Fasting for weight loss is all the rage: what are the health benefits? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Babies make memories — so why don’t we recall them? (www.nature.com)
Microbes can capture carbon and degrade plastic — why aren’t we using them more? (www.nature.com)
How to get more women into mining (www.nature.com)
Lesotho matters (www.nature.com)
Give grants to female scientists in war zones (www.nature.com)
Lessons from Portugal on effects of cutting research funding (www.nature.com)
‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries (www.nature.com)
Live-cell super-resolution microscopy reveals how molecules enter and exit the nucleus (www.nature.com)
Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says (www.nature.com)
What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation (www.nature.com)
Marathon runners tap brain-cell insulation for racetime fuel (www.nature.com)
Generalizing arene CH alkylations by radicalradical cross-coupling (www.nature.com)
Reviving the biodiversity around an ancient palace (www.nature.com)
Shaking up earthquake safety in Nepal with a folk song (www.nature.com)
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells (www.nature.com)
RNA function follows form – why is it so hard to predict? (www.nature.com)
The expanding Universe — do ongoing tensions leave room for new physics? (www.nature.com)
Winds on an ultrahot planet challenge climate models (www.nature.com)
Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life (www.nature.com)
How to know whether a conference is right for you (www.nature.com)
Why Africans should be telling the story of human origins (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion (www.nature.com)
NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow? (www.nature.com)
‘Boggles the mind’: US defence department slashes research on emerging threats (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The mysterious force pushing galaxies apart might be getting weaker (www.nature.com)
‘All this is in crisis’: US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold (www.nature.com)
Ship-pollution cuts have an electrifying effect: less lightning at sea (www.nature.com)
Trump team ‘survey’ sent to overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac niches (www.nature.com)
Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years? (www.nature.com)
End-to-end data-driven weather prediction (www.nature.com)
Bulk superconductivity near 40 K in hole-doped SmNiO2 at ambient pressure (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: About 1% of children have genetic paternity other than that recorded by history (www.nature.com)
How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT (www.nature.com)
Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding (www.nature.com)
Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim (www.nature.com)
Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all? (www.nature.com)
Tiny satellite sets new record for secure quantum communication (www.nature.com)
What is the best type of tree to use for forest restoration? (www.nature.com)
A practical leap towards secure quantum communication over long distances (www.nature.com)
A textbook assumption about the brain’s most abundant receptors needs to be rewritten (www.nature.com)
New antifungal breaks the mould (www.nature.com)
Mutations that accrue through life set the stage for stomach cancer (www.nature.com)
Immune cells ‘bandage’ wounds with bacteria-trapping goo (www.nature.com)
Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth (www.nature.com)
Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech (www.nature.com)
Ancient peat reveals that sea level surged rapidly twice at the end of the last ice age (www.nature.com)
Optimizing generative AI by backpropagating language model feedback (www.nature.com)
Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin (www.nature.com)
Microsatellite-based real-time quantum key distribution (www.nature.com)
Transient silencing of hypermutation preserves B cell affinity during clonal bursting (www.nature.com)
Sleep pressure accumulates in a voltage-gated lipid peroxidation memory (www.nature.com)
Histological signatures map anti-fibrotic factors in mouse and human lungs (www.nature.com)
The somatic mutation landscape of normal gastric epithelium (www.nature.com)
Cooper-pair density modulation state in an iron-based superconductor (www.nature.com)
Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution (www.nature.com)
Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of cell shape supports resilience of lymphatic endothelium (www.nature.com)
Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene revealed from North Sea peats (www.nature.com)
GluA2-containing AMPA receptors form a continuum of Ca2-permeable channels (www.nature.com)
Oncolytic virus VG161 in refractory hepatocellular carcinoma (www.nature.com)
Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits (www.nature.com)
Hyperbolic phonon-polariton electroluminescence in 2D heterostructures (www.nature.com)
Electroluminescence and energy transfer mediated by hyperbolic polaritons (www.nature.com)
Water structure and electric fields at the interface of oil droplets (www.nature.com)
Structural dynamics of DNA unwinding by a replicative helicase (www.nature.com)
Overlapping nuclear import and export paths unveiled by two-colour MINFLUX (www.nature.com)
Rapid emergence of latent knowledge in the sensory cortex drives learning (www.nature.com)
Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks (www.nature.com)
Down-converted photon pairs in a high-Q silicon nitride microresonator (www.nature.com)
Regulated somatic hypermutation enhances antibody affinity maturation (www.nature.com)
VDAC2 loss elicits tumour destruction and inflammation for cancer therapy (www.nature.com)
A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane (www.nature.com)
Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species (www.nature.com)
Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition (www.nature.com)
Fluctuating magnetism and Pomeranchuk effect in multilayer graphene (www.nature.com)
Downscaling micro- and nano-perovskite LEDs (www.nature.com)
World’s tiniest LED display has pixels smaller than a virus (www.nature.com)
Why humans have puzzle-shaped cells (www.nature.com)
Measles is surging in the US: how bad could it get? (www.nature.com)
What is stopping a complete switch to clean energy? (www.nature.com)
How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy (www.nature.com)
A guide to the Nature Index (www.nature.com)
Battery researchers strive for standardization (www.nature.com)
Trump’s return puts renewables at a crossroads (www.nature.com)
Meeting the energy challenge posed by data centres is central to a green future (www.nature.com)
AI could soon tackle projects that take humans weeks (www.nature.com)
Asia leads rise in clean-energy research (www.nature.com)
Disconnections (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Iguanas from the Americas might have rafted to Fiji (www.nature.com)
The biggest machine in science: inside the fight to build the next giant particle collider (www.nature.com)
Light pollution threatens fleet of world-class telescopes in Atacama Desert (www.nature.com)
Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious (www.nature.com)
Iguanas reached Fiji by floating 8,000 kilometres across the sea (www.nature.com)
Food-industry waste finds a second life as bioplastic (www.nature.com)
Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them (www.nature.com)
Structures and mechanism of human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Jurassic mammals had dark fur (www.nature.com)
An experiment in mass education using satellite TV (www.nature.com)
Catchy, clear, concise: Three-part phrases boost research paper citations (www.nature.com)
Cleaning up space: how satellites and telescopes can live together (www.nature.com)
Governments must stop hoarding climate data (www.nature.com)
Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back (www.nature.com)
Space debris is falling from the skies. We need to tackle this growing danger (www.nature.com)
Japan needs a fresh approach to innovation (www.nature.com)
AI demands a different approach to education (www.nature.com)
Global cooperation is crucial for DeepSeek and broader AI research (www.nature.com)
US disruptions to science could transform global research landscape (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Endocytosis in the axon initial segment maintains neuronal polarity (www.nature.com)
What’s in store for US science as funding bill averts government shutdown (www.nature.com)
Errors in the Huntington’s disease gene accumulate slowly and then all at once (www.nature.com)
The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins 1.5 million years ago (www.nature.com)
Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — 20 years since a key discovery (www.nature.com)
Strong, flexible ‘nylon’ made by engineered bacteria for the first time (www.nature.com)
How I connect Colombia’s remote communities to safer water (www.nature.com)
How a PhD travel fellowship enriched an international cell-biology meeting (www.nature.com)
‘Science is happening’: Israeli and Palestinian scientists continue collaborations amid conflict (www.nature.com)
The untamed river and the Moog: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: B-cell-specific checkpoint molecules that regulate anti-tumour immunity (www.nature.com)
How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge (www.nature.com)
A radical manifesto for truth (www.nature.com)
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power (www.nature.com)
I spent two years organizing an international conference. How do I get compensated for my work? (www.nature.com)
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips (www.nature.com)
‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts (www.nature.com)
How extreme lethargy can promote healthy ageing (www.nature.com)
A century of quantum physics (www.nature.com)
Your lab pollutes: here’s how to stop it (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Should the Stanford Prison Experiment be retracted more than fifty years on? (www.nature.com)
Saturn has a whopping 274 moons ― scientists want to know why (www.nature.com)
Why it makes sense for wealthier nations to help others decarbonize (www.nature.com)
Will RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda make American contagious again? (www.nature.com)
Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet (www.nature.com)
Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first (www.nature.com)
These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Saturn has 128 new moons (www.nature.com)
Did Mars harbour life? One of the strongest signs yet is spotted in a peculiar rock (www.nature.com)
How fast your brain ages is affected by these 64 genes (www.nature.com)
Fresh ‘quantum advantage’ claim made by computing firm D-Wave (www.nature.com)
Metals squeezed to thickness of just two atoms (www.nature.com)
Biodiversity declines across fragmented forests (www.nature.com)
Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa (www.nature.com)
An operating system for networked quantum computers is a huge practical step forward (www.nature.com)
The brain’s building blocks for understanding social interactions (www.nature.com)
Immune molecule links COVID‑19 with severe inflammatory disorder in children (www.nature.com)
Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals (www.nature.com)
An archaic European face more than one million years old (www.nature.com)
Liver cancer recurrence predicted by immune-cell location and gene expression (www.nature.com)
An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier (www.nature.com)
Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning (www.nature.com)
