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.

The present meta-analytic study examined the association between alexithymia and psychoactive substance use. Studies published from 1988 to August 20, 2022 were identified by a systematic search and 168 eligible studies were included in five meta-analyses. Results showed that (1) the correlation between substance use and alexithymia is small but significant (r = 0.177); (2) substance users have substantially

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.

Cognitive approaches to depression have benefitted from recent research on belief updating, examining how new information is used to alter beliefs. This review presents recent advances in understanding various sources of bias in belief updating in depression. Specifically, research has demonstrated that people with depression have difficulty revising negative beliefs in response to novel positive information

Despite the availability of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), relatively little is known regarding these treatments' mechanisms of change. This systematic review moves beyond previous reviews by summarizing the findings and reviewing the methodological quality of literature that specifically examined mediators/mechanisms of change in ESTs for PTSD. Studies

In this review, we highlight articles on youth anti-racist action undertaken alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. Three contexts for youth anti-racism development are reviewed: educational settings, out-of-school programs, and youth-led participatory action research. The burden and costs of these undertakings are substantial for youth (particularly racially and ethnically marginalized youth), and pandemic-related

Research on nostalgia has grown exponentially. This special issue features 27 articles that sketch out the relevant literature. The articles are arranged under five themes: Archaeological, historical, and sociological perspectives; the fundamentals of the emotion; psychological functions of nostalgia; varieties of nostalgia; and the social and societal significance of nostalgia. The introduction provides

This review discusses research conducted globally between March 2020 and March 2023 examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent social functioning, including their lifestyle, extracurricular activities, family environment, peer environment, and social skills. Research highlights the widespread impact, with largely negative effects. However, a handful of studies support improved quality

Theoretical and empirical research on responsiveness focused mostly on cultural ecologies of independence. Emerging studies suggest that the responsiveness process may unfold differently in cultural ecologies of interdependence. We organize these studies into a working conceptual model. The model argues that two mechanisms—expectations of culturally normative relationship behaviors and relative centrality

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.