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Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00075-6Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04024-7Ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, displaced academics describe their experiences settling into UK universities.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00070-xA statistician offers a masterful guide to embracing the unknown.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00072-9Children and teenagers bring unique value to research as advisers and participants — raising ethical and practical issues about how best to compensate them.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00076-5Oceanographer Andrea Kealoha studies how the devastating Lahaina wildfire of 2023 affected the coral systems of Maui.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04253-wSurvey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00074-7‘Lab vans’ and other facilities can bring researchers closer to what they study.

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08606-xAuthor Correction: R-loop-dependent promoter-proximal termination ensures genome stability

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00071-wAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00126-yLab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00119-xA mutation in neurons grows for decades before it reaches a deadly limit.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00166-4The science behind urban firestorms, and how to fight them. Plus, how public-health researchers are targeted for focusing on tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00125-zTwo researchers, one with bipolar disorder and ADHD, the other with autism, discuss supportive workplaces, building networks, and how and when to disclose diagnoses.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00132-0The president-elect quickly nominated confidantes with a focus on AI, but their recommendations for the rest of science remain unclear.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00032-3Mice injected with a microRNA molecule lived longer and had fewer markers of ageing, but it’s not yet known if the treatment would work in people.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00042-1Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00133-zMachine learning has supercharged the field of computational protein design.

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00141-zResearch also suggests how to make homes more resilient in the aftermath of deadly blazes in Los Angeles.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04069-8Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08634-7Brain-wide neuronal circuit connectome of human glioblastoma

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00148-6Researchers, governments and others can all play a part in ensuring climate policies remain in the interest of all.

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08628-5A generative model for inorganic materials design

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00163-7Artificial intelligence-designed proteins could block the deadly effects of snake venom. Plus, who are science’s winners and losers under Trump 2.0?

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08438-1After target binding, PIWI proteins undergo a conformational change from ‘open’ to ‘locked’, facilitating base pairing and enhancing target cleavage efficiency, providing insights…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08395-9Comparing T cells in nasal polyps from repeated surgeries shows that effector memory-like persistent clones colonize the mucosal tissue during disease recurrence and promote inflammation…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08424-7Nuclear calcium oscillations initiate plant–arbuscular mycorrhiza and nitrogen-fixing bacteria symbioses for nutrient acquisition, with a newly discovered autoactive CNGC15 mutant…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08403-yThis study demonstrates that cryo nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (CryoNanoSIMS) enables direct multi-elemental imaging at subcellular resolution of macro- and micronutrients or…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08244-9The developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) projects will catalogue and integrate gene expression, regulation and genetics data across 120 human donors from birth to adulthood…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08365-1By engineering an exceptionally controlled environment using rotationally magic optical tweezers, long-lived entanglement between pairs of molecules using detectable hertz-scale…

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08414-9In macaques, motor cortex activity associated with motor learning tasks is reactivated during brief breaks between learning blocks and predicts subsequent performance gains.