Sliding and healing of frictional interfaces that appear stationary (www.nature.com)
High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb (www.nature.com)
Unconventional magnons in collinear magnets dictated by spin space groups (www.nature.com)
Increasing hourly heavy rainfall in Austria reflected in flood changes (www.nature.com)
Spatial immune scoring system predicts hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence (www.nature.com)
Structure and mechanism of the plastid/parasite ATP/ADP translocator (www.nature.com)
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex (www.nature.com)
Hepatic stellate cells control liver zonation, size and functions via R-spondin 3 (www.nature.com)
Magnetically and optically active edges in phosphorene nanoribbons (www.nature.com)
Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling (www.nature.com)
Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement (www.nature.com)
MYC ecDNA promotes intratumour heterogeneity and plasticity in PDAC (www.nature.com)
Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected (www.nature.com)
Adaptive locomotion of active solids (www.nature.com)
The earliest human face of Western Europe (www.nature.com)
Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes (www.nature.com)
Realization of 2D metals at the ångström thickness limit (www.nature.com)
A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry (www.nature.com)
An operating system for executing applications on quantum network nodes (www.nature.com)
TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (www.nature.com)
Perception of viral infections and initiation of antiviral defence in rice (www.nature.com)
Genomic determinants of antigen expression hierarchy in African trypanosomes (www.nature.com)
High temporal variability not trend dominates Mediterranean precipitation (www.nature.com)
Weather anomalies cannot explain insect decline (www.nature.com)
Sapphire anvils squeeze metals atomically-thin (www.nature.com)
Watch DeepMind’s AI robot slam-dunk a basketball (www.nature.com)
Reply to: Weather anomalies cannot explain insect decline (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: NASA begins mass firings of scientists (www.nature.com)
Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin (www.nature.com)
So you’ve made a lab website. What should go on it? (www.nature.com)
Robotic fingers can tell objects apart by touch (www.nature.com)
Medical records from the Center for the Study of Temporal Disorders, Pediatric Department (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator (www.nature.com)
Why are proponents of ‘smart cities’ neglecting research? (www.nature.com)
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time (www.nature.com)
Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command (www.nature.com)
Complex water networks visualized by cryogenic electron microscopy of RNA (www.nature.com)
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence (www.nature.com)
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline (www.nature.com)
An organ that stores red blood cells for emergencies (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Classification with a disordered dopant atom network in silicon (www.nature.com)
Public-health experts should be more political, not less (www.nature.com)
Alcohol and cancer risk: what you need to know (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Thousands protest Trump cuts at #StandUpForScience rallies (www.nature.com)
For more reliable AI, academics should edit Wikipedia (www.nature.com)
COP30 must deliver binding mechanisms to address climate change, not empty promises (www.nature.com)
Similar chiral phenomena occur in cell cultures and human crowds (www.nature.com)
Fate of pistachio production in Iran holds lessons for the world (www.nature.com)
How a vast digital twin of the Yangtze River could prevent flooding in China (www.nature.com)
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (www.nature.com)
I create buildings from mushroom components (www.nature.com)
Are microplastics bad for your health? More rigorous science is needed (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: This key protein could be responsible for brain ageing (www.nature.com)
The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are (www.nature.com)
#ScientistAtWork 2025: Nature is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives (www.nature.com)
Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison (www.nature.com)
Science diplomacy can help to heal global rifts — if research is respected (www.nature.com)
‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts (www.nature.com)
Who’s likely to wake up from a coma? Brain waves provide a clue (www.nature.com)
The surprising culprit for the loss of huge swathes of tropical forest (www.nature.com)
How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success (www.nature.com)
‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong? (www.nature.com)
Rock hunters, tree huggers and taxi drivers: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity (www.nature.com)
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement (www.nature.com)
Microsoft quantum computing ''breakthrough'' faces fresh challenge (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The second X chromosome isn’t so silent after all (www.nature.com)
Unknown fate of ice-hunting Moon missions leaves scientists in suspense (www.nature.com)
The financial shackling of historically Black universities in the United States (www.nature.com)
Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ biologists face hostile work environment (www.nature.com)
Foreign researchers in China face tightening restrictions (www.nature.com)
Sensing ceramides by CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 to aggravate atherosclerosis (www.nature.com)
