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...

A device for spinning away blood clots. My latest news short for @nature.com!

📣 Calling all budding science journos and communicators 📣Registrations for ABSW summer school (on 26 June) close this Friday - there are some juicy-looking sessions on the sched this year, and you can attend remotely (or come & join the fun in London)

An explosive surge of mpox infections in Sierra Leone has pummelled its health-care system, raising fears it will spark a larger outbreak in densely populated West Africa. “The situation is so dire,” says Jia Kangbai, a researcher in Sierra Leone. With @kindrachukjason.bsky.social, for @nature.com.

Is NASA really going to send humans to Mars? Its budget plans released last week suggest it may be serious. So I wrote about why that’s hard. 🧪

There are so many fake or flawed medical papers that sleuths face an impossible task to root them out. So it's great to see this project launched, led by @jamesheathers.bsky.social, especially its specific focus on papers with a serious impact on medical guidelines. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/3HmqyKe

An epic sky, singing cicadas, and a solar explosion. See this and more in this month's best science shots https://go.nature.com/3ZaM0rD

Fact that kind of floored me while editing this story: I suspected that antibody drugs to treat Alzheimer's were inefficient at getting into the brain. But I didn't realize that LESS THAN 0.1% actually gets through the BBB! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come and help me run the European news team at @nature.com for the next few months! We're recruiting for a locum news editor based in London or Berlin: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

DNA analysis suggests that cities could have helped bed bugs to become early adopters of the pest lifestyle https://go.nature.com/43Npp73

It’s been 5 years since the murder of George Floyd. Progress has been slim but we @nature.com are not giving up “The journey to recognizing & removing racism will take time […] It will be difficult […] It will be rewarding because it will enrich science”🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just two fluffy monsters enjoying their wine-bottle-shaped scratching post 🥹 #caturday

📣Calling all #PhD students everywhere in all #STEM fields, please take our @nature.com 2025 Survey (in 15 min or less)! 🔬🩺🧬🦠💡💻🧪 🧫🔭🪐🐭🪱🦋🦎 🐠🌲🪴🍄❄️🤿🌊 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our reporter used AI to design an awful protein https://go.nature.com/4dtYrVt

I am drawn to this video like a.... Hmm if only I had a suitable metaphor. In any case, go watch this award-nominated video!

Very honoured by the @absw.bsky.social nomination for my piece on CERN's future without Russia ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... Huge congrats to all the finalists including @nature.com's @shamini.bsky.social, @danjfox.bsky.social @helenpearson.bsky.social & Nisha Gaind (who also edited the above!)

The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time https://go.nature.com/3YNta9V

My latest: a truly minimalistic quantum simulation used both the motions and the electronic excitations of a single atom to mimic how a molecule reacts to light. Quantum simulations of chemical reactions could be the true 'killer apps' for quantum computers www.nature.com/articles/d41...