The ‘PhD influencers’ logging lab life on TikTok and Instagram

Nature, Published online: 17 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02294-9 Graduate students are building big followings, making money and overturning science stereotypes by posting on social media. | Continue reading


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Threading the needle

Nature, Published online: 17 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02195-x How time flies. | Continue reading


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A roadmap for affordable genetic medicines

Nature, Published online: 17 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07800-7 A roadmap for affordable genetic medicines | Continue reading


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Things fall into place: how plants sense and respond to gravity

Nature, Published online: 17 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01747-5 How plants sense their orientation in relation to gravity and steer their root and shoot growth accordingly is not fully understood. The discovery of key steps needed for this process fills in some of the gaps … | Continue reading


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AI & robotics briefing: What is AI, really?

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02354-0 Complex maths or almost magic: scholars are divided on what AI really is and what it is capable of. Plus, AI analysis helps to unravel sperm whales’ phonetic alphabet and algorithm predicts chemical compositio … | Continue reading


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Freezer holding world’s biggest ancient-ice archive to get ‘future-proofed’

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02287-8 Repository of samples drilled from glaciers and ice caps is replacing a coolant that can harm the ozone layer. | Continue reading


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Dogs might have evolved to read your emotions

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02320-w Emotional contagion between humans and canines comes from centuries of selective breeding, suggests a comparison with pet pigs. | Continue reading


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A minimalistic model achieves long-range explainable El Niño forecasts with high accuracy

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02335-3 A conceptual model provides accurate forecasts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate phenomenon 16–18 months in advance, outperforming global climate models and rivalling the best forecasts using … | Continue reading


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Reverse engineering spinal-cord injury

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02307-7 A compilation of four single-cell and spatial atlases of spinal-cord injury in mice enables researchers to uncover the principles governing biological responses to such injuries. These discoveries are used to … | Continue reading


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Animal research is not always king: researchers should explore the alternatives

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02314-8 Technological advances can reduce the numbers of laboratory animals used in studies — but they need to be carefully validated. | Continue reading


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Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02337-1 Researchers at an international meeting will also consider how to monitor names that have problematic roots. | Continue reading


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The death forecast: how weather affects human mortality

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02230-x A link between the death rate and summer temperatures, and Lord Kelvin’s scientific achievements celebrated, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. | Continue reading


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Can H5N1 spread through cow sneezes? Experiment offers clues

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02322-8 Study suggests the virus can spread through the respiratory system but infected milk is probably driving the outbreak in the US. | Continue reading


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Severe turbulence ahead — how scientists can keep air travellers safe in a warming world

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02315-7 From weakening jet streams to causing bumpier flights, climate change is altering atmospheric behaviour. Researchers need to find out how. | Continue reading


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The geneticist who uses science to free parents wrongly convicted of killing their children

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02324-6 Carola Vinuesa describes how her career changed after identifying a genetic mutation that helped to secure the freedom of Kathleen Folbigg, who was serving a 30-year jail term for killing her four children. | Continue reading


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Generative AI makes for better scientific writing — but beware the pitfalls

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02319-3 Generative AI makes for better scientific writing — but beware the pitfalls | Continue reading


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The pandemic agreement: an African perspective

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02317-5 The pandemic agreement: an African perspective | Continue reading


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Abandoning randomized controlled trials won’t help cancer treatment

Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02318-4 Abandoning randomized controlled trials won’t help cancer treatment | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: The last universal common ancestor lived around 4.2 billion years ago

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02341-5 The shared forebearer of all life probably ate carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Plus, what 'Twisters' gets right (and wrong) about today’s storm chasers and how to enhance your fieldwork with extreme outdoor skill … | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Genetic continuity and change among the Indigenous peoples of California

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07790-6 Author Correction: Genetic continuity and change among the Indigenous peoples of California | Continue reading


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Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07768-4 Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b | Continue reading


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Serpents of the people: how a religious festival helps me to monitor snake behaviour

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02313-9 Ernesto Filippi tracks the health of captured specimens thanks to a citizen-science project inspired by an ancient ritual. | Continue reading


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Your reagent is past its use-by date. Should you bin it?

