1. Author Correction: Mechanisms of stretch-mediated skin expansion at single-cell resolution

2. Who will fill the climate-data void left by the Trump administration?

3. Three research stars fighting to protect coastlines

4. Sinking cities: how China is moving subsidence research forward

5. The leading cities in the world for high-quality research in 2024

6. Why coastal megacities should look inland for research collaborations

7. ‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer

8. The future of AI

9. A Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics — what discoveries could it make?

10. Why I moved my research to China from Germany: a biologist’s experience

11. Spaceport mementos

12. Daily briefing: Greenhouse-gas emissions should peak by 2030, say researchers

13. Volcano mega-eruptions lead to parched times

14. How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs

15. Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve

16. James Watson obituary: co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix who reshaped modern biology

17. Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it

18. CRISPR vs cholesterol: can gene editing prevent heart disease?

19. Physiology and immunology of pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant

20. Multi-omics analysis of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant

21. Could China’s cautious new research strategy stifle its science-leadership ambitions?

22. ''Tiny'' AI model beats massive LLMs at logic test

23. The US government shutdown is over: what’s next for scientists

24. Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows

25. Global greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising: when will they peak?

26. First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance

27. Magnetic fibres give this robot a soft grip

28. Can UK science really spawn a 1-trillion company?

29. Metabolite maps reveal spatial gradients in liver and intestinal tissue

30. Official statistics are vastly undercounting deaths from extreme weather

31. Ultrathin films of a 2D polymer provide airtight seal

32. Material system enhances superconducting qubits

33. Extreme rainfall poses the biggest risk to Mumbai’s most vulnerable people

34. SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death

35. Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

36. iPEX enables micrometre-resolution deep spatial proteomics via tissue expansion

37. Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection

38. Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis

39. GREGoR: accelerating genomics for rare diseases

40. Cytosolic acetyl-coenzyme A is a signalling metabolite to control mitophagy

41. A molecularly impermeable polymer from two-dimensional polyaramids

42. An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals

43. Synthesis of enantioenriched atropisomers by biocatalytic deracemization

44. Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology

45. Silicon solar cells with hybrid back contacts

46. A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence

47. Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices

48. Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels

49. Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in a developing megacity

50. The contribution of rock strength to soil production

51. Florigen activation complex forms via multifaceted assembly in Arabidopsis

52. Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae

53. Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes

54. Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic

55. In situ structural mechanism of epothilone-B-induced CNS axon regeneration

56. Controlling pyramidal nitrogen chirality by asymmetric organocatalysis

57. Dye or die: bacterium forced to make pigment to stay alive

58. Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last

59. Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget

60. Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning

61. Potent neutralization of Marburg virus by a vaccine-elicited antibody

62. Mathematicians put AI model AlphaProof to the test

63. Fossilized technology: Books in brief

64. Three rising stars in ageing research

65. Is ageing a disease? The debate that could reshape medicine

66. Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough

67. The future of ageing: science aims to deliver another leap in lifespan

68. Hotcakes at the end times

69. “It keeps me awake at night”: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity

70. ‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations

71. How geopolitics is reshaping research: Data hint at shifting collaborations

72. How much protein do you really need? What the science says

73. Daily briefing: The Americas have lost their measles elimination status

74. Chinese researchers reveal unexplored section of mysterious Arctic Ocean ridge

75. To reform universities, first tackle global rankings

76. Daily briefing: The complex legacy of James Watson

77. Gut bacteria help mice to stay lean

78. Money and power underlie mysterious Andean ‘band of holes’

79. Author Correction: Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers

80. Influential list of highly cited researchers now shuts out more scientists: here’s why

81. Is HRT in menopause healthy? US label change triggers debate

82. I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket

83. Lessons from a long road to a first-author paper

84. Ethically sourced image data set encourages fairness in AI research

85. High performance tandem perovskite LEDs through interlayer photon recycling

86. Comprehensive echocardiogram evaluation with view primed vision language AI

87. ‘Almost utopian’: how protecting the environment is boosting the economy in Brazil

88. Failure is not an option for Africa’s newly launched medicines agency

89. Insatiable squirrel ravages cherry blossoms for breakfast

90. For real climate action, empower women

91. Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence

92. China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent

93. The computers that run on human brain cells

94. How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience

95. Academic freedom is key to the future of universities

96. Kenya’s black rhino revival is a story of hope for conservationists

97. COP meetings must evolve to turn climate promises into action

98. Partnerships between academia and industry must serve the public good

99. Vaccine advice: how a US centre is filling growing gaps in public-health information

100. Want a younger brain? Learn another language

101. Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with a dual buffer layer

