Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants (www.nature.com)
Europe’s record heatwave: does the continent have a new climate? (www.nature.com)
I study World Cup penalty shoot-outs: they say a lot about the psychology of performance under pressure (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Humans and great apes giggle in the same rhythms (www.nature.com)
CRISPR’s next act: the companies editing the epigenome to treat disease (www.nature.com)
The surprising career parallels between footballers and researchers (www.nature.com)
The poetry of twilight and the awe-inspiring magic of eclipses: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
US funding uncertainties threaten to sink key global oceanography projects (www.nature.com)
Publisher Correction: In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs (www.nature.com)
‘Edited’ human embryos reveal secrets of our development — and fuel ethical debate (www.nature.com)
Electric fields probe the symmetry of the ‘heavy hydrogen’ nucleus (www.nature.com)
China’s LineShine just topped the global supercomputer ranking: what you need to know (www.nature.com)
Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled (www.nature.com)
Base editing reveals an essential role for NANOG in human embryogenesis (www.nature.com)
Ligand-enabled distal desaturative lactonization of aliphatic acids (www.nature.com)
Can you terraform Mars? Try Nature’s game (www.nature.com)
How long-term dietary cholesterol can slow down its own clearance by liver cells (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Sperm whales have different dialects (www.nature.com)
Volcanic magma sculpts eerie domes on the sea floor (www.nature.com)
AI tool spots antibiotics that fight drug-resistant gonorrhoea (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: cBAF complex components and MYC cooperate early in CD8 T cell fate (www.nature.com)
A global map of seagrass ecosystems (www.nature.com)
Long-sought chemical inhibitors of β-arrestin proteins (www.nature.com)
Crude oil turns cheap porous membrane into a sieve to refine itself without heat (www.nature.com)
Antibiotic cocktail made by soil bacteria can kill superbugs (www.nature.com)
‘Megacluster’ of genes enables bacteria to make potent antibiotic mixture (www.nature.com)
A hidden predictor of sudden cardiac death uncovered by deep learning (www.nature.com)
Genomic insights into the population dynamics and demise of Neanderthals (www.nature.com)
Laser light switches on heat flow in ultra-thin structures (www.nature.com)
A Streptomyces megacluster encodes synergistic biotin-targeting antibiotics (www.nature.com)
Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals (www.nature.com)
Ductile alloys offering 100 MPa tensile strength at 2,400 C (www.nature.com)
Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins via neural iterative selectionexpansion (www.nature.com)
Chiral laser gyroscopes breaking the lock-in limit (www.nature.com)
GW250114 reveals signatures of post-merger black-hole horizon (www.nature.com)
Crude oil fractionation by means of mesoporous polyacrylonitrile membranes (www.nature.com)
Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe (www.nature.com)
Fourier pixels for bidirectional light control (www.nature.com)
Epiblast diversification and blood formation in a human pregastrula (www.nature.com)
An ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death discovered with deep learning (www.nature.com)
Detection of anisotropic cosmic structures on a gigaparsec scale (www.nature.com)
Optical cooling by interfacial charge transfer in 2D heterostructures (www.nature.com)
Immunological mechanisms of mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases (www.nature.com)
Small-molecule modulation of β-arrestins (www.nature.com)
Disparate privacy risks from medical AI (www.nature.com)
Global high-resolution mapping of seagrass to support conservation (www.nature.com)
Dietary cholesterol activates a Ral-dependent pathway driving LDLR turnover (www.nature.com)
Genetic technologies to enhance crop nutritional value under climate change (www.nature.com)
The mutational landscape of STING-induced immunity (www.nature.com)
Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability (www.nature.com)
On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport (www.nature.com)
Addendum: Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys (www.nature.com)
Reply to: On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport (www.nature.com)
Role of methanesulfonic acid in atmospheric particle nucleation and growth (www.nature.com)
Garbage collection (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: NASA to launch satellite-rescue mission (www.nature.com)
‘Us’ not ‘them’: scientists must use their skills to help stop polarization and division (www.nature.com)
Why science needs the humanities more than ever (www.nature.com)
Retraction Note: Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst (www.nature.com)
Making samples one billion times bigger lets simple microscopes pinpoint amino acids (www.nature.com)
A 1970s patent that changed the course of commercial biotechnology (www.nature.com)
Europe must seize the moment to lead on free and open science (www.nature.com)
Europe as science superpower: what it will take to rival the US and China (www.nature.com)
How should I respond to race-based exclusion in my lab? (www.nature.com)
Silicon Valley’s vision for global AI is flawed: each country needs its own blueprint (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: First-ever ‘nuclear’ clocks put atomic clocks in the shade (www.nature.com)
Do not leave fungi out of impact assessments (www.nature.com)
The halo effect: how academic hierarchy undermines peer review and enables fraud (www.nature.com)
Academic success still assumes uninterrupted careers (www.nature.com)
Nepal’s new science ministry must strengthen scientific capacity (www.nature.com)
A spacecraft is falling to its doom — can NASA save it? (www.nature.com)
Cancer cells adopt unprecedented strategies to produce a molecule that protects them from iron-dependent death (www.nature.com)
