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Cohesin reshapes replication fork contacts to aid fork slowing and reversal (www.nature.com)
Electrically controllable superconducting memory effect in UTe2 (www.nature.com)
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Scalable near-real-time Bayesian phylogenetics for outbreaks with Delphy (www.nature.com)
Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis (www.nature.com)
Targeted genomic integration and rearrangement using prime assembly (www.nature.com)
Molecular-level observation of the self-assembly of a virus-like particle (www.nature.com)
Heterogeneous photonic integration of single-crystalline nanomembranes (www.nature.com)
Rapid patient-specific neural networks for X-ray to volume registration (www.nature.com)
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Topographic structure and function of locus coeruleus noradrenaline neurons (www.nature.com)
Evolution and heterogeneity of lethal metastatic bladder cancer subtypes (www.nature.com)
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Continuous-wave laser absorption spectroscopy of the thorium-229 nucleus (www.nature.com)
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AI companies must work with the research community to protect attribution (www.nature.com)
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‘Stomach bugs’ send protective immune cells rushing from gut to brain (www.nature.com)
Quality control of glycogen through direct ubiquitylation by RNF213 (www.nature.com)
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Author Correction: Erythropoietin receptor on cDC1s dictates immune tolerance (www.nature.com)
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Cities and countryside are intimately linked — green initiatives must recognize that (www.nature.com)
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Why Nepal floods resulted in a disaster even after satellites spotted danger (www.nature.com)
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Encoded and non-genetic protein variants expand human functional proteome (www.nature.com)
‘Multifunctional’ brain implant translates speech and gestures in real time (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Skeleton teeth show evidence of the earliest known habitual drug use (www.nature.com)
The roots of astrology, the mysterious nature of time and more: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
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UK universities are on the brink — what is their greatest source of stress? (www.nature.com)
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NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities (www.nature.com)
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People trust scientists seen to be ''on their side'', UK study find (www.nature.com)
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The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: OpenAI claims a huge maths breakthrough (www.nature.com)
AI researchers reckon with the 1.5 million ‘academia tax’ (www.nature.com)
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AI model predicts which breast-cancer drugs work best (www.nature.com)
Hello Equal Earth: what the UN''s new world map will change (www.nature.com)
Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close (www.nature.com)
Oddball fossils suggest that the first insects were a mixed bunch (www.nature.com)
‘Superdark’ protein looks like a G-protein-coupled receptor — but shows unconventional behaviour (www.nature.com)
Genetic associations with the Big Five personality traits probed in one million people (www.nature.com)
Family-based analyses show how children’s genetics shape key traits (www.nature.com)
Electric charge makes drops of water more destructive (www.nature.com)
Phone-call tutorials improve learning cost-effectively during education emergencies (www.nature.com)
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Phone-based tutoring improves learning during school closures (www.nature.com)
Combined satellite and news data capture unseen aspects of war (www.nature.com)
Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture (www.nature.com)
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Uniform film formation helps tandem solar cells work better for longer (www.nature.com)
DNA-editing ‘pencils’ probe early human development (www.nature.com)
Proximity-guided graph learning reveals tumour-associated proximity antigens (www.nature.com)
TM184C is a GPCR-like regulator of intercellular exchange and autophagy (www.nature.com)
Integrated signatures define mutational processes in prostate cancer (www.nature.com)
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TRI-611, a selective, brain-penetrant molecular glue degrader of ALK (www.nature.com)
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Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China (www.nature.com)
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A serpin–myeloid axis in pancreatic cancer heterogeneity and immune evasion (www.nature.com)
Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies (www.nature.com)
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Foaming photopolymers as a high-resolution biomimetic printing platform (www.nature.com)
PLA2G2D in tumour-draining lymph nodes regulates anti-tumour immunity (www.nature.com)
An operational perturbation proteomics-based virtual cell model (www.nature.com)
Neocortical long-range inhibition promotes cortical synchrony and sleep (www.nature.com)
Within-family effect of ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population (www.nature.com)
Breaking timescales with generative sampling of conformational transitions (www.nature.com)
Highly efficient base editing at PCSK9 and normal human embryo development (www.nature.com)
Drug delivery gets subcellular (www.nature.com)
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A good drug is useless if it misses its target (www.nature.com)
Medicines do no good if people don’t take them (www.nature.com)
Drug-delivering particles aim to breach the blood–brain barrier (www.nature.com)
Special delivery: bacterial couriers are smuggling drugs into cancers (www.nature.com)
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OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’ (www.nature.com)
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DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all 9 billion human gene mutations (www.nature.com)
