1. ‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries

2. Live-cell super-resolution microscopy reveals how molecules enter and exit the nucleus

3. Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says

4. What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation

5. Marathon runners tap brain-cell insulation for racetime fuel

6. Generalizing arene CH alkylations by radicalradical cross-coupling

7. Reviving the biodiversity around an ancient palace

8. Shaking up earthquake safety in Nepal with a folk song

9. Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells

10. RNA function follows form – why is it so hard to predict?

11. The expanding Universe — do ongoing tensions leave room for new physics?

12. Winds on an ultrahot planet challenge climate models

13. Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life

14. How to know whether a conference is right for you

15. Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins

16. Publisher Correction: A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion

17. NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow?

18. ‘Boggles the mind’: US defence department slashes research on emerging threats

19. Author Correction: AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

20. Author Correction: Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?

21. Daily briefing: The mysterious force pushing galaxies apart might be getting weaker

22. ‘All this is in crisis’: US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold

23. Ship-pollution cuts have an electrifying effect: less lightning at sea

24. Trump team ‘survey’ sent to overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears

25. Author Correction: Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac niches

26. Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years?

27. End-to-end data-driven weather prediction

28. Bulk superconductivity near 40 K in hole-doped SmNiO2 at ambient pressure

29. Daily briefing: About 1% of children have genetic paternity other than that recorded by history

30. How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers

31. Author Correction: Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT

32. Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding

33. Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim

34. Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all?

35. Tiny satellite sets new record for secure quantum communication

36. What is the best type of tree to use for forest restoration?

37. A practical leap towards secure quantum communication over long distances

38. A textbook assumption about the brain’s most abundant receptors needs to be rewritten

39. New antifungal breaks the mould

40. Mutations that accrue through life set the stage for stomach cancer

41. Immune cells ‘bandage’ wounds with bacteria-trapping goo

42. Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth

43. Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech

44. Ancient peat reveals that sea level surged rapidly twice at the end of the last ice age

45. Optimizing generative AI by backpropagating language model feedback

46. Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin

47. Microsatellite-based real-time quantum key distribution

48. Transient silencing of hypermutation preserves B cell affinity during clonal bursting

49. Sleep pressure accumulates in a voltage-gated lipid peroxidation memory

50. Histological signatures map anti-fibrotic factors in mouse and human lungs

51. The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium

52. Cooper-pair density modulation state in an iron-based superconductor

53. Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution

54. Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of cell shape supports resilience of lymphatic endothelium

55. Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats

56. GluA2-containing AMPA receptors form a continuum of Ca2-permeable channels

57. Oncolytic virus VG161 in refractory hepatocellular carcinoma

58. Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits

59. Hyperbolic phonon-polariton electroluminescence in 2D heterostructures

60. Electroluminescence and energy transfer mediated by hyperbolic polaritons

61. Water structure and electric fields at the interface of oil droplets

62. Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase

63. Overlapping nuclear import and export paths unveiled by two-colour MINFLUX

64. Rapid emergence of latent knowledge in the sensory cortex drives learning

65. Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks

66. Down-converted photon pairs in a high-Q silicon nitride microresonator

67. Regulated somatic hypermutation enhances antibody affinity maturation

68. VDAC2 loss elicits tumour destruction and inflammation for cancer therapy

69. A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane

70. Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species

71. Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition

72. Fluctuating magnetism and Pomeranchuk effect in multilayer graphene

73. Downscaling micro- and nano-perovskite LEDs

74. World’s tiniest LED display has pixels smaller than a virus

75. Why humans have puzzle-shaped cells

76. Measles is surging in the US: how bad could it get?

77. What is stopping a complete switch to clean energy?

78. How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy

79. A guide to the Nature Index

80. Battery researchers strive for standardization

81. Trump’s return puts renewables at a crossroads

82. Meeting the energy challenge posed by data centres is central to a green future

83. AI could soon tackle projects that take humans weeks

84. Asia leads rise in clean-energy research

85. Disconnections

86. Daily briefing: Iguanas from the Americas might have rafted to Fiji

87. The biggest machine in science: inside the fight to build the next giant particle collider

88. Light pollution threatens fleet of world-class telescopes in Atacama Desert

89. Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious

90. Iguanas reached Fiji by floating 8,000 kilometres across the sea

91. Food-industry waste finds a second life as bioplastic

92. Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them

93. Structures and mechanism of human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier

94. Daily briefing: Jurassic mammals had dark fur

95. An experiment in mass education using satellite TV

96. Catchy, clear, concise: Three-part phrases boost research paper citations

97. Cleaning up space: how satellites and telescopes can live together

98. Governments must stop hoarding climate data

99. Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back

100. Space debris is falling from the skies. We need to tackle this growing danger

101. Japan needs a fresh approach to innovation

102. AI demands a different approach to education

103. Global cooperation is crucial for DeepSeek and broader AI research

104. US disruptions to science could transform global research landscape

105. Author Correction: Endocytosis in the axon initial segment maintains neuronal polarity

106. What’s in store for US science as funding bill averts government shutdown

107. Errors in the Huntington’s disease gene accumulate slowly and then all at once

108. The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins 1.5 million years ago

109. Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — 20 years since a key discovery

