The FDA’s decision, expected this month, follows several setbacks and delays and will pose difficult choices for the families of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The most comprehensive census yet reveals that there could be twice as many of the invasive animals than previous estimates indicated.

World’s largest survey of Pacific corals clocked 100,000 kilometres, collecting 58,000 samples from 249 locations including Indonesia, Japan and Papua New Guinea.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature marked International Women’s Day by asking readers how to achieve gender equality in science.

Some academics have welcomed the proposed open-access plans. But publishing-industry representatives warn they are unrealistic and lack detail.

Scientists from these communities mark the start of Pride Month by describing how colleagues and collaborators can better support them in lab and fieldwork settings.

Strongly flowing winds are detected inside a bright spot at the giant planet’s north pole.

UAE's MBR Explorer aims to solve mystery of ultra-red celestial body in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

Genomes of humans' closest relatives provide insight for conservation, human disease and the origins of social structures.

A group of early-career researchers have harnessed cross-institutional journal clubs to assess and review immunology preprints.

Humanity has crossed eight of nine ‘Earth-system boundaries’ for a healthy and fair world. Plus, the brain’s wrinkles help to drive how it works and an infinite tiling pattern that could end a 60-year mathematical quest.

US push for better pay and benefits among scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

Watered-down language in the latest draft of the ‘pandemic treaty’ worries researchers.

Ants living on the sprawling salt pans of Tunisia use DIY markers to find their way home.

In a ‘bioblitz’, scientists catalogue the incredible diversity of bryophytes in a temperate rain forest. Plus, a ‘loss and damage’ fund for biodiversity and how chemists can now edit molecule cores atom by atom.

The first post-launch science meeting dedicated to the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft met in-person in Belfast nearly two and a half years into the mission, focusing on building new collaborations and rekindling old friendships.

First truly single aperiodic tile discovered that can cover an infinite surface without repeating itself.

Close-in giant exoplanets with temperatures greater than 2,000 K (“ultra-hot Jupiters”) have been the subject of extensive efforts to determine their atmospheric properties using thermal emission measurements from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes1–3. However, previous studies have yielded inconsistent results because the small sizes of the spectral features and the limited information content

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A physically principled framework shows that the brain’s geometry has a greater influence on neural activity patterns than the complex interconnectivity between brain regions.

Text- and image-generating tools present a new hurdle for efforts to tackle the growing number of fake papers making their way into the academic literature.

Risk of death among women and young children was markedly reduced by the poverty-reduction efforts.

JWST observations rule out atmosphere for TRAPPIST-1b.

Safe and just boundaries for Earth.

Structures and metal-binding modes of lanmodulin proteins.

A model of the brain’s geometry better explains neuronal activity than a model based on the ‘connectome’.

Analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing studies across various cancers.

An atomic model of the axoneme core of the hair-like cilia on some cells reveals how they move.

Pretraining on a large data set gives model insight into how genes interact.

Earth-system boundaries define a safe operating space for humanity. Accounting for the planet’s most vulnerable people provides a stark warning of the work still to be done.'

Strong and ductile titanium–oxygen–iron alloys made using a laser-directed additive-manufacturing process.

A robot equipped with soft humanoid arms helps to reconstruct Pompeii’s shattered frescoes. Plus, anonymous peer review equalizes the publishing playing field and why California condors will be vaccinated against avian flu.

Restored mangroves and seagrass meadows could suck more carbon from the atmosphere.

The Biden administration seeks to change how agencies weigh the effects of regulation.