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Magnetically and optically active edges in phosphorene nanoribbons
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08563-x
Phosphorene nanoribbons demonstrate extraordinary magnetic properties, ranging from large internal fields in films to macroscopic alignment in solution, which can be coupled to photoexcitations that localize to the magnetic edge of these ribbons.Hepatic stellate cells control liver zonation, size and functions via R-spondin 3
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08677-w
Hepatic stellate cells regulate hepatocyte functions via R-spondin 3.Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08705-9
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to represent patterns of social interaction.Structure and mechanism of the plastid/parasite ATP/ADP translocator
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08743-3
ATP/ADP translocators in obligate intracellular parasites and plastids facilitate energy parasitism and endosymbiosis by mediating ATP import and ADP export, with their cryo-EM structures and mechanisms revealed, providing insights for drug development against intracellular pathogens.Spatial immune scoring system predicts hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08668-x
A publicly accessible tool—the TIMES score—for predicting the risk of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma is revealed, providing mechanistic insights into the prognostic patterns for hepatocellular carcinoma.Increasing hourly heavy rainfall in Austria reflected in flood changes
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08647-2
Long-term increases in heavy daily and hourly precipitation in Austria from different climatic mechanisms emphasize the need for flood management adaptation, especially in smaller catchments affected by the increased hourly rainfall.Unconventional magnons in collinear magnets dictated by spin space groups
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08715-7
Spin space group theory is applied to identify more than 200 collinear magnets with unconventional magnons; high-throughput calculations with spin–orbit coupling find that most of these unconventional magnets are dictated by the Heisenberg exchange interaction.High continuity of forager ancestry in the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghreb
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08699-4
Ancient DNA from the eastern Maghreb (Tunisia and Algeria) dating between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago shows that this region was far less affected by external gene flow than the rest of the Neolithic Mediterranean, including not only Europe but also the western Maghreb (Morocco).Sliding and healing of frictional interfaces that appear stationary
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08673-0
Digital image correlation measurements show that nominally stationary interfaces subjected to constant shear and normal loads are sliding at extremely small rates, confirming the predictions of rate-and-state friction formulations.Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08694-9
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term learning of its song.An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08666-z
An optical parametric amplifier based on integrated photonic circuits fabricated using low-loss gallium phosphide-on-silicon dioxide demonstrates improved bandwidth and gain performance over state-of-the-art erbium-doped fibre amplifiers while maintaining a low noise figure.Liver cancer recurrence predicted by immune-cell location and gene expression
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00734-8
Immune cells called natural killer cells can target and eliminate tumours. The gene expression and spatial distribution of the immune cells in the tumour microenvironment indicates whether liver cancer will recur after surgery.An archaic European face more than one million years old
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00678-z
The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave site near Burgos, northern Spain, and dates to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago. Its discovery enables the exploration of the facial features of early Europeans and enhances our understanding of the evolutionary history of European ancestors.So you’ve made a lab website. What should go on it?
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00287-w
William Mills aims to make the website for his laboratory more than just a channel for promoting publications and research projects to the outside world.Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00763-3
Tiny anvil squeezes metal atoms into super-thin sheets with strange properties.Immune molecule links COVID‑19 with severe inflammatory disorder in children
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00735-7
The immune molecule TGFβ has been found to weaken immune defences against latent viruses, triggering reactivation of the Epstein–Barr virus. This mechanism links TGFβ release in SARS-CoV-2 infection to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, and could inform the development of therapies for managing this serious condition.Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00778-w
The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.The brain’s building blocks for understanding social interactions
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00738-4
The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example, how they work together or compete. Each basis function specifies part of an interaction pattern, and combinations of them specify complex interactions.An operating system for networked quantum computers is a huge practical step forward
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00547-9
Quantum computers have gained the powerful abstractions that allow programmers of classical computers to design and integrate new apps and hardware, and connect devices into networks with ease.Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa
Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00764-2
Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.