Open-source protein structure AI aims to match AlphaFold (www.nature.com)
Glowing sperm helps to reveal secrets of mosquito sex (www.nature.com)
Taiwan invests in genetic resource for health (www.nature.com)
Trust and science: the essential elements missing from plastics treaty talks (www.nature.com)
What now for the global plastics treaty? (www.nature.com)
A limerick competition celebrates science through rhyme (www.nature.com)
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher (www.nature.com)
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better (www.nature.com)
Ethics must keep pace with embryo research (www.nature.com)
Treat children as citizen co-researchers in health technology (www.nature.com)
Universities can harness AI to make learning intuitive (www.nature.com)
Don’t overlook the plastic footprint of fireworks (www.nature.com)
All-perovskite tandem solar cells with dipolar passivation (www.nature.com)
A matrix-confined molecular layer for perovskite photovoltaic modules (www.nature.com)
Direct deaminative functionalization with N-nitroamines (www.nature.com)
Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time (www.nature.com)
This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic (www.nature.com)
AI can supercharge inequality — unless the public learns to control it (www.nature.com)
How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help (www.nature.com)
How do you know what I know you know? Steven Pinker on common knowledge (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Key coral species are functionally extinct after record-breaking heatwave (www.nature.com)
China seeks self-reliance in science in next five-year plan (www.nature.com)
The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch (www.nature.com)
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role (www.nature.com)
Chen-Ning Yang obituary: intuitive physicist whose theories on broken symmetries were proved right (www.nature.com)
Sugarcane genomes offer sweet surprise: mystery ancestor (www.nature.com)
Ancient graffiti and brain complexities: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
How to grow crystals when and where you want them (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: People with cancer lived longer if they’d had a COVID-19 vaccine (www.nature.com)
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it''s harming science (www.nature.com)
Audio long read: How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says (www.nature.com)
Paper or plastic? (www.nature.com)
These iconic corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved? (www.nature.com)
This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines (www.nature.com)
Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists (www.nature.com)
This luxury ‘cat poo’ coffee has a unique flavour: what’s behind it? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Stinkbugs nurture fungi in a newly discovered organ (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: People with macular degeneration can read again after retinal implant (www.nature.com)
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors (www.nature.com)
Google AI aims to make best-in-class scientific software even better (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Structures of α-synuclein filaments from multiple system atrophy (www.nature.com)
Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side (www.nature.com)
Google claims ‘quantum advantage’ again — but researchers are sceptical (www.nature.com)
Gene implicated in the heart defects associated with Down’s syndrome (www.nature.com)
Is there a ‘smoking gun’ test for quantum gravity? (www.nature.com)
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans (www.nature.com)
Evolutionary history of stony corals suggests that some could be resilient to climate change (www.nature.com)
Tumours might be sensitized to immune therapy by COVID mRNA vaccines (www.nature.com)
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine (www.nature.com)
Copper-free chips generate robust ‘combs’ of multicoloured light (www.nature.com)
Neuroendocrine control of calcium mobilization in the fruit fly (www.nature.com)
Video‐rate tunable colour electronic paper with human resolution (www.nature.com)
Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression (www.nature.com)
Non-van der Waals superlattices of carbides and carbonitrides (www.nature.com)
Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity (www.nature.com)
Bottom-up design of Ca2 channels from defined selectivity filter geometry (www.nature.com)
Cryogenic X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for battery interfaces (www.nature.com)
Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female (www.nature.com)
Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments (www.nature.com)
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time (www.nature.com)
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade (www.nature.com)
Designing allosteric modulators to change GPCR G protein subtype selectivity (www.nature.com)
Transcriptional interferences ensure one olfactory receptor per ant neuron (www.nature.com)
A circular economy approach for the global lithium-ion battery supply chain (www.nature.com)
Myocardial reprogramming by HMGN1 underlies heart defects in trisomy 21 (www.nature.com)
Oxidative potential of atmospheric particles in Europe and exposure scenarios (www.nature.com)
A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix (www.nature.com)
Deterministic soliton microcombs in Cu-free photonic integrated circuits (www.nature.com)
Enteropathogenic bacteria evade ROCK-driven epithelial cell extrusion (www.nature.com)
Optimization by decoded quantum interferometry (www.nature.com)
Classical theories of gravity produce entanglement (www.nature.com)
Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (www.nature.com)
Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive (www.nature.com)
Reply to: Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (www.nature.com)
Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms (www.nature.com)
