Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03267-8 The geography of science is changing. As a result, a big push is needed to broaden the pool of scientists eligible to nominate their peers for Nobel prizes. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03185-9 Dinosaur bones found on the shores of an African Great Lake, and unintentional explosions get London’s birds into a flap, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08138-w Emergence of a distinct mechanism of C–N bond formation in photoenzymes | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03261-0 A compelling book uncovers little-known aspects of the iconic chemist’s life, and the pioneering — if troubled — careers of the women who worked with her. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03228-1 Leading a university department can slow a researcher’s output to a trickle. Scholars who’ve done it offer strategies to keep research creativity flowing. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03213-8 John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton pioneered computational methods that enabled the development of neural networks. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03258-9 Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03246-z Private-investor approaches for measuring the emissions associated with lending to governments risk creating perverse incentives. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03257-w Governments should encourage researchers to stay and boost the economies of their home countries rather than working overseas. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03270-z Unevidenced biodiversity claim should be abandoned — but biodiversity can be counted | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03268-7 Establish global standards to protect childhood cancer genomics data | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03272-x Lynx numbers ebb and flow as these predators hunt hares across Alaska, but analysis suggests that this population wave is mediated by survival rather than by how lynx disperse. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03271-y Congress is threatening funding of US firearm-injury prevention research — again | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03269-6 South Korea’s emissions-reduction plan declared unconstitutional in a landmark climate case | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 08 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03307-3 One-third of researchers leave science shortly after their first publication. Plus, which election system is the fairest? | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03244-1 Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08144-y Author Correction: Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03260-1 From quitting smoking to dealing with anthrax, a fascinating memoir looks behind the scenes at presidential health care. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03226-3 The presidential election in the United States will have global ramifications. Do scientists around the world care who wins? Will the outcome affect you? | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03106-w One of Germany’s biggest research-funding organizations is hoping ‘distributed peer review’ can help to tackle the reviewer shortage. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03263-y Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and educators on both sides of the border describe the devastation of lost homes, destroyed laboratories and slain colleagues. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08142-0 Author Correction: UDP-glucose accelerates SNAI1 mRNA decay and impairs lung cancer metastasis | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08147-9 Publisher Correction: Nitrogen-doped amorphous monolayer carbon | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03273-w Working as an oenologist brings to life an important aspect of my country’s cultural identity. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03262-z The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03212-9 Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun identified a class of tiny molecules that have a crucial role in controlling gene expression. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03290-9 A region of Antarctica is going green at an alarming rate. Plus, scientists reflect on one year of the Israel–Hamas conflict. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03209-4 The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03227-2 ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach was in deflecting its course. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03219-2 Vegetation is spreading at an alarming rate in a place where temperatures are soaring. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03243-2 Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa's public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03208-5 Several theories explain why Oceania is the last region free of the H5N1 virus. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 04 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03280-x Researchers pop a bacterium into a larger cell in echo of the first complex life. Plus, why there’s no bird flu in Australia… yet. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03241-4 We take a glance into the brain of a fruit fly in unprecedented detail and look to history to find out how to win a Nobel prize. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02902-8 Sociologist Gabriele Jacobs believes AI can be a useful tool in public safety, if developed ethically and responsibly. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03189-5 Adapting plant architecture to tolerate dense planting is an important strategy for enhancing maize yields. A newly identified mutant gene confers a ‘smart canopy’ architecture, with upright upper leaves, l … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03188-6 Bacteria in the gut have been shown to cause the severe side effects associated with treating blood diseases with genetically dissimilar, and thus immunologically incompatible, blood stem cells (allogeneic … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03224-5 In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria and chloroplasts. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02897-2 What subjects have past winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner to find out. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03222-7 Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03155-1 Fieldwork can be deadly: heads of expeditions must be taught how to cope in a crisis. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03140-8 The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03143-5 Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03141-7 Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03066-1 Try to stand out from the crowd. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03047-4 Insights from a new critical mass of patients are proving invaluable. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03044-7 Investment in large neuroscience initiatives is starting to show results, but questions remain over whether they can solve the most fundamental questions about cognition. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 02 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03049-2 Using creative approaches and next-generation tools, these researchers hope to shed light on long-standing mysteries in neuroscience. | Continue reading