1. How AI is revealing the language of the birds

2. Tropical forest’s last old growth is being toppled — illegally

3. Putting early cancer detection to the test

4. How to bring health and happiness to your lab

5. Stories of people, past, present and future: Books in brief

6. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats

7. Daily briefing: First in-womb treatment for motor-neuron condition is a success

8. What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs

9. Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

10. AI tool diagnoses diabetes, HIV and COVID from a blood sample

11. How leading a postdoc network boosted my career prospects

12. Author Correction: The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

13. Daily briefing: Meet the scientists who edit Wikipedia

14. Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next

15. Snapshots of acyl carrier protein shuttling in human fatty acid synthase

16. Structural dynamics of human fatty acid synthase in the condensing cycle

17. Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time

18. Endogenous DNA damage at sites of terminated transcripts

19. Low-iridium device speeds progress towards green hydrogen

20. Publisher Correction: Skin autonomous antibody production regulates host–microbiota interactions

21. Microsoft claims quantum-computing breakthrough — but some physicists are sceptical

22. Hypotaxy of wafer-scale single-crystal transition metal dichalcogenides

23. Microsoft builds AI that creates ‘impressive’ video-game worlds

24. Key process in sex-cell formation can finally be studied in vitro

25. Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand

26. The secrets of static electricity are finally being revealed

27. Racist ratings linger in five-star systems — a thumbs up could fix that

28. How chronic stress warps decision-making

29. Peptides from abnormal RNA processing in cancer offer an immunotherapy target

30. Racial bias eliminated when ratings switch from five stars to thumbs up or down

31. Putting the brakes on mitochondrial fusion to prevent escape of mitochondrial DNA

32. Bespoke vaccines can elicit long-lived immune activity against pancreatic cancer

33. Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics

34. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

35. Continuous-variable multipartite entanglement in an integrated microcomb

36. Plasmodium blood stage development requires the chromatin remodeller Snf2L

37. A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit

38. Tumour-wide RNA splicing aberrations generate actionable public neoantigens

39. Dual regulation of mitochondrial fusion by Parkin–PINK1 and OMA1

40. Cooperative nutrient scavenging is an evolutionary advantage in cancer

41. Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into a triboelectric series

42. Human-correlated genetic models identify precision therapy for liver cancer

43. An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning

44. Scale dichotomization reduces customer racial discrimination and income inequality

45. Reconstitution of SPO11-dependent double-strand break formation

46. In vitro reconstitution of meiotic DNA double-strand-break formation

47. Reply to: Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death

48. Interferometric single-shot parity measurement in InAs–Al hybrid devices

49. SPO11 dimers are sufficient to catalyse DNA double-strand breaks in vitro

50. Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients

51. Perovskite heteroepitaxy for high-efficiency and stable pure-red LEDs

52. Modulated ringdown comb interferometry for sensing of highly complex gases

53. Thermal Ca2/Mg2 exchange reactions to synthesize CO2 removal materials

54. Nociceptive neurons promote gastric tumour progression via a CGRP–RAMP1 axis

55. GABAergic neuron-to-glioma synapses in diffuse midline gliomas

56. De novo design of transmembrane fluorescence-activating proteins

57. RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8 T cells in pancreatic cancer

58. World and Human Action Models towards gameplay ideation

59. Clonal driver neoantigen loss under EGFR TKI and immune selection pressures

60. Mechanism for local attenuation of DNA replication at double-strand breaks

61. Sequence clustering confounds AlphaFold2

62. Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death

63. Atlantic oceanic droughts do not threaten Asian water tower

64. Reply to: Atlantic oceanic droughts do not threaten Asian water tower

65. What’s next for the World Health Organization? US exit could reshape agency

66. Author Correction: Seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones in a warming climate

67. Cycles

68. Women need platforms to celebrate excellence in research and technology

69. Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy recipient nears two decades in cancer remission

70. Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles

71. Why retractions data could be a powerful tool for cleaning up science

72. Why these scientists devote time to editing and updating Wikipedia

73. Newfound bat virus that uses notorious receptor poses ‘spillover’ risk

74. A human gene makes mice squeak differently — did it contribute to language?

75. Vertical structure of an exoplanet’s atmospheric jet stream

76. Learn COVID pandemic lessons — before it’s too late

77. ‘Unconventional’ nickel superconductor excites physicists

78. Could psychedelics be fine-tuned to relieve anxiety but skip the ‘trip’?

79. Author Correction: Fetal hepatocytes protect the HSPC genome via fetuin-A

80. China made waves with Deepseek, but its real ambition is AI-driven industrial innovation

81. The 1925 debate about adopting the word ‘scientist’ heats up

82. Pinpointing neurons that hinder cancer treatment

83. Molecular glue unexpectedly mimics the effect of cancer mutations

84. Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome?

85. Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people

86. Don’t overlook the mental-health costs of California’s wildfires

87. Charles Darwin saw the importance of development in evolution

88. A giant leap for machine translation could be even bigger

89. A sustainable ocean needs thriving ocean societies

90. Daily briefing: The ‘dark side’ of the Asilomar conference

91. Author Correction: FANCD2–FANCI surveys DNA and recognizes double- to single-stranded junctions

92. Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment

93. Characterization of single neurons reprogrammed by pancreatic cancer

94. Ambient-pressure superconductivity onset above 40 K in (La,Pr)3Ni2O7 films

95. ‘Talking won’t save the planet’: uniting efforts to save Panama’s parks

96. Here’s how to bag a hefty research prize to turbocharge innovation

97. What are the best AI tools for research? Nature’s guide

98. Researchers overlooked airborne diseases for centuries — then COVID-19 changed everything

99. Daily briefing: Scientists use AI to design life-like enzymes from scratch

100. Money and murder: the dark side of the Asilomar meeting on recombinant DNA

101. ‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs being

102. NASA embraced diversity. Trump’s DEI purge is hitting space scientists hard

103. ‘Researching climate change feels like standing in the path of an approaching train’

104. Why I retracted part of my PhD dissertation

105. Bats on film: scientific storytelling from a recovering academic

106. Daily briefing: A simple blood test could diagnose pancreatic cancer early

107. From farm to pharmacy: gene-edited plants produce a popular supplement

108. Scientists use AI to design life-like enzymes from scratch

109. Quantum-computing technology that makes qubits from atoms wins mega investment

110. Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr is now a powerful force in US science: what will he do?

