Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Snippets from Nature’s past.

Letter to the Editor

Despite meeting a clinical and societal need for snakebite antivenom development, VenomAb folded after four years, propelling co-founder Andreas Laustsen-Kiel to a role that combines entrepreneurship and academia.

As mpox becomes a global health emergency, global health leaders must better coordinate their plans and pharmaceutical companies must be prepared to make vaccines affordable.

The UN wants to put communities at the heart of its data-collection efforts in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Now governments must step up.

If the European Medicines Agency takes an overly cautious approach to selecting specialists to advise on new medicines, people could be left without treatments.

Sources say the nations are close to a deal, but the looming US presidential election is likely bogging it down.

Rejuvenated eggs were more likely to result in healthy offspring.

The first face transplant to also include an eyeball was a surgical coup — but restoring vision remains a challenge.

Scientists come together for unexpected discoveries and ‘collateral happiness’. Plus, ways to persuade a climate sceptic and how the brain knows whether you should cough or sneeze.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

As the only ocularist in Uganda, Franklin Wasswa produces customized prosthetic eyes for people who’ve lost their own to injury or disease.

Large-scale evaluation permeates the UK university system, but some countries are rejecting harsh judgements and emphasizing strategic development.

The Pathoplexus database has sequences from Ebola, West Nile virus and another dangerous pathogen.

As wildfires become more frequent and severe, efforts to improve the resilience of forests must be grounded in data and led by Indigenous Peoples.

The engagement-fuelled logic of social media has bequeathed us a world in which what’s trending is a yardstick for what’s true.

A dye that helps to give Doritos their orange colour helps scientists look inside tissues. Plus, the first pictures from NASA’s solar sail and how a loss of bats to disease has knock-on effects for human health.

The aquatic mammals disperse seeds of their favourite foods as they migrate, according to a serendipitous study of their poo.

Hear why a commonly used conservation stat could be harmful

‘Sneeze neurons’ activated by triggers such as pollen or a viral infection send an achoo signal, whereas cough neurons induce a hack.

Study in China finds viruses that could infect people are rampant in farms breeding mink, raccoons and foxes for their fur.

Telling people about the consensus among scientists can help, study finds, but experts think that personal conversations are needed, too.

Some are pivoting to alternative social-media platforms and scrambling to rebuild their networks.

Two-terminal monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells demonstrate huge advantages in power conversion efficiency (PCE) compared to their respective single-junction counterparts1,2. However, suppressing interfacial recombination at the wide-bandgap perovskite/electron transport layer interface, without compromising its superior charge transport performance, remains a significant challenge for

Beef production accounts for 3% of country’s carbon emissions, but measures such as tree-planting offer help.

Process breaks down two of the most common plastics into raw ingredients.

Scientists have demonstrated all of the ingredients they need to make a nuclear clock. Plus, a study sheds light on how the immune systems of trans men are affected by hormone replacement therapy and we follow one scientist’s mission to protect his work from plagiarism.

A method that renders skin temporarily see-through could offer researchers a non-invasive way to look inside the bodies of live mice.

Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity, reducing the efficacy of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range

To identify cancer-associated gene regulatory changes, we generated single-cell chromatin accessibility landscapes across eight tumor types as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas. Tumor chromatin accessibility is strongly influenced by copy number alterations that can be used to identify subclones, yet underlying cis-regulatory landscapes retain cancer type-specific features. Using organ-matched healthy

Fossils hint that bats’ wings sometimes lodged in fish’s throats, leading the bat-eater to die of hunger.

Modelling suggests that the Lassa virus could infect millions in a decade, but vaccines under development could sharply reduce deaths.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integral to the world outside academia, universities face a crucial choice: to use or not to use.

Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.

Three protective mechanisms limit the ability of cells to form a tumour.

Genes encoding starch-digestion enzymes underwent repeated structural rearrangement and selection in humans.

In the hills of eastern Tennessee, a record-breaking machine called Frontier is providing scientists with unprecedented opportunities to study everything from atoms to galaxies.

A scientist reviewing a study spotted figures that looked identical to his own, leading to a frustrating campaign to prevent its publication.

Powered by the enthusiasm of fans, many stars are emphasizing sustainability in their tours and live events. The industry needs to turn it up to eleven.

A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support.

Global inventory of plastic emissions.

Climate scientist Carly McLachlan partners with the UK band to put the environmental impact of concerts centre stage.

The molecular profile of immune cells of trans men.

Only a unified approach across disciplines can reduce the underappreciated threat of emerging diseases arising in the north.

Generative artificial-intelligence tools have been widely adopted across academia, but users might not be aware of all their inherent risks.

Nuclear clocks might soon rival the best atomic ones as supremely accurate timekeepers — a testament to the value of both competition and cooperation in research.