The politics of playful primates (www.nature.com)
Data centres are controversial: will launching them into space help? (www.nature.com)
First detailed ''smell map'' reveals how noses track odours (www.nature.com)
Rhymes on reason: scientific units inspire poetry (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold (www.nature.com)
Why both trees and technology are important in the race to mitigate carbon emissions (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Trump fires entire NSF advisory board (www.nature.com)
Space diplomacy: bridging the operating gaps between myriad missions (www.nature.com)
‘World models’ are AI’s latest sensation: what are they and what can they do? (www.nature.com)
Hungarian science has undergone rapid changes (www.nature.com)
Gulf states must move from efficiency to resilience (www.nature.com)
To hire good scientists, look at their peer-reviewing records (www.nature.com)
The equity paradox of environmental DNA for biodiversity monitoring (www.nature.com)
China’s latest push to commercialize research: match 680,000 innovators with companies (www.nature.com)
Mitochondria can spawn new ‘organelles’ — hinting at how modern cells evolved (www.nature.com)
‘The job description is changing’: mathematician Terence Tao on the rise of AI (www.nature.com)
Telomere-to-Telomere Assembly Using HERRO-Corrected Simplex Nanopore Reads (www.nature.com)
#ScientistAtWork 2026: Nature seeks striking photographs that capture researchers at work (www.nature.com)
Why cosmology is more than a theory (www.nature.com)
Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? (www.nature.com)
A chemistry lab that runs itself to find the perfect reaction (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The heart’s pumping motion seems to keep cancer at bay (www.nature.com)
Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration (www.nature.com)
Inside the evidence revolution — how decision-making became data driven (www.nature.com)
Cosmic-ray detection heralds era of mega-observatories for neutrinos (www.nature.com)
How much for a fake authorship? Ad database reveals secrets of scientific fraud (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A µ-opioid receptor superagonist analgesic with minimal adverse effects (www.nature.com)
Brain tissue near tumours is loaded with plastic (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence (www.nature.com)
The memory dealer of Old Jeddah (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: This AI-powered robot is a table-tennis master (www.nature.com)
From bats at dusk to asteroid quests: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Hit a glitch in your research? Some ‘night science’ thinking could move it forward (www.nature.com)
Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place? (www.nature.com)
Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt (www.nature.com)
Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues (www.nature.com)
Why is heart cancer so rare? The pumping muscle ‘beats’ it (www.nature.com)
Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged (www.nature.com)
Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research (www.nature.com)
We need to talk about failure in science (www.nature.com)
What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what it didn’t (www.nature.com)
Field re-entrant superconductivity in Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates (www.nature.com)
Wikipedia-based AI model reveals the 100 technologies to watch (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize (www.nature.com)
What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Big G is more mysterious than ever (www.nature.com)
Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells (www.nature.com)
Dynamics of genetic and somatic trade-offs in ageing and mortality (www.nature.com)
Genomic roots of Indigenous Americans uncovered (www.nature.com)
Rapid cooling shaped the formation of the first meteorites in the Solar System (www.nature.com)
Human cooperation undergoes constant breakdown and repair (www.nature.com)
‘Jumping genes’ help a bacterium that causes hospital infections to adapt quickly (www.nature.com)
Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive (www.nature.com)
A bat coronavirus can enter human cells through a previously unknown gateway (www.nature.com)
Robot can beat elite players at table tennis (www.nature.com)
A cell-death protein has an unexpected role in intestinal repair (www.nature.com)
Specific combinations of human and viral genetic variants explain a cancer predisposition in southern China (www.nature.com)
Glasses-free display switches between 2D and 3D (www.nature.com)
Ceramic-like strength and metallic toughness in a bulk metallic glass (www.nature.com)
Quadruple pegRNA enables programmable and efficient large genomic insertion (www.nature.com)
Structural basis of fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase inhibition by caspofungin (www.nature.com)
Hybrid calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization in muon g 2 to 0.48% (www.nature.com)
Phonon Hall viscosity and the intrinsic thermal Hall effect of α-RuCl3 (www.nature.com)
Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot (www.nature.com)
Punctuated decline of human cooperation (www.nature.com)
Decade-long warming accelerates antibiotic resistance in grassland soils (www.nature.com)
Transposable elements are driving rapid adaptation of Enterococcus faecium (www.nature.com)
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans (www.nature.com)
Early fibrotic niches establish tumour-permissive microenvironments (www.nature.com)
Mechanically driven Li dendrite penetration in garnet solid electrolyte (www.nature.com)
Symmetry classification of magnetic orders using oriented spin space groups (www.nature.com)
Heart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells (www.nature.com)