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02312-w Some products are perfectly fine to use after their expiration date — if quality-control tests check out. | Continue reading


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Science on the edge: how extreme outdoor skills enhanced our fieldwork

Nature, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02311-x Researchers describe how they developed extraordinary physical skills for their research and how to stay calm in the face of risks. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: How nations are preparing for a possible H5N1 bird flu pandemic

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02330-8 Countries are ramping up surveillance of avian influenza, purchasing vaccines and developing new ones. Plus, the first fossil chromosomes ever discovered have been found in skin samples from a woolly mammoth. | Continue reading


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This kids’ brain cancer is incurable — but immune therapy holds promise

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02255-2 CAR-T therapy, which harnesses a person’s own immune cells, racks up some astonishing success stories against deadly brain tumours in children. | Continue reading


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What Twisters gets right — and wrong — about tornado science

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02276-x Nature talks to tornado specialists and scientific advisers for the new disaster film about how it stacks up. | Continue reading


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Microbiologist wins case against university over harassment during COVID

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02256-1 Court finds University of Auckland breached obligations to protect Siouxsie Wiles while she provided public information about the pandemic. | Continue reading


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Pension planning and psychosocial support: how institutions can help academics at the late career stage

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02296-7 Julie Gould looks at some of the schemes develped by universities to prepare staff for life in retirement. | Continue reading


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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on diversity: ‘It’s hard to find an argument against it’

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02303-x The space scientist and broadcaster describes how she deals with racism, taps dyslexia’s hidden powers and inspires disadvantaged students to pursue science careers. | Continue reading


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The Napoleonic tweets, Books in brief

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02295-8 Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. | Continue reading


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Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?

Nature, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02237-4 Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind. | Continue reading


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Daily briefing: The mystery man at the centre of the Human Genome Project

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02302-y How one man became the source of almost all of the first human genome sequence. Plus, how anti-obesity drugs cause nausea and an elusive midsize black hole might be lurking in our Galaxy. | Continue reading


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Blowout! Satellites reveal one of the largest methane leaks on record

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02267-y An oil well in Kazakhstan dumped more than 100,000 tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. | Continue reading


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The Spinoff Prize 2024

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02156-4 Nature introduces the finalists and those that made it on to the longlist for this year’s award. | Continue reading


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Most accurate clock in history made by ‘quieting’ atoms

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02199-7 Strontium-based timepiece gains or loses only one second every 40 billion years. | Continue reading


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A light-touch approach to intracellular delivery

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02167-1 Getting molecules into cells using viral vectors or electroporation is expensive and laborious. The winner of the Spinoff Prize 2024 is showing that laser-heated nanoparticles could be an alternative solution. | Continue reading


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A Trojan horse for thirsty tumours

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02163-5 Joining a drug candidate to a protein that malignant cells naturally take up allowed one firm to come up with a potent anti-cancer therapy. | Continue reading


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Infrared spectrometry guides cancer treatment

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02158-2 Determining who needs chemotherapy can be an expensive and complex task. A new technology could make the process more accessible. | Continue reading


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Contenders for The Spinoff Prize 2024

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02174-2 Although not chosen to be finalists, these seven science-based university spin-off companies offer potentially high-impact innovations. | Continue reading


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Saliva-based tests offer an alternative to nasal swabbing

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02165-3 Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect disease earlier. | Continue reading


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De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07773-7 De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome | Continue reading


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First fossil chromosomes discovered in freeze-dried mammoth skin

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02253-4 The 3D arrangement of the DNA in the animal’s cells hints at which genes were active. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07645-0 Author Correction: A new antibiotic traps lipopolysaccharide in its intermembrane transporter | Continue reading


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Author Correction: A novel antibiotic class targeting the lipopolysaccharide transporter

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07641-4 Author Correction: A novel antibiotic class targeting the lipopolysaccharide transporter | Continue reading


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High-resolution atlas of the developing, adult and diseased human brain vasculature

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02284-x The brain vasculature is important for the developing and mature human brain, and it plays crucial parts in several brain pathologies. Single-cell RNA sequencing enabled the construction of a single-cell atlas … | Continue reading


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Wine grapes’ sweetness reveals Europe’s climate history

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02200-3 Records on the quality of the grape harvest sheds light on 600 years of weather. | Continue reading


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Author Correction: Nano-achiral complex composites for extreme polarization optics

Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07776-4 Author Correction: Nano-achiral complex composites for extreme polarization optics | Continue reading


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