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.‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00704-0
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00644-9
Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts ― but are more likely to quit academia altogether.Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08857-8
Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversityRock hunters, tree huggers and taxi drivers: Books in brief
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00718-8
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00383-x
Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.Microsoft quantum computing 'breakthrough' faces fresh challenge
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00683-2
Analysis pokes holes in protocol that underpins Microsoft’s claim to have created the first topological qubits.AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00648-5
Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.Unknown fate of ice-hunting Moon missions leaves scientists in suspense
Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00719-7
The Athena lander seems to be in the wrong orientation ― but some of its science might be salvaged.Daily briefing: The second X chromosome isn’t so silent after all
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00723-x
The US National Institutes of Health are terminating swathes of diversity- and climate-related grants. Plus, the second X chromosome in female cells might explain why women tend to be more resilient to cognitive decline than men.The financial shackling of historically Black universities in the United States
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00481-w
Evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves Jr argues that — now more than ever — the United States should honour its commitments to Black higher education to diversify the science workforce.Trans researchers under attack: LGBTQ+ biologists face hostile work environment
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00609-y
Largest survey of LGBTQ+ biologists finds 40% of trans and gender-nonconforming, and 20% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer researchers, experience hostility, intimidation or offensive behaviour at work.Sensing ceramides by CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 to aggravate atherosclerosis
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08792-8
Sensing ceramides by CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 to aggravate atherosclerosisAncient puppets that smile or scowl hint at shared rituals
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00607-0
Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.Foreign researchers in China face tightening restrictions
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00630-1
Data and security laws are affecting scientists who stayed in China after COVID — but for some it’s still a great place to do research.Trump's nominee for NIH chief talks frozen grants and fostering ‘scientific dissent’
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00694-z
Health economist Jay Bhattacharya, who drew censure for controversial views on COVID-19, vows to provide funding but is short on details.Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00703-1
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.