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Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00538-wCan mindfulness, meditation and other tools designed to boost well-being make a difference? Adam Levy investigates.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00552-yObjects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00530-4Identifying tumours using blood samples is possible, but researchers are still working out how to validate and deploy multi-cancer tests.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00426-3More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00539-9Crows make a huge number of different sounds; Artificial Intelligence could help us understand what they mean.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00506-4Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast.

Nature, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00555-9Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00528-y‘One-shot’ approach that uses machine learning to screen immune cells could help to detect conditions with overlapping symptoms.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00556-8A motor-neuron condition has been successfully treated in the womb. Plus, how has one month of Donald Trump’s second presidency affected science?

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00207-yTracy Wietecha says the experience swallowed up evenings and weekends, but taught her budgeting, networking and conflict-management skills.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00525-1The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08587-xUsing cryo-electron microscopy, the structures of mammalian fatty acid synthase reveal how the acyl carrier protein dynamically shuttles intermediates between selected active sites.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00534-0The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08789-3Author Correction: The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08782-wStructural dynamics of human fatty acid synthase in the condensing cycle

Nature, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00540-2The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00509-1A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions data.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00535-zWhich universities top the retraction chart? Plus, meet the scientists editing Wikipedia in their spare time.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00244-7Researchers can recognize a reliable source of information, making them ideal contributors to the free global online encyclopaedia.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00510-8Nature is proud to be associated with a new award for women in technology. The world needs more prizes for exceptional researchers and innovators.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08602-1Deterministic generation of a continuous-variable eight-mode entanglement on an integrated optical chip is reported.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08564-wThis Perspective considers the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08590-2We find that, in mice, although the individual loss of Parkin or OMA1 does not affect mitochondrial integrity, their combined loss results in small body size, low locomotor activity,…

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08580-wAdaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning…

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08585-zAs proof of principle, an analysis using a suite of human-aligned immunocompetent mouse models of hepatocellular carcinoma identifies a promising therapeutic candidate, cladribine, which…

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08588-wNutrient-starved tumour cells cooperate by secreting aminopeptidases that digest oligopeptides in the microenvironment, creating a shared pool of free amino acids.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08492-9A new method ‘hypotaxy’ enables wafer-scale, single-crystal transition metal dichalcogenides growth directly on crystalline, lattice-mismatched and amorphous substrates.

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08601-2Reconstitution of recombinantly expressed SPO11–TOP6BL complex recapitulates its DNA cleavage function and together with structural modelling and biochemical experiments, provides…

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00302-0Tumour cells often have problems processing messenger RNA. The finding that these splicing errors result in commonly expressed peptides that are recognized by immune cells offers a…

Nature, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00508-2Developers wanted tools that generate gameplay sequences that adhere to game rules; they say an engine called WHAM delivers.