High-rise transistors can be used to build space-saving circuits (www.nature.com)

The Epstein scandal is a wake-up call — new rules are needed on links with rich donors (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: The return of the snail — the month''s best science images (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: Galileo’s notes discovered in the margins of an ancient book (www.nature.com)

Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart? (www.nature.com)

Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise (www.nature.com)

Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet (www.nature.com)

Hunt for reactive metabolites uncovers unusual chemistry in a human pathogen (www.nature.com)

Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres (www.nature.com)

Skin cells boost distant antibody responses (www.nature.com)

Do wet or dry soils trigger thunderstorms? It depends on how the wind blows (www.nature.com)

A genetic switch turns off parental behaviour and drives infanticide in male striped mice (www.nature.com)

Magnetic fluid offers better seal in heart-plugging medical procedure (www.nature.com)

AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life? (www.nature.com)

Stress-hormone signalling protects spreading cancer cells from immune system (www.nature.com)

Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects (www.nature.com)

Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence (www.nature.com)

Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters (www.nature.com)

Wide-swath altimetry maps bank shapes and storage changes in global rivers (www.nature.com)

Exapted CRISPR–Cas12f homologues drive RNA-guided transcription (www.nature.com)

Homologous recombination deficiency and hemizygosity drive resistance in breast cancer (www.nature.com)

Structural basis of RNA-guided transcription by a dCas12f–σE–RNAP complex (www.nature.com)

Wind shear enhances soil moisture influence on rapid thunderstorm growth (www.nature.com)

Advancing operational global aerosol forecasting with machine learning (www.nature.com)

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 (www.nature.com)

A glucocorticoid–FAS axis controls immune evasion during metastatic seeding (www.nature.com)

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (www.nature.com)

Bulk hexagonal diamond (www.nature.com)

The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period (www.nature.com)

Cell-free chromatin state tracing reveals disease origin and therapy responses (www.nature.com)

Mechanism of co-transcriptional cap snatching by influenza polymerase (www.nature.com)

Microbiota-mediated induction of beige adipocytes in response to dietary cues (www.nature.com)

Merlin: a computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset (www.nature.com)

Lipid metabolism drives dietary effects on T cell ferroptosis and immunity (www.nature.com)

Long-term thrombus-free left atrial appendage occlusion via magnetofluids (www.nature.com)

A metabolic alarmin from keratinocytes potentiates systemic humoral immunity (www.nature.com)

Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature (www.nature.com)

DICER cleavage fidelity is governed by 5′-end binding pockets (www.nature.com)

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 (www.nature.com)

Magnetic gel injected into the heart could stop strokes (www.nature.com)

Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes (www.nature.com)

Under pressure: the reality of Mexico’s research system (www.nature.com)

How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels (www.nature.com)

All the world is staged (www.nature.com)

Funding from individual donors: lessons from the Epstein case (www.nature.com)

Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies — but disaster is not inevitable (www.nature.com)

Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work? (www.nature.com)

Jam-packed star system is most compact of its kind ever found (www.nature.com)

Climate shocks, not just warming, threaten malaria control efforts in Africa (www.nature.com)

How can fast-evolving DNA retain a fundamental function in cell division? (www.nature.com)

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud (www.nature.com)

See raining iguanas and coral from the inside out — February’s best science images (www.nature.com)

Going ‘beyond GDP’ should not mean sidelining the SDGs (www.nature.com)

From the first telephone to videoconferencing in 100 years (www.nature.com)

US climate actions must continue, despite setbacks (www.nature.com)

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology (www.nature.com)

How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse (www.nature.com)

Earth''s oldest crystals suggest an early start for plate tectonics (www.nature.com)

Author Correction: Root microbiota drive direct integration of phosphate stress and immunity (www.nature.com)

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? (www.nature.com)

‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science (www.nature.com)

AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: This Utah family line might be evidence of ‘selfish genes’ in humans (www.nature.com)

The hidden lives behind China’s great Internet firewall (www.nature.com)

The squeal of peeling tape, explained (www.nature.com)

I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities (www.nature.com)

Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers (www.nature.com)

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets (www.nature.com)

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: Stem-cell treatment strengthens people with age-related frailty (www.nature.com)

