Nature, Published online: 20 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02708-8 Iran’s presidential election is no breakthrough for reform or for science | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02679-w Building sustainable settlements on the water is a feasible option for climate adaptation, as long as people and ecosystems are protected. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02526-y A decades-long survey of a nearby galaxy has detected signals consistent with ancient black holes that could explain dark matter — but the objects would have to be at least ten times more abundant to support … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02628-7 Former clinical scientist Patrick Vallance speaks to Nature about his priorities as the minister overseeing the nation’s research. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02652-7 Certain spiders take advantage of the fact that a male firefly can flash even after being bitten and wrapped. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02682-1 Geophysicist Natalia Cisternas embarked on a 37-day voyage to document microbes in a low-oxygen region of the Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02681-2 The ERROR project offers researchers a bounty for spotting mistakes in published papers — a strategy borrowed from the software industry. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02611-2 Therapy designed for one seems to have improved a young girl’s quality of life. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02694-x Early results from clinical trial show that the antiviral tecovirimat is no better than placebo against a virus type called clade I. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02556-6 Advances in understanding the causes of the autoimmune disorder could aid in matching people with the right treatment. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 15 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02674-1 In this traumatized region, exploring a rich history of scientific and medical problem-solving provides the context to imagine a better future. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 15 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02696-9 Part of Stonehenge came from far afield, many comatose people are conscious and how ChatGPT can be most useful to scientists. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 15 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02656-3 Many researchers describe public outreach as a labour of love, often carried out in their spare time. But some funders reward these activities. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02592-2 How the brain controls complex movements has been a mystery. Advances in artificial intelligence now make it possible to simulate this process in virtual animals. Comparing activations in artificial control … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07821-2 Supermassive black holes regulate the amount of atomic hydrogen in galaxies and the atomic hydrogen gas mass to stellar masses ratio is more strongly correlated with black hole masses. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07830-1 We find that massive genome expansion seems to be related to a reduction of PIWI-interacting RNAs and C2H2 zinc-finger and KRAB-domain protein genes that suppress transposable element expansion, and lungfish … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07832-z Nitrospira inopinata and probably most other comammox microorganisms can grow on the non-conventional substrate guanidine as the sole source of energy, reductant and nitrogen. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07820-3 How MICL recognizes and autoregulates the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps is explored in mouse models and human patients where disease severity is associated with aberrant neutrophil extracellula … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07818-x By twisting two bilayers of CrSBr, which is a 2D antiferromagnet, a >700% nonvolatile tunnelling magnetoresistance at zero field is shown, demonstrating a new strategy for constructing all-antiferromagnetic … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07759-5 An on-chip topological beamformer for multi-link terahertz 6G to XG wireless communication achieves complete 360° azimuthal beamforming with gains of up to 20 dBi, radiating THz signals into free space with … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07799-x A task in which participants learned to perform inference led to the formation of hippocampal representations whose geometric properties reflected the latent structure of the task, indicating that abstract o … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07808-z Analysis of 46 newly sequenced or re-sequenced Tausch’s goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) accessions establishes the origin of the bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) D genome from genetically and geographically dis … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07791-5 We combined human intestinal immuno-organoids and single-cell transcriptomics to investigate intestinal inflammation triggered by cancer-targeting biologics, which was associated with an activated population … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07652-1 Mineral ages and chemical analysis of fragments of the Altar Stone from the Neolithic stone circle at Stonehenge suggest that it was transported from northeast Scotland, more than 750 km away, probably by se … | Continue reading