A Nature Careers feature explores data sonification, which turns data into sound, and how it helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience. #Academicsky 🧪

Voluntary deference to prestigious individuals is a unique feature of human social life. A study in Nature Communications shows that human prestige psychology can promote marked-yet-adaptive inequalities in influence while remaining non-coercive. go.nature.com/4ahONEj 🧪

A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪

A paper in Nature Sustainability presents a global dataset that maps global heating and cooling degree days, finding future hotspots, rising cooling demand and early shifts in energy needs with major global impacts. go.nature.com/4kn6J4U 🧪

The fact that Epstein had ties to the scientific community is not news, but the enormous cache of documents released by the DOJ last week was still startling. It showed just how deeply Epstein was involved—how many were in his orbit, and how deeply involved he was with some research. My reporting:

A paper in Scientific Reports describes fossilised regurgitated stomach content that represents the geologically oldest terrestrial regurgitalite and shows new insights into the feeding behaviours and the trophic network in a late Palaeozoic continental ecosystem. go.nature.com/46xl3Su #Paleosky 🧪

The big questions facing psychedelic science: 1. What’s the biology of psychedelic experiences? 2. Is the experience necessary for clinical benefit? 3. How do we solve expectancy+unblinding in trials? We synthesize what we know and the big Qs in a Nature Med Review: nature.com/articles/s41...

Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!! I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China! The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as biocompatible carriers for targeted drug delivery. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering compares EVs with lipid-based systems and outlining strategies for improving therapeutic translation and reporting standards. 🔒

A feature in Nature outlines the advances that suggest usable quantum computers could be here in a decade. ⚛️ 🧪

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

The mean stress level of fans of the football club Arminia Bielefeld was 41% higher on the day of the German Football Association’s 2025 Cup final compared to non-match days, according to a study in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4tkZUVq 🧪

Juno radio occultations redefine Jupiter’s shape, measuring a polar diameter of 66,842 km and an equatorial diameter of 71,488 km, both smaller than long-used values, bringing models of the planet’s interior into better agreement with observations, according to a paper in Nature Astronomy. 🔭 🧪

A Perspective in Nature Reviews Biodiversity argues that environmental data justice can bridge divides between conservation scientists, land system scientists and land systems scientists to help them develop more effective and equitable conservation interventions. 🔒

#Virology Potent neutralization of the #Mpox virus by monoclonal antibodies targeting the viral A28 protein #MPXV #antibodies

Our work on understanding how common genetic variants contribute to recombination and aneuploidy risk is published!

"Ethical research requires that participant safety remains central, not subordinate to hypothesis testing....Vulnerability should never be seen as an opportunity to advance research at the expense of those it claims to serve." @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A paper in Nature presents OpenScholar, an open-source language model that can outperform commercial large language models in performing accurate literature reviews. go.nature.com/3MozzFq #Academicsky 🧪

A paper in Nature describes a collection of soft‑bodied fossils discovered in a quarry in China, dating to around 512 million years ago. The Huayuan biota contains 153 animal species from 16 major groups, of which 59% are previously undiscovered species. go.nature.com/49KUOdw #Paleosky 🧪

A multimedia e-learning chatbot codesigned with community stakeholders increased health awareness in a randomized trial of 2,113 participants, according to a paper in Nature Health. go.nature.com/3NQTtcJ #medsky 🧪

A recently discovered brain network that links cognition and actions may have an important role in Parkinson’s disease and could improve its treatment, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/49VBuKI #Neuroskyence 🧪

January’s best science images, as picked by the Nature photo team, include a puffed up Sun, a rescue ship on a stormy sea, and spectacular auroras. #SciArt 🧪

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology summarizes evidence for the positive and negative psychological impacts of mental health awareness efforts. go.nature.com/4kf6hW8 🔒

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Our featured article for February is this Review by Linda Douw and colleagues on multiscale network perspectives on glioma - read it for free here: rdcu.be/e2hLR

Marking the journal’s 10th anniversary, Mark O’Malley argues that the grid’s role must evolve to balance cost, reliability, and emerging priorities through new approaches to technology, markets, and institutional design.

