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I explore the impact of wildfires on Hawaii’s coral reefs

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00076-5

Oceanographer Andrea Kealoha studies how the devastating Lahaina wildfire of 2023 affected the coral systems of Maui.

Paralysed man flies virtual drone using brain implant

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00167-3

Device that links neural signals to fine movements provides unprecedented control over speed and direction in a video-game obstacle course.

Martin Karplus obituary: theoretical chemist who first simulated proteins using molecular dynamics

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00174-4

The Nobel prizewinner used quantum and molecular mechanics to model the dynamics of complex chemical systems.

Obesity drugs: huge study highlights new health risks

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00173-5

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Science on the go: bringing labs into the field

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00074-7

‘Lab vans’ and other facilities can bring researchers closer to what they study.

Author Correction: R-loop-dependent promoter-proximal termination ensures genome stability

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08606-x

Author Correction: R-loop-dependent promoter-proximal termination ensures genome stability

Young people are crucial to research — how can they be paid fairly?

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00072-9

Children and teenagers bring unique value to research as advisers and participants — raising ethical and practical issues about how best to compensate them.

How to navigate uncertainty in an unpredictable world

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00070-x

A statistician offers a masterful guide to embracing the unknown.

Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00075-6

Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.

Sharing is caring and other moving stories: Books in brief

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00071-w

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

How hosting Ukrainian scientists offers a template for supporting other scholars at risk

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04024-7

Ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, displaced academics describe their experiences settling into UK universities.

‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis

Nature Updates - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04253-w

Survey of more than 1,600 biomedical researchers also flagged small sample sizes and cherry-picking of data as leading causes of reproducibility problems.

Daily briefing: The brickbats hurled at scientists researching tobacco’s harms

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00166-4

The science behind urban firestorms, and how to fight them. Plus, how public-health researchers are targeted for focusing on tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods.

RNA molecule rejuvenates ageing mice by restoring old cells

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00032-3

Mice injected with a microRNA molecule lived longer and had fewer markers of ageing, but it’s not yet known if the treatment would work in people.

Trump’s science advisers: how they could influence his second presidency

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00132-0

The president-elect quickly nominated confidantes with a focus on AI, but their recommendations for the rest of science remain unclear.

Revealed: Why the fatal Huntington’s gene takes so long to cause harm

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00119-x

A mutation in neurons grows for decades before it reaches a deadly limit.

<b>How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours</b>

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00126-y

Lab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response.

How to be a brilliant ally to your neurodivergent lab mate

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00125-z

Two researchers, one with bipolar disorder and ADHD, the other with autism, discuss supportive workplaces, building networks, and how and when to disclose diagnoses.

Mines for a clean-energy metal have a surprise climate effect

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00042-1

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

<b>Urban </b><b>‘firestorms’: the science behind their ferocious spread</b>

Nature Updates - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00141-z

Research also suggests how to make homes more resilient in the aftermath of California’s deadly blazes.