Craig Venter pays tribute to Ham Smith who passed away on October 25th - molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jim Watson leaves a complex legacy. He will be remembered for one of THE discoveries of the 20th century but also for a baseless & damaging conviction for which there simply is no evidence RIP 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Comprehensive & multimodal cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse & non-human primate brains reported by the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network How stem cells turn into neurons 🧪 #BICAN @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...

If you only read one thing today - a Q&A with Patricia Kingori, a remarkable scholar who uncovered a remarkable story about a huge ‘fake essay industry’. 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com @ox.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

What next for the plastics treaty? 🧪 “negotiations have stalled partly because a false morality play of ambition versus obstruction took hold. Over the years, I have witnessed how this ‘heroes versus villains’ narrative has obscured the complex realities at stake” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We asked physicists which are the sci-fi films they like the most - two were consistently highlighted in interviews for their depictions of science: 2014’s Interstellar and 2006’s The Prestige — both of which were directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

China seeks self-reliance in science in next 5-year plan & the focus is on advanced semiconductor technologies, AI & basic research I’m just back from AI in medicine & biomedical Innovation events in Beijing, and I sense China is also very keen on collaboration 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“I believe he has ideas about becoming a scientist; on his present showing, this is quite ridiculous.” A privilege to have known John. He always listened to what one had to say with great intent. If you knew him, you know what I mean. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today’s best AI models sail through the Turing test, a famous thought experiment that asks whether a computer can pass as a human by interacting via text. Some see an upgraded test as a necessary benchmark for progress towards AGI By @lizziegibney.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services. 🧪 @wired.com via #naturebriefing & @floragraham.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/when-f...

This month China opened its doors to bright young things via a new visa—bold in vision but scant in detail—in a bid for global tech talent. China’s H-1B-visa alternative excites interest abroad—but fury at home @economist.com economist.com/china/2025/1...

The spectre of malnutrition is back & must be tackled fast. The rise in child malnutrition is not a statistic that can be ignored & must be reversed. Otherwise, the consequences will blight the lives of these children for decades to come 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Carbon credits are failing. Offsets distract from this crucial task. Instead, set progressively rising price caps that require facilities to pay a prescribed amount to government when they are unable to meet mandatory emissions-reduction obligations. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The incentive for investing in R&D declines as a company’s market share grows. To guarantee the societal benefits of constant innovation, it is in society’s interests for the state to subsidize R&D, so long as the return is not merely incremental improvements. 🧪 #NobelPrize2025

Brilliant winner choice for the economics Nobel Prize. Congratulations to the winners! A very timely choice to demonstrate the key contributions that innovation, technology and creativity make to the economies! Well-worth continued investment 🧪 #NobelPrize2025 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

T regs, which help to dampen inflammation, won Nobel fame on Monday. There is hope that they can be used in clinical trials against ailments such as certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #MedSky #NobelPrize2025 #Nobel2025

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi who win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide. 🧪 #Nobel25 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

“A consistent refrain – from rank-and-file scholars, department chairs, academic leaders, policymakers, and other interest holders – has been, “Nothing will really change until you tackle academic hiring and promotion.” “ 🧪 #AcademicSky @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2025/10/06/1...

Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! 🧪 #Nobel2025 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Embracing failure as a necessary part of success is long overdue in science and in life in general. An economist, Severine Toussaert, shares why she is happy to admit to her research failures, and why others should too 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Read our exclusive interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social with the ex-CDC director - Susan Monarez - In which she talks about the importance of the job and the reasons why she was fired 🧪 #CDC #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

The richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot; the poorest 40% of countries, with 42% of the global population, experience more than 60% of social shortfall 🧪 A new analysis by Fanning & Raworth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner Time to end the GDP mania Our editorial inspired by a @nature.com paper that looks at how the world should really measure prosperity 🧪 #SGDs #doughnuteconomics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New work - based on modelling and projection - suggests that the health impacts of climate-driven wildfire smoke could be among the most important and costly consequences of a warming climate in the US. Yet more evidence… #MedSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new machine learning framework developed to project global burned areas and wildfire emissions indicates that the health burden would become more evenly distributed across nations of differing development levels than present patterns. Time to act together! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The cost to global health & apparently not much $$$ savings… “the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development will cost taxpayers $6.4 billion over two years […] That’s enough money to save more than one million children’s lives” #MedSky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

The shape of things to come? Modified GPT6 architecture, trained on UK Biobank & validated in a 2nd population, allows for modelling natural history of human disease #MedSky 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bring us your LLMs: why peer review is good for AI models Deepseek’s R1 model has been peer reviewed & published in @nature.com (with transparent peer reviewed). Others should follow 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DeepSeek R1 - the first widely used LLM to be peer reviewed and published in a research journal. And… with transparent peer reviewed! @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if there were a technology that could help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, air pollution & environmental degradation, while improving health, reducing social inequality & boosting economic growth? Train travel turns 200 & needs renewed attention 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Synthetic data can help to train AI models when real data are scant; this can be especially valuable in the context of healthcare. In this editorial we call for more focus on validating the results and the need for appropriate ethical review 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great review of a must read timely publication of “Science under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World” by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Childhood vaccines up for review in the US: what’s at stake? Nature news team reviews the three shots under scrutiny by RFK Jr’s advisers and the data behind them. 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely & more intense, and each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel & cement producers) substantially contributed to it. Work by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“AI agents can be coaxed into revealing sensitive data they have access to or tricked by hackers into taking harmful actions—from extracting sensitive code to creating havoc in homes by activating smart appliances.” Happily, it’s not too late says @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @economist.com 🧪

New synthetic opioids take off. They suit illicit drugmakers, are easier to make than heroin, their chemical structures can easily be tweaked to circumvent bans on specific compounds & they are more lucrative. 🧪 #MedSky Nitazenes: another failure of drug prohibition economist.com/leaders/2025...

The Discovery Centre – the Cambridge Astra Zeneca research facility - is on this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist - the highly regarded architecture prize in the UK Architects were praised for their focus on ‘placemaking’ Better research in better surroundings? 🧪 www.dezeen.com/2025/09/04/r...

“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races” Not the most cheerful read first thing in the morning. It’s an interesting future scenario.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“We don’t see an epidemic of autism, but we see an ‘epidemic’ of diagnoses” A fresh journalistic look at the rise in autism that brings together perspectives from the researchers & the autism community 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

We need public AND commercial satellite missions - commercial companies have much to offer, the public sector must still lead the design, operation & management of satellites, & remain committed to tracking changes on Earth comprehensively, openly & transparently 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New at @nature.com - policy briefs Addressing pay gap between nationals & migrants will require expanding access to better-paying occupations & firms rather than just enforcing policies of equal pay for equal work 🧪 Original research: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This very likely was my one chance to be on the big screen 🤩 It was such a fabulous event! And having worked in this part of London for more than 2 decades, and lived there for a part of it, the event had an extra special dimension for me

Achieving net zero will not be possible without AI technologies, argues Amy Luers, Sustainability Science & Innovation directs at @microsoft.com A timely piece, when AI tools are under scrutiny for their sustainability costs 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was a real privilege & pleasure to have known David. I got to know him in the context of the UN Food Systems summit & Food Systems Dialogues. He was kind, generous and full of energy and enthusiasm. His passing is a real loss to global policy & to us all 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Idea plagiarism’ and intellectual credit face new challenges in the age of AI-supported research 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...