1. RFK Jr’s vaccine advisers will soon review four shots: what''s at stake

2. How to help refugees thrive: have local families host them

3. Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe

4. Meet Europe''s first exascale supercomputer — can it compete in the global AI race?

5. LIGO is 10 years old: black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’

6. Maintenance

7. Daily briefing: Heatwaves can be directly linked to emissions from specific companies

8. Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)

9. Trump team disbands controversial US climate panel

10. AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews

11. Is my red your red? Neuroscience has an answer

12. Author Correction: A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome

13. Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time

14. Daily briefing: Regenerative revolution aims to future-proof European agriculture

15. Tips and tricks to plan your career in science

16. Your risk of dying from chronic disease has dropped – if you live in these countries

17. These scientists left the US in Trump’s first term: their tips on taking the leap

18. Dozens of heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies

19. Jelly-filled garment keeps wearers cool when heat and humidity soar

20. Mystery Martian minerals hint at the planet’s complex geochemical past

21. Climate impacts are real — denying this is self-defeating

22. Clearest gravitational wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black hole theory

23. A common gut fungus worsens infection with the food-borne bacterium Salmonella

24. Heatwaves linked to emissions of individual fossil-fuel and cement producers

25. ‘Brain dial’ turns food consumption on or off in mice

26. Epigenetic clues from cancer’s past foretell its future

27. Designing an alloy microstructure atom by atom to withstand extreme cold

28. How did the oldest star clusters form?

29. AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say

30. Synthetic data can benefit medical research — but risks must be recognized

31. Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling

32. Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer

33. Probing non-equilibrium topological order on a quantum processor

34. Structure and mechanism of the mitochondrial calcium transporter NCLX

35. Functional synapses between neurons and small cell lung cancer

36. Probing the heterogeneous nature of LiF in solid–electrolyte interphases

37. Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours

38. Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars

39. Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors

40. Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion

41. Observing differential spin currents by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

42. Molecular subtypes of human skeletal muscle in cancer cachexia

43. Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu

44. Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis

45. ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons

46. Amplifying antigen-induced cellular responses with proximity labelling

47. Loss-of-function mutations in PLD4 lead to systemic lupus erythematosus

48. Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale

49. Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions

50. Programmable antisense oligomers for phage functional genomics

51. The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs

52. Human gastroids to model regional patterning in early stomach development

53. The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations

54. Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

55. Feeling the heat: fossil-fuel producers linked to dozens of heatwaves

56. Editorial Expression of Concern: Recovery of learning and memory is associated with chromatin remodelling

57. The earth will not consume our bones

58. Using biobanks to boost research: a how-to guide

59. Scientists take on Trump: the researchers fighting back

60. Daily briefing: Different people’s brains process colours in the same way

61. Protests are infectious: mapping rural unrest in Revolutionary France

62. Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry

63. Bug bites convince UK doctor to support mosquito research centre

64. AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now

65. A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?

66. Protecting science from sanctions

67. Strengthen the science behind the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

68. Life scientists: educate others to help strengthen biosecurity

69. Use computing royalties to kick-start biodiversity fund

70. Creativity is essential to the ethos of universities

71. Daily briefing: A polo-team’s worth of cloned CRISPR horses

72. These nations are wooing PhD students amid US funding uncertainties

73. How to make a ‘laser’ of neutrinos

74. My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same way

75. Can researchers stop AI making up citations?

76. The surprising ways bridges resist collapse

77. Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back

78. Iggy bop: how I tune in to the needs of Galápagos marine iguanas

79. ‘LinkedIn is like air to me’: the scientists who’ve cracked professional networking

80. ‘Amazing feat’: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

81. Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?

82. How to build nature back better — read this manual

83. ‘Communities already have the solutions’: why I advocate for Indigenous knowledge

