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Quantum technologies need big investments to deliver on their big promises

Nature Updates - Wed, 26/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00564-8

Sustained investments can deliver quantum devices that handle more information, more rapidly and more securely than can classical ones.

Trump officials bar US climate team from global talks

Nature Updates - Wed, 26/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00596-0

A NASA climate scientist is banned from an international meeting, and the agency shuts down a team supporting production of the next global climate asessment.

Daily briefing: Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00598-y

A junk-food splurge can change your brain activity. Plus, hear from US postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science.

My experience of speaking at a conference with a baby

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00281-2

Hannah Chance spent a day during her parental leave telling a group of postdocs about her science-policy work. Aidan, aged six months, came along too.

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00562-w

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Author Correction: Neutralizing GDF-15 can overcome anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 resistance in solid tumours

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08827-0

Author Correction: Neutralizing GDF-15 can overcome anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 resistance in solid tumours

Author Correction: A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08826-1

Author Correction: A comprehensive spatio-cellular map of the human hypothalamus

How to develop a good writing style

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00465-w

Tips for clear scientific communication, and news of efforts to kill the larvae that cause river blindness, in this week’s pick from Nature’s archive.

Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00563-9

A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.

How quickly are you ageing? What molecular ‘clocks’ can tell you about your health

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00566-6

Armed with an influx of cash and public enthusiasm, researchers are looking to improve how ageing is measured.

PhD scientists who forged a career off the beaten track

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00569-3

These seven scientists escaped big-city life after completing their PhDs. Here’s how they make it work.

Sharing benefits of research is key to effective science communication

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00586-2

Sharing benefits of research is key to effective science communication

Other countries should copy Nepal’s approach to tackling cervical cancer

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00589-z

Other countries should copy Nepal’s approach to tackling cervical cancer

National climate policies must address mental health

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00587-1

National climate policies must address mental health

China’s low-altitude economy needs to grow with more caution

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00588-0

China’s low-altitude economy needs to grow with more caution

We use 30 billion tonnes of concrete each year — here’s how to make it sustainable

Nature Updates - Tue, 25/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 25 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00568-4

Promising methods are emerging to reduce emissions, resource use and waste from construction industries.

Daily briefing: What science photos do that AI-generated images can’t

Nature Updates - Mon, 24/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 24 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00591-5

Breast cancer is on the rise, and people in low- and middle-income countries face the heaviest burden. Plus, what science photography does that AI-generated images can’t.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

Nature Updates - Mon, 24/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 24 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00550-0

As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

Author Correction: The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial

Nature Updates - Mon, 24/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 24 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08806-5

Author Correction: The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial

Chasing wildcats with my daughter

Nature Updates - Mon, 24/02/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 24 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00570-w

Mariola Sánchez-Cerdá works to track the elusive European wildcat’s movements and habits.