1. Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year

2. This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies

3. Molecular gas in a low-dust galaxy hints at how stars formed in the early Universe

4. A genome from ancient Egypt

5. Brain implant decodes neural activity to produce expressive speech

6. 3D printing offers a way to study mimicry by insects

7. Leadership change at African journal sparks calls for bold reform

8. Injured plants use gaseous cues to initiate repair of their outer layers

9. Tunnelling photons challenge interpretation of quantum mechanics

10. First human genome from ancient Egypt sequenced from 4,800-year-old teeth

11. Viral genomes track the transmission of mpox in humans before 2017 outbreak

12. Ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters by machine learning

13. Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars

14. Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks

15. PPP2R1A mutations portend improved survival after cancer immunotherapy

16. WSTF nuclear autophagy regulates chronic but not acute inflammation

17. A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

18. Close-in planet induces flares on its host star

19. Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems

20. Rewiring endogenous genes in CAR T cells for tumour-restricted payload delivery

21. Electron flow in hydrogenotrophic methanogens under nickel limitation

22. Hybrid quantum network for sensing in the acoustic frequency range

23. Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples

24. Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity

25. Energy–speed relationship of quantum particles challenges Bohmian mechanics

26. Trade-offs in aviation impacts on climate favour non-CO2 mitigation

27. Mapping and engineering RNA-driven architecture of the multiphase nucleolus

28. The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network

29. The mutagenic forces shaping the genomes of lung cancer in never smokers

30. Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

31. A mouse brain stereotaxic topographic atlas with isotropic 1-μm resolution

32. Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

33. Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria

34. Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli

35. Stereodivergent transformation of a natural polyester to enantiopure PHAs

36. Boron-mediated modular assembly of tetrasubstituted alkenes

37. 3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

38. Three tips for talking to a vaccine sceptic

39. Wherever we go in this system, there we are

40. What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat

41. Massive submarine eruption darkened clouds half a world away

42. Ancient DNA helps trace stinky Roman fish sauce to its source

43. What’s it like to work with an AI team of virtual scientists?

44. Daily briefing: Industrialization might cause ‘inflammaging’

45. Publisher Correction: Metabolic adaptations direct cell fate during tissue regeneration

46. How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another

47. Architecture, dynamics and biogenesis of GluA3 AMPA glutamate receptors

48. Transparent research: can big tech learn from big pharma?

49. How much energy is wasted from making a cup of tea?

50. ‘Place’ neurons recognize the same spot from close by and far away

51. Extend your reach by turning your lessons into podcasts

52. Why we need mandatory safeguards for emotionally responsive AI

53. Postdocs file for union recognition at University of Michigan

54. Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit

55. How fast is your brain ageing? Ordinary scans reveal the pace

56. Protect Iran’s scientists from attacks

57. Global pandemic agreement needs sustained pressure to succeed

58. Human space travel risks contaminating Mars

59. It should be free to apply to graduate school

60. Author Correction: Targeting the SHOC2–RAS interaction in RAS-mutant cancers

61. Daily briefing: NIH still uses directives deemed illegal to screen grants

62. Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs

63. Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature

64. Deciphering how dog roses with an odd chromosome copy number sexually reproduce

65. Natural nappers: monitoring the sleeping patterns of wild orangutans

66. Ageing is linked to inflammation — but only in the industrialized world

67. Stare into a whale’s colossal eye — June’s best science images

68. Obesity drugs made in China could power next wave of treatments

69. I pioneered my country’s newborn health-screening programme

70. ’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25

71. Daily briefing: The oldest rocks on Earth

72. What do dolphins talk about? One biologist is trying to listen in

73. If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B

74. Arrests of scientists over smuggled samples add to US border anxiety

75. Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal

76. First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities

77. Niède Guidon obituary: Brazilian archaeologist who upended ideas on early human migration

78. Daily briefing: Researchers re-enact an epic ancient canoe trip

79. Daily briefing: The neuroscience behind eureka moments

80. Can AI build a virtual cell? Scientists race to model life’s smallest unit

81. RFK’s vaccine advisers vote down flu-shot ingredient — but back some jabs

82. Killer whales exfoliate each other with home-made scrubbers

83. NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know

84. ‘I didn’t know someone could pursue astronomy as a career’