H2O2 repurposes plant O2 sensing to regulate post-hypoxia responses (www.nature.com)
Printable meta-assemblies enable synergetic colouration (www.nature.com)
Chromosomal fusions trigger rediploidization of autopolyploid genomes (www.nature.com)
Glycerol-driven TNAP activation in thermogenesis and mineralization (www.nature.com)
Electronic origin of reorganization energy in interfacial electron transfer (www.nature.com)
A pro-carcinogenic bacterial toxin binds claudin-4 to cleave E-cadherin (www.nature.com)
Non-equilibrium condensation of the first Solar System solids (www.nature.com)
Netrin1 blockade alleviates resistance to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer (www.nature.com)
Switchable 2D–3D display through a metasurface lenticular lens (www.nature.com)
Myosin forces remodel F-actin for mechanosensitive protein recognition (www.nature.com)
Efficiency-optimized relativistic plasma harmonics for extreme fields (www.nature.com)
Multicentre gene therapy for OTOF-related deafness followed up to 2.5 years (www.nature.com)
Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks (www.nature.com)
Focal white matter lesions drive grey matter inflammation and synapse loss (www.nature.com)
Caspase 5c amplifies Wnt via APC cleavage to promote intestinal homeostasis (www.nature.com)
Little ants groom big ones in a desert spa (www.nature.com)
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players (www.nature.com)
This robot can beat you at table tennis (www.nature.com)
Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues (www.nature.com)
Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations (www.nature.com)
Meeting the moment: how scientific philanthropies are expanding their reach (www.nature.com)
How to secure philanthropic funding in a competitive climate (www.nature.com)
How to impress the Nature Awards judges (www.nature.com)
Waiting for them (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability (www.nature.com)
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter (www.nature.com)
‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Should we worry about AI doomsday? (www.nature.com)
The misunderstood sex chromosome: how X affects your health (www.nature.com)
US speeds research into mind-altering drugs — including mysterious ''ibogaine'' (www.nature.com)
Triple-decker solar cells reach efficiency milestone (www.nature.com)
How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength (www.nature.com)
Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising (www.nature.com)
Yellow glass shows insect wings at their best (www.nature.com)
Forty years after Chernobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them (www.nature.com)
AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance (www.nature.com)
Personalized CRISPR therapies could soon reach thousands — here’s how (www.nature.com)
A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package (www.nature.com)
No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network (www.nature.com)
‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread (www.nature.com)
Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software (www.nature.com)
How hidden contributions power modern research (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Is a nine-to-five PhD possible? (www.nature.com)
What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic? (www.nature.com)
Thrilling, frivolous, a waste: not everyone’s happy about the Artemis II Moon mission (www.nature.com)
Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US3 million Breakthrough prizes (www.nature.com)
US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices (www.nature.com)
Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: AI systems can ‘teach’ biases to other models (www.nature.com)
New year, old me (www.nature.com)
‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms (www.nature.com)
Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity (www.nature.com)
Brain–machine interface reveals the origin of a widely used neural signal (www.nature.com)
Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US2 million contest (www.nature.com)
The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal? (www.nature.com)
Ageing could prime women for autoimmune disorders (www.nature.com)
Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Youthifying ''mirror'' brings back more vivid childhood memories (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The air is full of DNA — here’s what it can teach us (www.nature.com)
Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells (www.nature.com)
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments (www.nature.com)
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment? (www.nature.com)
A picture of health: gene-expression maps of the human liver from living donors (www.nature.com)
Bad influence: LLMs can transmit malicious traits using hidden signals (www.nature.com)
Therapeutic mitochondria transplants made more efficient with targeting tool (www.nature.com)
AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit unsafe behaviours when training other systems (www.nature.com)
Molecular profiling of gene-edited cells reveals shared drug-resistance mechanisms (www.nature.com)
AI speeds up design of devices that turn waste heat into electricity (www.nature.com)
Composable neural emulators accelerate thermoelectric generator design (www.nature.com)
EBV strain interacts with host HLA to drive nasopharyngeal carcinoma risk (www.nature.com)
Mapping convergent regulators of melanoma drug resistance by PerturbFate (www.nature.com)
300-unit-per-second roll-to-roll manufacturing of visible metalenses (www.nature.com)
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs (www.nature.com)
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data (www.nature.com)
The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression (www.nature.com)
Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in a semiconductor laser (www.nature.com)
Template-driven scaffolding of SCFFBXO42 regulates PP2A degradation (www.nature.com)
Emergence of oncofetal plasticity is ubiquitous in early colorectal cancers (www.nature.com)
Molecular basis for methylation-sensitive editing by Cas9 (www.nature.com)
A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer (www.nature.com)
A spatial atlas of the healthy human liver from live donors (www.nature.com)
Cell-type-targeted mitochondrial transplantation rescues cell degeneration (www.nature.com)
Prospective evaluation of genomics-guided off-label treatment (www.nature.com)
mRNA vaccines engage unconventional pathways in CD8 T cell priming (www.nature.com)
Tumour promotion through the lens of evolution (www.nature.com)
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia (www.nature.com)
Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations (www.nature.com)
Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans (www.nature.com)
Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires (www.nature.com)
Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics (www.nature.com)
Carbonyl swapping converts cyclic ketones to saturated heterocycles (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements (www.nature.com)
Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship song (www.nature.com)
Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes (www.nature.com)
Early-onset cancer fuels calls for wider screening — but at what cost? (www.nature.com)
Global cancer rates are rising. How are countries reacting? (www.nature.com)
Improving cancer survival rates will require hard policy choices (www.nature.com)
Here are the top locations for cancer research in the Nature Index (www.nature.com)
Four rising stars shaping the future of cancer research (www.nature.com)
Ozymandias undead (www.nature.com)
I was set to lead an undergraduate research trip abroad. Then my visa was denied (www.nature.com)
Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis (www.nature.com)
Can China’s Great Green Wall shape efforts to keep the world’s deserts at bay? (www.nature.com)
What China’s Great Green Wall can teach the world (www.nature.com)
Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data (www.nature.com)
Imaging interface-controlled bulk oxygen spillover (www.nature.com)
Marine heatwaves can supercharge cyclones (www.nature.com)
NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move (www.nature.com)
Saving face: why facial scars are smaller than back scars (www.nature.com)
Autonomous closed-loop framework for reproducible perovskite solar cells (www.nature.com)
Polyclonal selection of immune checkpoint mutations in thyroid autoimmunity (www.nature.com)
Stop the ‘space race’: space exploration must be a shared human endeavour (www.nature.com)
Researchers: here’s how to audit your fragmented digital identity (www.nature.com)
The striking history of safety matches (www.nature.com)
Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide (www.nature.com)
What Orbán’s fall from power means for research around the world (www.nature.com)
AI needs solid botanical data more than ever (www.nature.com)
The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: 14 things PhD students liked hearing from their supervisors (www.nature.com)
China discontinues prominent journal ranking list (www.nature.com)
AI agents replicate human social dynamics in days (www.nature.com)
Deep-sea mining mustn’t go ahead until there are baseline data (www.nature.com)
Stop overlooking librarians’ expertise (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy keeps a trio of autoimmune diseases at bay (www.nature.com)
Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil (www.nature.com)
Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks (www.nature.com)
Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way (www.nature.com)
How I harness research to inform humanitarian relief efforts (www.nature.com)
14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered (www.nature.com)
The ‘crazy rule-defying’ genes that determine sex (www.nature.com)
Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by (www.nature.com)
The middle years of my life and career: balancing two experiments at once (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A treatment to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in people (www.nature.com)
Homelessness of the heart (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Multi-omic profiling reveals age-related immune dynamics in healthy adults (www.nature.com)
How the butterfly got its name: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Almost half of traded wildlife carry disease-causing pathogens (www.nature.com)
Should academic misconduct be catalogued? Proposed US database sparks debate (www.nature.com)
I was with Artemis II’s scientists during the Moon fly-by. Here’s what I saw (www.nature.com)
Electric vehicles can ride to the grid’s rescue (www.nature.com)
Do the twist: bacteria can spin ‘pucks’ without touching them (www.nature.com)
Your nose contains multitudes — of long-lived immune cells (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: AI spread information about an obviously made-up disease (www.nature.com)
One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio (www.nature.com)
Ambiphilic cross-coupling with aryl-bismuth reagents (www.nature.com)
Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak (www.nature.com)
How to thrive in science when you move abroad (www.nature.com)
Liquid or solid? Oobleck droplets are both (www.nature.com)
Mapping the maternal–fetal interface through pregnancy in high resolution (www.nature.com)
Tumour trap: engineered enhancer sequences enlisted to kill cancer cells (www.nature.com)
Artemis II relied on European science: what that means for the region’s space ambitions (www.nature.com)