Measles, polio, tuberculosis: what’s causing spikes in infectious diseases? (www.nature.com)
Four game-changing immunology tools to watch (www.nature.com)
We need more than good science to fight infectious disease (www.nature.com)
Here there be (www.nature.com)
The search for mutations that sperm acquire as men age (www.nature.com)
Sex differences in depression revealed by large genetics study (www.nature.com)
Pancreatic cancer relies on opposing signalling pathways to drive its cellular diversity (www.nature.com)
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers (www.nature.com)
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision (www.nature.com)
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold (www.nature.com)
‘Gland-in-a-dish’ secretes stress hormone like the real thing (www.nature.com)
Stinkbug ‘ear’ actually hosts parasite-fighting fungi (www.nature.com)
Hopes of realizing a dream ‘city of health’ (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Time to retire the Turing test? (www.nature.com)
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? (www.nature.com)
Cake to the rescue: how these PhD students are cooking up a sense of community (www.nature.com)
The TrumpRx website won’t slash drug prices — but this will (www.nature.com)
Genetics can give evolving societies a leg up (www.nature.com)
The race for deep-sea minerals could cause geopolitical and ecological harm (www.nature.com)
Take the time to ensure that AI is safe (www.nature.com)
Brazil must beef up its COP30 scheme to preserve tropical forests (www.nature.com)
Breastfeeding boosts immune cells that protect against breast cancer (www.nature.com)
How scientists are pushing back against Trump’s funding ‘deal’ for universities (www.nature.com)
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant (www.nature.com)
What’s the cap on human energy expenditure? Elite athletes reveal ‘metabolic ceiling’ (www.nature.com)
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy in mismatch-repair-proficient colon cancers (www.nature.com)
Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection (www.nature.com)
Selective Methylene Oxidation in α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Natural Products (www.nature.com)
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world? (www.nature.com)
Why we still don’t understand the Universe — even after a century of dispute (www.nature.com)
Disconnecting part of the brain sends it into a deep sleep (www.nature.com)
Cold plunge: how I gained hands-on experience in marine biology (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Gene that causes obesity also shields against heart disease (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How the brain locks in long-term memories (www.nature.com)
Alternatives to animal testing are the future — it’s time that journals, funders and scientists embrace them (www.nature.com)
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement? (www.nature.com)
Why simply ending animal testing isn’t the answer in biomedical research (www.nature.com)
John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A room temperature rechargeable all-solid-state hydride ion battery (www.nature.com)
Blood tests are now approved for Alzheimer’s: how accurate are they? (www.nature.com)
Would ChatGPT hire you? Your age and gender matter (www.nature.com)
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data (www.nature.com)
Warning signs (www.nature.com)
Time-resolved fluorescent proteins expand the microscopy palette (www.nature.com)
This gene causes obesity — and shields against heart disease (www.nature.com)
The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid — can anyone fill the gap? (www.nature.com)
The problem with career planning in science (www.nature.com)
Parenting, illnesses and medical commitments: the private details grant reviewers shouldn’t need to know (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Making babies with lab-grown eggs and sperm (www.nature.com)
Mysterious ‘little red dots’ are baffling astronmers. What are they? (www.nature.com)
Ion stencils used for synthesis of patchy nanoparticles (www.nature.com)
Yeast genomes show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity (www.nature.com)
First known fossil hand of the hominin Paranthropus boisei (www.nature.com)
Using heat to power up molecular systems (www.nature.com)
Extreme confinement unleashes water’s hidden electrical capabilities (www.nature.com)
How emotional memories are engraved on the brain, with surprising helper cells (www.nature.com)
The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals (www.nature.com)
Efficient quantum thermal simulation (www.nature.com)
Spatial metabolic gradients in the liver and small intestine (www.nature.com)
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion (www.nature.com)
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes (www.nature.com)
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei (www.nature.com)
Niche-specific dermal macrophage loss promotes skin capillary ageing (www.nature.com)
A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes (www.nature.com)
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source (www.nature.com)
Integrated lithium niobate photonics for sub-ångström snapshot spectroscopy (www.nature.com)
A conserved H3K14ub-driven H3K9me3 for chromatin compartmentalization (www.nature.com)
Patchy nanoparticles by atomic stencilling (www.nature.com)
Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China (www.nature.com)
In-plane dielectric constant and conductivity of confined water (www.nature.com)
Population-specific polygenic risk scores for people of Han Chinese ancestry (www.nature.com)
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut (www.nature.com)
A vaccine central in A(H5) influenza antigenic space confers broad immunity (www.nature.com)
The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory (www.nature.com)
The Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative provides a cohort for large-scale studies (www.nature.com)
