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...

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...

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...

Monoclonal antibodies are 50! 🎂 The story of their discovery shows how the free exchange of ideas can revolutionize molecular biology & lead to life-changing treatments. It was a kind of scientific ‘relay race’. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com (now & in 1975)

Just a few years ago we were celebrating mRNA vaccine development - new therapeutic modality, speed of development, life-saving… now, the US is cancelling its funding for further development. Illogical, inexplicable & damaging! 🧪 #MedicalSky www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

DeepSeek’s breakthrough has profoundly helped shift China’s approach to AI. It’s lowered costs & moved the emphasis from cutting-edge development & cut-throat competition towards exploring how AI can be applied across business, industry, the public sector & society economist.com/china/2025/0...

“For decades we have known that our burning of fossil fuels is the chief driver of the current global warming. Gutting today’s climate research won’t change that” Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications 🧪 economist.com/by-invitatio... from The Economist

A rubber duck has made it to our cover! Why? It’s the latest tool to help solve a formidable challenge - design an adhesive that remain effective in wet environments. @nature.com 🧪 Further details here (spoiler - inspiration comes from biology) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally something open from OpenAI - it’s launched an LLM that lives up to the company’s name An open weight LLM you can tinker with causes much excitement By @lizziegibney.bsky.social 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A world populated by millions of autonomous AI agents will face societal as well as technological challenges, requiring proactive stewardship & foresight. A thoughtful piece on the choices we need to consider now for a more ethical future with AI agents 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

80 years on from Hiroshima bombing, risks of nuclear war are the highest they’ve been in decades. We need new science leaders to engage with policymakers & the public to create a shared knowledge-intensive understanding of the calamitous consequences of nuclear war 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is fascinating - the brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The intentions are good but I fear this will only lead to resistance to retract what need needs to be retracted. What is needed is training and re-evaluation of the incentives. Sadly, nothing new #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Life but not as we know it…. The deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth discovered during an expedition to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the western Aleutian Trench 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first molecular cell atlas of the grey mouse lemur, an emerging model organism that offers insights into primate genetics, physiology and disease is described in two papers at @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sleuths and scientific institutions are not rivals and should not be seen or act as such, we argue in an editorial this week. @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s a close look at career trajectories of researchers who train abroad & return to establish themselves in China. “The ‘first movers’ received many advantages & enjoyed a lot of autonomy. Newer recruits face greater competition & career pressures” #AcademicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Help save 2 million lives: close the vaccine funding gap. Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com #Gavi www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists mourn Tom Lehrer — nerdiest of singer-songwriters whose memorable satires were beloved by generations of researchers By @philipcball.bsky.social for us @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...