Brain mysteries and Bronze Age diplomacy: Books in brief (www.nature.com)

Is a ‘selfish gene’ making a Utah family have twice as many boys as girls? (www.nature.com)

World-first stem-cell therapy shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb (www.nature.com)

Neanderthal dad, human mum: study reveals ancient procreation pattern (www.nature.com)

Ultra-sensitive CAR T cells eliminate hard-to-treat tumours in mice (www.nature.com)

Why an industry career move is a taboo topic in academia (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: The new alternatives to animal testing (www.nature.com)

AI impacts to be scrutinized by UN''s new scientific advisory panel (www.nature.com)

Health effects linger 20 generations after rats are exposed to fungicide (www.nature.com)

This compound enhances long-term memory of mice — but only in females (www.nature.com)

Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein (www.nature.com)

How an exercise-activated enzyme helps to keep the brain young (www.nature.com)

CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly (www.nature.com)

Brains of ‘super agers’ are still strong producers of new neurons (www.nature.com)

Lipid nanoparticles engineered to target therapeutic RNA to the pancreas (www.nature.com)

Sea-urchin spines generate electrical signals in flowing water (www.nature.com)

Light-confining device can control superconductivity — even in the dark (www.nature.com)

Protein engineering fixes a major crop trade-off (www.nature.com)

Amplified X-ray laser pulses achieved using mirror set-up (www.nature.com)

The secret of squeaky basketball shoes (www.nature.com)

Parkinson’s disease affects network of brain regions that controls whole-body action (www.nature.com)

Environmental exposure trains the immune system to dampen allergic responses (www.nature.com)

Flexible paths to multicellularity (www.nature.com)

The protein carriers of hundreds of lipids have been identified (www.nature.com)

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks (www.nature.com)

Stem cells provide a potent treatment for frailty (www.nature.com)

Entanglement-assisted non-local optical interferometry in a quantum network (www.nature.com)

Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease (www.nature.com)

Uncovering origins of heterogeneous superconductivity in La3Ni2O7 (www.nature.com)

Functional dissection of complex trait variants at single-nucleotide resolution (www.nature.com)

CLCC1 governs ER bilayer equilibration to maintain lipid homeostasis (www.nature.com)

Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity (www.nature.com)

Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade (www.nature.com)

Hydrofluorocarbon electrolytes for energy-dense and low-temperature batteries (www.nature.com)

Field-free full switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order (www.nature.com)

Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize (www.nature.com)

A disease model resource reveals core principles of tissue-specific cancer evolution (www.nature.com)

OR7A10 GPCR engineering boosts CAR-NK therapy against solid tumours (www.nature.com)

Convergent MurJ flippase inhibition by phage lysis proteins (www.nature.com)

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate (www.nature.com)

Pivoting colloidal assemblies exhibit mechanical metamaterial behaviour (www.nature.com)

Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces (www.nature.com)

Pancreatic-targeted lipid nanoparticles based on organ capsule filtration (www.nature.com)

Peripheral immune-inducer dendritic cells drive early-life allergic inflammation (www.nature.com)

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites (www.nature.com)

A membrane-bound nuclease directly cleaves phage DNA during genome injection (www.nature.com)

Echinoderm stereom gradient structures enable mechanoelectrical perception (www.nature.com)

Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex (www.nature.com)

Cavity-altered superconductivity (www.nature.com)

Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM (www.nature.com)

How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers (www.nature.com)

The surprising science of squeaky sneakers (www.nature.com)

Reply to: Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM (www.nature.com)

What''s the best way to change research fields? These three scientists have ideas (www.nature.com)

The future perfect continuous passive and other transitive disorders of the mind (www.nature.com)

EU leaders should not rush to revamp green-hydrogen rules (www.nature.com)

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: COVID’s origins — what we do and don’t know (www.nature.com)

The first ice-core record of historical atmospheric hydrogen levels (www.nature.com)

The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next? (www.nature.com)

Pop-up journals for policy research: can temporary titles deliver answers? (www.nature.com)

This ant species is composed of only queens — no workers or males (www.nature.com)

Sewage systems secretly waft pollution into the air (www.nature.com)

Nuclear weapons testing is harmful — there’s no case for a restart (www.nature.com)