New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot (www.nature.com)
Tin-based perovskite solar cells with a homogeneous buried interface (www.nature.com)
Photocatalytic oxygen-atom transmutation of oxetanes (www.nature.com)
Deaminative cross-coupling of amines by boryl radical β-scission (www.nature.com)
Wastewater treatment produces surprising amounts of greenhouse gases (www.nature.com)
The year of the Ghost Ant (www.nature.com)
How journals can break down barriers for Latin American scientists (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Could microbe-friendly buildings help us be healthier? (www.nature.com)
UNESCO stands at a crossroads — researchers must back its new leader (www.nature.com)
The quest to make babies with lab-grown eggs and sperm (www.nature.com)
Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll (www.nature.com)
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference (www.nature.com)
Gigantic black holes did not have starring role in early cosmic transition (www.nature.com)
The spectre of malnutrition is back and must be tackled — fast (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Corals have been pushed beyond an irreversible tipping point, says report (www.nature.com)
Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations (www.nature.com)
Do rats double-dip food with their tails? (www.nature.com)
The race to uncover snow’s many mysteries before it disappears forever (www.nature.com)
Inside our university’s mission to pivot to research (www.nature.com)
The probiotic home: where microbes are welcome guests (www.nature.com)
Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a lot easier (www.nature.com)
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why (www.nature.com)
Longer grant cycles would boost research in Africa (www.nature.com)
AI’s therapeutic potential goes beyond emotional connection (www.nature.com)
Brazil’s COP30 legacy should be to protect more of its forests (www.nature.com)
Red lines for religious AI (www.nature.com)
Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s: what that means for Alzheimer’s (www.nature.com)
Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth (www.nature.com)
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics (www.nature.com)
What an academic misconduct accusation taught me about sharing research (www.nature.com)
Host cell Z-RNAs activate ZBP1 during virus infections (www.nature.com)
Birds’ intruder alert hints at how sounds took on new meanings (www.nature.com)
Andean peoples hunted and gathered long after they embraced farming (www.nature.com)
Defending Ohuira Bay, Mexico (www.nature.com)
Metals are key to the global economy — but three challenges threaten supply chains (www.nature.com)
Digital flocks, predators allow ecologists to simulate real-world animal behaviour (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Don''t sideline Palestinian scientists after ceasefire, say experts (www.nature.com)
Alchemy: discredited pseudoscience or chemistry’s worthy ancestor? (www.nature.com)
Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say (www.nature.com)
Should genetically modified wildlife be banned? Scientists weigh the risks (www.nature.com)
The world’s first plastics treaty is in crisis: can it be salvaged? (www.nature.com)
Current mosquitoes evolved more recently than previously thought (www.nature.com)
Portable muon beam could accelerate archaeology scans (www.nature.com)
Dangerous ‘nitazene’ opioids are on the rise: researchers are worried (www.nature.com)
European bats capture migrating birds and eat them on the wing (www.nature.com)
Future solitude (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Loss-of-function mutations in PLD4 lead to systemic lupus erythematosus (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Chronic pain linked to small cluster of brain cells (www.nature.com)
Rebuilding Gaza: don''t sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts (www.nature.com)
Naked mole rats live for decades — genetic tweaks reveal insights into ageing (www.nature.com)
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys (www.nature.com)
This list of non-negotiables helped me to defeat PhD-student guilt (www.nature.com)
How to pause and restart your science career (www.nature.com)
First proposed blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome: what scientists think (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Chemistry Nobel for ‘super sponge’ MOFs (www.nature.com)
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds (www.nature.com)
Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age (www.nature.com)
‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data (www.nature.com)
How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring (www.nature.com)
Distorted representations of age and gender are reflected in AI models (www.nature.com)
Drones switch payloads in mid-air using a flying toolbox (www.nature.com)
Sacrificial metal speeds up synthesis of nano-alloys from multiple elements (www.nature.com)
A quantum boost for ultra-precise clocks (www.nature.com)
Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer (www.nature.com)
Tracing the ancestry of barley in time and space (www.nature.com)
Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments (www.nature.com)
Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events (www.nature.com)
Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics (www.nature.com)
KCTD10 is a sensor for co-directional transcription–replication conflicts (www.nature.com)
Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition (www.nature.com)
Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder (www.nature.com)
Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole–Aitken basin (www.nature.com)
A ductile chromium–molybdenum alloy resistant to high-temperature oxidation (www.nature.com)
Sperm sequencing reveals extensive positive selection in the male germline (www.nature.com)
Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories (www.nature.com)
