1. Even dinosaurs weren’t safe from this giant croc-like predator

2. Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in?

3. This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

4. Author Correction: Endophilin marks and controls a clathrin-independent endocytic pathway

5. Daily briefing: What we know about autism and why it’s on the rise

6. How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found

7. Childhood eczema linked to mother’s stress during pregnancy

8. Deep gashes are tearing through cities, swallowing houses and displacing vast numbers of people

9. Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

10. Machine-learning model generates images using light

11. How tree shrews see the world

12. A spiky armoured dinosaur from Africa causes a rethink of ankylosaur evolution

13. How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism

14. Gully formation in cities is displacing tens of thousands of people

15. Origins of life: the molecules that could have unlocked peptide synthesis

16. An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

17. A closer look at how cells sense dietary nutrients

18. Hazardous science that helps to save and improve lives needs more support

19. Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789

20. Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur

21. The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

22. Optical generative models

23. Cocaine chemogenetics blunts drug-seeking by synthetic physiology

24. A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew

25. Dual-scale chemical ordering for cryogenic properties in CoNiV-based alloys

26. Haematopoietic stem cell number is not solely defined by niche availability

27. Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony

28. Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics

29. Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation

30. Topological prethermal strong zero modes on superconducting processors

31. One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft

32. Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface

33. Neural networks of the mouse visceromotor cortex

34. Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma

35. Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device

36. Maternal stress triggers early-life eczema through fetal mast cell programming

37. Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB1

38. Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning

39. Mapping urban gullies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

40. Thioester-mediated RNA aminoacylation and peptidyl-RNA synthesis in water

41. Ultrabroadband on-chip photonics for full-spectrum wireless communications

42. Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France

43. Retraction Note: Crystal structures of agonist-bound human cannabinoid receptor CB1

44. Here’s how to break into the Texas space industry

45. Why Texas is the hottest place for space right now

46. Explaining the mental-health burden of atopic dermatitis

47. A contested skin condition triggered by medicines

48. Will the latest skin substitutes revolutionize the treatment of burns and other wounds?

49. Acne vaccines could offer robust defence

50. Gene therapy marks a turning point for rare skin diseases

51. Dermatology has a skin-colour dilemma

52. Five highlights from skin research

53. A psoriasis cure could be in touching distance

54. AI versus skin cancer: the future of dermatology diagnosis

55. Skin: preserving the health of a multi-talented organ

56. Rewire

57. How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer

58. Five single-celled species that dabble in multicellularity

59. Daily briefing: Repeated heatwaves make your biological clock run fast

60. Daily briefing: Primates might have evolved in the cold climate of North America

61. Daily briefing: Plastics pollution talks end in stalemate

62. Bright city lights make birds around the world sing longer

63. Trial and error: research and the criminal justice system

64. Author Correction: Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes

65. Scalable total synthesis of saxitoxin and related natural products

66. Five reasons why Nepal struggles to attract women into science

67. Scientific meetings debate the effect of climate change on future food production

68. NASA’s Earth-observing satellites are crucial — commercial missions cannot replace them

69. Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?

