Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Amenipa Kyando supports coastal communities to enhance their livelihoods while protecting their environment.

Artificial intelligence is perfect for teaching novices, but less good for experts. Use it with that in mind, says Hannah Hackney.

Two lab leaders discuss what they look for in candidates, and how their own values and cultural backgrounds influence their approach.

Some researchers say that deep-learning ‘foundation’ models will revolutionize the field — but others are not so sure.

Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an important platform for topological physics research and fault-tolerant quantum computing1–7. Despite intensive search and prolonged studies of several candidate systems8–26

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

Sci-fi-style technology uses nanoparticles to convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see.

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07427-8 Published online 22 May 2024

Hot magma might’ve pushed material from Earth’s dense metallic core all the way to the surface. Plus, the absence of just one amino acid helps mice shed weight and groundbreaking scientific discoveries might be getting harder to come by.

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became common.

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view.

Neurons in a brain region linked with substance-use disorders can affect how much pain is felt when stopping chronic opioid use.

An analysis of landscape features and of river deposits preserved in caves point to an event 2.1 million years ago that triggered the formation of Hells Canyon.

Indigenous people and others need a say in space-industry decisions. Here’s how that can happen.

Voice recordings, examined by artificial intelligence, might provide new biomarkers for conditions such as heart disease and Alzheimer’s.

The seas could save us from climate change, but only if we save them first, legendary naturalist and broadcaster argues in a vivid film.

Researchers say a lack of funding for studies that focus on sex and gender might also hasten a US brain drain.

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Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.

Observations of a galaxy from an early period of the Universe’s history reveal a bar-shaped structure and gas dynamics thought not to have been possible at that time.

This is what happened when a Nature reporter designed his own protein using AI. Plus, the ‘Gollum effect’ that makes researchers hoard data and hopeful results for the first mRNA bird-flu vaccine for cattle.

Researchers in low- and middle-income countries show that home-grown artificial-intelligence technologies can be developed, even without large external investments.

The molecular feedback loops that program positional identity as salamander limbs develop and regrow could be harnessed for regenerative medicine.

Fossil data shed light on a debate about when vertebrate dental tissues arose by assigning an early sensory structure to arthropods rather than to vertebrates.

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly 3,000 kilometres below the surface.

Without targeted interventions, the world is likely to cross nearly all safe limits for environmental pressure in 2050.

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

An innovative method enables analysis of the clonal lineage of individual cells, without genetic engineering.

An ingenious technique reveals how stressed cells divide to produce progeny that have different traits — a phenomenon that can initiate cancer.

But eliminating cysteine, which is found in high-protein foods, from human diets would be challenging.

Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08850-1 Published online 16 April 2025

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The Biological Weapons Convention turned 50 this year. Since 1975, the intent of this international treaty has been to prohibit the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. Global commitment to these objectives is reflected by the treaty’s total membership of 188 states. However, member states have thus far been unable to raise strong barriers against illicit bioweapons