Forty years of high-temperature superconductivity (www.nature.com)
Isotopic evidence for a cold and distant origin of 3I/ATLAS (www.nature.com)
Stereoretentive decarbonylative C(sp3)-C(sp3) cross-coupling (www.nature.com)
C-glycoside synthesis via radical cross-coupling of glycohydrazides (www.nature.com)
Will AI spark a scientific renaissance — or a diffuse monoculture? (www.nature.com)
Why heritage sites are at risk in a warming world — and how to save them (www.nature.com)
Make science more reliable: study people as they go about their lives (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Human detritus remakes geology (www.nature.com)
The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here — what can they do? (www.nature.com)
A long-lived butterfly’s secret to graceful ageing (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm might get a boost from obesity drugs (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Autophagic cell death restricts chromosomal instability during replicative crisis (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The brain builds a sentence neuron by neuron (www.nature.com)
Stem cells banish severe autoimmune disease for 15 years (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The proteins that protect us from deadly mutations (www.nature.com)
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good (www.nature.com)
It slices! It dices! Sashimi-Bot handles seafood with ease (www.nature.com)
Brexit tore apart European science — now the research rifts are healing (www.nature.com)
Clues to the sloth’s sloth found in its genome (www.nature.com)
Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged (www.nature.com)
Fiery data hint that controlled forest fires benefit human health (www.nature.com)
The brain region that could provide a cognitive ‘reservoir’ in old age (www.nature.com)
Freezing brain damage in its tracks: cooling drugs limit stroke injury in mice (www.nature.com)
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron (www.nature.com)
DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague (www.nature.com)
The ancestors of eukaryotic cells contained a mix of genes from various microbes (www.nature.com)
Light-controlled microgripper punches above its weight (www.nature.com)
Navigating a crowded developing brain leaves neurons with broken DNA (www.nature.com)
Reimagining machine vision with optical computing (www.nature.com)
Reconfigurable quantum computer juggles 98 qubits (www.nature.com)
How the zebrafish brain weaves recent experiences into future decisions (www.nature.com)
Cucurbituril-based anion-conducting membranes with supramolecular nanopores (www.nature.com)
Visualizing the impact of quenched disorder on 2D electron Wigner solids (www.nature.com)
Optical metasurfaces for general vision processing on the edge (www.nature.com)
CHPO coordinates chilling recovery and nitrogen use in rice (www.nature.com)
Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents (www.nature.com)
Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models (www.nature.com)
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago (www.nature.com)
Spatial distribution of the proteome in the human body and in cancers (www.nature.com)
A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus (www.nature.com)
Analysis of 173,303 exomes and genomes in the Pakistan Genome Resource (www.nature.com)
Confined migration induces non-lethal DNA damage in developing neurons (www.nature.com)
A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore (www.nature.com)
Cortical development dynamics across autism spectrum disorder mouse models (www.nature.com)
Rock weathering can counteract river CO2 emissions induced by permafrost thaw (www.nature.com)
Molecular basis of polyadenylated RNA fate determination in the nucleus (www.nature.com)
Revealing competitive interfacial reactions in high-energy Li–S batteries (www.nature.com)
Fast formation to reinforce lithium-rich cathodes (www.nature.com)
A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity (www.nature.com)
Structure of the pre-initiation complex explains CMGE biogenesis (www.nature.com)
A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics (www.nature.com)
Optical fibre gripper for high-performance 3D micromanipulation (www.nature.com)
Probing picometre-scale interlayer deformations via hyperbolic polaritons (www.nature.com)
A distant brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super-Earth (www.nature.com)
Emergent decadal predictability in Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise (www.nature.com)
Towards Conversational AI for Disease Management (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How many elementary particles are there? (www.nature.com)
Oceans in Asia smash heat records — what it means for extreme weather (www.nature.com)
Mathematicians are developing rules for AI use — other fields should follow (www.nature.com)
Wah-ult in the vault (www.nature.com)
The EU needs to back its ambition to end animal testing with cash (www.nature.com)
These ‘master’ proteins protect us from deadly mutations — and could inspire new drugs (www.nature.com)
Should nicotine be regulated like a narcotic? A Pacific nation makes the case (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How Venus flytraps snap shut (www.nature.com)
How do researchers choose what to work on? (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Iron-Age human bones were made into tools before interment (www.nature.com)
AI has entered the workforce: tax tech profits, not people (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Deep-sea whale graveyard is a treasure trove of fossils (www.nature.com)
Tech titans are hacking their bodies for a longer life: is there science behind their methods? (www.nature.com)
El Niño in a thermally saturated world (www.nature.com)
The Haber–Bosch fertilizer production process should be taught through a social-ecological lens (www.nature.com)
Terms of endearment? Bias in first-name eponyms for species named after people (www.nature.com)
‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens (www.nature.com)
At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back (www.nature.com)
Sperm quality improves in people taking potent obesity drugs (www.nature.com)
Nanocrystal-tailored recombination for all-perovskite tandem solar modules (www.nature.com)
In the field — and sometimes in the lab — the simplest tool is best (www.nature.com)
Why people should work together to shape the economy (www.nature.com)
How AI is revealing the secret lives of animals from hummingbirds to pumas (www.nature.com)
Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools (www.nature.com)
Huge study hints at risks of switching from tobacco cigarettes to vapes (www.nature.com)
‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics (www.nature.com)
An innovative technology boosts image quality for protein structures (www.nature.com)
Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone (www.nature.com)
Why we seek to fly: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
I advise the Vatican and the UN on AI — don’t dismiss the Pope’s message as theology (www.nature.com)
Revealed: how Venus flytraps snap shut with astonishing speed (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (www.nature.com)
This World Cup could be the most high-tech yet — the innovations to watch for (www.nature.com)
My diverse academic background is affecting my PhD studies — what do I do? (www.nature.com)
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Ancient ground squirrels ate like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ (www.nature.com)
‘Footballers are not superheroes’: we must tackle the mental and physical pressures of elite sport (www.nature.com)
Online tool that flags suspicious journals could warn researchers before submission (www.nature.com)
Light slows down carbon nanotubes in water (www.nature.com)
A vast whale necropolis has been found (www.nature.com)
Five winning images of scientists at work (www.nature.com)
Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity (www.nature.com)
Artificial intelligence shines a light on hidden global migration flows (www.nature.com)
Chinese detector edges closer to solving the mystery of neutrino mass (www.nature.com)
JUNO experiment ushers in next generation of neutrino experiments (www.nature.com)
‘Hidden hero’ peptides guard crops against sudden cold (www.nature.com)
Mitochondria tethered to the nucleus secure its energy supply (www.nature.com)
Human migration has surged since 2000 — these maps reveal where people are going (www.nature.com)
Confirmation that bryozoan animals were present during the Cambrian explosion (www.nature.com)
Hybrid refinery process turns plant material into industrially important chemical (www.nature.com)
Diverse binding poses of agonistic neurotoxins on human Nav1.6 (www.nature.com)
A first-in-class pulsatile FXR agonist for bile-acid-related liver diseases (www.nature.com)
Building user-driven climate adaptation products (www.nature.com)
Amplified Arctic iceberg traffic reshapes benthic biodiversity (www.nature.com)
Deep learning four decades of human migration (www.nature.com)
Improved quantum processor logical error rates via correction and detection (www.nature.com)
A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions (www.nature.com)
Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex (www.nature.com)
Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data (www.nature.com)
Lignin to adipic acid in a high-yield chemical and biological redox process (www.nature.com)
Light-induced quantum friction of carbon nanotubes in water (www.nature.com)
Molecular glue degraders of HuR suppress BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer (www.nature.com)
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis (www.nature.com)
Efficient and accurate neural-field reconstruction using resistive memory (www.nature.com)
Mutation-dependent responses to sleep and exercise in clonal haematopoiesis (www.nature.com)
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer (www.nature.com)
A prognostic human brain network for diffuse midline glioma (www.nature.com)
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs (www.nature.com)
Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain (www.nature.com)
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (www.nature.com)
SIRT7 regulates dosage compensation and safeguards the female X chromosome (www.nature.com)
Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex (www.nature.com)
Newly discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years (www.nature.com)
Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria (www.nature.com)
How I use AI to turn failed drugs into new medicines (www.nature.com)
When drug discovery fails: scientists share their frustrations with the process (www.nature.com)
Doubting Thomas (www.nature.com)
Gen Z scepticism towards AI is a wake-up call — universities must take it seriously (www.nature.com)
The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil (www.nature.com)
Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Trial to ‘de-age’ cells treats first person (www.nature.com)
Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings: are China’s East Asian neighbours keeping pace with it? (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages (www.nature.com)
Ocean ‘cold blob’ is evidence for a troubling climate trend (www.nature.com)
People are turning to AI chatbots to plug gaps in health information (www.nature.com)
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ (www.nature.com)
A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins (www.nature.com)
Good recycling starts at home — and benefits the world (www.nature.com)
TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial (www.nature.com)
A treasure trove of Neolithic necklace beads (www.nature.com)
My overseas job offer was rescinded. Here’s how I bounced back (www.nature.com)
Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals (www.nature.com)
Let’s talk about biomedical research kits (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: PTC-bearing mRNA elicits a genetic compensation response via Upf3a and COMPASS components (www.nature.com)
