As the biggest sporting event kicks off, we’ve looked at how FIFA is using science in this year’s tournament. From AI-generated 3D avatars, to footballs with sensors, to real-time sensors to provide match analytics… #worldcup2026 Story by @marilenharo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealed - Five winning images of scientists at work from Nature’s 2026 photo competition. Note the very few lab coats 😉 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I’ve been looking at this cover all week! There is so much here - it takes day of the dead iconic image & mixes it with elements of sub-cellular architecture. What can you spot? You can read the paper is illustrates about transcriptomic clocks here www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @nature.com

Landmark cancer trial shows success against pancreatic cancer, often described as undruggable. The experimental drug, daraxonrasib, disarms all three members of the RAS family of proteins, which are notoriously difficult to target #MedSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Pavlov’s mosquitoes’ 🧪 economist.com/science-and-...

Does science have an age problem? @economist.com highlights a new study in @science.org that looks that why science is becoming less innovative economist.com/graphic-deta... 🧪 #academicSky

I am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wearable robot boosts strength of children with spinal muscular atrophy Original research published in our pages, in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Infectious diseases such as hantavirus & Ebola becoming more frequent & damaging, according to the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Pandemic risk, amplified by climate change & conflict, is outpacing investments in preparedness 🧪 #MedSky www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nature has learnt that a WHO-sponsored clinical trial of two experimental treatments for Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease is in the works, pending approval by the governments of DRC and Uganda 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mental-health research urgently needs prominence & funding attention. Together with @wellcometrust.bsky.social we’ve just launched the largest award of its kind - Wellcome Prize for mental health science with Nature 🧪 Apply here 👇🏻 www.nature.com/immersive/we... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Short (<6 h) & long (>8 h) sleep, compared with a normal sleep (6–8 h), are associated with increased risk of systemic diseases & all-cause mortality, with evidence from genetic correlations & time-to-incident survival predictions, such as depression & diabetes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The sleep paradox: why do humans sleep so little when we need it so much? Just added this 📕 to my reading list - it suggests that how much our species sleeps is an evolutionary trade-off, with lessons for how each of us can sleep better 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant map reveals thousands of cities worldwide with successful green policies @nature.com Original paper - Global mapping of city-level economic growth decoupling from fossil fuels - in Nature Cities 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Goodbye GDP? 31 ways to replace the world’s favourite measure of economic health 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The smarter AI models become, the more vital they are for prosperity at home and geopolitical heft abroad. But the risks they pose grow alongside. Not since the creation of the atomic bomb have great powers faced such a dilemma.” economist.com/china/2026/0... from The Economist

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 An inspiration to me & millions of others around the globe & across the generations! We share more than our passion for the natural world but also a deep appreciation for ceramics! His collection is magnificent! 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Fascinating new insights into genetic history of Indigenous peoples of America indicate at least three dispersals into South America and striking allele sharing with Australasian populations 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pollinators support the nutrition and income of vulnerable communities 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans Older researchers are better at connecting existing ideas to produce new knowledge than are younger ones but they are worse at achieving breakthroughs that overhaul or disrupt entire fields 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Higher racial diversity in US business and law schools is linked to higher graduate salaries 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The awesome power of population genomics has once again been applied to ancient genomes. This time we learn that northern ‘barbarian tribes’ did not overrun Ancient Rome. Instead, small-scale migration & intermarriage led to gradual genetic & cultural shifts. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A pilot trial with a promise to slow pre-eclampsia progression #MedSky 🧪 @natmed.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the latest push to commercialize research, China’s intellectual-property regulator is systematically connecting researchers in academia who hold patents to companies that can commercialize them 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To deal with AI effects on grant fining “funding bodies should consider shifting the emphasis of evaluation away from written proposals & towards the principal investigator, their research team & their previous and ongoing research programmes”🧪 An interesting proposal that might create new problems?

A data set of thousands of advertisements selling research-paper authorships online sheds light on the global marketplace for academic fraud 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yesterday I went to the book signing of ‘Beyond Belief’ by @helenpearson.bsky.social I am half way through it & already recommending it to all. An essential book for our times - why should we always ask for evidence & when should we believe it. But don’t just take my word for it, read it ;-) 🧪

We need to talk about failure in science. Everyone fails at some point at something & failure is an integral part of success. Our editorial this week is inspired by a recent meeting at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on this topic which I helped co -organise 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meet Ace - an autonomous robot that can outplay elite table tennis players under official competition rules. Ace consists of a network of cameras, an AI-based control system and a high-speed robot arm with eight joints. I saw it in action at SONY; very impressive! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Forty years after Chornobyl, there’s a kind of nuclear renaissance & many think that civil nuclear technology is key to helping humanity manage & mitigate the effects of climate change. Regulation will be key & it’s everyone’s responsibility 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Edelman Trust Barometer 2026 looks at trust & health. It finds that an alarming number of people believe claims for which there is no evidence, including about vaccines and raw milk @helenpearson.bsky.social for @nature.com 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US speeds research into mind-altering drugs — including mysterious 'ibogaine' 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is there life on Mars? Organic molecules from clay-bearing sandstones found by the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite onboard the Curiosity rover 🧪 @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research of today is a team sport. Much of it depends on scientists in research-support roles who remain largely unseen, uncredited and frequently underpaid. Research is an ecosystem; every niche needs to be recognised 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3-million Breakthrough prizes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“In southern Poland […] 80,000 people descend underground every day to extract thousands of tonnes of black rock – the same rock still used to produce half of the country’s electricity. But (it) is also the most complex laboratory of an already deeply complex European energy transition.”

TEGNet, a new neural-network-based system speeds up design of devices that turn waste heat into electricity New original work www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists are going into politics in the US in increasing numbers. This is a brilliant and much needed trend 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why do people respond differently to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs? Genetics has the answer - provided in this genome wide association study led by @adamauton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many consider brain as the final frontier in biology of complex systems. It is just so complex & so tricky to study; brain organoids are changing this & revealing how the brain develops & what goes wrong in disease, and which treatments might be most promissing 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If ever there was a proof that scientists are human… 👇🏻 wait… could this have been an April fools’ joke? 🤔 @natmethods.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moon fly-by live coverage: Artemis crew see intriguing colours on lunar surface. Our correspondent, @alexwitze.bsky.social is reporting from Houston 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA has just shared the first high-resolution images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, meanwhile, massive budget cuts are once again proposed for US science, including for NASA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to be carcinogenic to humans who use them causing an indeterminate burden of oral & lung cancer Conclusion based on results of studies in mice 👇🏻 🧪 #MedSky Carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes: a qualitative risk assessment url: academic.oup.com/carcin/artic...

Lift off! Artemis II mission is taking humans farther from Earth than any human has before. A new era of exploration begins… 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More self-reflection in research can lead to better science - as shown by a package of social & behavioural sciences papers that shows how collaborating can further the cause of reproducible, replicable & robust findings @nature.com 🧪 #SCORE @briannosek.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My quote of the day There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. Jim Lovell

Artemis II mission will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. The first time around, in 1969 it was a global event that had almost everyone glued to the TV screens. Turns out many scientists are not that excited by what’s scheduled for April 1st 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...