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Exclusive: a <i>Nature</i> analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain

Nature Updates - Tue, 22/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 22 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01216-7

A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

Sexual harassment thrives in silence, even in gender-equality hotspots

Nature Updates - Tue, 22/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 22 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01182-0

‘There are no model countries’ when it comes to creating environments that encourage victims of sexual harassment to come forward, shows a study of one Swedish university.

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Nature Updates - Tue, 22/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 22 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01241-6

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

How India rewrote the rules of space travel when it launched its first satellite

Nature Updates - Mon, 21/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 21 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01235-4

Fifty years ago, a spacecraft designed and built by young Indian scientists redefined what a low-income country could achieve.

Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser

Nature Updates - Fri, 18/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 18 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01252-3

The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants.

Daily briefing: The biggest single piece of meat ever grown in the lab

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01276-9

A nugget-sized chunk of chicken is the biggest single piece of lab-grown meat to date. Plus, the up-and-coming world of stem-cell therapies and how cuts to US foreign aid could cause millions of deaths by 2040.

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01263-0

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Signs of life on a distant planet? Not so fast, say these astronomers

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01264-z

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

Author Correction: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08977-1

Author Correction: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes

Microplastic pollution found in insect casing from 1971

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01265-y

Freshwater insects used ‘microplastic’ as a building material long before scientists coined the term.

Sowing solutions: my quest to save Kenya’s maize from a devastating invader

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01242-5

Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security.

Martian rock hints at ancient dense atmosphere

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01255-0

Carbonate mineral is long-sought evidence of conditions that supported liquid water.

Whole-genome sequencing susses out rare diseases

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01014-1

Conventional tests that look only at a small subset of genetic code often miss variations hiding outside the protein-coding genome.

‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01245-2

Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.

Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01198-6

Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01191-z

Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of foreign-aid cuts.

Why politicians manipulate statistics — and what to do about it

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01234-5

Understanding the playbook that those in power use to twist numbers, and how they make others complicit, is only becoming more important in the post-truth world.

The lunatic is on the grass: Books in brief

Nature Updates - Thu, 17/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01232-7

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Daily briefing: The first colossal squid caught on camera in its natural habitat

Nature Updates - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01258-x

Scientists have captured a colossal squid in the deep sea for the first time. Plus, crows have surprising geometry skills and the world now has a plan in place for pandemics.

What a trove of potato genomes reveals about the humble spud

Nature Updates - Wed, 16/04/2025 - 00:00

Nature, Published online: 16 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01247-0

Potato ‘pangenome’ could allow easier sequencing of new varieties — plus, a Nature analysis reveals the most cited paper written in the twenty-first century.