Seven steps for critically analysing research papers (www.nature.com)
Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future (www.nature.com)
How ice forms is a mystery — now scientists are cracking the case (www.nature.com)
World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person (www.nature.com)
The best way to start your day? The science backs naked cartwheels in the sun (www.nature.com)
Preventing cancer requires more than a list of carcinogens (www.nature.com)
Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few (www.nature.com)
Arson attacks at Ebola hospitals are a cry for regional development (www.nature.com)
AI technology must serve human cognitive development, not the other way around (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Human embryo genomes precisely altered (www.nature.com)
Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding (www.nature.com)
Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome (www.nature.com)
GPR15-guided CD8 T regulatory cells control intestinal inflammation (www.nature.com)
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology (www.nature.com)
Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Lung microbiome linked to a mysterious tissue-scarring condition (www.nature.com)
Nuclear-fusion firm says plant will deliver electricity to grid – but big questions remain (www.nature.com)
How AI is reshaping discovery in maths and physics (www.nature.com)
AI is taking on antibiotic resistance — here’s how (www.nature.com)
Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don''t know (www.nature.com)
Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading (www.nature.com)
First precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm (www.nature.com)
Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments (www.nature.com)
Electric vehicles cut pollution in China – and prevent 260,000 premature deaths (www.nature.com)
See a helicopter destined for Mars and a spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way — May''s best science images (www.nature.com)
Europe is ditching US tech — what does this mean for researchers? (www.nature.com)
Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents (www.nature.com)
Science with military applications is cited more than civilian-only research (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant (www.nature.com)
Device could sniff out fusion reactors secretly making material for a nuclear bomb (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: These immune cells go out with a bang (www.nature.com)
Earliest signs of vision recorded in ancient sea-floor tracks (www.nature.com)
What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors? (www.nature.com)
This mysterious lung disease affects millions of people – a drug tested in mice shows promise (www.nature.com)
‘Transformative’ CAR-T therapy allows three people to receive kidney transplants (www.nature.com)
White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know (www.nature.com)
Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate (www.nature.com)
AI in science recruitment: friend or foe? Join our free webinar (www.nature.com)
Troubled waters: a plant protein senses when cells are running dry (www.nature.com)
Ubiquitin tags detected on non-protein biomolecules using new method (www.nature.com)
Nanostructure of tooth enamel casts light on dietary shifts as humans evolved (www.nature.com)
Tiny hubs of metabolic activity optimize nitrogen use in maize (www.nature.com)
How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine? (www.nature.com)
What a royal bedchamber provides the queen bee (www.nature.com)
A maize gene that coordinates flowering aids drought resistance (www.nature.com)
How a rush for minerals is causing deforestation in tropical regions (www.nature.com)
Jupiter observations reveal a simple scaling law for particle acceleration (www.nature.com)
Recovery of plastic from mixed waste boosts recycling rates but affects quality (www.nature.com)
Queen cell architecture shapes honey bee queen development (www.nature.com)
Centromeric footprints preserve telomere integrity in ALT cancers (www.nature.com)
High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa (www.nature.com)
Enamel nanocrystal misorientation increased with meat-eating and agriculture (www.nature.com)
Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods (www.nature.com)
LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair (www.nature.com)
High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked laser using a Mamyshev oscillator (www.nature.com)
Nuclear shell structure governs short-range nucleon pairing (www.nature.com)
Commensal-derived acetylcholine enhances mucosal immune education (www.nature.com)
Mechanophore cross-linking enhances ballistic energy dissipation of polymers (www.nature.com)
Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices at room temperature (www.nature.com)
Spermine is an endogenous iron chelator that inhibits ferroptosis (www.nature.com)
Analysis of trade-offs of post-sorting plastic packaging (www.nature.com)
Plastoglobules compartmentalize nitrogen assimilation in maize (www.nature.com)
Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk (www.nature.com)
Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein in maize (www.nature.com)
Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield (www.nature.com)
Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa (www.nature.com)
Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression (www.nature.com)
Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond (www.nature.com)
Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry (www.nature.com)
A natural depsipeptide antibiotic binds the E-site of the bacterial ribosome (www.nature.com)
The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production (www.nature.com)
Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production (www.nature.com)
Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo (www.nature.com)