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Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 07 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08857-8

Author Correction: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity

Rock hunters, tree huggers and taxi drivers: Books in brief

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

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?

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Fri, 07/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08792-8

Sensing ceramides by CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 to aggravate atherosclerosis

Ancient puppets that smile or scowl hint at shared rituals

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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’

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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

Thu, 06/03/2025 - 00:00

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.

Daily briefing: PubMed blackout stokes fears about database’s future

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00711-1

A temporary blackout of PubMed has researchers concerned over the database’s future. Plus, a bird’s nest offers a time capsule of plastic rubbish.

Vision: protecting and restoring a prized sense

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00653-8

The scale of work to improve therapies for eye disease reflects the importance people place on sight.

A super-gel stays supple from –115 ℃ to 143 ℃

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00604-3

A network of two polymers plus sulfuric acid allows a hydrogel to keep its elasticity and softness at extreme temperatures.

Superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral graphene

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08621-y

Rhombohedral tetralayer graphene aligned to a hexagonal boron nitride substrate hosts gate-tunable superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall states, and thermodynamic compressibility measurements further show a fractional Chern insulator at zero magnetic field, paving the way for new hybrid interfaces between superconductors and topological edge states.

Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA<sub>2</sub> suppression of T cell immunity

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08626-7

Inhibition of cyclooxygenase 1 releases T cells from immunosuppression by platelet-derived thromboxane A2, thereby enhancing the immune response against metastasis.

Homogeneous ZnSeTeS quantum dots for efficient and stable pure-blue LEDs

Wed, 05/03/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 05 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08645-4

By suppressing compositional heterogeneities in cadmium-free quantum dots, environmentally friendly pure-blue-light-emitting diodes with enhanced efficiencies, lifetimes and spectral purity are achieved, rivalling state-of-the-art cadmium-based blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes.