Salah Obayya works to advance women’s research careers in photonics in Egypt.

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 June 2025

The new method could be 70 times faster than repairing painting by hand.

In mice, engineered immune cells shrink pancreatic and other tumours bearing a mutant version of the KRAS protein.

Upgraded system produces strings of random bits in a process that is fully traceable.

An in vivo approach shows therapeutic benefit in three mouse models of severe disease.

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process.

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.

An accessible and adaptable artificial-intelligence model trained on a diverse set of X-ray images is better than existing models at spotting rare chest diseases.

Researchers reveal when boys pull ahead of girls in mathematics, sounding an alarm and providing both an opportunity for schools, parents and researchers.

The ‘melting line’ of diamond has been mapped by heating sample to about 7,000 kelvin.

The finding that the sea floor is a source of low-abundance elements in the ocean up-ends conventional views of marine biogeochemistry.

A damaged painting has been visually restored by digitally reconstructing missing areas of paint and printing them onto a removable mask.

Device translates thought to speech in real time.

Gene expression reveals that different types of human cell can work as a unit. These cellular modules, found in several tissues, change during disease.

A spatio-temporal fusion of multi-source satellite data has enabled high-resolution mapping of 1.4 million lakes worldwide.

These prototype processors made from atomically thin materials offer a glimpse into a post-silicon-transistor future, but scaling challenges remain.

‘Missing’ genes needed for the biosynthesis of a natural anticancer drug have been discovered by perturbing and analysing individual cells of yew trees.

The ‘milli-spinner’ technology performed better than a conventional technique in a swine model.

As a student, Alex Kachkine can only afford damaged art in need of repair. Here’s how they turned their conservation work into a science.

A key component of the TCA cycle, a series of reactions that occurs in energy-generating organelles called mitochondria, can dictate the fate of intestinal stem cells.

Neuroscientists have found the regions that keep them apart.

Massive telescope will map the Universe and provide an evolving record of the Solar System and distant stars.

Options are emerging for the tens of millions of people who stop taking GLP-1 drugs because of side effects, cost or availability.

Jayanta Bhattacharya says the US biomedical agency can’t continue ‘business as usual’ if it wants to restore its reputation.

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Building scientific capacity in the global south is key to solving today’s most pressing planetary challenges.

Young exoplanets provide a critical link between understanding planet formation and atmospheric evolution1. Direct imaging spectroscopy allows us to infer the properties of young, wide orbit, giant planets with high signal-to-noise. This allows us to compare this young population to exoplanets characterized with transmission spectroscopy, which has indirectly revealed the presence of clouds2-4, photochemistry5

An open collection of tips and tools could help researchers and publishers to pick up on problematic research.

Doing a PhD is really hard. Here’s how I’ve learnt to enjoy the process.

Experts share tips for talking about vaccines with your inner circle. Plus, a tiny device that ‘spins’ blood clots away and why so many attempts to reduce fossil-fuel subsidies fail — and what to do about it.

Precision agriculture aims to increase crop yield while reducing the use of harmful chemicals, such as pesticides and excess fertilizer, using minimal, tailored interventions. However, these strategies are limited by factors such as sensor quality, which typically relies on visual plant expression, and the manual, destructive nature of many nonvisual measurement methods, including the Scholander pressure

The human skin can reliably capture a wide range of multimodal data over a large surface while providing a soft interface. Artificial technologies using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can emulate these biological functions but present numerous challenges in fabrication, delamination due to soft-rigid interfaces, and electrical interference. To address these difficulties, we present a single-layer

The internet world has created an era where any device can interconnect with each other. Gathering intelligence from streaming data is challenging and can create wonders and valuable innovations for humanity. The shortcomings of connectivity due to the remote location of the cloud induce latency and performance issues in real-time. Thus, a traditional cloud may not be suitable for all applications