The World Bank is right to prioritize reproducibility (www.nature.com)
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Author Correction: Contrasting roles of histone 3 lysine 27 demethylases in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (www.nature.com)
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Sideline vested interests to reform China’s research (www.nature.com)
Nepal disaster is a wake-up call to take compound climate risks seriously (www.nature.com)
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Daily briefing: Bunsen burners don’t waft bacteria away from workbenches (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Psilocybin blocks side-effect of chemotherapy in mice (www.nature.com)
Two children died from gene therapies in China: where the field goes next (www.nature.com)
China’s fast-track clinical trials are in the spotlight after child deaths (www.nature.com)
Anthropic AI ‘formalizes’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem in just 11 days (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: AhR inhibition promotes axon regeneration via a stress–growth switch (www.nature.com)
The secret life of a cell-cycle gatekeeper of breast cancer (www.nature.com)
Probing the proteome at cellular scale (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: A mouse brain stereotaxic topographic atlas with isotropic 1-μm resolution (www.nature.com)
Isaac Newton’s remarkable year — and the plagiarism accusations that followed (www.nature.com)
Revealed: inside the US military''s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH (www.nature.com)
Bunsen burners’ reputation for sterilizing workplaces flames out (www.nature.com)
Tropical cyclones could be predicted with an extra day’s warning, thanks to an AI model (www.nature.com)
Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: How 1,000 pairs of buried underpants helped measure soil health (www.nature.com)
CRISPR therapy cuts cholesterol for at least 12 months (www.nature.com)
Super-precise optical clocks in four nations tick in harmony (www.nature.com)
Body parts used for ancient Egyptian artworks traced to surprising source (www.nature.com)
Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes (www.nature.com)
Magic-mushroom compound blocks a severe side effect of chemotherapy, in mice (www.nature.com)
Nations expanding their research programmes impose sweeping penalties for malpractice (www.nature.com)
Ketone homologation via palladium-catalysed decarboxylative rearrangement (www.nature.com)
Immune therapy engineered inside the body eases multiple sclerosis (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: A thrilling hint of dark matter discovery (www.nature.com)
Landmark pancreatic cancer drug shows potential against lung cancer too (www.nature.com)
Anxious or outgoing? Huge study links ‘Big Five’ personality traits to genetic variants (www.nature.com)
Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity (www.nature.com)
Audio long read: Could mending damaged DNA prolong life? (www.nature.com)
Biomarkers that predict improved outcomes after perioperative immune-based therapy for lung cancer (www.nature.com)
Self-driving cars make mistakes, and now users can see why (www.nature.com)
NASA’s Roman telescope holds promise far beyond mapping the invisible Universe (www.nature.com)
Antimatter ‘tag’ used to detect elusive particle decay (www.nature.com)
The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection (www.nature.com)
Can GLP-1 drugs slow ageing? Mouse study shows promise (www.nature.com)
Peruvian ice has preserved a global methane record (www.nature.com)
Aquatic invertebrates contribute substantially to global nutrient supplies (www.nature.com)
Weight-loss drug slows ageing in female mice (www.nature.com)
Blood cells replace the immune cells of the ageing human brain (www.nature.com)
Structure and operating principles of a monkeypox virus replisome (www.nature.com)
Probing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of electrical double layers (www.nature.com)
Intracellular complement factor H protects neurons during CNS inflammation (www.nature.com)
The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods (www.nature.com)
Current therapeutic landscape and future treatment perspectives of MASH (www.nature.com)
Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars (www.nature.com)
Molecular mechanisms and pathogenesis of MASH (www.nature.com)
Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA (www.nature.com)
Pines grow faster and are more drought resilient in the Southern Hemisphere (www.nature.com)
Atmospheric CH4 plateau sustained by NOx emission rise and southward shift (www.nature.com)
Exploring baryon semileptonic decays through polarization and entanglement (www.nature.com)
Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality (www.nature.com)
Late-life semaglutide treatment slows ageing and extends lifespan in female mice (www.nature.com)
Creating bottom-up RNA transfer vehicles from synthetic protein assemblies (www.nature.com)
Designing physics experiments with artificial intelligence (www.nature.com)
Connectome analysis of a cerebellum-like circuit for sensory prediction (www.nature.com)
3D epigenome of glial cell types in developing human cortex (www.nature.com)
Retraction Note: Warming accelerates global drought severity (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: The next generation of lobsters (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Thousand years of coral show El Niños are getting stronger (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood (www.nature.com)
City of slop (www.nature.com)
Author Correction: Signalling thresholds and negative B-cell selection in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (www.nature.com)
When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes (www.nature.com)
Say hello to the next generation of lobsters — August’s best science images (www.nature.com)
Satellite images before Nepal disaster showed warning signs (www.nature.com)
UN finally admits global warming will shoot past 1.5 ºC climate limit (www.nature.com)
Canada recruits dozens of US scholars — including several science stars (www.nature.com)
A guide to emotional intelligence in the lab (www.nature.com)
These greenhouse-gas sources have trotters and snouts (www.nature.com)
A call to celebrate your achievements — from dissertations to tenure (www.nature.com)
Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI (www.nature.com)
Is this the first glimpse of dark matter? Data point excites physicists (www.nature.com)