Check out our Perspective now published in Nature Mental Heath: Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00575-4

It was a pleasure to review Deborah Cohen's excellent book 'Bad Influence' for @nature.com. She lays bare how influencers, algorithms, wellness apps (and hidden commercial interests) are transforming our health for better or, often, for worse. Essential reading! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In my @nature.com story, I explain how chemists at Yale have created a chemistry AI tool by fine-turning the LLAMA LLM to create 2,498 expert models. Their system can judge which of the different experts to refer a query about reaction conditions to. Impressive! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Scientists 🚨: Tired of come-ons from journals & conferences that may or may not be predatory? A new tool called Aletheia-Probe could help. 🧪 By @silverjacket.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share the lab's new publication in Comm. Earth and Environment on reconciling the long-standing mystery of hydrogen isotope offset between source waters and plant waters. A new framework, tested with global metadata. Led by my postdoc Yue Li, with Steve Good nature.com/articles/s43...

📣 In our new @nature.com Comment, we encourage the person elected as the new chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee on 7 February to implement significant changes to the negotiation workflow in order to achieve a global #PlasticsTreaty. Let's get this done! 1/n #Plastics rdcu.be/e14PA

Biodiversity loss is continuing at an unprecedented rate, with species becoming extinct at between 100 and 1,000 times the average pre-human, or ‘background’, rate go.nature.com/4rxrWvn

Happy to share our🆕invited #OpenAccess article "​From the #genome to super- #pangenome🧬: a new paradigm for accelerated #crop improvement🌾🌿🪴" is out in 𝙣𝙥𝙟 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 @natureportfolio.nature.com🤩🎉 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #PlantScience @tpg-sssa.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social

A paper in Nature presents AlphaGenome, a deep learning model that can predict the function of long DNA sequences, up to one million base pairs. The tool can predict how DNA sequence variations affect different biological processes. go.nature.com/4t5JQa7 🧬 🧪

Research in Scientific Reports pinpoints DNA variants near the MSRB3 gene as a key reason behind ear-length differences in dogs. go.nature.com/4c5Rzie 🧬 🧪

Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide in 2022 may be associated with modifiable risk factors, according to an analysis in Nature Medicine. The findings suggest that reducing exposures such as tobacco smoking, certain infections, and alcohol use remains essential for cancer prevention. #medsky 🧪

The authors of a Comment article in Nature argue that, by reasonable standards, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. “Recognizing this fact matters — for policy, for risk and for understanding the nature of mind and even the world itself.” 🧪

Immune interactions are complex, dynamic and difficult to capture using static imaging modalities on in vitro or ex vivo tissue cultures. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering discusses techniques for in vivo imaging of the immune system. go.nature.com/4qR4eKI 🔒

Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool technology in Asia lagged behind Europe and Africa during this period. 🏺 🧪

Human babies may be able to visually categorize different objects earlier than previously thought, even at two months of age, according to research in Nature #Neuroscience. go.nature.com/4tcQOu3#Neuroscience🧪

Our new study is out in Scientific Reports! @natureportfolio.nature.com. We use cluster analysis to reveal how the mantle source beneath the Afar Rift (Ethiopia) evolved during continental rifting. @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Patients with advanced lung cancer who received immunochemotherapy before 3 p.m. had a more delayed disease progression than patients receiving treatment later in the day, according to a trial reported in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/3ZLsTEp #medsky 🧪

Around 42% of the digital industry’s embodied emissions was assigned to other sectors’ supply chains in 2021 due to limitations in conventional greenhouse gas accounting methods, according to analyses published in Communications Sustainability. go.nature.com/4teGlOM 🧪

A year-in-review article in Nature Reviews Clean Technology shows rapid expansion of renewables has thus far mostly covered fast-growing energy demand rather than displacing fossil fuels, but data center growth could reverse energy declines seen in 2024–2025. go.nature.com/4bXzfI5 🔒

A paper in Nature reports the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct hominin called Paranthropus in north-eastern Ethiopia, dating to about 2.6 million years ago, which expands the number of hominin species known to have been in the region at that time. go.nature.com/4r37ceu 🏺 🧪

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking advancements in large language model capabilities. A paper in Nature presents Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, designed to be an expert-level closed-ended academic benchmark with broad subject coverage. 🧪

A single-cell epigenomic atlas of human immune cells highlights cell-type-specific features associated with genetic or environmental exposures, according to a paper in Nature Genetics. go.nature.com/4taJRJT 🧬 🧪

A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪

A study in Nature Neuroscience maps spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity, not cytoarchitecture, organizes prefrontal function. #Neuroskyence 🧪