Light pollution threatens fleet of world-class telescopes in Atacama Desert
Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00397-5
The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments available to astronomers.Daily briefing: Iguanas from the Americas might have rafted to Fiji
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00843-4
Iguanas from the Americas might have rafted 8,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean to Fiji. Plus, that US scientists are being told to avoid mentions of ‘mRNA vaccines’ in NIH grant applications.Food-industry waste finds a second life as bioplastic
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00768-y
The protein keratin, the principle ingredient of wool and feathers, can be repurposed as strong, flexible plastic.Iguanas reached Fiji by floating 8,000 kilometres across the sea
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00767-z
Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00829-2
Some attendees of a packed presentation were curious about the prospect of the first ‘topological’ qubits, but left with questions unanswered.Vaccines save lives. Leaders must champion them
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00789-7
Attacks on vaccines and the cancellation of research into what causes vaccine hesitancy puts people in harm’s way.Structures and mechanism of human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08873-8
Structures and mechanism of human mitochondrial pyruvate carrierAn experiment in mass education using satellite TV
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00805-w
Plans to broadcast TV to villages in India to improve literacy rates, and camels that have settled in the Nevada desert, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00792-y
SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.Catchy, clear, concise: three-part phrases boost research paper citations
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00771-3
Memorable ‘tripartite’ phrases in titles make studies more likely to be read and cited.Governments must stop hoarding climate data
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00790-0
National agencies too often use spurious reasons to deny researchers unfettered access to resources that are key to understanding past and future climate change.Cleaning up space: how satellites and telescopes can live together
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00788-8
Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.Author Correction: Endocytosis in the axon initial segment maintains neuronal polarity
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08837-y
Author Correction: Endocytosis in the axon initial segment maintains neuronal polarityUS disruptions to science could transform global research landscape
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00824-7
US disruptions to science could transform global research landscapeGlobal cooperation is crucial for DeepSeek and broader AI research
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00822-9
Global cooperation is crucial for DeepSeek and broader AI researchAI demands a different approach to education
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00823-8
AI demands a different approach to educationJapan needs a fresh approach to innovation
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00821-w
Japan needs a fresh approach to innovationSpace debris is falling from the skies. We need to tackle this growing danger
Nature, Published online: 18 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00797-7
Why failing to control defunct satellites leaves everyone at risk from their impacts.What’s in store for US science as funding bill averts government shutdown
Nature, Published online: 17 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00827-4
Spending on research, including at the NIH, will see modest cuts this year. But the threat of big reductions in future remain.Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — 20 years since a key discovery
Nature, Published online: 17 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00733-9
The 2005 finding of cells and blood vessels in dinosaur bone launched a systematic search for fossil remnants of biomolecules, creating innovations in methods and applications.