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Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

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Why is heart cancer so rare? The pumping muscle ‘beats’ it

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Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues

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Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged

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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

6h ago

Publisher Correction: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

6h ago

Field re-entrant superconductivity in Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates

7h ago

We need to talk about failure in science

7h ago

What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what it didn’t

7h ago

Wikipedia-based AI model reveals the 100 technologies to watch

9h ago

Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize

10h ago

What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science

11h ago

Daily briefing: Big G is more mysterious than ever

12h ago

Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells

Wed

Dynamics of genetic and somatic trade-offs in ageing and mortality

Wed

Ceramic-like strength and metallic toughness in a bulk metallic glass

Wed

Genomic roots of Indigenous Americans uncovered

Wed

Rapid cooling shaped the formation of the first meteorites in the Solar System

Wed

Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive

Wed

Structural basis of fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase inhibition by caspofungin

Wed

Specific combinations of human and viral genetic variants explain a cancer predisposition in southern China

Wed

‘Jumping genes’ help a bacterium that causes hospital infections to adapt quickly

Wed

A bat coronavirus can enter human cells through a previously unknown gateway

Wed

Robot can beat elite players at table tennis

Wed

Glasses-free display switches between 2D and 3D

Wed

Hybrid calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization in muon g − 2 to 0.48%

Wed

Human cooperation undergoes constant breakdown and repair

Wed

Quadruple pegRNA enables programmable and efficient large genomic insertion

Wed

A cell-death protein has an unexpected role in intestinal repair

Wed

Early fibrotic niches establish tumour-permissive microenvironments

Wed

Transposable elements are driving rapid adaptation of Enterococcus faecium

Wed

Mechanically driven Li dendrite penetration in garnet solid electrolyte

Wed

Phonon Hall viscosity and the intrinsic thermal Hall effect of α-RuCl₃

Wed

H₂O₂ repurposes plant O₂ sensing to regulate post-hypoxia responses

Wed

Symmetry classification of magnetic orders using oriented spin space groups

Wed

Chromosomal fusions trigger rediploidization of autopolyploid genomes

Wed

Punctuated decline of human cooperation

Wed

Decade-long warming accelerates antibiotic resistance in grassland soils

Wed

The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans

Wed

Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot

Wed

Glycerol-driven TNAP activation in thermogenesis and mineralization

Wed

A pro-carcinogenic bacterial toxin binds claudin-4 to cleave E-cadherin

Wed

Printable meta-assemblies enable synergetic colouration

Wed

Heart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells

Wed

Electronic origin of reorganization energy in interfacial electron transfer

Wed

Netrin1 blockade alleviates resistance to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

Wed

Switchable 2D–3D display through a metasurface lenticular lens

Wed

Non-equilibrium condensation of the first Solar System solids

Wed

Focal white matter lesions drive grey matter inflammation and synapse loss

Wed

Multicentre gene therapy for OTOF-related deafness followed up to 2.5 years

Wed

Efficiency-optimized relativistic plasma harmonics for extreme fields

Wed

Myosin forces remodel F-actin for mechanosensitive protein recognition

Wed

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks

Wed

Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players

Wed

Caspase 5c amplifies Wnt via APC cleavage to promote intestinal homeostasis

Wed

Little ants groom big ones in a desert spa

Wed

Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations

Wed

This robot can beat you at table tennis

Wed

Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues

Wed

Meeting the moment: how scientific philanthropies are expanding their reach

Wed

How to secure philanthropic funding in a competitive climate

Wed

How to impress the Nature Awards judges

Wed

Author Correction: Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability

Wed

Waiting for them

Wed

Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter

Wed

Daily briefing: Should we worry about AI doomsday?

Wed

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more

Wed

The misunderstood sex chromosome: how X affects your health

Wed

US speeds research into mind-altering drugs — including mysterious 'ibogaine'

Tue

Triple-decker solar cells reach efficiency milestone

Tue

Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising

Tue

How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength

Tue

Yellow glass shows insect wings at their best

Tue

Forty years after Chernobyl, more nuclear disasters are inevitable — plan for them

Tue

AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?

Tue

Daily briefing: Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance

Tue

Personalized CRISPR therapies could soon reach thousands — here’s how

Tue

A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package

Mon

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Mon

‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread

Mon

Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software

Mon

What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic?

Mon

How hidden contributions power modern research

Mon

Thrilling, frivolous, a waste: not everyone’s happy about the Artemis II Moon mission

Mon

Daily briefing: Is a nine-to-five PhD possible?

Mon

Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3 million Breakthrough prizes

Sat

US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices

Fri

Daily briefing: AI systems can ‘teach’ biases to other models

Fri

Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance

Fri

Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution

Fri

New year, old me

Fri

‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms

Thu

Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity

Thu

Brain–machine interface reveals the origin of a widely used neural signal

Thu

The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal?

Thu

Ageing could prime women for autoimmune disorders

Thu

Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll

Thu

Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2 million contest

Thu

Daily briefing: The air is full of DNA — here’s what it can teach us

Thu

Daily briefing: Youthifying 'mirror' brings back more vivid childhood memories

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