84. Rainer Weiss obituary: Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves

85. Daily briefing: Nine metals in two dimensions

86. Daily briefing: Is a cure for psoriasis on the horizon?

87. Daily briefing: How bad are ultra-processed foods, really?

88. Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz

89. First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals?

90. Author Correction: PPP2R1A mutations portend improved survival after cancer immunotherapy

91. When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions

92. Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection

93. Diabetes drug shows anti-ageing effects on chromsomes

94. Different flames

95. Publisher Correction: In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control

96. RFK Jr. slings accusations and defends public-health upheaval at fiery hearing

97. Air pollution increases the risk of some types of dementia

98. Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network

99. Changing tides ushered in the world’s first civilization

100. Chemists cram record nine metals into trendy 2D material

101. Newfound immune cell in mice hints at why inflammation spikes with old age

102. Will a child survive? Older siblings have a powerful influence

103. Brain tumours in mice grow more slowly when starved of key amino acid

104. How the brain’s amygdala reacts when making decisions to avoid losses

105. A way to determine how partial charges of atoms in a molecule are distributed

106. Marsquakes indicate that the inner core of the red planet is solid, not liquid

107. Flies evolved a shock-absorber tissue used during embryonic development

108. Ancient DNA clarifies the early history of the Slavs

109. Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading

110. Depriving brain tumours of an amino acid could enhance chemotherapy

111. Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species

112. The diversity of microbial enzymes that turn a pollutant into an inert gas

113. Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon

114. Damaged bridges flex and twist to prevent collapse

115. Cocaine-activated ion channels engineered to break the loop of addiction in rats

116. ‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

117. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs

118. Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars

119. Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth

120. Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury

121. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

122. Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target

123. Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy

124. Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress

125. Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa

126. PICALM Alzheimer’s risk allele causes aberrant lipid droplets in microglia

127. Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence

128. Supervised learning in DNA neural networks

129. 3D-printed micro ion trap technology for quantum information applications

130. Adaptive and context-aware volumetric printing

131. Training of physical neural networks

132. A nanobody specific to prefusion glycoprotein B neutralizes HSV-1 and HSV-2

133. Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making

134. Patterned invagination prevents mechanical instability during gastrulation

135. Spatial joint profiling of DNA methylome and transcriptome in tissues

136. A circuit that integrates drive state and social contact to gate mating

137. Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain

138. Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

139. Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation

140. A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour

141. A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage

142. DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication

143. Latent resistance mechanisms of steel truss bridges after critical failures

144. Two ant species, one mother

145. Two ants, two species, one mother

146. Cas9 senses CRISPR RNA abundance to regulate CRISPR spacer acquisition

147. This is the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’: its goal is to stop dengue

148. Inside a mosquito factory

149. Heart’s desire

150. Daily briefing: Epigenetic atlas shows how ageing tweaks DNA

151. How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another

152. Are ultra-processed foods really so unhealthy? What the science says

153. Ultra-processed foods — it’s time for an improved definition

154. Liquid-crystal specs refocus with the push of a button

155. A mammoth toothache: world’s oldest bacterial DNA found in the mouths of mammoths

156. Daily briefing: Spouses tend to share the same psychiatric disorders

157. Experiment puts ‘spoon bending’ to the test

158. AI-powered brain device allows paralysed man to control robotic arm

159. Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food

160. These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet

161. Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer

162. Unifiying gravity and quantum theory requires better understanding of time

163. Veterinarians need to be part of West Nile disease storytelling

164. Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure

165. China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call

166. AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals

167. How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet

168. ‘The wolf is not the bad guy’: working with farmers to protect a reintroduced species

169. Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief

170. Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues

171. The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%

172. Daily briefing: There are two kinds of beer drinkers — these are the flavours that divide them

173. Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image?

174. States now have a legal duty to prevent climate harm — justice is in reach

175. Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering

176. When will life expectancy reach 100? No time soon

177. Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds

178. The vibrant colours of a house-hunting crab — August’s best science image

179. Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

180. Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool

181. Why scientists are flocking to Substack

182. How LinkedIn helped me to carve out a career path after my PhD

183. Author Correction: Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning

184. Daily briefing: Deliberate fearmongering spread like a virus through revolutionary France

185. Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

195. Machine-learning model generates images using light

196. How tree shrews see the world

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

198. How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism

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

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

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

202. A closer look at how cells sense dietary nutrients

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

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

205. Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur

206. The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

207. Optical generative models

208. Cocaine chemogenetics blunts drug-seeking by synthetic physiology

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

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

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

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

213. Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics

214. Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation

215. Topological prethermal strong zero modes on superconducting processors

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

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

218. Neural networks of the mouse visceromotor cortex

219. Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

227. Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France

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

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

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

231. Explaining the mental-health burden of atopic dermatitis

232. A contested skin condition triggered by medicines

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

234. Acne vaccines could offer robust defence

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

236. Dermatology has a skin-colour dilemma

237. Five highlights from skin research

238. A psoriasis cure could be in touching distance

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

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

241. Rewire

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

243. Five single-celled species that dabble in multicellularity

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

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

246. Daily briefing: Plastics pollution talks end in stalemate

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

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

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

250. Scalable total synthesis of saxitoxin and related natural products

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

260. Einstein hated entanglement — and five other quantum myths

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

262. Label political AI and audit its hidden costs

263. Deep brain stimulation data need public oversight

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

265. Pig lung transplanted into a person in world first

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

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

268. My moonshot to preserve endangered species

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

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

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

272. Glitch cop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

281. Before making a career move, try an experiment

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

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

284. Visualizing lipid transport in cells

285. Feeding bees with engineered yeast combats colony decline

286. Low-energy nuclear fusion boosted by electrochemistry

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

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

289. Dying star reveals its inner structure

290. Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression

291. Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila

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

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

294. Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells

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

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

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

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

299. Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility

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