110. Strong, flexible ‘nylon’ made by engineered bacteria for the first time

111. How I connect Colombia’s remote communities to safer water

112. How a PhD travel fellowship enriched an international cell-biology meeting

113. ‘Science is happening’: Israeli and Palestinian scientists continue collaborations amid conflict

114. The untamed river and the Moog: Books in brief

115. Author Correction: B-cell-specific checkpoint molecules that regulate anti-tumour immunity

116. How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge

117. A radical manifesto for truth

118. Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power

119. I spent two years organizing an international conference. How do I get compensated for my work?

120. Stay safe from online hate with these five tips

121. ‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts

122. How extreme lethargy can promote healthy ageing

123. A century of quantum physics

124. Your lab pollutes: here’s how to stop it

125. Daily briefing: Should the Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted more than fifty years on?

126. Saturn has a whopping 274 moons ― scientists want to know why

127. Why it makes sense for wealthier nations to help others decarbonize

128. Will RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda make American contagious again?

129. Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet

130. Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first

131. These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll

132. Daily briefing: Saturn has 128 new moons

133. Did Mars harbour life? One of the strongest signs yet is spotted in a peculiar rock

134. How fast your brain ages is affected by these 64 genes

135. Fresh ‘quantum advantage’ claim made by computing firm D-Wave

136. Metals squeezed to thickness of just two atoms

137. Biodiversity declines across fragmented forests

138. Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa

139. An operating system for networked quantum computers is a huge practical step forward

140. The brain’s building blocks for understanding social interactions

141. Immune molecule links COVID‑19 with severe inflammatory disorder in children

142. Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals

143. An archaic European face more than one million years old

144. Liver cancer recurrence predicted by immune-cell location and gene expression

145. An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier

146. Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning

147. Sliding and healing of frictional interfaces that appear stationary

148. High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb

149. Unconventional magnons in collinear magnets dictated by spin space groups

150. Increasing hourly heavy rainfall in Austria reflected in flood changes

151. Spatial immune scoring system predicts hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence

152. Structure and mechanism of the plastid/parasite ATP/ADP translocator

153. Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex

154. Hepatic stellate cells control liver zonation, size and functions via R-spondin 3

155. Magnetically and optically active edges in phosphorene nanoribbons

156. Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling

157. Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement

158. MYC ecDNA promotes intratumour heterogeneity and plasticity in PDAC

159. Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected

160. Adaptive locomotion of active solids

161. The earliest human face of Western Europe

162. Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes

163. Realization of 2D metals at the ångström thickness limit

164. A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

165. An operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes

166. TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

167. Perception of viral infections and initiation of antiviral defence in rice

168. Genomic determinants of antigen expression hierarchy in African trypanosomes

169. High temporal variability not trend dominates Mediterranean precipitation

170. Weather anomalies cannot explain insect decline

171. Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin

172. Watch DeepMind’s AI robot slam-dunk a basketball

173. Reply to: Weather anomalies cannot explain insect decline

174. Daily briefing: NASA begins mass firings of scientists

175. Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin

176. So you’ve made a lab website. What should go on it?

177. Robotic fingers can tell objects apart by touch

178. Medical records from the Center for the Study of Temporal Disorders, Pediatric Department

179. Author Correction: Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator

180. Why are proponents of ‘smart cities’ neglecting research?

181. Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time

182. Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates

183. Author Correction: Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command

184. Complex water networks visualized by cryogenic electron microscopy of RNA

185. Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence

186. NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline

187. An organ that stores red blood cells for emergencies

188. Author Correction: Classification with a disordered dopant atom network in silicon

189. Public-health experts should be more political, not less

190. Alcohol and cancer risk: what you need to know

191. Daily briefing: Thousands protest Trump cuts at #StandUpForScience rallies

192. For more reliable AI, academics should edit Wikipedia

193. COP30 must deliver binding mechanisms to address climate change, not empty promises

194. Similar chiral phenomena occur in cell cultures and human crowds

195. Fate of pistachio production in Iran holds lessons for the world

196. How a vast digital twin of the Yangtze River could prevent flooding in China

197. How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts

198. I create buildings from mushroom components

199. Are microplastics bad for your health? More rigorous science is needed

200. Daily briefing: This key protein could be responsible for brain ageing

201. The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are

202. #ScientistAtWork 2025: Nature is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives

203. Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison

204. Science diplomacy can help to heal global rifts — if research is respected

205. ‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts

206. Who’s likely to wake up from a coma? Brain waves provide a clue

207. The surprising culprit for the loss of huge swathes of tropical forest

208. How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success

209. ‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?

