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Richard Fortey obituary: palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01231-8

The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

Twenty years of genome-wide association studies

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01128-6

A powerful and unbiased way to identify links between genetic variants and biological traits has changed scientists’ understanding of complex diseases and how to treat them.

Should I return to my home country after my PhD abroad?

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01147-3

A graduate student from southeast Asia, now based in a European country and missing her homeland, agonizes over her next career move.

Lung signals drive cancer-associated blood clots

Nature Updates - Tue, 15/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01130-y

Fatal blood clots can arise in people who have cancer. The discovery of a cue that underlies these clots offers a therapeutic target and a way to assess clot risk.

Daily briefing: Five lawsuits have been filed in response to NIH cuts — what now?

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01222-9

Scientific bodies, academics and state attorneys have filed five lawsuits against the US National Institutes of Health, with more likely to follow. Plus, physicists have a new estimate for the maximum mass of a neutrino and a planet was spotted falling into its host star.

Five key climate and space projects on Trump’s chopping block

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01217-6

Leaked budget documents indicate which research programmes are at risk of being defunded in 2026.

Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08982-4

Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigens

Understanding bones from the remote wilderness of Wyoming

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01148-2

Digging in overlooked regions has opened up a world of discovery for palaeontologist David Lovelace.

Radical approach to shrink particle colliders gains momentum

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01181-1

Plans are taking off to use an unconventional technique to accelerate particles in a future collider.

AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01214-9

A prototype wearable system uses machine-learning to guide users around obstacles.

Dear US researchers: break the outrage addiction. I survived the besieging of science. So can you

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00943-1

As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm.

The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01145-5

More Everything Forever dissects the techno-utopian vision gripping Silicon Valley and Washington DC.

Five years on: how Brexit changed three scientists’ careers

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00858-x

How did the United Kingdom’s formal departure from the European Union in January 2020 affect scientists who had moved there from mainland Europe?

How the United States became a science superpower — and how quickly it could crumble

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01146-4

US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth.

‘I’m touching space’: the fascinating insights meteorites can bring us

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01144-6

Two books discuss how these space rocks are entwined with science, commerce, policy and life.

How a ‘boring administrative task’ transformed my PhD career

Nature Updates - Mon, 14/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00944-0

Good ideas — and impactful tools — don’t just come from rich, Western nations, says Aleksandra Lazić, a social scientist in Serbia.

Daily briefing: Mysterious Taiwan fossil is Denisovan

Nature Updates - Fri, 11/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01213-w

A fossilized jawbone discovered more than 20 years ago belonged to a Denisovan. Plus, the states hit hardest by NIH cuts in charts and an acoustics lab inside an abandoned nuclear plant.

NIH cuts triggered a host of lawsuits: <i>Nature’</i>s guide to what’s next

Nature Updates - Fri, 11/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01192-y

A host of legal claims aim to roll back the Trump administration’s grant terminations, indirect-cost cap and more.

Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA

Nature Updates - Fri, 11/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01108-w

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Liquids in a glass recover a graceful shape even after being shaken

Nature Updates - Fri, 11/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01109-9

Oil and water contained in a cylinder with magnetic nickel particles form the shape of a Grecian urn.