Charmed by comets (www.nature.com)
My four-step workflow for reading scientific papers (without trying to read them all) (www.nature.com)
From Trojan horses to AI-proof exams: how professors are tackling students’ AI use (www.nature.com)
India has an ambitious plan to lure scientists back — will its plan work? (www.nature.com)
Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? (www.nature.com)
Who is responsible when AI helps to write science? (www.nature.com)
Europe should adapt, not copy, China’s practical PhD (www.nature.com)
The global plastics treaty must account for conflict-driven energy insecurity (www.nature.com)
When AI does science, who is accountable for mistakes? (www.nature.com)
China’s regulatory innovation for new biomedical technologies (www.nature.com)
Why are rich people so pessimistic? What the numbers say (www.nature.com)
Scale of snakebites estimated globally (www.nature.com)
Order from disorder: do we need a new law of physics? (www.nature.com)
What’s your lab’s archetype? The answer could inform how you use AI (www.nature.com)
The leap second is dead. Long live the leap hour? (www.nature.com)
AI models are being used to track zoonotic diseases. Will they prevent the next pandemic? (www.nature.com)
Lift-off! NASA launches Roman Space Telescope to tackle dark-energy mysteries (www.nature.com)
Will Meta’s deal make social media safe for kids? Researchers are dubious (www.nature.com)
The Moderna cancer vaccine offers hope — now we must speed up personalized therapies (www.nature.com)
Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science (www.nature.com)
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities (www.nature.com)
What employers are looking for in the age of AI — and four ways to provide it (www.nature.com)
Mysteries of the deep and AI friendship: Books in brief (www.nature.com)
Why are El Ninos getting stronger? 1000-year-coral record points to climate change (www.nature.com)
The Roman telescope is about to take planet-hunting to the next level (www.nature.com)
‘Robot Olympics’ reveal humanoids'' rapid progress — but hurdles remain (www.nature.com)
Animal-microbe partnerships date back to the dawn of complex life (www.nature.com)
A solution to the mystery of the missing neutrinos (www.nature.com)
Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood — a sign of things to come? (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Celebrating Dolly Parton’s contributions to science (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record (www.nature.com)
Women face bans on research underground — here’s how to modernize the system (www.nature.com)
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science (www.nature.com)
Evolutionary mystery revealed by structures of a key enzyme in the synthesis of glycolipids (www.nature.com)
Savannah grass growth in dry conditions is boosted by increased CO2 levels (www.nature.com)
A practical recycling strategy for making thiophosphate molecules with enzymes (www.nature.com)
Plasma-jet movie is astronomy’s summer blockbuster (www.nature.com)
Spontaneously charged water drops induce corrosion (www.nature.com)
Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single polyatomic molecular ion (www.nature.com)
Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm (www.nature.com)
Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts (www.nature.com)
Primate-specific regulation of the human glycosphingolipid gatekeeper UGCG (www.nature.com)
Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control (www.nature.com)
Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields (www.nature.com)
Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology (www.nature.com)
Critical zone processes limit alkalinity export from natural basaltic systems (www.nature.com)
A binding-to-release strategy for targeted anticancer drug delivery (www.nature.com)
Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean (www.nature.com)
Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy (www.nature.com)
3D bulk-resolved g-wave altermagnetic order parameter in CrSb (www.nature.com)
Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land (www.nature.com)
Cell-type-specific eQTLs underlie the genetic architecture of complex traits (www.nature.com)
Ultrafast and reference-free sequence discovery in single-cell data (www.nature.com)
Systems vaccinology and the architecture of human immunity (www.nature.com)
Insights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes (www.nature.com)
Automated prototyping of genetic codes (www.nature.com)
Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies (www.nature.com)
Does the shingles vaccine cut heart disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link (www.nature.com)
Vaporization trick enables ‘tandem’ solar cells to be made at lower temperatures (www.nature.com)
This pulsating muscle graft mimics benefits of exercise (www.nature.com)
The best-managed industrial waste in history (www.nature.com)
Five highlights from nuclear-power research (www.nature.com)
Harnessing nuclear power for a clean-energy future (www.nature.com)
The push to clear nuclear power’s waste-disposal hurdle (www.nature.com)
Like coffee and ice cream: an interview with Sam and Eli Morten (www.nature.com)
A raft of start-up firms is betting on nuclear fusion (www.nature.com)
The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they really work? (www.nature.com)
South Africa’s ‘registration law’ for scientists could be a template for the world — if the nation gets it right (www.nature.com)
Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety? (www.nature.com)
The 46 companies scrambling to commercialize fusion for energy (www.nature.com)
Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise (www.nature.com)
Can nuclear reactors hit the road? (www.nature.com)
Using nuclear waste to power space missions (www.nature.com)
The brain struggles to make new neurons in people with depression (www.nature.com)
Asthma in some boys stops at puberty: mouse results hint at why (www.nature.com)
More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies (www.nature.com)
AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they? (www.nature.com)
How to manage AI risks while reaping the benefits (www.nature.com)
Ancient surveying instrument found in Egypt (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: How ‘thunderquakes’ probe underground geology (www.nature.com)
Daily briefing: Personalized mRNA vaccine shows promise for cancer (www.nature.com)