Daily briefing: The mysterious force pushing galaxies apart might be getting weaker
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00857-y
Mysterious ‘dark energy’ — thought to be a cosmological constant — might have weakened over billions of years. Plus, skin immune cells form their own ‘bandage’ around wounds and how astronomers are tackling the growing problem of satellite pollution.Trump team ‘survey’ sent to overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fears
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00850-5
The document asks US-funded scientists in Australia, the UK and the EU to declare links to China or projects on diversity, equity and inclusion.Author Correction: Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac niches
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08886-3
Author Correction: Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac nichesBabies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years?
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00855-0
MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.Bulk superconductivity near 40 K in hole-doped SmNiO<sub>2</sub> at ambient pressure
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08893-4
Bulk superconductivity near 40 K in hole-doped SmNiO2 at ambient pressureEnd-to-end data-driven weather prediction
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08897-0
End-to-end data-driven weather predictionAuthor Correction: Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08836-z
Author Correction: Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeTHow ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers
Nature, Published online: 20 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00593-3
Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.Daily briefing: About 1% of children have genetic paternity other than that recorded by history
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00851-4
A proposed green energy plant in the Chilean desert threatens the dark skies over some of the world’s most powerful telescopes. Plus, around 1% percentage of children have genetic paternity other than that in family records.Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00837-2
Physicists had long assumed that the elusive force has constant strength. But the latest results from a project to map the Universe’s expansion challenge this idea.Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00847-0
Experiments suggest that an unusual magnetic material can help harness energy from the planet’s rotation. But not everyone is convinced.Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all?
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00710-2
Through the ‘subscribe to open’ model, libraries’ annual subscriptions ensure that paywalled journals become freely accessible, benefiting researchers and the public alike.Asia leads rise in clean-energy research
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00744-6
Insights from the Nature Index show that the boom in research related to affordable and clean energy is not a global trend.Why humans have puzzle-shaped cells
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00846-1
The specialized cells that let lymph leak (and why that's a good thing)World’s tiniest LED display has pixels smaller than a virus
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00813-w
See images of another tiny display with pixels the size of a human hair.Downscaling micro- and nano-perovskite LEDs
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08685-w
A process based on perovskite semiconductors is described to downscale micro-LEDs and nano-LEDs to below the conventional size limits, demonstrating average external quantum efficiencies maintained at around 20% across a wide range of pixel lengths.Fluctuating magnetism and Pomeranchuk effect in multilayer graphene
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08725-5
Itinerant magnetism in rhombohedral multilayer graphene shows a large excess entropy from magnetic fluctuations above its critical temperature—typically only associated with local moments—which implies the decoupling of charge and isospin degrees of freedom, and results in the isospin Pomeranchuk effect.Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08777-7
Genomic evolutionary rates are decomposed to identify the dominant lineages and genes driving rate variation across the phylogeny of birds.Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08692-x
Under field conditions, acquisitive tree species generally grow slowly, whereas conservative species show generally higher realized growth, owing to their ability to tolerate unfavourable environmental conditions.A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08678-9
Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.