The use of AI in peer review could undermine science
Nature, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01327-1
The use of AI in peer review could undermine sciencePreserve access to crucial climate data
Nature, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01328-0
Preserve access to crucial climate dataDebris from rockets is polluting the Caribbean
Nature, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01330-6
Debris from rockets is polluting the CaribbeanThe do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Nature, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01299-2
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.‘Fear extinction’ signal in mouse brain offers clues about how to treat PTSD
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01331-5
Mechanism involving neurons that stimulate fear, and ones that suppress it, could help to explain conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.Microbial molecule of ageing gut nudges blood stem cells towards cancer
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01137-5
The risk of developing blood cancer increases with age. The finding that a molecule from gut bacteria plays a part points to new ways to intervene.Publisher Correction: irCLIP-RNP and Re-CLIP reveal patterns of dynamic protein assemblies on RNA
Nature, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09055-2
Publisher Correction: irCLIP-RNP and Re-CLIP reveal patterns of dynamic protein assemblies on RNAA 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.