210. Rock hunters, tree huggers and taxi drivers: Books in brief

211. Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity

212. AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

213. Microsoft quantum computing ''breakthrough'' faces fresh challenge

214. Daily briefing: The second X chromosome isn’t so silent after all

215. Unknown fate of ice-hunting Moon missions leaves scientists in suspense

216. The financial shackling of historically Black universities in the United States

217. Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ biologists face hostile work environment

218. Foreign researchers in China face tightening restrictions

219. Sensing ceramides by CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 to aggravate atherosclerosis

220. Ancient puppets that smile or scowl hint at shared rituals

221. Daily briefing: PubMed blackout stokes fears about database’s future

222. Trump''s nominee for NIH chief talks frozen grants and fostering ‘scientific dissent’

223. Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

224. Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations

225. Why women’s brains are more resilient: it could be their ‘silent’ X chromosome

226. AI algorithm helps telescopes to pivot fast towards gravitational-wave sources

227. How the brain decides whether to persist — and when to give up

228. A supersolid made using photons

229. This key protein could be responsible for brain ageing

230. Protein waste turned into antibiotics as a defence strategy of human cells

231. Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought

232. Amazonian deforestation makes the wet season wetter, and the dry season dryer

233. Genus-wide plant pangenome could inform next-generation crop design

234. How AI could let us watch epic star collisions in real time

235. How the brain decides when to stick at it, give up or try something new

236. It’s time to shine for LEDs made using ecofriendly quantum dots

237. Designer cannabinoids could be the key to pain relief without adverse effects

238. Earliest crafted bone tools date back 1.5 million years

239. Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering

240. Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila

241. Emerging supersolidity in photonic-crystal polariton condensates

242. Chanoclavine synthase operates by an NADPH-independent superoxide mechanism

243. Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests

244. Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse

245. Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment

246. Impact of Amazonian deforestation on precipitation reverses between seasons

247. Fine-scale patterns of SARS-CoV-2 spread from identical pathogen sequences

248. A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity

249. A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states

250. Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming

251. Structure of mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and its inhibition mechanism

252. A mixed-precision memristor and SRAM compute-in-memory AI processor

253. Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides

254. 10,000-h-stable intermittent alkaline seawater electrolysis

255. Prohormone cleavage prediction uncovers a non-incretin anti-obesity peptide

256. Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development

257. Fingerprinting the recovery of Antarctic ozone

258. Evolutionary fingerprints of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

259. Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago

260. TIR1-produced cAMP as a second messenger in transcriptional auxin signalling

261. Real-time inference for binary neutron star mergers using machine learning

262. Homogeneous ZnSeTeS quantum dots for efficient and stable pure-blue LEDs

263. Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA2 suppression of T cell immunity

264. Superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral graphene

265. A super-gel stays supple from –115 to 143

266. Daily briefing: US scientists rise up against Trump’s efforts to dismantle federal science

267. The search for solutions to geographic atrophy of the retina

268. Restoring vision with optogenetics

269. Artificial intelligence could boost eye care in low-income countries

270. How can treatment for eye disease be made easier?

271. Human echolocation can be taught

272. Eye problems cloud NASA’s vision of Mars

273. Vision: protecting and restoring a prized sense

274. ‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

275. Little Shop of Dreams

276. Diversity in neuronal activity could be caused by differences in inputs

277. Ancient reef-building corals had a little help from microbial friends

278. ‘Perfect potato’ designed thanks to unearthed genetic diversity

279. Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science

280. How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown

281. How AI can achieve human-level intelligence: researchers call for change in tack

282. I want to ensure that Africans take part in the AI revolution

283. ''Omg, did Pubmed go dark?'' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future

284. A name for the study of life in the Universe

285. Meet the ‘woolly mouse’: why scientists doubt it’s a big step towards recreating mammoths

286. We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination

287. Compulsive shopping is surging: what makes people buy loads of stuff

288. China’s supreme court calls for crack down on paper mills

289. Daily briefing: What another round of layoffs means for US science

290. Train clinical AI to reason like a team of doctors

291. AI must be taught concepts, not just patterns in raw data

292. Should scientists ditch the social-media platform X?

293. AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug

294. Elon Musk has some supporters in science

295. Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

296. China research on next-generation computer chips is double the US output

297. US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back

298. Boosting science: ‘Give foreign STEM students ten-year visas’

299. Daily briefing: Trump administration policies create turmoil for NIH-funded researchers worldwide

300. Constitutively active glucagon receptor drives high blood glucose in birds