Nature, Published online: 01 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04114-0More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run through what to look out for over the next 12 months. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04021-4Stacking light-generating layers in ‘tandem’ light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can enhance performance, but achieving efficient and stable tandem LEDs made with perovskite materials has remained a challenge. A t … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03982-wA model quantifies the environmental footprint of wearable health-care electronics and identifies strategies to reduce their environmental toll. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09819-wAn integrated systems engineering framework based on life-cycle inventories is used to quantify the global eco-footprint of wearable healthcare electronics and identify effective mitigation strategies. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09864-5Fermionic currents of opposing chirality can be spatially filtered without the need for a magnetic field using the quantum geometry of topological bands in single-crystal PdGa. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 30 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04100-6Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 30 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03989-3Privacy in the age of computers and a Nature reader questions eyewitness accounts of boomerangs in our weekly dip into the archive. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04105-1Buse Tuğba Zaman is developing a way to track tiny amounts of contaminants — and fulfilled a dream to visit Earth’s most remote continent. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04101-5If you’ve hatched a New Year plan to move abroad, improve your presentations or chase happiness as a 20-something researcher, you’ll find advice aplenty in these books. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04106-0AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04068-3Vernon Morris inspires change in the geoscience community by calling on colleagues to commit to anti-racism in their scientific endeavours. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04120-2Can you spot the penguin in every game this year? | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10058-2NAC controls nascent chain fate through tunnel sensing and chaperone action | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10022-0Author Correction: Cryo-EM structure of a natural RNA nanocage | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04032-1Tools fail to identify most AI-generated peer-review reports, say researchers, who warn that the issue is only getting worse. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04065-6From astrophysics to genetics, climate change to materials science — the News & Views team talk about some of their science highlights of 2025. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 18 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04060-xWith so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 18 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03810-1Unexpected behaviours in G proteins could be exploited to design next-generation opioid drugs that provide stronger, longer-lasting pain relief. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 18 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04078-1Some cycads warm up their reproductive organs to attract specially equipped pollinating beetles in the dark. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04079-0Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03606-3Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03608-1Scientists are deploying an array of technologies that are making a vaccine against all varieties of influenza seem more achievable. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03602-7Avian influenza is sweeping the globe and infecting dozens of species. Advocates of an approach called One Health are calling for broad surveillance of wildlife, livestock and pets. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03607-2The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history. | Continue reading