70. Daily briefing: Tiny marsupial bounces back from near-extinction

71. Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it

72. Publisher Correction: Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury

73. Author Correction: Disease-associated astrocyte epigenetic memory promotes CNS pathology

74. Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking

75. Einstein hated entanglement — and five other quantum myths

76. Arguments for blind peer review also need to be recognized

77. Label political AI and audit its hidden costs

78. Deep brain stimulation data need public oversight

79. Emotional AI is here — let’s shape it, not shun it

80. Pig lung transplanted into a person in world first

81. I trawl coastlines to study the impacts of microplastics on marine life

82. How a self-taught biologist transformed nature writing — and inspired Darwin

83. My moonshot to preserve endangered species

84. US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut 2 billion in research grants

85. Does dark energy spawn from dark matter? Could be a bright idea

86. How a fraudulent scientist faked his career and other cautionary tales: Books in brief

87. Glitch cop

88. Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise

89. Human brain organoids reveal new path for Alzheimer’s drugs

90. RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no

91. ORCID launched more than a decade ago, but has yet to fulfil its potential

92. Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work

93. Author Correction: Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion

94. David Nabarro obituary: global-health leader who fought malnutrition, malaria, Ebola and COVID-19

95. The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

96. Before making a career move, try an experiment

97. When will dengue strike? Outbreaks sync with heat and rain

98. Anticancer compounds that exploit a compromised checkpoint in the cell cycle

99. Visualizing lipid transport in cells

100. Feeding bees with engineered yeast combats colony decline

101. Low-energy nuclear fusion boosted by electrochemistry

102. Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs

103. Rare skeletal condition caused by enzyme’s failure to rescue a catalytic cycle

104. Dying star reveals its inner structure

105. Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression

106. Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila

107. Flat-panel laser displays through large-scale photonic integrated circuits

108. Discovery of a widespread chemical signalling pathway in the Bacteroidota

109. Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells

110. A missing enzyme-rescue metabolite as cause of a rare skeletal dysplasia

111. SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter

112. A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction

113. Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy

114. Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility

115. Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site

116. Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees

117. Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment

118. Thymic epithelial cells amplify epigenetic noise to promote immune tolerance

119. Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target

120. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit

121. Electron flow matching for generative reaction mechanism prediction

122. Realization of a doped quantum antiferromagnet in a Rydberg tweezer array

123. Targeting G1–S-checkpoint-compromised cancers with cyclin A/B RxL inhibitors

124. Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction

125. TCF1 and LEF1 promote B-1a cell homeostasis and regulatory function

126. Proximity screening greatly enhances electronic quality of graphene

127. Molecular mechanism of ultrafast transport by plasma membrane Ca2-ATPases

128. mAChR4 suppresses liver disease via GAP-induced antimicrobial immunity

129. Structural basis for the dynamic regulation of mTORC1 by amino acids

130. Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry

131. STING induces ZBP1-mediated necroptosis independently of TNFR1 and FADD

132. ‘A double-whammy problem’: how plastic dust is altering natural processes

133. Securing climate justice in the courtroom

134. Could these five future agricultural innovations slow down climate change?

135. The world’s largest methane emitter manages to curb one source

136. Water in the ‘Devil’s Comet’ shares a source with Earth’s oceans

137. Time’s arrow

138. How citizen science can help to solve the global freshwater crisis

139. What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

140. Finding your academic voice: faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition

141. Immunotherapy using CAR T cells shows promising long-term outcomes for people with the blood cancer myeloma

142. Teacher defies ban on evolution education in the 1920s

143. How changes in behaviour can save lives in disasters

144. A baby benefits from personalized gene editing in the clinic

145. Tiny flier could soar through the mesosphere powered only by light

146. Small, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them?

147. A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs

148. Is collapsing fertility really the end of the world?

149. Exercise improves survival of some people with colon cancer, clinical trial shows

150. Tiny Australian predator defies drought to recover from near-extinction

151. Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science

152. Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive?

153. Study protected waters newly opened up to fishing

154. China’s hydropower megaproject breaks ground

155. Include Indigenous Knowledge systems in climate reports

156. African countries must rethink health-care financing

157. Why chocolate tastes so good: microbes that fine-tune its flavour

158. ‘Computing is a Black people’s thing’

159. Raw ingredients: turning algal protein into mock meat

160. Why amphibious, wet environments hold the key to climate adaptation

161. Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown

162. Ancient coins unveil web of trade across Southeast Asia

163. Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

164. Why nurturing the gut microbiota could resolve depression and anxiety

165. AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer

166. Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force

167. Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility

168. Super-efficient teamwork is possible — if you’re an ant

169. Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action

170. A clear prompt

171. Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels

172. Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders

173. Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend

174. Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger

175. A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

176. Summer 2025 is roasting hot: these charts show why it matters

177. Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities

178. Daily briefing: Why some places on our bodies heal without scars

179. Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science

180. Air pollution could be reduced by incentivizing local government officials to control crop burning

181. Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death

182. Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera

183. Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’

184. The perplexing body plan of arrow worms decoded

185. A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape

186. Many planets might be born with orbits misaligned from the spin of their stars

187. These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone

188. Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions

189. Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake 

190. Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

191. Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing

192. n-Type thermoelectric elastomers

193. Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg1 lithium metal pouch cells

194. The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan

195. Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome

196. Human emissions drive recent trends in North Pacific climate variations

197. Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury

198. Establishment of chromatin architecture interplays with embryo hypertranscription

199. Bending the curve of land degradation to achieve global environmental goals

200. Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer

201. NASP modulates histone turnover to drive PARP inhibitor resistance

202. Expanding the cytokine receptor alphabet reprograms T cells into diverse states

203. New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

204. The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides

205. Acidic oxygen reduction by single-atom Fe catalysts on curved supports

206. Accuracy of rubber-related deforestation maps

207. Y. Wang et al. reply

208. Rubber planting and deforestation

209. Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere

210. Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change

211. Null empathy

212. Publisher Correction: Liquid–liquid interfacial tension stabilized Li-metal batteries

213. Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research

214. Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions

215. Daily briefing: Bird flu is ‘everywhere’ on dairy farms

216. How to thrive as a Latin American researcher abroad

217. Astronomers gave up this comet for dead ― but they were wrong

218. AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

219. Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers

220. How Paris dealt with lightning in the Age of Enlightenment

221. ‘A whole body of healthy-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH

222. Margaret Boden obituary: cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination

223. Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what''s next?

224. Impact of catastrophic flood might have been exacerbated by river-management programme

225. Study how screen time affects circadian rhythms

226. Europe must safeguard climate data following NASA cuts

227. Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable

228. Use AI in the classroom to bring problems to life

229. Daily briefing: Political officials could control US federal science grants

230. How Indigenous values permeate my chemistry teaching and research

231. Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes

232. Author Correction: A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviours

233. How does a forest return to abandoned land? I travel to find out

234. Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet

235. Daily briefing: US researchers fight back on key climate report

236. Author Correction: RNA codon expansion via programmable pseudouridine editing and decoding

237. Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

238. How animal paw pads got their toughness

239. Daily briefing: Lithium supplements reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice

240. Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them

241. Swift bricks, ancient tattoos and more: Books in brief

242. A rude awakening

243. Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so

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

245. Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers

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

247. How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers

248. Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261. Ancient marine reptile was a silent swimmer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270. The science fiction science method

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

272. A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows

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

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

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

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

277. A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

285. Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene

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

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

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

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

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

291. Inconclusive proof of ferroelectricity in peptide-VDF ribbons

292. Data anomalies and the economic commitment of climate change

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

294. Therapeutic genetic restoration through allogeneic brain microglia replacement

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

296. After you left

297. The real problems with America''s health

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

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

300. Is your AI benchmark lying to you?