Science’s golden oldies: the decades-old research papers still heavily cited today
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01126-8
An analysis for Nature reveals the studies that appear most in the reference lists of current publications.These are the most-cited research papers of all time
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01124-w
Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.The fight to keep big tech in check: digital researchers are in ‘David and Goliath’ battle
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01141-9
Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01177-x
To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century
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A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.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
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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
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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
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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.