111. Bullseye! Galaxy hosts a record-breaking nine starry rings

112. Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship

113. Daily briefing: Why US scientists aren’t retiring

114. The researchers on a quest to protect the gut from antibiotics

115. Author Correction: India–Eurasia convergence speed-up by passive-margin sediment subduction

116. Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

117. Publisher Correction: Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment

118. Are PhDs losing their lustre? Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees

119. Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads

120. Gourmet cockatoos like to fancy up their food

121. A bacterial antiviral system detects and directly fights against infection

122. Socio-economic status explains one-third of the racial disparity in top academic achievement

123. Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

124. Does a cell’s gene expression always reflect its function?

125. Sea turtles use magnetic ‘map’ and ‘compass’ to navigate the ocean

126. How centuries of isolation shaped Greenlanders’ unique genetics

127. I work remotely — on Mars

128. The lost long tail of early bird evolution

129. X-ray telescope casts a sharper gaze on galaxy clusters

130. Record-breaking neutrino detected by huge underwater telescope

131. Mysterious neutrino barrels through deep waters near Sicily

132. Genetic data from Indigenous Greenlanders could help to narrow health-care gap

133. Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation

134. External Li supply reshapes Li deficiency and lifetime limit of batteries

135. Measuring racial educational disparities over time amongst top achievers

136. Activation and inhibition mechanisms of a plant helper NLR

137. A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters

138. Balanced plant helper NLR activation by a modified host protein complex

139. The bulk motion of gas in the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster

140. Converging mechanism of UM171 and KBTBD4 neomorphic cancer mutations

141. Stronger and coarser-grained biodegradable zinc alloys

142. Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China

143. Direct experimental constraints on the spatial extent of a neutrino wavepacket

144. The neuroimmune connectome in health and disease

145. MorPhiC Consortium: towards functional characterization of all human genes

146. Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles

147. Aqueous-based recycling of perovskite photovoltaics

148. Hydrogen escaping from a pair of exoplanets smaller than Neptune

149. Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression

150. Shielding Pt/γ-Mo2N by inert nano-overlays enables stable H2 production

151. Manipulation of the altermagnetic order in CrSb via crystal symmetry

152. Macrophages protect against sensory axon loss in peripheral neuropathy

153. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection

154. Global engineering effects of soil invertebrates on ecosystem functions

155. UM171 glues asymmetric CRL3–HDAC1/2 assembly to degrade CoREST corepressors

156. A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion

157. Topological segregation of stress sensors along the gut crypt–villus axis

158. Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology

159. Transcriptional adaptation upregulates utrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

160. Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus

161. Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT

162. Observation of Plastic Ice VII by Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering

163. σ-Bond insertion reactions of two strained diradicaloids

164. Transylvanian diaries reveal centuries-old climate extremes

165. Dear Leader

166. Why is mathematics education failing some of the world’s most talented children?

167. Daily briefing: ‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants blocked by legal challenge

168. Dozens of new obesity drugs are coming: these are the ones to watch

169. Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus

170. ‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves

171. Author Correction: High fatigue resistance in a titanium alloy via near-void-free 3D printing

172. Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding

173. ‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap

174. Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find

175. Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening

176. Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

177. Daily briefing: How did childhood evolve?

178. Nature markets are nothing new — they are widespread, regulated and instructive

179. Scientific societies need to modernize

180. Close the biodiversity funding gap by teaching conservation to financial professionals

181. Outdated rules on expenses prevent academics from travelling more sustainably

182. ‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge

183. A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s ― these genes might explain his escape

184. The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected

185. Earth’s mysterious inner core really is changing shape

186. Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’

