Walking in two worlds: how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened…
Thu 8:00pm By Amanda HeidtNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01354-yMichael Running Wolf leads artificial-intelligence initiatives to revive lost languages and empower Indigenous people.Blood of man who’s had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom
Thu 8:00pm By Katherine BourzacNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01325-3Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns.Star ecologist ‘blurred boundaries’ in lab — but colleagues criticize investigation
Thu 8:00pm By Holly ElseNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01363-xA report into Thomas Crowther’s conduct at ETH Zurich finds that the professor breached some internal rules, but clears him of misusing funds.Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?
Thu 8:00pm By Alexandra WitzeNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01395-3Scientists working on disrupted national climate and nature assessments aren’t giving up.AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life
Thu 8:00pm By Celeste BieverNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01364-wThe collaborative system generated more than 100 hypotheses relating to the origins of life in the Universe.Searching for dark photons in the Sun’s atmosphere
Thu 8:00pm By Katherine SkipperNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01335-1Satellite observations of solar radiation have narrowed down the possible properties of dark photons — a proposed dark-matter particle.Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Thu 8:00pm By Jeff TollefsonNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01397-1Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.Fungus from the human gut slows liver disease in mice
Thu 8:00pm By Rita AksenfeldNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01360-0The disease affects almost one-third of adults and treatments are limited.Author Correction: Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience…
Thu 8:00pm By Flavio DonatoNature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09084-xAuthor Correction: Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learningDaily briefing: A supersingular elliptic curve brought to life — the month’s best science images
Wed 8:00pm By Jacob SmithNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01400-9Marvel at the month’s best science images. Plus, how a high-fibre diet was able to fix a disrupted mouse gut microbiome and an Indigenous American tribe who’ve forged an unprecedented…Revealed: the unusual mathematics that gives rose petals their shape
Wed 8:00pm By Davide CastelvecchiNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01394-4The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature.Why the green-technology race might not save the planet
Wed 8:00pm By Edward BarbierNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01352-0The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.Whale earwax, fungal fertilizer and chocolate emissions: exhibition explores biodiversity research
Wed 8:00pm By Chris SimmsNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01351-1The Natural History Museum’s new gallery, Fixing our Broken Planet, examines Earth’s changing ecosystems and how to protect them.Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
Wed 8:00pm By Dan GaristoNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01396-2US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.Powerful protein editors offer new ways of probing living cells
Wed 8:00pm By Asher MullardNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01358-8Scientists deploy self-splicing protein subunits to insert strange new additions into target proteins.Storm of seizures in a baby’s brain calms after trial therapy
Wed 8:00pmNature, Published online: 01 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01322-6The treatment, which aimed to block production of a mutant protein, reduced the frequency of infant’s seizures, but did not improve neurological impairments.An asymmetric fission island driven by shell effects in light fragments
Tue 8:00pm By P. MorfouaceNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08882-7Measurements of fission fragments for 100 fissioning systems are used to map an asymmetric fission island, providing evidence for the role played by the deformation induced by a closed…Serotonin and neurotensin inputs in the vCA1 dictate opposing social valence
Tue 8:00pm By Julia M. ZorabNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08809-2Aversive and rewarding social experiences are linked to conspecific identity through converging dorsal raphe 5-HT and paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus neurotensin signals in the vCA1…Using life cycle assessment to drive innovation for sustainable cool clouds
Tue 8:00pm By Husam AlissaNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08832-3A life cycle assessment study is used to examine the impacts of advanced cooling technologies on cloud infrastructure, from virtual machines to server architecture, data centre buildings…Pacific hotspots reveal a Louisville–Ontong Java Nui tectonic link
Tue 8:00pm By J. G. KonterNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08889-0Geochemistry and geochronology show that Samoa and Rurutu–Arago are the longest-lived Pacific hotspots, providing better constraints on plate rotation and support for a link between the…Metal-cored molecule is the first of its kind
Tue 8:00pm By Rebecca MusgraveNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01135-7A new class of organometallic compound has been made that has a distinctive geometry and electronic structure — with potential for catalysis and materials science.Indigenous American tribe’s ancestral history confirmed by genomes
Tue 8:00pmNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01304-8Ancient and present-day genomes from members of the Indigenous American tribe Picuris Pueblo in the US Southwest show genetic continuity with Ancestral Pueblo individuals from the Chaco…A DNA-gated molecular guard controls bacterial Hailong anti-phage defence
Tue 8:00pm By Joel M. J. TanNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09058-zA DNA-gated molecular guard controls bacterial Hailong anti-phage defenceInflammatory bowel disease has stages of epidemiology that can be tracked across global regions
Tue 8:00pmNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01301-xThe spatio-temporal evolution of inflammatory bowel disease across the world follows four epidemiological stages: emergence, acceleration in incidence, compounding prevalence and prevalence…Did a tardigrade get the world’s tiniest tattoo? April’s best science images
Tue 8:00pm By Emma StoyeNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01320-8The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.A MERS-CoV-like mink coronavirus uses ACE2 as entry receptor
Tue 8:00pm By Ningning WangNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09007-wA MERS-CoV-like mink coronavirus uses ACE2 as entry receptorTrump team’s science cuts threaten tenure hopes for early-career academics
Tue 8:00pm By Laura DattaroNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01267-wAs funding dries up, US universities will need to reconsider traditional tenure requirements.The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
Tue 8:00pm By Benjamin ThompsonNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01381-9In the face of massive upheaval, what is the long-term outlook for science in the US and beyond?The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean
Tue 8:00pm By Shiye ZhaoNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08818-1Global data collected between 2014 and 2024 provide insights into the distribution and potential transport mechanisms of subsurface microplastics throughout the oceanic water column.Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic
Tue 8:00pm By Mariana García CriadoNature, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08946-8Warming temperatures and interactions between plants are the main drivers of changes in Arctic plant communities in response to climate change, and there is no evidence of overall biotic…
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