With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe go.nature.com/4ofcrH6

In praise of fundamental research Our editorial this week argues that I n these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These walls CAN talk! Turns out the plant cell wall isn't just a boring cubicle for hard working chloroplasts and stuff. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature is hiring a new Multimedia Editor, so if you want to work with me then this is a great opportunity. Who could say no to that? It's for verticals, so if you know your Toks from your Tiks, your ring lights from your Reels, and your shoots from your Shorts, then this might be the job for you!

Although many physicists disagree on quantum mechanics, they seem to agree on their favourite sci-fi movies go.nature.com/4qrFUiw

Hey, it's a great week to sign up for the newsletter from @theopennotebook.bsky.social! They'll send you fab resources on science writing every Tuesday. mailchi.mp/1b27e142c25a... It is ALSO a great week to donate to @theopennotebook.bsky.social — gifts are being matched! #SciWri25 take note! ⬇️

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi, who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry go.nature.com/3VRBAv4

Omg finally a MOFs Nobel - this is not a drill!!!

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis! Martinis told our reporter that his wife had gotten the news in the middle of the night — in California time — but decided not to wake him up quite yet. 🧪 #Nobel2025 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics go.nature.com/4gVswyS

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues go.nature.com/3VNrH1s

Jane Goodall challenged what it meant to be a scientist. In this news story we look at three ways she changed science. A loss for science, a loss for the community, a loss for everyone 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thirty years ago Monday, astronomers announced the first planet around a Sunlike star. Since then they have cataloged more than 6,000 alien worlds. I asked a bunch of astronomers what their favorite exoplanet is, and wrote about it for @nature.com. What's yours? 🧪 #astronomy

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NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

Seismic shifts are afoot for universities in the US and worldwide. @dangaristo.bsky.social captures the trends in four telling graphics. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn. Enter Tay Tay. @mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Posting an article about LinkedIn on Bluesky feels a little strange, but I think this piece is useful for anyone who breaks out in a sweat at the thought of actively 'networking' for their career: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by AI, and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of E. coli go.nature.com/3Khz3aR

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo go.nature.com/4n5HQv7

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers go.nature.com/3K0SGDZ

In this podcast mini-series 🔊 we explore why scientific misconduct happens and how to tackle it. go.nature.com/47u7Zig

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The summer of 2025 is already shaping up to be a record-breaker go.nature.com/4mjeVU1

OpenAI's new open-weight #AI model looks to be a powerful reasoner. It's small enough to use locally and they've done loads to make it available. But has it entered the game too late to become the go-to for researchers? Do ping me if you're trying it out! www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🤖🧪

New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.” Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late than never go.nature.com/4onnChp

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Until just months ago, mathematicians didn't see LLMs as a promising way of doing math. Now the chatbots are beating 'neurosymbolic AI' and even most humans — at least when it comes to solving (very hard) high-school competition problems www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, is celebrating its 25th birthday. It also needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up. 🧪 #MedicalSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These parents wanted to find a cure for their kids, so they started up biotech firms to address their diseases. As reported by @rachelbrazil.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's an large uptick in papers published in the year before researchers attain tenure, a new analysis shows. From there it diverges: those in fields that have labs (eg biology, chemistry) keep churning papers, while those that aren't (eg sociology, math) see a decline in papers.

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics go.nature.com/4lBOSqR

Meet Kimi K2 from Beijing-based Moonlight AI. Good at coding, writing & multi-tool tasks, reports say it's the best open model available. It looks like #DeepSeek wasn't an anomaly. Sources said to expect more cutting-edge & free models from Chinese firms soon 🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some researchers are putting stealth AI prompts into their papers to game peer review! @lizziegibney.bsky.social and @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social have the story youtube.com/shorts/WvamK...

We're all too used to seeing news of a "reproducibility crisis" in science. So it is interesting to find that a huge project that reviewed a whole field - Drosophila fruit fly immunity - over 50 years has found that at least 61% of claims in it are verifiable. 🧪🧵1/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Help a reporter (and her editor) out? If you've dealt with #AcademicBullying during #PeerReview, please reach out to Katya👇🏻

Researchers have mined a massive new protein database for age-related brain diseases and found some interesting things. Among them - people with a gene linked to Alzheimer's produce lots of inflammatory proteins, making them vulnerable to other brain diseases 🧪

Congratulations to the fantastic crop of winners of the @absw.bsky.social Awards 2025 but especially (of course!) to our @nature.com winners Nisha Gaind (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) & Lizzy Gibney (www.nature.com/articles/d41... ) 🎉🎉🎉 @lizziegibney.bsky.social 🧪 www.absw.org.uk/pages/meet-t...

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Japan is the only country that legally requires married couples to share the same family name, creating problems for scientists, especially women. "For the sake of the next generation, I hope that a system of selective surnames will be enacted immediately,” says marine geophysicist Kyoko Okino.🧪

Volcanic clouds, underwater forests, and a galaxy in a thousand colours. Check out this month's sharpest science shots, selected by Nature's photo team: https://go.nature.com/4490YkT

An AI model developed by Google DeepMind could help scientists make sense of the non-protein-coding part of the genome https://go.nature.com/3HYwJEu

New research shows the pipeline from #AI research to #surveillance applications, using 30 years of data from CVPR papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... In a related editorial we argue that researchers need to avoid sleepwalking into a future they might not like www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🤖

Tardigrades are eight-legged, microscopic water-dwellers have survived the vacuum of space, extreme dehydration, and temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to above boiling point. https://go.nature.com/3ZMeKYa

What happens behind the scenes at the world’s many museums of natural history? @jackdashby.bsky.social’s new book is an eye-opening first-hand account — and a good read

Nigeria’s pangolins are under threat mainly because they’re considered delicious https://go.nature.com/3HJCN3J

Can one particle instantaneously affect another? Is nature truly random? And did Heisenberg also get seasick?? Some musings on my weird and wonderful week on the island of Heligoland ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...