NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00756-2
Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.Public-health experts should be more political, not less
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00728-6
Health has always been political, long before Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr took power. Denying this is what’s been killing us.Alcohol and cancer risk: what you need to know
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00729-5
Experts weigh in on the risks of moderate drinking — and how people should assess them.Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00762-4
The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.Fate of pistachio production in Iran holds lessons for the world
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00713-z
Fate of pistachio production in Iran holds lessons for the worldSimilar chiral phenomena occur in cell cultures and human crowds
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00716-w
Similar chiral phenomena occur in cell cultures and human crowdsCOP30 must deliver binding mechanisms to address climate change, not empty promises
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00714-y
COP30 must deliver binding mechanisms to address climate change, not empty promisesFor more reliable AI, academics should edit Wikipedia
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00715-x
For more reliable AI, academics should edit WikipediaHow a vast digital twin of the Yangtze River could prevent flooding in China
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00720-0
A project that intertwines data on weather, water flow and energy demand to create a 3D model of the whole river basin would enable researchers and others to make water-management decisions in real time.Daily briefing: Thousands protest Trump cuts at #StandUpForScience rallies
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00760-6
Thousands of researchers and science supporters in the United States and in Europe protested under the banner of ‘Stand Up for Science’ on Friday. Plus, how ‘resilience’ can mask a toxic lab culture.How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00754-4
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.#ScientistAtWork 2025: <i>Nature</i> is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00673-4
Winners get a cash prize, and will have their image featured in Nature in print and online.I create buildings from mushroom components
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00741-9
Mtamu Kililo creates alternative construction materials to confront Kenya’s housing crisis.Are microplastics bad for your health? More rigorous science is needed
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00702-2
Tiny plastic particles are being found everywhere, including in the human brain. But it is not yet clear which findings can be trusted and what they might mean.Science diplomacy can help to heal global rifts — if research is respected
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00726-8
The universal language of science allows nations to reach a mutual understanding of shared problems. But that requires politicians not to meddle in how science is done.Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00208-x
Making our way through security each week is a slog, but teaching incarcerated people has been an incredible career experience.The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00731-x
From strange beginnings, the 100-year-old Pauli exclusion principle has become a gift that keeps on giving for scientists who aim to understand the workings of matter.Daily briefing: This key protein could be responsible for brain ageing
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00751-7
A key protein that could be responsible for brain ageing. Plus, researchers organize a day of action to #StandUpForScience.The surprising culprit for the loss of huge swathes of tropical forest
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00605-2
Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads take an outsized toll.Who’s likely to wake up from a coma? Brain waves provide a clue
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00606-1
The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.