Efficient perovskite/silicon tandem with asymmetric self-assembly molecule

Nature, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09333-z Efficient perovskite/silicon tandem with asymmetric self-assembly molecule | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

Nature, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08909-z Author Correction: Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: A worst-case weather scenario drove deadly flooding in Texas

Nature, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02168-8 A maximum in rainfall coinciding with the headwaters of a particularly flash-flood-prone river resulted in deadly flash flooding in Texas on 4 July. Plus, turbocharged ‘killer’ cells that could help treat auto … | Continue reading


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Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely?

Nature, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02069-w The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synthesis. But … | Continue reading


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Celebrating researchers who make the scientific workplace more inclusive

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02147-z Eight scientists who appeared in Nature's Changemaker series are to feature in a forthcoming podcast series. Kendall Powell and Deborah Daley introduce them. | Continue reading


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How breaking the ‘reciprocity law’ could improve green energy

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02020-z A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors. | Continue reading


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Japan requires name change after marriage — with big effects on female scientists

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02081-0 Survey finds law requiring married couples to share the same family name causes havoc for researchers. | Continue reading


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I help to build support systems for Latina researchers

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01959-3 After leaving academia, chemist Daisy Rosas Vargas starting leading outreach to encourage Latina people in pursuit of science careers. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: Neanderthals boiled bones in ‘fat factories’

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02161-1 New evidence suggests that Neanderthals rendered fat from bones to stave off protein poisoning. Plus an interstellar object is about to pass through our Solar System and why some animal mimics aren’t great rep … | Continue reading


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China pours money into brain chips that give paralysed people more control

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02098-5 Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices. | Continue reading


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Audio long read: How to speak to a vaccine sceptic — research reveals what works

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02150-4 In the face of growing vaccine hesitancy levels, studies show there are ways to address people's questions. | Continue reading


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Rise of the planet of the zombie bugs: Books in brief

Nature, Published online: 04 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02145-1 Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. | Continue reading


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‘Tour de force’ experiment probes quantum tunnelling in action

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02110-y Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics. | Continue reading


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Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02141-5 The comet-like body called either C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS is now zipping past Jupiter. | Continue reading


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Poo of farm animals teems with drug-resistance genes

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02021-y A global map reveals the prevalence of thousands of genes that arm pathogens against antibiotics. | Continue reading


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Home medical tests miss the mark

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02106-8 Kits sold directly to consumers to check a variety of health metrics provide little value when it comes to guiding health decisions | Continue reading


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Academic language has become a proxy for European culture wars

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01983-3 Some European governments are rethinking the use of English in universities, exposing tensions between internationalization and national priorities. | Continue reading


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Neanderthals boiled bones in 'fat factories' to enrich their lean diet

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02104-w Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: The first full ancient Egyptian human genome sequence

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02142-4 Teeth from 4,800-year-old remains have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. Plus, the orbit of a ‘clingy’ planet could cause its own demise and how climate change is ravaging the ic … | Continue reading


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How we’re rebuilding the Weizmann Institute — and our hopes for a better future

Nature, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02112-w Scientific research is at the heart of Israel’s success and has worldwide benefits. Our work will continue despite adversity. | Continue reading


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Wherever we go in this system, there we are

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02045-4 A voyage of discovery. | Continue reading


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This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02095-8 The Centaur model goes beyond single tasks and predicts a wide array of human behaviour. | Continue reading


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Viral genomes track the transmission of mpox in humans before 2017 outbreak

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02039-2 An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus emerged in the human population. The study revealed key drivers associated with animal … | Continue reading


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Ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters by machine learning

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09102-y An unconventional machine learning-based inverse design framework enables the generation of ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters with complex 3D architectures and diverse material compositio … | Continue reading


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Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09161-1 A modelling study suggests that Mars had a desert-like climate with intermittent liquid-water oases regulated by a negative feedback among solar luminosity, liquid water and carbonate formation. | Continue reading


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Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09142-4 Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cognitive st … | Continue reading


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PPP2R1A mutations portend improved survival after cancer immunotherapy

