<b>Chaos erupts in US science as Trump</b><b>’s team declares freeze on federal grants</b>
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00266-1
The freeze’s effect on research is still unclear, but scientists fear ‘incalculable’ damage.Author Correction: An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase formed by TERT and the <i>RMRP</i> RNA
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08559-7
Author Correction: An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase formed by TERT and the RMRP RNAAuthor Correction: Lithocholic acid phenocopies anti-ageing effects of calorie restriction
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08693-w
Author Correction: Lithocholic acid phenocopies anti-ageing effects of calorie restrictionNectar-robbing bees commit floral larceny
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00063-w
Our weekly dip into Nature’s archive features progress in radiotherapy for cancer treatment a century ago, and bumblebees cheating to beat their competition.James Fraser Stoddart obituary: chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00221-0
An early love of construction toys led the Scottish chemist to thread molecules together, opening up a new field of chemistry.Humanity needs to diversify its lithium sources
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00213-0
The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting better at finding, extracting and processing it.Author Correction: Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftment
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08566-8
Author Correction: Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftmentDid giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America?
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00216-x
Researchers are investigating who — or what — cut ancient tunnels in sandstone in Brazil and nearby nations.Breaking up clusters of circulating tumour cells to halt cancer spread
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00251-8
A drug that limits the clustering of malignant breast-cancer cells that are moving through the bloodstream to distant organs might open avenues to block the lethal spread of a tumour.Why more drilling doesn’t need to mean more harm to the environment
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00215-y
Looking at energy systems from resource extraction to end-use, not just individual components, can help.Author Correction: Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08679-8
Author Correction: Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age BritainCanada’s postgraduate funding gap is still yawning even after budget increases
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00254-5
Canada’s postgraduate funding gap is still yawning even after budget increasesIndustrial projects in Chile threaten clear views of the Universe
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00252-7
Industrial projects in Chile threaten clear views of the UniverseIndia’s ‘One Nation’ publishing agreement is transformational — but beware inequities
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00255-4
India’s ‘One Nation’ publishing agreement is transformational — but beware inequitiesNo parent–child conflicts about when young cichlid fish leave home
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00156-6
Behavioural experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish reveal evolutionary adaptations in parents and offspring that control the timing of emergence from the nest.Withdrawing funds from US vaccination programmes will worsen crisis of trust in public-health science
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00253-6
Withdrawing funds from US vaccination programmes will worsen crisis of trust in public-health scienceWhy farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00222-z
How a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy.Our remote fieldwork taught us how to band together as scientists
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03972-4
Three early-career researchers thrown together on Sable Island, a treeless island in the North Atlantic, think others can learn from their experiences.Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa
Nature, Published online: 28 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00182-4
Analyses of 45,000-year-old bones from Europe allow scientists to pin down when modern humans interbred with Neanderthals, shedding light on the histories of populations with no present-day descendants.Daily briefing: How a boy from the Bronx unearthed the workings of the Universe
Nature, Published online: 27 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00261-6
Discover how to craft the perfect ‘cold e-mail’ job application. Plus, the swashbuckling memoir of physicist Steven Weinberg.