102. A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation

103. Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 33.6% efficiency

104. Author Correction: The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations

105. Witnessing chamois populations recover

106. Rebuilding Ukraine — one university’s bold vision

107. Don’t despair, collective action can address climate change

108. Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA

109. Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health

110. Publisher Correction: Radiation-induced amphiregulin drives tumour metastasis

111. Daily briefing: A ‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads

112. Daily briefing: ‘Mind captioning’ AI describes the images in your head

113. Antibodies unleashed against pancreatic cancer

114. DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy

115. International PhD student numbers in US hold steady — for now

116. Surprise ‘tail’ found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history

117. A host of ‘exocomets’ swarms a distant star

118. Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why

119. Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists

120. How scientists exposed to other people’s trauma find support

121. Outside the window

122. Author Correction: TNF-mediated inflammatory skin disease in mice with epidermis-specific deletion of IKK2

123. First ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons

124. ‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network

125. An ATP-gated molecular switch orchestrates human messenger RNA export

126. Author Correction: The emergence of transcriptional identity in somatosensory neurons

127. Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry

128. Daily briefing: UK science is ‘bleeding to death’, says report

129. ‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

130. Developmental maps of the brain trace when cell types emerge

131. Images for AI use can be sourced responsibly

132. Most Antarctic ice shelves are set to disappear if greenhouse-gas emissions remain high

133. Ultrashort laser pulse amplified by back-and-forth propagation

134. Adenosine signalling drives antidepressant actions of ketamine and ECT

135. Transcriptomic and spatial organization of telencephalic GABAergic neurons

136. Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits

137. Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies

138. The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development

139. Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation

140. A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation

141. Anti-progestin therapy targets hallmarks of breast cancer risk

142. Eight millennia of continuity of a previously unknown lineage in Argentina

143. Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

144. Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons

145. Structural snapshots capture nucleotide release at the μ-opioid receptor

146. Continuous cell-type diversification in mouse visual cortex development

147. Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex

148. Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion

149. Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function

150. Synthetic α-synuclein fibrils replicate in mice causing MSA-like pathology

151. Global satellite survey reveals uncertainty in landfill methane emissions

152. Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking

153. Lymph node environment drives FSP1 targetability in metastasizing melanoma

154. The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development

155. Vector-stimuli-responsive magnetorheological fibrous materials

156. Assessing phylogenetic confidence at pandemic scales

157. Secretome translation shaped by lysosomes and lunapark-marked ER junctions

158. Targeting FSP1 triggers ferroptosis in lung cancer

159. Dispersion-engineered multipass optical parametric amplification

160. Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species

161. Myriad Aryne Derivatives from Carboxylic Acids

162. Anosophoros

163. Chinese scientists increasingly lead joint projects with the UK, US and Europe

164. Daily briefing: A guide to global climate change action

165. Can AI be truly creative?

166. Antibody drugs show promise for treating bird flu and HIV

167. Single video camera tells the story of deadly Myanmar quake

168. How I’m helping to cultivate science entrepreneurship in Brazil

169. Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star

170. From the archive: Do sunspots affect the price of corn?

171. COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?

172. The ‘implementation COP’: why the Belém summit must ratchet up climate action

173. Daily briefing: Custom-made gene-editing therapy for children to enter clinical trial

174. Japan’s first female prime minister doesn’t call herself a feminist — but the country needs her to tackle sexism in science

175. How the rush for critical minerals is neglecting human needs

176. Climate change is devastating mining of minerals needed to fight it

177. China should undertake more risky research to close the Nobel gap

178. Can AI predict and limit online hate?

179. When will Africa have a Nobel prize in medicine?

180. Safeguards for virology must be designed in partnership with the public

181. ‘Memory foam’ skeleton in cells helps them to navigate

182. Independent mechanisms of inflammation and myeloid bias in VEXAS syndrome

183. My funding applications are taking up too much time. How can I stay focused on my research?

184. Alzheimer’s decline slows with just a few thousand steps a day

185. How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action

186. Accelerating the discovery of multicatalytic cooperativity

187. From pangolins to primates: how I use zoo facilities to treat wild animals

188. ‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?

189. PhD training needs a reboot in an AI world

190. Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’

191. Daily briefing: Wildlife wonders and a Super Heavy — the month’s best science images

192. Sex, drugs and the conscious brain: Francis Crick beyond the double helix

193. By the time you hear these bats, it’s too late

194. Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health

195. Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria

196. Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely?