Ancient puppets that smile or scowl hint at shared rituals (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: PubMed blackout stokes fears about database’s future (www.nature.com)
Trump''s nominee for NIH chief talks frozen grants and fostering ‘scientific dissent’ (www.nature.com)
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants (www.nature.com)
Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations (www.nature.com)
Why women’s brains are more resilient: it could be their ‘silent’ X chromosome (www.nature.com)
AI algorithm helps telescopes to pivot fast towards gravitational-wave sources (www.nature.com)
How the brain decides whether to persist — and when to give up (www.nature.com)
A supersolid made using photons (www.nature.com)
This key protein could be responsible for brain ageing (www.nature.com)
Protein waste turned into antibiotics as a defence strategy of human cells (www.nature.com)
Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought (www.nature.com)
Amazonian deforestation makes the wet season wetter, and the dry season dryer (www.nature.com)
Genus-wide plant pangenome could inform next-generation crop design (www.nature.com)
How AI could let us watch epic star collisions in real time (www.nature.com)
How the brain decides when to stick at it, give up or try something new (www.nature.com)
It’s time to shine for LEDs made using ecofriendly quantum dots (www.nature.com)
Designer cannabinoids could be the key to pain relief without adverse effects (www.nature.com)
Earliest crafted bone tools date back 1.5 million years (www.nature.com)
Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering (www.nature.com)
Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila (www.nature.com)
Emerging supersolidity in photonic-crystal polariton condensates (www.nature.com)
Chanoclavine synthase operates by an NADPH-independent superoxide mechanism (www.nature.com)
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests (www.nature.com)
Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of haematopoiesis in mouse (www.nature.com)
Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment (www.nature.com)
Impact of Amazonian deforestation on precipitation reverses between seasons (www.nature.com)
Fine-scale patterns of SARS-CoV-2 spread from identical pathogen sequences (www.nature.com)
A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity (www.nature.com)
A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states (www.nature.com)
Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming (www.nature.com)
Structure of mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and its inhibition mechanism (www.nature.com)
A mixed-precision memristor and SRAM compute-in-memory AI processor (www.nature.com)
Cell-autonomous innate immunity by proteasome-derived defence peptides (www.nature.com)
10,000-h-stable intermittent alkaline seawater electrolysis (www.nature.com)
Prohormone cleavage prediction uncovers a non-incretin anti-obesity peptide (www.nature.com)
Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development (www.nature.com)
Fingerprinting the recovery of Antarctic ozone (www.nature.com)
Evolutionary fingerprints of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (www.nature.com)
Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago (www.nature.com)
TIR1-produced cAMP as a second messenger in transcriptional auxin signalling (www.nature.com)
Real-time inference for binary neutron star mergers using machine learning (www.nature.com)
Homogeneous ZnSeTeS quantum dots for efficient and stable pure-blue LEDs (www.nature.com)
Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA2 suppression of T cell immunity (www.nature.com)
Superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral graphene (www.nature.com)
A super-gel stays supple from –115 to 143 (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: US scientists rise up against Trump’s efforts to dismantle federal science (www.nature.com)
The search for solutions to geographic atrophy of the retina (www.nature.com)
Restoring vision with optogenetics (www.nature.com)
Artificial intelligence could boost eye care in low-income countries (www.nature.com)
How can treatment for eye disease be made easier? (www.nature.com)
Human echolocation can be taught (www.nature.com)
Eye problems cloud NASA’s vision of Mars (www.nature.com)
Vision: protecting and restoring a prized sense (www.nature.com)
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown (www.nature.com)
Little Shop of Dreams (www.nature.com)
Diversity in neuronal activity could be caused by differences in inputs (www.nature.com)
Ancient reef-building corals had a little help from microbial friends (www.nature.com)
‘Perfect potato’ designed thanks to unearthed genetic diversity (www.nature.com)
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science (www.nature.com)
How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown (www.nature.com)
How AI can achieve human-level intelligence: researchers call for change in tack (www.nature.com)
I want to ensure that Africans take part in the AI revolution (www.nature.com)
''Omg, did Pubmed go dark?'' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future (www.nature.com)
A name for the study of life in the Universe (www.nature.com)
Meet the ‘woolly mouse’: why scientists doubt it’s a big step towards recreating mammoths (www.nature.com)
We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination (www.nature.com)
Compulsive shopping is surging: what makes people buy loads of stuff (www.nature.com)
China’s supreme court calls for crack down on paper mills (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: What another round of layoffs means for US science (www.nature.com)
Train clinical AI to reason like a team of doctors (www.nature.com)
AI must be taught concepts, not just patterns in raw data (www.nature.com)
Should scientists ditch the social-media platform X? (www.nature.com)
AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug (www.nature.com)