‘Like a moth to a flame’ — this strange insect behaviour is finally explained
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00261-y
Many explanations have been put forward for insects’ attraction to light, but high tech cameras now suggest a different answer.From the archive: Mendelian inheritance, and an enigmatic echo
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00234-1
Snippets from Nature’s past.Research funders must join the fight for equal access to medicines
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00237-y
Pandemic treaty is a rare opportunity to ensure pandemic-related technologies are accessible and affordable to all.The journey to understand previously unknown microbial genes
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00077-w
The analysis of DNA sequences sheds light on microbial biology, but it is difficult to assess the function of genes that have little or no similarity to characterized genes. Here, scientists discuss this challenge from genomic and microbial perspectives.How to make academic hiring fair: database lists innovative policies
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00273-8
The Reformscape database is designed to inspire university leaders by collecting examples of responsible career assessment.Publisher Correction: The persistence of memory in ionic conduction probed by nonlinear optics
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07124-6
Publisher Correction: The persistence of memory in ionic conduction probed by nonlinear opticsAuthor Correction: Structural evidence for intermediates during O<sub>2</sub> formation in photosystem II
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07099-4
Author Correction: Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem IIAcademia needs radical change — mothers are ready to pave the way
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00239-w
The research system must lose its overly rigid attitude towards career progression — and mothers are uniting to make that happen.Cervical cancer kills 300,000 people a year — here’s how to speed up its elimination
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00241-2
Without rapid change, the World Health Organization’s goals for tackling cervical cancer by 2030 will be missed. Four experts share ways to move the needle.Soil health by 2050: respecting ‘soilscapes’ is the key
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00201-w
Soil health by 2050: respecting ‘soilscapes’ is the keyWhat’s needed to rebuild Saudi Arabia’s research reputation
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00198-2
What’s needed to rebuild Saudi Arabia’s research reputationReaching carbon neutrality requires energy-efficient training of AI
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00200-x
Reaching carbon neutrality requires energy-efficient training of AIBrazil must reverse gear on Amazon road development
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00199-1
Brazil must reverse gear on Amazon road developmentIndian forest act faces challenge in Supreme Court
Nature, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00152-2
Ecologists, bureaucrats and conservationists say India’s amended Forest Conservation Act will reduce biodiversity and harm livelihoods.Daily briefing: Drugs such as Ozempic could help with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00272-9
Anti-obesity drugs’ anti-inflammation effect raises hopes that they could be used to treat diseases characterized by brain inflammation. Plus, a manatee-shaped nebula revealed a source of cosmic rays and poverty’s corrosive effects are also social and psychological.Trump’s presidential push renews fears for US science
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00258-7
If he wins a second term, the former US president has promised to limit the authority of federal agencies and employees, including scientists.‘Wildly weird’ RNA bits discovered infesting the microbes in our guts
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00266-7
Rod-shaped stuctures named ‘Obelisks’ are even smaller than viruses but can still transmit instructions to cells.A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07053-4
A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years agoSigns of ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s seen in people who received growth hormone
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00268-5
The findings support a controversial hypothesis that proteins related to the neurodegenerative disease can be ‘seeded’ in the brain through material taken from cadavers.Mobile atoms enable efficient computation with logical qubits
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00075-y
Small groups of mobile neutral atoms have been manipulated with extraordinary control to form ‘logical’ quantum bits. These qubits can perform quantum computations more reliably than can individual atoms.