187. Author Correction: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape

188. Daily briefing: How mantis shrimps survive landing the world’s fastest punch

189. How and why my company pivoted from energy to agritechnology

190. I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory

191. How to end outrage and detoxify politics: share stories, not statistics

192. Daily briefing: People in dense crowds move in swirls

193. Have Trump’s anti-DEI orders hit private funders? HHMI halts inclusive science programme

194. “We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown

195. DeepMind AI crushes tough maths problems on par with top human solvers

196. From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public''s reaction to science

197. How my research focus exposed me to threats and harassment

198. Bonobos know when you’re in the know ― and when you’re not

199. Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos

200. Poetry on Mars and robots on Earth: Books in brief

201. Engineered nose bacteria sneak drugs into the brain

202. How the brain suppresses fear: mouse study offers path to anxiety treatments

203. Mantis shrimp have the world’s fastest punch — here’s how their limbs survive

204. OpenAI’s ‘deep research’ tool: is it useful for scientists?

205. The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic?

206. Daily briefing: Genetically modified pig-organ transplant trial gets green light

207. ‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health

208. How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths

209. Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women

210. Granzyme K activates the entire complement cascade

211. These Gaza scientists are keeping research alive amid war, destruction and uncertainty

212. How to sell your science without selling out

213. Kids’ real-world arithmetic skills don’t transfer to the classroom

214. Genetic and geographical origins of Eurasia’s influential Yamna culture

215. Why a standard method overlooks the real reason some antibiotics fail

216. Superkiller complex problems expose a cancer-cell vulnerability

217. Crowds start to spin when their densities hit a threshold

218. An atlas of cells in the human brain’s control hub

219. ‘Unconventional’ superconductivity probed in twisted graphene

220. How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread

221. School smart or street smart? Maths skills of children in India tested

222. Fossil bird skull suggests Antarctic waterfowl survived Cretaceous mass extinction

223. ‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood

224. A personalized cancer vaccine to prevent the return of high-risk kidney cancer

225. Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research

226. Millihertz oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole

227. Antibody prophylaxis may mask subclinical SIV infections in macaques

228. Two-Eyed Seeing and other Indigenous perspectives for neuroscience

229. Polytype switching by super-lubricant van der Waals cavity arrays

230. Thermalization and criticality on an analogue–digital quantum simulator

231. Two-dimensional polyaniline crystal with metallic out-of-plane conductivity

232. Emergence of collective oscillations in massive human crowds

233. H-bonded organic frameworks as ultrasound-programmable delivery platform

234. A neoantigen vaccine generates antitumour immunity in renal cell carcinoma

235. Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics

236. Multi-interface licensing of protein import into a phage nucleus

237. Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron

238. RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition

239. A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

240. Topological water-wave structures manipulating particles

241. Transforming US agriculture for carbon removal with enhanced weathering

242. SKI complex loss renders 9p21.3-deleted or MSI-H cancers dependent on PELO

243. A genomic history of the North Pontic Region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

244. Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable simulator

245. Synthetic lethality of mRNA quality control complexes in cancer

246. Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance

247. Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon

248. Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems

249. Superfluid stiffness of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

250. IL-27 elicits a cytotoxic CD8 T cell program to enforce tumour control

251. Metal-halide porous framework superlattices

252. Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity

253. Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link

254. Directly imaging the cooling flow in the Phoenix cluster

255. The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

256. Superfluid stiffness of twisted trilayer graphene superconductors

257. Crowds suck people into a vortex — surprising physicists

258. Crowd crush: Could fluid dynamics save lives?

259. Future legal

260. Daily briefing: How scientists can help protect US federal research

261. Poke, twist, vibrate: a wearable device that delivers touch to the skin

262. Cancer outcomes predicted using AI-extracted data from clinical notes

263. Lineage tracing of stem cells decades after blood and bone-marrow transplantation

264. Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says

265. Top universities warned against unfair research partnerships on their doorstep

266. The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans

267. Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway

268. US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers

269. Fish gills and human ears share the same genetic blueprint

270. Grand Canyons on the Moon

271. How the World Health Organization can thrive without the United States

272. How are researchers using AI? Survey reveals pros and cons for science

273. Charles Darwin’s brilliance was continuously evolving

274. Can you ever experience true silence? Intimate exhibition offers insight

275. ‘Despair is not an option’ — how scientists can help protect federal research

276. Author Correction: Virus-induced senescence is a driver and therapeutic target in COVID-19

277. Author Correction: GZMK-expressing CD8 T cells promote recurrent airway inflammatory diseases

278. Daily briefing: A ‘data apocalypse’ at US public-health agencies

279. Daily briefing: Former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli talks Trump

280. Can this revolutionary plastics-recycling plant help solve the pollution crisis?

281. How scientists labour on love and loss

282. Guerilla rewilding undermines evidence-based conservation

283. Report both positive and negative effects of gene changes on crops

284. The world must move forwards with plastics treaty

285. Net-zero emissions commitments are more threatened than ever

286. Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

287. How COVID vaccination keeps a ‘breakthrough’ infection in check

288. Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space

289. Omega-3 supplements slow biological ageing

290. Researching endangered animals in the Sahara has its own dangers

291. I spent a year studying campus sexual violence. Here’s what I found out

292. NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope

293. Author Correction: Joint speech and text machine translation for up to 100 languages

294. Microbes in space: how bacteria could help sustain long-distance space travel

295. Publisher Correction: Placenta-tropic VEGF mRNA lipid nanoparticles ameliorate murine pre-eclampsia

296. Why even physicists still don’t understand quantum theory 100 years on

297. ‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins

298. Mitochondria as you’ve never seen them — January’s best science images

299. Author Correction: Stromal changes in the aged lung induce an emergence from melanoma dormancy

300. Author Correction: FBP1 controls liver cancer evolution from senescent MASH hepatocytes