This inner compass could help to explain how certain animals can achieve astonishing feats of long-distance navigation go.nature.com/4pn3KL9

It might seem gross, but pee and poo are treasure troves for research go.nature.com/4oSOtBW

Researchers have found a way to use bacteria to produce a rainbow of sustainable fabrics go.nature.com/4rbE6KQ

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed go.nature.com/3Ke6StJ

This trial has two goals: ensure the brain implant is safe; and to restore a person's ability to communicate with real-time speech go.nature.com/4oSXuLj

Nature research paper: A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery go.nature.com/44hqpjG

The addition of organic molecules means that nanoparticles can be activated using electric currents go.nature.com/488suzJ

This week on the pod: 💊 A molecule that delivers insulin through the skin 🧠 How language lights up the brain, whatever the tongue go.nature.com/4raJ9vd

Nature research paper: Topological nodal i-wave superconductivity in PtBi2 go.nature.com/4rgm7TR

Nature research paper: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup go.nature.com/486YtjW

The method might one day overcome a key stumbling block faced by gene-editing therapies: the need to design a bespoke treatment for each disease go.nature.com/4a0QoQ6

Nature research paper: Genetic elements promote retention of extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells go.nature.com/3JLvsSJ

A new study finds that women’s names filled just 23% of author slots in a sample of nearly 900 retracted articles published in medical journals between 2008 and 2017 go.nature.com/49pgmN7

Nature research paper: Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe go.nature.com/4r9HExe

After years of hype and ballooning investment, the boom in AI technology is beginning to show signs of strain go.nature.com/3LOE7nV

Nature research paper: Controlling pyramidal nitrogen chirality by asymmetric organocatalysis go.nature.com/47FbRga

A surge in measles cases has cost Canada its official measles free designation — and the United States looks likely to follow suit go.nature.com/4oRoafo

Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use mind-reading devices go.nature.com/4r947us

Nature research paper: Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic go.nature.com/4nTxEp5

An assessment of death rates in India’s coastal megacity of Mumbai reveals the impact of rain, high tides and flooding go.nature.com/49i6FA0

Nature research paper: Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes go.nature.com/3LZQsph

The UK government wants to create its first trillion-dollar tech company by 2035 go.nature.com/49rG4ka

Bill Gates astounded climate advocates by publishing a manifesto arguing that the climate crisis is less urgent than other major problems that humanity faces go.nature.com/4qXJDEO

Book review 📚 AI has a democracy problem — here’s why go.nature.com/4om1Byx

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric? go.nature.com/3JUWNSs

Here's how the world can measure well-being rather than economic growth go.nature.com/4r3Ce6S

Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science, but the advent of LLMs raises deep questions about their future go.nature.com/4iceKsu

Nature research paper: Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae go.nature.com/4pdK4JD

Nature research paper: In situ structural mechanism of epothilone-B-induced CNS axon regeneration go.nature.com/48i1Rsn

Nature research paper: Florigen activation complex forms via multifaceted assembly in Arabidopsis go.nature.com/4pd26f8

Neema Mduma is a machine-intelligence researcher building a crop-science app go.nature.com/4r51c5Z

Nature research paper: The contribution of rock strength to soil production go.nature.com/3K0XYzE

Nature research paper: Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels go.nature.com/4pac9RW

Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t

Mounjaro can suppress patterns of brain activity associated with food cravings go.nature.com/4oLwjC9

Obituary: James Watson (1928-2025) co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix who reshaped modern biology go.nature.com/43BIFnP

Nature research paper: Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices go.nature.com/4nW5KsF

Obituary: George Smoot (1945-2025) Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow go.nature.com/4pzpLqj

Scientific inquiry must guide and shape this next wave of space exploration go.nature.com/3M5k4l7

Book review 📚 How COVAX raced to protect the world from COVID-19 go.nature.com/4p7584c

Nature research paper: A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence go.nature.com/3LIxXWh

An AI model that is trained to use computational tools might accelerate mathematical discovery go.nature.com/4pd11nA

Nature research paper: Silicon solar cells with hybrid back contacts go.nature.com/3LXPlGE

The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too go.nature.com/4p7OH7W

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy is trying to maintain public health awareness during the Trump administration go.nature.com/4nMP6eN

"Our research aims to find ways to make food production more efficient, thereby reducing greenhouse gases and increasing carbon sequestration without harming animal welfare" This is a day in the life of a dairy cow research technician 🐄 go.nature.com/4nPjF3L

In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors go.nature.com/48a1Jfo

Fitness influencers promote super-high-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use go.nature.com/4ocYOHT

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar go.nature.com/4i1L2Gq

Nature research paper: Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in a developing megacity go.nature.com/4i7ZgWf