Richard Fortey obituary: palaeontologist, author and TV presenter who traced continents through fossils
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08982-4
Prdm16-dependent antigen-presenting cells induce tolerance to gut antigensUnderstanding bones from the remote wilderness of Wyoming
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.