197. Daily briefing: The bowhead whale’s secret to living to 200

198. Daily briefing: How the plastics-treaty breakdown could pave the way for something better

199. Artificial brains with less drain

200. Secret route to warm cosmic ‘inflation’: the nuclear force

201. Forests’ misty breath sustains crops in distant lands

202. Why India’s controversial ‘cloud seeding’ trial failed to make it rain

203. Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

204. Please stay out of the abandoned buildings

205. Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous

206. Author Correction: Reciprocal signalling by Notch–Collagen V–CALCR retains muscle stem cells in their niche

207. Hotly debated dinosaur is not a tiny T. rex after all

208. T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles

209. ‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species

210. Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation

211. Can IVF save the northern white rhino from extinction? — October’s best science images

212. This ‘impressive’ AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa’s perilous growth

213. What changing energy flows reveal about Africa’s ecosystems

214. This whale lives for centuries: its secret could help extend human lifespan

215. Electronic paper could enable virtual reality with human-eye resolution

216. To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure

217. Treatment made that is effective against a wide range of snake venoms

218. Molecular ‘glues’ and ‘bumpers’ on receptors can bias signalling inside the cell

219. Wildfire smoke and its harmful effects will worsen with climate change

220. Ultrasound-driven artificial muscles can grasp, flex and swim

221. Electromagnetic interference shielding using metal and MXene thin films

222. Origins of chromosome instability unveiled by coupled imaging and genomics

223. Technological pathways for cost-effective steel decarbonization

224. Magnetotelluric evidence for a melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte

225. Multiple LDLR family members act as entry receptors for yellow fever virus

226. Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa

227. Multi-omic profiling reveals age-related immune dynamics in healthy adults

228. Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits

229. Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles

230. Mechanism of conductance control and neurosteroid binding in NMDA receptors

231. A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat

232. Helicase-mediated mechanism of SSU processome maturation and disassembly

233. Ocean warming threatens the viability of 60% of Antarctic ice shelves

234. Plug-in strategy for resistance engineering inspired by potato NLRome

235. Many-body interference in kagome crystals

236. Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions

237. Thiorphan reprograms neurons to promote functional recovery after spinal cord injury

238. Evidence for improved DNA repair in long-lived bowhead whale

239. A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries

240. Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites

241. Atomically resolved edges and defects in lead halide perovskites

242. Reply to: Carbon implications of wood harvesting and forest management

243. Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years — this protein might be why

244. Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites

245. Carbon implications of wood harvesting and forest management

246. On anisotropy in cubic Cu2O photoelectrodes

247. Reply to: On anisotropy in cubic Cu2O photoelectrodes

248. World’s smallest 3D bioprinter could help surgeons repair vocal cords

249. How nanobots are accelerating cancer-targeting therapies

250. ‘A real risk’: the rise of weapons that can act alone

251. Why we should limit the autonomy of AI-enabled weapons

252. Komorebi

253. Policed and censored: professors in the southern US feel under siege

254. We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge

255. From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected

256. 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

257. Retraction Note: sFRP2 in the aged microenvironment drives melanoma metastasis and therapy resistance

258. Daily briefing: The secret language of plants

259. Daily briefing: Surprise illnesses had a role in the demise of Napoleon’s army

260. Open-source protein structure AI aims to match AlphaFold

261. Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex

262. Taiwan invests in genetic resource for health

263. Trust and science: the essential elements missing from plastics treaty talks

264. What now for the global plastics treaty?

265. A limerick competition celebrates science through rhyme

266. Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher

267. Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better

268. Ethics must keep pace with embryo research

269. Treat children as citizen co-researchers in health technology

270. Universities can harness AI to make learning intuitive

271. Don’t overlook the plastic footprint of fireworks

272. All-perovskite tandem solar cells with dipolar passivation

273. A matrix-confined molecular layer for perovskite photovoltaic modules

274. Direct deaminative functionalization with N-nitroamines

275. Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time

276. This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic

277. AI can supercharge inequality — unless the public learns to control it

278. How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help

279. How do you know what I know you know? Steven Pinker on common knowledge

280. Daily briefing: Key coral species are functionally extinct after record-breaking heatwave

281. China seeks self-reliance in science in next five-year plan

282. The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch

283. How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role

284. Chen-Ning Yang obituary: intuitive physicist whose theories on broken symmetries were proved right

285. Sugarcane genomes offer sweet surprise: mystery ancestor

286. Ancient graffiti and brain complexities: Books in brief

287. How to grow crystals when and where you want them

288. Daily briefing: People with cancer lived longer if they’d had a COVID-19 vaccine

289. AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it''s harming science

290. Audio long read: How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says

291. Paper or plastic?

292. These iconic corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved?

293. This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines

294. Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists

295. This luxury ‘cat poo’ coffee has a unique flavour: what’s behind it?

296. Daily briefing: Stinkbugs nurture fungi in a newly discovered organ

297. Daily briefing: People with macular degeneration can read again after retinal implant

298. Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

299. Google AI aims to make best-in-class scientific software even better

300. Author Correction: Structures of α-synuclein filaments from multiple system atrophy