85. Are these the world’s oldest rocks? Fresh data confirm contested claim

86. Addendum: Unravelling cysteine-deficiency-associated rapid weight loss

87. Harvard vs Trump: what this epic battle means for science

88. Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli

89. Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate

90. These scientists re-enacted Stone-Age voyage to Japan’s remotest islands

91. Pioneering but overlooked 1938 fusion experiment is recreated at last

92. Change of venue: fission-yeast cell-division cues actually initiate in the nucleus

93. Nanoscale heat transport tracked at interface between semiconductor materials

94. Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance

95. ‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies

96. Computer-vision research is hiding its role in creating ‘Big Brother’ technologies

97. Droplets of three electrons behave like a liquid

98. Can a pill replace exercise? Swiggingthis molecule gives mice benefits of working out

99. Neuronal transfer of mitochondria to tumour cells promotes cancer spread

100. Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance

101. Mixed plastics turned into valuable chemicals

102. Cancer cells get power boost by stealing mitochondria from nerves

103. Plagues of locusts could be avoided by using compounds that suppress swarming

104. Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy

105. Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology

106. Soft magnetic hysteresis in a dysprosium amide–alkene complex up to 100 kelvin

107. A cation-exchange approach to tunable magnetic intercalation superlattices

108. Mechanism of cytarabine-induced neurotoxicity

109. In-line NMR guided orthogonal transformation of real-life plastics

110. The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex

111. Barcoded viral tracing identifies immunosuppressive astrocyte–glioma interactions

112. The expanding repertoire of ESCRT functions in cell biology and disease

113. Engrafted nitrergic neurons derived from hPSCs improve gut dysmotility in mice

114. Controlling diverse robots by inferring Jacobian fields with deep networks

115. Spatiotemporal orchestration of mitosis by cyclin-dependent kinase

116. Interactions between TTYH2 and APOE facilitate endosomal lipid transfer

117. RNA codon expansion via programmable pseudouridine editing and decoding

118. An aspirational approach to planetary futures

119. Evidence of Coulomb liquid phase in few-electron droplets

120. Rescuing dendritic cell interstitial motility sustains antitumour immunity

121. Efficient near-infrared harvesting in perovskite–organic tandem solar cells

122. A cost-effective all-in-one halide material for all-solid-state batteries

123. Decoding 4-vinylanisole biosynthesis and pivotal enzymes in locusts

124. Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk 

125. Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis

126. Spin-qubit control with a milli-kelvin CMOS chip

127. Coherent bunching of anyons and dissociation in an interference experiment

128. Is AI powering Big Brother? Surveillance research is on the rise

129. Is AI watching you? The hidden links between research and surveillance

130. DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA

131. Here’s why China’s science and innovation model is thriving

132. What incentives do companies need to publish research?

133. Three science-led start-ups making their mark

134. These are the top companies and countries for industry research

135. Can industry fill the gap left by US research funding cuts?

136. Family recipe

137. Missile defence won’t prevent the health crises that rock global security

138. AI, peer review and the human activity of science

139. The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs

140. Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments

141. Daily briefing: How to make America healthy — the real problems and how to fix them

142. Hormone helps mice live longer and avoid obesity

143. In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost

144. Structural and functional characterization of human sweet taste receptor

145. Boys surpass girls in maths in the first year of school

146. Daily briefing: Space shots from the largest digital camera in the world

147. Daily briefing: Which is the perfect conference country?

148. Celebrating the anniversary of Michael Faraday’s discovery of benzene

149. We need to predict the people disasters will hit, not just the places

150. How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes

151. Adversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation

152. Make the study of human flourishing a global priority

153. ‘Harm’ must not be redefined by US conservation agencies

154. The shattered statues of Queen Hatshepsut: the reasons for the wreckage

155. Trump team vows to improve kids‘ health: scientists are sceptical

156. Did the US wipe out Iran''s nuclear programme? What researchers know

157. Gating and noelin clustering of native Ca2-permeable AMPA receptors

158. Modular arene functionalization by differential 1,2-diborylation

159. Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?