Treasures of scientific history could be hiding in plain sight (www.nature.com)

Scientists must step up to avert a nuclear breakout (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: New AI drug-discovery engine is ‘on the scale of an AlphaFold4’ (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: ‘Universal’ vaccine protects mice from multiple pathogens (www.nature.com)

COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know (www.nature.com)

China is waging war on Alzheimer’s. What can its approach teach the rest of the world? (www.nature.com)

Whistle while you whinny: researchers identify two sounds straight from the horse’s mouth (www.nature.com)

Iron Age mass grave reveals unprecedented violence against women and children (www.nature.com)

First-of-a-kind stem cell therapies set for approval in Japan (www.nature.com)

How big is the ‘motherhood penalty’? In Denmark, it adds up to 120,000 (www.nature.com)

Why every scientist needs a librarian (www.nature.com)

Music is not a universal language — but it can bring us together when words fail (www.nature.com)

This AI can improve your peer review — and make it more polite (www.nature.com)

Historically Black US universities chase top research ranking (www.nature.com)

AI tools can design genomes. Will they upend how life evolves? (www.nature.com)

From Victorian voyages to vanishing maps: Books in brief (www.nature.com)

Gel helps mini spinal cords to heal from injury (www.nature.com)

Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do? (www.nature.com)

Are obesity drugs causing a severe complication? What the science says (www.nature.com)

AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk? (www.nature.com)

Runaway black hole leaves a trail of stars (www.nature.com)

Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: Automated robot ‘scientists’ spark debate over the future of lab work (www.nature.com)

Five ways increased militarization could change scientific careers (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: What we know about autism and ageing — and what we don’t (www.nature.com)

Super-sticky feet help a robot to climb the walls (www.nature.com)

‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens (www.nature.com)

Biotech investor set to lead US National Science Foundation (www.nature.com)

Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start (www.nature.com)

Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as US aid cuts bite (www.nature.com)

Academia’s parent trap: the struggles faced by researcher mothers (www.nature.com)

‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI (www.nature.com)

This giant virus hijacks cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly (www.nature.com)

Forest soils are running short of nutrients as CO2 emissions rise (www.nature.com)

Gene editing treats a mouse model of a neurodevelopmental disorder (www.nature.com)

Oysters build reefs with optimal geometries (www.nature.com)

Malaria is hindered by repression of a cell-cycle protein (www.nature.com)

Laser-written glass tablets can preserve data for millennia (www.nature.com)

Chip-scale device efficiently boosts light signals (www.nature.com)

AI succeeds in diagnosing rare diseases (www.nature.com)

Personalized mRNA vaccine induces strong, durable immunity in hard-to-treat breast cancer (www.nature.com)

Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not (www.nature.com)

AI offers way to image and assess clinical cell samples (www.nature.com)

Microsoft team creates ''revolutionary'' data storage system that lasts for millennia (www.nature.com)

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens (www.nature.com)

The integrated stress response promotes immune evasion through lipocalin 2 (www.nature.com)

Cold-injection synthesis of highly emissive perovskite nanocrystals (www.nature.com)

Higher-dimensional Fermiology in bulk moiré metals (www.nature.com)

Ancestry and somatic profile indicate acral melanoma origin and prognosis (www.nature.com)

Mucosal vaccination clears Clostridioides difficile colonization (www.nature.com)

An agentic system for rare disease diagnosis with traceable reasoning (www.nature.com)

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm (www.nature.com)

Integrase anchors viral RNA to the HIV-1 capsid interior (www.nature.com)

Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor (www.nature.com)

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour (www.nature.com)

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres (www.nature.com)

Nucleotide signals coordinate activation and inhibition of bacterial immunity (www.nature.com)

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models (www.nature.com)

Clinical-grade autonomous cytopathology through whole-slide edge tomography (www.nature.com)

Integrated photonics enabling ultra-wideband fibre–wireless communication (www.nature.com)

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage (www.nature.com)

Highly dynamic dural sinuses support meningeal immunity (www.nature.com)

RYK is a GPNMB receptor that drives MASH (www.nature.com)

In vivo base editing of Chd3 rescues behavioural abnormalities in mice (www.nature.com)