Real-life Pokémon professors wanted: why the media franchise is hiring academics (www.nature.com)
High-precision measurement of the W boson’s mass lends weight to the standard model (www.nature.com)
Why obesity drugs work better for some people: these genes hold clues (www.nature.com)
Young tropical forests help to reverse biodiversity losses (www.nature.com)
Genetics reveal why people respond differently to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs (www.nature.com)
Hidden human–virus interactions uncovered in DNA in blood and saliva (www.nature.com)
Synthetic super-enhancers enable precision viral immunotherapy (www.nature.com)
Superconductivity and electronic structures of nickelate thin film superstructures (www.nature.com)
Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity (www.nature.com)
Population-scale repeat expansions elucidate disease risk and brain atrophy (www.nature.com)
Multiomics and deep learning dissect regulatory syntax in human development (www.nature.com)
Metabolomics across scales: from single cells to population studies (www.nature.com)
Asymmetric selection of a rice immune module and rebuild of disease resistance (www.nature.com)
Clinical application of base editing for treating β-thalassaemia (www.nature.com)
Mummified early Permian reptile reveals ancient amniote breathing apparatus (www.nature.com)
Genetic predictors of GLP1 receptor agonist weight loss and side effects (www.nature.com)
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment (www.nature.com)
Single-cell spatiotemporal dissection of the human maternal–fetal interface (www.nature.com)
High-fidelity collisional quantum gates with fermionic atoms (www.nature.com)
DNA damage drives antigen diversification in Trypanosoma brucei (www.nature.com)
The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity (www.nature.com)
Saturation editing of RNU4-2 reveals distinct dominant and recessive disorders (www.nature.com)
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices (www.nature.com)
Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest (www.nature.com)
Engineered immunosuppressive dendritic cells protect against cardiac remodelling (www.nature.com)
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Oncogene ablation-resistant pancreatic cancer cells depend on mitochondrial function (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types (www.nature.com)
Immolation (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The Artemis II special (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Quantum computers could crack cybersecurity systems before 2030 (www.nature.com)
Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape (www.nature.com)
Brain organoids are a transformative technology — but they need regulation (www.nature.com)
When career anxiety becomes gameplay: lessons from China’s ‘young-faculty simulator’ (www.nature.com)
New drugs take aim at one of cancer’s deadliest mutations (www.nature.com)
First photos from Artemis II: see stunning ''Earthset'' and more (www.nature.com)
Your brain on drugs: different psychedelics work in surprisingly similar ways (www.nature.com)
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (www.nature.com)
When page-renumbering causes outrage (www.nature.com)
‘Net zero’ isn’t madness: the staggering economic costs of climate change (www.nature.com)
This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans (www.nature.com)
How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts (www.nature.com)
Don’t rush use of lymphatic surgery in Alzheimer’s disease (www.nature.com)
Representation without power in science isn’t equity (www.nature.com)
AI and the human mind: only one is a black box (www.nature.com)
Artemis II astronauts fly by the Moon today: follow along with Nature live (www.nature.com)
Why the US needs a unified, mission-based strategy for health innovation (www.nature.com)
Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry (www.nature.com)
‘Yes, we can’: a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society (www.nature.com)
What Artemis II’s astronauts will look for on the Moon’s far side (www.nature.com)
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration (www.nature.com)
Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet ‘monumental demand’ driven by AI (www.nature.com)
Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours (www.nature.com)
‘Treasure trove’ of antiviral proteins could inspire powerful molecular tools (www.nature.com)
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence (www.nature.com)
China is planning to land people on the Moon — and might beat the United States to it (www.nature.com)
‘It’s a real shock’: quantum-computing breakthroughs pose imminent risks to cybersecurity (www.nature.com)
The Moon belongs to all of us — not just countries that can afford to reach it (www.nature.com)
Mix-and-match synthesis of 3D small molecules (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launches (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Are boys really in crisis? What the science says (www.nature.com)
How procrastination can rob you of career fulfilment in science (www.nature.com)
Regular physical activity in midlife cuts risk of early death (www.nature.com)
Lift off! Artemis II mission sends humans to the Moon — opening a new era of exploration (www.nature.com)
Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to the test (www.nature.com)
Why science has a credibility problem — and how to address it (www.nature.com)
More self-reflection in research can lead to better science (www.nature.com)
‘Replication games’ test the robustness of social-science studies (www.nature.com)
Pincer movement: fossil pushes origins of chelicerate arthropods back to the Cambrian period (www.nature.com)
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project (www.nature.com)
Cutting aircraft soot emissions is not enough to curb contrail clouds (www.nature.com)