Somatic mutation and selection at population scale (www.nature.com)
A full-featured 2D flash chip enabled by system integration (www.nature.com)
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models (www.nature.com)
Hotspots of human mutation point to clonal expansions in spermatogonia (www.nature.com)
A parabrachial hub for need-state control of enduring pain (www.nature.com)
Enzyme specificity prediction using cross attention graph neural networks (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Physics Nobel for quantum tunnelling on a macroscopic scale (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Nobel Prize for discovery of ‘brake’ on immune system (www.nature.com)
The girl who used to be my sister (www.nature.com)
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? (www.nature.com)
Clues to why the weight-loss condition cachexia arises when cancer occurs (www.nature.com)
Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials (www.nature.com)
AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? (www.nature.com)
These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease? (www.nature.com)
The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts (www.nature.com)
The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone (www.nature.com)
The 1975 discovery of long-lost letters between Albert Einstein and the astronomer Willem de Sitter (www.nature.com)
Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel (www.nature.com)
Customizable AI systems that anyone can adapt bring big opportunities — and even bigger risks (www.nature.com)
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it (www.nature.com)
Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain (www.nature.com)
Microbe discovery holds promise for sustainable biotechnology (www.nature.com)
Stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas (www.nature.com)
Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded (www.nature.com)
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery (www.nature.com)
Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US (www.nature.com)
Wonder, empathy, life: why we called our pregnancy-diagnostic company Mirvie (www.nature.com)
Connecting the dots: I trace the history of the East Kolkata Wetlands (www.nature.com)
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ (www.nature.com)
The cutting-edge medical approaches that could transform ageing (www.nature.com)
Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists (www.nature.com)
27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The Nobel prizes’ most prestigious rivals (www.nature.com)
From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition (www.nature.com)
Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon (www.nature.com)
A scientist’s guide to AI agents — how could they help your research? (www.nature.com)
Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level (www.nature.com)
‘Rogue’ planet is fastest-growing ever observed (www.nature.com)
Weaponizing uncertainty in science and in public health puts people in harm’s way (www.nature.com)
First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Ribonucleotide incorporation into mitochondrial DNA drives inflammation (www.nature.com)
These science prizes want to rival the Nobels: how do they compare? (www.nature.com)
Marcus kinetics control singlet and triplet oxygen evolving from superoxide (www.nature.com)
The child of humanity becomes the mother of all (www.nature.com)
AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work? (www.nature.com)
Violin therapy: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: ‘A messenger of hope’ — Jane Goodall’s impact on science (www.nature.com)
These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why (www.nature.com)
Biothreat hunters catch dangerous DNA before it gets made (www.nature.com)
Scooped by a cupcake business: why we called our green-cement company Sublime Systems (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: EBI2 augments Tfh cell fate by promoting interaction with IL-2-quenching dendritic cells (www.nature.com)
Research assessment: a round-up for early-career researchers (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Multimodal cell maps as a foundation for structural and functional genomics (www.nature.com)
Keep, lose, add: a checklist for plotting your next career move in science (www.nature.com)
Memorable, distinctive, not too ‘sciencey’: why we named our biotech firm Anocca (www.nature.com)
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired (www.nature.com)
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures (www.nature.com)
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Fireworks in space — the month’s best science images (www.nature.com)
This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science (www.nature.com)
DNA circuits store data — with heat as their power source (www.nature.com)
Early- and late-diagnosed autism are genetically distinct (www.nature.com)
Parachutes inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami (www.nature.com)
Bacteria use a decoy defence molecule to set a trap for viruses (www.nature.com)
Ancient viral DNA in the human genome shapes early development (www.nature.com)
Quantum correlations enhance the sensitivity of room-temperature sensors (www.nature.com)
Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis – and so can genes (www.nature.com)
Machine learning matches enzymes with molecular substrates (www.nature.com)
Mix-and-match fossils tell the tale of snake and lizard evolution (www.nature.com)
A pathway that controls conversion of the amino acid cysteine into a cholesterol regulator (www.nature.com)
Elaborate machinery for inserting proteins into the outer membrane of bacteria (www.nature.com)
Evolution of drug-resistant ovarian-cancer clones tracked in patients (www.nature.com)
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity (www.nature.com)
Spin squeezing in an ensemble of nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamond (www.nature.com)
Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (www.nature.com)