immunity

226. Targeting symbionts by apolipoprotein L proteins modulates gut immunity

227. Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen

228. Wireless transmission of internal hazard signals in Li-ion batteries

229. Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution

230. Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan

231. A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis

232. Divergent DNA methylation dynamics in marsupial and eutherian embryos

233. Proton transport from the antimatter factory of CERN

234. Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

235. Taurine from tumour niche drives glycolysis to promote leukaemogenesis

236. Radiation-induced amphiregulin drives tumour metastasis

237. Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries

238. Past warm intervals inform the future South Asian summer monsoon

239. Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds

240. How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van

241. The visitors

242. Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole

243. Brain tissues, assemble! Inside the push to build better brain models

244. Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare

245. Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split

246. Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork

247. Nature project to encourage early-career researchers in peer review is working

248. US brain drain: the scientists seeking jobs abroad amid Trump’s assault on research

249. What an angry exchange with a reviewer taught me about arrogance and humility

250. Where do comets come from?

251. My PhD adviser was fired and I was collateral damage. I learnt how to build resilience into graduate school

252. Author Correction: Microbiota-derived 3-IAA influences chemotherapy efficacy in pancreatic cancer

253. Daily briefing: Chimp societies drum to a distinct beat

254. US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding

255. Do universities serve their community?

256. Empower communities to fight climate change at grassroots level

257. ‘Loss and damage fund’ for climate change needs broader remit

258. China needs to deal with discarded electric-vehicle batteries

259. NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones

260. Migraine drug is first to tackle debilitating early symptoms

261. ‘AI models are capable of novel research’: OpenAI’s chief scientist on what to expect

262. North America’s birds are declining where they should be thriving

263. What language do bats speak? I’m trying to find out

264. Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics

265. Scientists turn lead into gold

266. Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

267. The scars of war last for centuries: how we understand collective trauma needs to change

268. Daily briefing: How skunk cabbages get their stink

269. A ‘hidden gem’ of the Amazon is a frog with odd habits

270. Rice paddies produce food for billions ― and lots of methane

271. China’s dementia incidence is rising fast ― outpacing the global average

272. US environmental agency halts funding for its main science division

273. Google AI better than human doctors at diagnosing rashes from pictures

274. How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution

275. ‘Orwellian’: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records

276. Author Correction: 2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years

277. Physicists turn lead into gold — for a fraction of a second

278. A pope, a polymath and plucky women: Books in brief

279. Daily briefing: How we taste sweetness

280. Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies

281. How skunk cabbages and other smelly plants brew their foul odour

282. Renewal of NIH grants linked to more innovative results, study finds

283. How quickly do humans mutate? Four generations help answer the question

284. Guess how much of the ocean floor humans have explored

285. P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you

286. Daily briefing: A spinal tumour was removed through a person’s eye socket for the first time

287. Curiosity, drive, willingness to learn: three qualities to display at science job interviews

288. Microbe that infests hospitals can digest medical-grade plastic ― a first

289. Detailed mouse brain map created with off-the-shelf microscope

290. How climate change will burden our children: data reveal a lifetime of extreme heat

291. Trump freezes ‘gain of function’ pathogen research ― threatening all US virology, critics say

292. Author Correction: Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin

293. Brain tissue artificially expanded to show how neurons wire together

294. Time for adults to finally act like adults on climate change

295. Uncovering a key enzyme opens possible therapeutic avenues for lysosomal diseases

296. Lipid-degrading small molecule kills cancer cells by ferroptosis

297. How we taste sweetness: long-sought structure of human receptor mapped at last

298. Superb starlings swap helper and breeder roles with kin and non-kin

299. Blocking a key node in cancer signalling unlocks therapeutic potential

300. Engineered bacteria can degrade five wastewater pollutants at the same time