A forensic investigator of glacier change
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01300-y
Jemma Wadham analyses the ever-changing glaciers of the Arctic.Academia needs a more honest, scientific approach to DEI
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01240-7
Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure progress transparently.My fight to unlock cannabis and psychedelic drugs for use in medical research
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01298-3
Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01296-5
Three books that take on the history of languages have something for everyone.Daily briefing: Bite marks on bones hint that Romans really did fight lions
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01345-z
Marks on a pelvic bone excavated from a gladiator graveyard are the first physical evidence of lion–human combat in the Roman empire. Plus, hundreds of papers use artificial intelligence without disclosing it and how whole-genome sequencing is changing the game for rare genetic diseases.Daily briefing: Fibromyalgia eases after doses of gut microbes
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01332-4
A small trial hints that gut microbes might help treat the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Plus, what it’s like to see a colour no one else has seen and a cri de cœur from a physician who says we are facing a second, preventable wave of the HIV pandemic.Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Nature, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01312-8
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.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.