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

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

3. My moonshot to preserve endangered species

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

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

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

7. Glitch cop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. Before making a career move, try an experiment

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

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

19. Visualizing lipid transport in cells

20. Feeding bees with engineered yeast combats colony decline

21. Low-energy nuclear fusion boosted by electrochemistry

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

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

24. Dying star reveals its inner structure

25. Axonal injury is a targetable driver of glioblastoma progression

26. Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila

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

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

29. Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells

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

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

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

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

34. Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility

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

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

37. Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment

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

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

40. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit

41. Electron flow matching for generative reaction mechanism prediction

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

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

44. Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction

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

46. Proximity screening greatly enhances electronic quality of graphene

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

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

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

50. Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry

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

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

53. Securing climate justice in the courtroom

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

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

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

57. Time’s arrow

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

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

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

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

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

63. How changes in behaviour can save lives in disasters

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

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

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

67. A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs

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

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

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

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

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

73. Study protected waters newly opened up to fishing

74. China’s hydropower megaproject breaks ground

75. Include Indigenous Knowledge systems in climate reports

76. African countries must rethink health-care financing

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

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

79. Raw ingredients: turning algal protein into mock meat

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

81. Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown

82. Ancient coins unveil web of trade across Southeast Asia

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

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

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

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

87. Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility

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

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

90. A clear prompt

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

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

93. Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend

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

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

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

97. Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities

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

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

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

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

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

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

104. The perplexing body plan of arrow worms decoded

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

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

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

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

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

110. Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

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

112. n-Type thermoelectric elastomers

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

114. The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan

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

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

117. Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury

118. Establishment of chromatin architecture interplays with embryo hypertranscription

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

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

121. NASP modulates histone turnover to drive PARP inhibitor resistance

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

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

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

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

126. Accuracy of rubber-related deforestation maps

127. Y. Wang et al. reply

128. Rubber planting and deforestation

129. Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere

130. Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change

131. Null empathy

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

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

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

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

136. How to thrive as a Latin American researcher abroad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

145. Study how screen time affects circadian rhythms

146. Europe must safeguard climate data following NASA cuts

147. Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable

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

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

150. How Indigenous values permeate my chemistry teaching and research

151. Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes

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

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

154. Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet

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

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

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

158. How animal paw pads got their toughness

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

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

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

162. A rude awakening

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

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

165. Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers

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

167. How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers

168. Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

181. Ancient marine reptile was a silent swimmer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190. The science fiction science method

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

192. A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows

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

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

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

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

197. A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

205. Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene

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

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

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

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

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

211. Inconclusive proof of ferroelectricity in peptide-VDF ribbons

212. Data anomalies and the economic commitment of climate change

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

214. Therapeutic genetic restoration through allogeneic brain microglia replacement

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

216. After you left

217. The real problems with America''s health

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

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

220. Is your AI benchmark lying to you?

221. The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system

222. Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic

223. Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last

224. Does ResearchGate have a growing credibility problem?

225. Version control: how I combat the rise of generative AI in the classroom

226. Daily briefing: Respiratory illness can ‘wake up’ dormant cancer cells

227. Scientists can help stop a slide to nuclear war — don’t shut them out again

228. Baboons defend themselves by throwing stones

229. Why suppressing all wildfires has made today’s megafires worse

230. Protection from biological hazards at work arrives at last

231. Overcome threats to renewable energy through skilful statecraft

232. Protect Palestinian archaeological sites during war

233. Don’t train medical AI on patients’ data without their knowledge

234. Plan-B careers can be a force for good in science

235. Tackle fake citations generated by AI

236. Conserve marine migratory species to protect ecological links between land and sea

237. Breed giant prawns to withstand disease and climate change

238. ‘The Sun had fallen to Earth’ — a survivor’s recollection of the Hiroshima bombing

239. Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE

240. Why I co-developed a research career launchpad for first generation students

241. Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight

242. Direct identification of Ac and No molecules with an atom-at-a-time technique

243. Real-time in-situ magnetization reprogramming for soft robotics

244. How I’m electrifying transportation in Tanzania

245. Who’s to blame when AI agents mess up? We urgently need a new system of ethics

246. Environmental politics is doomed to fail — unless we tell better stories

247. What it’s like fighting racism and sexism in shark science

248. To save lives in heatwaves, focus on how human bodies work

249. Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images

250. This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.

251. ‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget

252. India to penalize universities with too many retractions

253. I could not have become an astronomer on my own

254. mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people

255. Potato, tomahto: the roots of the modern tater

256. Intricate origins of ice mummy’s ink revealed

257. The ocean''s deepest animal ecosystem

258. ‘Wind droughts’ driven by climate change put green power at risk

259. Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’

260. Daily briefing: What does quantum mechanics mean anyway?

261. My AI chatbot thinks my idea is fundable

262. How allergens make us cough and weeze — by poking holes in airway cells

263. SMART tool builds proteins on cell surfaces

264. Lava planets’ atmospheres give away what lies beneath

265. AI expands the repertoire of CRISPR-associated proteins for genome editing

266. ‘Smart’ tool pieces together proteins in response to combinations of cell-surface cues

267. Inflammation during viral infection can rouse dormant cancer cells

268. Observation of elusive interaction between neutrinos and atomic nuclei

269. Cloud-motion data identify changes in atmospheric circulation

270. Allergy-triggering proteins share a common characteristic

271. The tiny mouse lemur could make for a mighty model organism

272. Changes in Mars’s habitability could have been driven by carbonate formation and transient oases

273. Laser beams programmed to form various shapes by nanodisk arrays

274. Miniature neutrino detector promises to test laws of physics

275. Chemicals seeping from the sea floor sustain an extreme-depth ecosystem

276. ‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu

277. Epithelial cell membrane perforation induces allergic airway inflammation

278. Mouse lemur cell atlas informs primate genes, physiology and disease

279. Design of highly functional genome editors by modelling CRISPR–Cas sequences

280. SuFEx-based antitubercular compound irreversibly inhibits Pks13

281. Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk

282. Diffusing protein binders to intrinsically disordered proteins

283. Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests

284. Securing the forest carbon sink for the European Union’s climate ambition

285. Determinants of successful AAV-vectored delivery of HIV-1 bNAbs in early life

286. A molecular cell atlas of mouse lemur, an emerging model primate

287. Transient APC/C inactivation by mTOR boosts glycolysis during cell cycle entry

288. Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

289. ACLY inhibition promotes tumour immunity and suppresses liver cancer

290. Invariance of dynamo action in an early-Earth model

291. Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering

292. Programmable protein ligation on cell surfaces

293. A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours

294. Synthesis of bulk hexagonal diamond

295. Remodelling of corticostriatal axonal boutons during motor learning

296. Repurposing haemoproteins for asymmetric metal-catalysed H atom transfer

297. Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

298. Earth''s deepest ecosystem discovered six miles below the sea

299. Retraction Note: Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation

300. Powerful satellite will chart changes on Earth’s surface in exquisite detail — down to a centimetre