Last year, nearly half of Nature authors agreed to publish anonymous referee reports. We hope that more will consider doing so this year. | Continue reading
Two years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 drugs pipeline is primed to pump out novel treatments — and fresh uses for familiar therapies. | Continue reading
Rebuke against Russian science grows as the deadly conflict enters its sixth day. | Continue reading
An analysis of metagenomic sequencing of stool samples from multiple cohorts of patients with melanoma treated with immune checkpoint blockade uncovers microbiome correlates of response to therapy and also reveals widespread variability across populations. | Continue reading
Latest IPCC climate report warns that rising greenhouse-gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of many communities to adapt. | Continue reading
The fast radio burst FRB 20200120E is shown to originate from a globular cluster in the galaxy M81, and may be a collapsed white dwarf or a merged compact binary star system. | Continue reading
‘Executable manuscripts’ insert results directly into documents, eliminating common mistakes. | Continue reading
The quality of romantic relationships influences physical and mental health. However, maintaining happy and healthy relationships is challenging. In this Review, Righetti et al. examine the key factors that have been linked to relationship satisfaction in both cross-sectional and … | Continue reading
Charlotte Caucheteux and Jean-Rémi King examine the ability of transformer neural networks trained on word prediction tasks to fit representations in the human brain measured with fMRI and MEG. Their results provide further insight into the workings of transformer language models … | Continue reading
Researchers worldwide are accessing papers using the site — but China tops the chart, with more than 25 million downloads over the past month. | Continue reading
Report authors say that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals sold at the market into people twice in late 2019 — but some scientists want more definitive evidence. | Continue reading
Obloj and Zenger use data on US academic salaries to find that pay transparency decreases inequity (including gender pay gaps) and pay inequality, and also reduces the relationship between pay and performance. | Continue reading
The fast-moving variant poses new puzzles in viral transmission, severity and evolution. | Continue reading
Israeli trial shows a fourth vaccination raises antibody levels but provides little extra protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection. | Continue reading
A stylized model of the climate–social system could help to understand policy and emissions futures. | Continue reading
The experimental Joint European Torus has doubled the record for the amount of energy made from fusing atoms — the process that powers the Sun. | Continue reading
A study reports a quantum gravity gradient sensor with a design that eliminates the need for long measurement times, and demonstrates the detection of an underground tunnel in an urban environment. | Continue reading
Examination of fish that died on the day the Mesozoic ended reveal that the impact that caused the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction occurred during boreal spring. | Continue reading
Molecular dynamics simulations show that the light elements hydrogen, oxygen and carbon become highly diffusive like liquid in solid iron under the inner-core conditions, leading to a reduction in the seismic velocities. | Continue reading
Researchers say that conflict will hinder progress made since Ukraine’s revolution in 2014. | Continue reading
When a star from our Galactic neighbourhood explodes, it could outshine the Moon. Researchers are racing to get ready for the fireworks. | Continue reading
Caffeine may reduce cardiovascular disease risk, but the underlying mechanisms for these effects are incompletely understood. Here the authors report that caffeine inhibits the activation of the transcription factor SREBP2 to promote LDLc clearance through the PCSK9-LDLR axis. | Continue reading
The cancer vaccine field is littered with promising products that failed to show clinical efficacy. Could it finally be on the verge of a first US approval? | Continue reading
Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockström and colleagues. | Continue reading
A theoretical structure that provides extra dimensions to topological insulators could enable novel quantum states to be manipulated. The usual definition of topological insulators is that they act as insulators on the three-dimensional inner bulk, but are highly conductive on th … | Continue reading
Discrete time crystals are described by a subharmonic response with respect to an external drive and have been mostly observed in closed periodically-driven systems. Here, the authors demonstrate a dissipative discrete time crystal in a Kerr-nonlinear optical microcavity pumped b … | Continue reading
In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid and two lunar missions. | Continue reading
A single, low-dose intradermal immunization with lipid-nanoparticle-encapsulated nucleoside-modified mRNA encoding the pre-membrane and envelope glycoproteins of Zika virus protects both mice and rhesus macaques against infection and elicits rapid and long-lasting neutralizing an … | Continue reading
Reducing the fractional uncertainty over the measurement of the frequency of an ensemble of trapped strontium atoms enables observation of the gravitational redshift at the submillimetre scale. | Continue reading
Using data from over one million people, von Krause et al. show that mental speed in a decision task remains steady up to age 60, and that slowing response times before this age are due to decision caution and non-decision processes. | Continue reading
The rover collected exciting rock samples on the first leg of its epic journey. Next, it will turn towards an ancient river delta to look for past life. | Continue reading
It is challenging to understand failure mechanisms under a prolonged low-amplitude loading. Here the authors perform large-scale simulations to better understand the fatigue crack growth mechanism in vacuum, providing an atomic-scale origin for a pervasive structural failure mode … | Continue reading
Authors in low-income countries rarely published free-to-read papers, even when they qualified for publication-fee waivers. | Continue reading
Southwestern North America has been experiencing lower than average precipitation and higher temperatures since 2000. This emerging megadrought, spanning 2000–2021, has been the driest 22-year period since the year 800 and 19% of the drought severity in 2021 can be attributed to … | Continue reading
Potential sea-level rise from the world’s glaciers is 20% less than previously thought, according to an estimate based on high-resolution maps of glacier ice velocity and thickness. | Continue reading
Latest effort to weigh the elusive particle produces a more precise estimate of its upper limit. | Continue reading
Experiments in animals show that boosters customized for the fast-spreading COVID variant offer little advantage over standard jabs. | Continue reading
Optical observations with a linear resolution of a few parsecs show that the outflow from the central black hole in the low-mass galaxy Henize 2-10 triggered a round of star formation. | Continue reading