This is <i>not</i> the new colour that scientists have created
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01319-1
Firing tiny doses of laser light into people’s eyes allowed them to perceive a never-seen-before hue.My ‘woke DEI’ grant has been flagged for scrutiny. Where do I go from here?
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01218-5
My work in making artificial intelligence fair has been noticed by US officials intent on ending ‘class warfare propaganda’.‘Tatooine’-like planet orbits two stars ― but at a weird angle
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01272-z
Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown dwarfs.Audio long read: Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01310-w
While researchers agree that adolescents are struggling with mental health, there is fierce debate about how much technology is to blame.Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01266-x
Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.Daily briefing: Ancient Phoenicians spread their culture — but not their DNA
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01315-5
People from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners. Plus, Mendel’s last pea plant mysteries have finally been solved and an origami-inspired material can make ‘dancing’ robots.How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01289-4
Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.Major European institutes join race to save US science data
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01309-3
As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.How Democrats and Republicans cite science: study reveals stark differences
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01311-9
Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing counterparts.Editorial Expression of Concern: Essential roles of PI(3)K–p110β in cell growth, metabolism and tumorigenesis
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09026-7
Editorial Expression of Concern: Essential roles of PI(3)K–p110β in cell growth, metabolism and tumorigenesisEditorial Expression of Concern: A melanocyte lineage program confers resistance to MAP kinase pathway inhibition
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09027-6
Editorial Expression of Concern: A melanocyte lineage program confers resistance to MAP kinase pathway inhibitionScience sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01180-2
Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a trace.Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01297-4
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.Baffling chronic pain eases after doses of gut microbes
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01290-x
A small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.Parkinson’s gut-microbiota links raise treatment possibilities
Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01253-2
The relationship between pathology in the brain and alterations in the gut microbiome could lead to therapies — even if it’s not clear which changes come first.Daily briefing: Sea-turtle conservation is working
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01293-8
Endangered sea turtle populations are bouncing back around the world — but there are still significant challenges. Plus, chimpanzees like to share fermented fruit and three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky.A front-line antiviral drug disappoints against worrisome monkeypox strain
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01268-9
Tecovirimat, which has been approved to treat mpox, was no better than a placebo in a large trial.Why US police shootings are so deadly ― and why some police forces do better
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01271-0
Two studies show the extent of gunshot wounds inflicted by police and link certain police-department policies with a lower death toll.Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09029-4
Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotionGeographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09025-8
Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer