Nature, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02549-5 Basic neuroscience is integral to transgender people’s health care | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02443-0 Pupil and teacher characteristics underpinning successful physics classes, and the astronomical appeal of planetarium light shows, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 06 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02368-8 Device allowing the user to control a computer cursor with thought has been adjusted in a bid to prevent glitches with the first implant. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02541-z The fast-growing discipline needs more scientists from under-represented groups. A raft of initiatives is rising to the challenge. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02540-0 Do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obsess over quality, says computer scientist Cal Newport, in his latest time-management book. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02542-y Clever, cat-sized rodents are learning to clear land mines with the help of Bahati Abuu. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02513-3 The World Health Organization has updated its list of most dangerous viruses and bacteria. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02512-4 A working group’s recommendation, meant to help to advance the careers of postdoctoral researchers, could discourage people from staying in academia, some researchers say. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02493-4 Injections of the drug lenacapavir protected sexually active women and girls in Africa from the virus. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02464-9 As president of the country’s natural science foundation, Dou Xiankang has prioritized support for young scientists and plans to boost investment in basic science. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02505-3 Long-theorized ‘ball lightning’ black holes formed from light would require much too much energy. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 01 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02522-2 A 510-million-year-old creature that looked like the famously smelly fruit suggests that the earliest molluscs were covered in hollow spines. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 01 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02515-1 US and Chinese firms dominate the list of companies that are producing the most research and patents in artificial intelligence. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02377-7 As components on a computer chip shrink, their structure becomes ever-more complicated to image. A method that uses bursts of X-rays offers high-resolution, rapid-fire visualization down to single-transistor l … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02503-5 Detailed profile of the immune cells in the upper airway could help to improve nasal vaccines. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02323-7 Light-based devices can reduce the energy consumption of computers, but most rely on lasers, which are expensive to integrate with other technologies. An approach that uses LEDs instead of lasers provides a pa … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07530-w This Review examines the diverse strategies utilized by naturally occurring antibiotics and suggests how they have provided, and will in future provide, inspiration for the design of novel antibiotics. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07742-0 Cryo-electron microscopy structures of NMDA receptors in open and apo states reveal the molecular mechanism underlying the dual ligand requirement for its channel gating and opening. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02501-7 High-resolution images of the underside of a formation in Antarctica could help researchers to refine projections of sea-level rise. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07774-6 Structures of fetal and adult muscle acetylcholine receptors reveal a developmental switch that alters channel biophysics and pharmacology to enable neuromuscular junction maturation, uncovering pathogenic mec … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07748-8 This study of immunological memory diversity in the human upper airway provides new understanding of immune memory at a major mucosal barrier tissue in humans. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07750-0 Using osmium isotopes, the 2021 Fagradalsfjall lavas in Iceland are shown to be both fractionally crystallized and strongly crustally contaminated, probably by mid-ocean-ridge gabbros and older basalts underly … | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07778-2 Across 46 proglacial landscapes worldwide, environmental properties and biodiversity have shown complex patterns of change since glaciers retreated. | Continue reading

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07756-8 Youti yuanshi is a euarthropod species newly described from a fossilized larva from Yunnan Province, China dating approximately to late Atdabanian stage, Cambrian period, and provides insights into the evoluti … | Continue reading