160. Obesity drugs show promise treating a new ailment: migraine

161. Ice society: looking for life at unlikely altitudes

162. Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models

163. ‘Natural history museums can save the world’: anti-colonialism, conservation and climate change

164. First images from world’s largest digital camera leave astronomers in awe

165. Medical AI can transform medicine — but only if we carefully track the data it touches

166. How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia

167. Early grant success attracts more funding: study of 100,000 applicants hints at why

168. Developing astronomers in Africa: ‘We wanted to create a discipline’

169. Sensors pinpoint the exact time of a Yellowstone explosion

170. This tiny robot moves mini-droplets with ease

171. Africa’s chief diplomat for vaccine manufacturing

172. Bringing men into conversations about parenting in academia

173. Happy birthday Jaws! How the movie changed shark science

174. Author Correction: Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics

175. ‘Super-healing’ animals inspire human treatments

176. Stories that are out of this world: Books in brief

177. Daily briefing: Some moths can navigate using starlight

178. Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

179. Publisher Correction: The P-loop NTPase RUVBL2 is a conserved clock component across eukaryotes

180. AI slashes time to produce gold-standard medical reviews — but sceptics urge caution

181. Single-celled organisms set for greater role in gut health

182. Daily briefing: The most-energetic molecule ever made

183. Revealed: How the brain turns stress into a bad night''s sleep

184. First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ reveals what ancient people looked like

185. A ‘killswitch’ peptide solidifies protein droplets in living cells

186. Neolithic matrilineal society in ancient China

187. Light detectors made from perovskite crystals see in full colour

188. Investigating the molecular ‘scars’ of PTSD in the human brain

189. How dopamine neurons devalue delayed rewards

190. Migratory moths navigate using the stars

191. Carbon-fibre composites can be broken down into reusable components

192. ‘Remarkable’ new enzymes built by algorithm with physics know-how

193. Homo sapiens adapted to diverse habitats before successfully populating Eurasia

194. R9AP is a common receptor for EBV infection in epithelial cells and B cells

195. Vertically stacked monolithic perovskite colour photodetectors

196. Single-cell transcriptomic and chromatin dynamics of the human brain in PTSD

197. In vivo mapping of mutagenesis sensitivity of human enhancers

198. Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal

199. Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night

200. Bioinspired capillary force-driven super-adhesive filter

201. Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development

202. Targeting de novo purine biosynthesis for tuberculosis treatment

203. Gut inflammation promotes microbiota-specific CD4 T cell-mediated neuroinflammation

204. Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation

205. Machine-learning design of ductile FeNiCoAlTa alloys with high strength

206. Allosteric modulation and biased signalling at free fatty acid receptor 2

207. Kupffer cell programming by maternal obesity triggers fatty liver disease

208. Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis

209. Optical nonlinearities in excess of 500 through sublattice reconstruction

210. Complete computational design of high-efficiency Kemp elimination enzymes

211. Unsupervised pretraining in biological neural networks

212. Flight simulator for moths reveals they navigate by starlight

213. These moths use the stars to navigate on an epic migration

214. Reply to: On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability

215. On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability

216. Editorial Expression of Concern: Transformation of primary human endothelial cells by Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus

217. Strategies for climate-resilient global wind and solar power systems

218. For the future

219. Why air-traffic controller shortages are not to blame for US airport chaos

220. Daily briefing: Judge orders the restoration of hundreds of NIH grants

221. Is a monster web of ocean currents headed for collapse? The race is on to find out

222. Author Correction: Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome

223. One dose of gene therapy gives years of relief from blood disorder

224. Author Correction: RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition

225. Concerned about freedom of science and truth

226. ‘Killswitch’ protein lets scientists study immobilized cellular droplets

227. In science’s new era, open and transparent cooperation remains key

228. Escalating Israel–Iran conflict damages science labs

229. Why the Royal Greenwich Observatory was chosen to mark zero degrees longitude

230. Sex differences in skin-cancer risk are linked to oestrogen levels

231. Fetal and parental genomes offer mechanistic insights into pregnancy loss

232. PhD students face high risk of sexual harassment — can universities stop perpetrators?

233. How your brain controls ageing — and why zombie cells could be key

234. How I carved out a career as a ‘pracademic’

235. Daily briefing: ‘Glimmer of hope’ at UN Ocean Conference as 50 countries ratify the High Seas Treaty

236. Tighter regulation is needed for AI companions

237. We need to show AI what didn’t work as well as what did

238. Is there a link between gut microbes and ageing?

239. US–China trade conflict threatens biomedical collaboration

240. How China can become a biotechnology superpower

241. Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory

242. People were wrecking the climate 140 years ago — we just lacked the tech to spot it

243. Cryo-EM structure of a natural RNA nanocage

244. Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

245. Mice with human cells developed using ‘game-changing’ technique

246. I can’t show my face because of pangolin poachers

247. ‘One of the true final frontiers’ — Sally Ride biopic highlights the struggle of gay astronauts

248. Daily briefing: Breathing patterns might be as unique as a fingerprint

249. Could a novelty indicator improve science?

250. Freeze frame: cracking molecular motion

251. Mysterious link between Earth’s magnetism and oxygen baffles scientists

252. Why pangolins are poached: they’re the tastiest animal around

253. Hundreds of physicists on a remote island: we visit the ultimate quantum party

254. Minuscule worms form living towers to hunt for food

255. Hungry caterpillars can brew exotic molecules in their guts

256. Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time

257. Daily briefing: Physical masks created using AI can restore damaged paintings

258. Daily briefing: The moment that mathematics education starts to fail girls

259. Some US researchers want to leave the country. Can Europe take them?

260. Why science recruiters struggle to find high-calibre candidates

261. A long-predicted cosmic collision might not happen after all

262. Recording my research led to a photojournalism career

263. Happy birthday quantum mechanics! I got a ticket to the ultimate physics party

264. Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do?

265. How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you

266. How to address gender equity in science in Africa

267. An instantaneous voice-synthesis neuroprosthesis

268. A cancer-causing mutation meets its match

269. Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal

270. Quantum physicists unveil most ‘trustworthy’ random-number generator yet

271. Mitochondrial molecule has unexpected role in tissue healing

272. Meet the engineer using deep learning to restore Renaissance art

273. Tiny rotating device puts a new spin on blood-clot removal

274. Biochemical breakthrough paves way to reliable supply of anticancer drug

275. Computer processors built from 2D materials

276. Seasonality dominates changes in lake-surface extent and aligns with human residence

277. Various cell types in tissues cooperate in networks that are disrupted in disease

278. World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing

279. Digitally constructed mask brings a damaged painting back to life

280. Trace elements in the ocean attributed to a surprising source

281. Liquid carbon formed using a high-energy laser

282. Close the mathematics gender gap: huge study prompts urgent call to action

283. An open AI model could help medical experts to interpret chest X-rays

284. When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment

285. Cheat-proof random numbers generated from quantum entanglement

286. Gene therapy could correct blood stem cells inside, rather than outside, the body

287. Early life high fructose impairs microglial phagocytosis and neurodevelopment

288. A fully open AI foundation model applied to chest radiography

289. Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade

290. Discovery of FoTO1 and Taxol genes enables biosynthesis of baccatin III

291. Targeting GRPR for sex hormone-dependent cancer after loss of E-cadherin

292. Metabolic adaptations direct cell fate during tissue regeneration

293. Dynamic assemblies and coordinated reactions of non-homologous end joining

294. Physical restoration of a painting with a digitally constructed mask

295. Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development

296. A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria

297. Abyssal seafloor as a key driver of ocean trace-metal biogeochemical cycles

298. Weakly space-confined all-inorganic perovskites for light-emitting diodes

299. Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage

300. Molecular hydrogen in the extremely metal- and dust-poor galaxy Leo P