Roles of microtubules and LIS1 in dynein transport machinery assembly (www.nature.com)

Single-cell and isoform-specific translational profiling of the mouse brain (www.nature.com)

Reduced cyclin D3 expression in erythroid cells protects against malaria (www.nature.com)

Individualized mRNA vaccines evoke durable T cell immunity in adjuvant TNBC (www.nature.com)

Practical lithium–organic batteries enabled by an n-type conducting polymer (www.nature.com)

Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING (www.nature.com)

The natural architecture of oyster reefs maximizes recruit survival (www.nature.com)

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests (www.nature.com)

Giant energy storage and dielectric performance in all-polymer nanocomposites (www.nature.com)

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years (www.nature.com)

Deepest-ever rock core extracted from under Antarctic ice sheet (www.nature.com)

Mid-cycle update (www.nature.com)

Author Correction: BCL6 enables Ph acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR–ABL1 kinase inhibition (www.nature.com)

Will self-driving ''robot labs'' replace biologists? Paper sparks debate (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: The science influencers tackling misinformation online (www.nature.com)

Why China and Europe should collaborate to ‘defossilize’ the world’s carbon (www.nature.com)

How do autistic people age — and what does it mean for their health? (www.nature.com)

A Yangtze without fishers — but not without fish (www.nature.com)

Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts (www.nature.com)

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research (www.nature.com)

Student dilemma: physical science or physical education? (www.nature.com)

Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM? (www.nature.com)

The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation (www.nature.com)

Brain differences between sexes get more pronounced from puberty (www.nature.com)

Why sky-high pay for AI researchers is bad for the future of science (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: New platform lets AI agents hire human helpers in the ‘meatspace’ (www.nature.com)

De novo design of GPCR exoframe modulators (www.nature.com)

‘What are we doing here?’ The polymaths who searched for the meaning of life (www.nature.com)

How to wow a popular-science writer with your research expertise (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: Exercise rewires the brain for endurance, in mice (www.nature.com)

Can consciousness ever be understood — this side of death? (www.nature.com)

Why Europe barred China from flagship Horizon research programmes (www.nature.com)

Why we don’t really know what the public thinks about science (www.nature.com)

CAR-T therapy provides relief for children with autoimmune diseases (www.nature.com)

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation (www.nature.com)

When a colleague dies: exploring academia''s ‘death-denying’ culture (www.nature.com)

AI agents are hiring human ''meatspace workers'' — including some scientists (www.nature.com)

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: The centre of our Galaxy might not be a black hole (www.nature.com)

‘I was nearly arrested’: escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad (www.nature.com)

Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars (www.nature.com)

Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data (www.nature.com)

Daily briefing: Hunter-gatherers in Europe’s ‘water world’ resisted the switch to farming for millennia (www.nature.com)

Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate (www.nature.com)

US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat (www.nature.com)

How some COVID vaccines triggered rare blood-clot disorder (www.nature.com)

AI help in grant proposals tied to higher funding odds at NIH (www.nature.com)

Exercise rewires the brain — boosting the body’s endurance (www.nature.com)

The ‘astounding’ rise of semaglutide — and what’s next for weight-loss drugs (www.nature.com)

Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species (www.nature.com)

From ancient temples to bomb craters: explore Laos’s layered history — in photos (www.nature.com)

Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection (www.nature.com)

Science funding needs fixing — but not through chaotic reforms (www.nature.com)

China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct (www.nature.com)

Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier (www.nature.com)

My ‘detective’ job as a competitive-intelligence consultant for pharma (www.nature.com)

Four ways I ensured my research brought about real-world change (www.nature.com)

Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema (www.nature.com)

Charge-neutral electrons are odd — except when they’re even (www.nature.com)

Squirrels could be a reservoir for the virus that causes mpox (www.nature.com)

Support people and their livelihoods rather than fossil-fuel industries (www.nature.com)

Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches (www.nature.com)

Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves (www.nature.com)

Robust partitioning of cell contents by physical instabilities and biological clocks (www.nature.com)

Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe? (www.nature.com)

Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European ''water world'' for millennia (www.nature.com)

Babies at nursery shape each other’s microbiomes (www.nature.com)

Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked (www.nature.com)

Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics (www.nature.com)