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)
Author Correction: Myocardial reprogramming by HMGN1 underlies heart defects in trisomy 21 (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)
Dynamic antigen expression and cytotoxic T cell resistance in HIV reservoir clones (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Opposing roles for calcineurin and ATF3 in squamous skin cancer (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)
Author Correction: Global subsidence of river deltas (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)
Evidence alone won’t save biodiversity: the golden apple snail reveals an implementation gap (www.nature.com)
Account for AI in the environmental footprint of scientific publishing (www.nature.com)
Defunding Chile’s climate research will undermine science and the region (www.nature.com)
The Contributor Role Taxonomy tool must serve to record extent of authorship (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)
Markovnikov hydroamination of terminal alkenes via phosphine redox catalysis (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)
Author Correction: Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling (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)
Host control of persistent Epstein–Barr virus infection (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)
Stereospecific alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling of boronic esters (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)
Publisher Correction: Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated Gi signalling (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)
What’s behind ‘teensplaining’? Scientists should study this adolescent behaviour (www.nature.com)
The funding system needs fixing — but it’s not a ‘waste of time and money’ (www.nature.com)
Statistical approximation is not general intelligence (www.nature.com)
Smartphones are a double-edged tool in classrooms (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)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Deacetylation of p53 modulates its effect on cell growth and apoptosis (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Transcription-independent ARF regulation in oncogenic stress-mediated p53 responses (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer (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)
Publisher Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant (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)
Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (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)
Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen (www.nature.com)
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells (www.nature.com)
Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain (www.nature.com)
Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules (www.nature.com)
Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (www.nature.com)
Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value (www.nature.com)
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source (www.nature.com)
Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion (www.nature.com)
Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet (www.nature.com)
Targeting excessive cholesterol deposition alleviates secondary lymphoedema (www.nature.com)
SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer (www.nature.com)
Months-long stability of the head-direction system (www.nature.com)
Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory (www.nature.com)
Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs (www.nature.com)
Pre-incision structures reveal principles of DNA nucleotide excision repair (www.nature.com)
Conformational diversity and fully opening mechanism of native NMDA receptor (www.nature.com)
Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction (www.nature.com)
Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys (www.nature.com)
CSN5i-3 is an orthosteric molecular glue inhibitor of COP9 signalosome (www.nature.com)
Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes (www.nature.com)
Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound (www.nature.com)
An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help (www.nature.com)
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies'' brains (www.nature.com)
Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data (www.nature.com)
African countries must take control of health policy (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Caffeine might reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline (www.nature.com)
18,000,000 minutes (www.nature.com)
What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data (www.nature.com)
My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong (www.nature.com)
What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized? (www.nature.com)
Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall (www.nature.com)
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief (www.nature.com)
Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook (www.nature.com)
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent (www.nature.com)
Public-speaking tips from the experts: what scientists can learn from comics, musicians and actors (www.nature.com)
China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead (www.nature.com)
Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability (www.nature.com)
Publishing less won’t save the research system (www.nature.com)
Preserving water under megacities is crucial — and urgent (www.nature.com)
Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown (www.nature.com)
Coffee drinking linked to slower brain ageing (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The dark side of the battery boom (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Bonobo’s tea party is first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human (www.nature.com)
My mission to make life more user friendly for the disability community (www.nature.com)
Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed (www.nature.com)
How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science (www.nature.com)
The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost? (www.nature.com)
Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk? (www.nature.com)
Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions (www.nature.com)
US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency (www.nature.com)
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known (www.nature.com)
Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: ''External lungs'' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant (www.nature.com)
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Tumours use neurons as hotline to the brain (www.nature.com)
‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’ (www.nature.com)
Universities in exile: displaced scholars count the costs of starting afresh (www.nature.com)
Not just a chip off the old block: nanoparticles reveal odd traits (www.nature.com)
This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans (www.nature.com)
Beetle is locked in to an eternal dance ― with an ant (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding (www.nature.com)
Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis (www.nature.com)
NASA’s latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership (www.nature.com)
First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers (www.nature.com)
These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable (www.nature.com)
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects (www.nature.com)
How a protein repurposes vitamin B12 as a light sensor (www.nature.com)
A way to gauge the equity of ocean-related initiatives (www.nature.com)
Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain (www.nature.com)
Evolutionary insights into a skin fold (www.nature.com)
Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age (www.nature.com)
How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells (www.nature.com)
Particle collisions cast light on how matter forms from seemingly empty space (www.nature.com)
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right (www.nature.com)
Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss (www.nature.com)
A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences (www.nature.com)
Machine learning slashes the testing needed to work out battery lifetimes (www.nature.com)
Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation (www.nature.com)