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09203-8 Inactivating PPP2R1A mutations correlate with better survival after immune checkpoint blockade in patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma, suggesting that targeting the phosphatase 2A (PP2A) pathway may rep … | Continue reading


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WSTF nuclear autophagy regulates chronic but not acute inflammation

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09234-1 During chronic but not acute inflammation, chromatin remodelling is influenced by nuclear autophagy through WSTF interaction with ATG8 in the nucleus, leading to WSTF nuclear export and its subsequent degradat … | Continue reading


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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09215-4 A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language, even in … | Continue reading


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Close-in planet induces flares on its host star

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09236-z Planet-induced flares on HIP 67522, a 17 million-year-old G dwarf star with two known close-in planets, were detected. | Continue reading


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Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09196-4 Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interacting mice, … | Continue reading


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Rewiring endogenous genes in CAR T cells for tumour-restricted payload delivery

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09212-7 A CRISPR knock-in strategy that uses endogenous gene regulatory mechanisms can engineer ‘armoured’ CAR T cells that secrete proinflammatory cytokines directly within a tumour without causing toxicity, leading … | Continue reading


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Electron flow in hydrogenotrophic methanogens under nickel limitation

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09229-y Two distantly related methanogens shift the methanogenic pathway under nickel limitation, suggesting that methanogens adapt to changing bioavailability of nickel by rerouting electron flow between two differen … | Continue reading


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Hybrid quantum network for sensing in the acoustic frequency range

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09224-3 A hybrid quantum network combining entangled light with an atomic spin ensemble engineered to act as a negative-mass oscillator enables frequency-dependent quantum noise reduction for measurements in the acous … | Continue reading


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Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09189-3 Genome-wide sequencing of 180 ancient individuals shows a continuous gradient of ancestry in Early-to-Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Baltic to the Transbaikal region and distinct contemporaneous groups … | Continue reading


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Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09221-6 The REX element is associated with long-range enhancer–promoter interactions. | Continue reading


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Energy–speed relationship of quantum particles challenges Bohmian mechanics

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09099-4 The study of the relationship between particle speed and negative kinetic energy, arising in regions in which, according to classical mechanics, particles are not allowed to enter, reveals behaviour that appea … | Continue reading


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Trade-offs in aviation impacts on climate favour non-CO2 mitigation

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09198-2 A climate-trade-off risk curve derived from uncertainties in the radiative-forcing components indicates that focusing on reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective than reducing CO2 emiss … | Continue reading


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Mapping and engineering RNA-driven architecture of the multiphase nucleolus

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09207-4 Spatially segregated rRNA processing dictates nucleolar morphology and drives outward progression of pre-ribosomal RNA through nucleolar phases. | Continue reading


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The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7 The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals. | Continue reading


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The mutagenic forces shaping the genomes of lung cancer in never smokers

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09219-0 An analysis of data from the Sherlock-Lung study provides insight into the mutational processes that contribute to lung cancer in never smokers, and looks at the possible role of factors such as air pollution … | Continue reading


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Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09195-5 Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the Old King … | Continue reading


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A mouse brain stereotaxic topographic atlas with isotropic 1-μm resolution

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09211-8 A stereotaxic atlas of the whole mouse brain, based on a Nissl-stained cytoarchitecture dataset with isotropic 1-μm resolution, achieved through continuous micro-optical sectioning tomography, promises to be a … | Continue reading


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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09223-4 A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry. | Continue reading


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Functional amyloid proteins confer defence against predatory bacteria

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09204-7 Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus xanthus in a mechanism that is ind … | Continue reading


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Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09216-3 Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance. | Continue reading


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Stereodivergent transformation of a natural polyester to enantiopure PHAs

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09220-7 Stereoselective synthetic routes use P3HB (a polyester produced by bacteria) as a chiral feedstock for related polymers that have properties more amenable to processing and use. | Continue reading


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Boron-mediated modular assembly of tetrasubstituted alkenes

Nature, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09209-2 A method based on boron-mediated assembly is described for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted alkenes, molecules with four substituents around the central C=C bond, with complete control over the double-bond ge … | Continue reading


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