The first multinational representative dataset from LMICs on child sexual exploitation and abuse shows the role of technology, individual, familial and sociocultural factors in facilitating it.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Read the full paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plants need nitrogen but use it inefficiently. A new study shows that, in maize, the plastoglobule droplets within chloroplast organise key nitrogen-fixation enzymes, supercharging nitrogen use. The findings could be relevant to growing crops using less fertiliser. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study in Nature quantifies mining-induced deforestation of dense forest across sub-Saharan Africa. For each hectare of deforestation attributed to the mine an additional 34 hectares of forest were lost to offsite drivers such as agricultural expansion. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature details a machine learning model that can use front facing smartphone cameras to approximate heart rate 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The oldest known eukaryotes, living around 1.75 billion years ago, were largely restricted to oxygenated bottom waters, only expanding into planktonic habitats during the Neoproterozoic Era (from a billion to 540 million years ago)🧪 See new study published in Nature👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature quantifies the contribution that insect pollinators make to nutrient intake and income in smallholder farming communities in Nepal > they are responsible for 44% of people’s farming income and over 20% of their intake of key micronutrients.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study shows that individuals listening both to language and auditory stimuli while anesthetized still showed neural responses in the hippocampus indicating that the information was still being processed, despite the fact that patients were seemingly unconscious.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature suggests that in the absence of deforestation the Amazon forest could transition to a non-forest state with 3.7-4.0oC of global warming. With 22 to 28% deforestation a more widespread transition could occur with 1.5-1.9oC of warming🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Androgens generally dampen anti-cancer immunity. A new study finds that in brain tumours they counteract a neural pathway that would otherwise suppress anti-tumour responses, making androgen signalling protective within the brain. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... and www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Published in Nature, the results of the PEACE project, a clinical autopsy program to study the evolution of lung cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41... and www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

A study in Nature compiles data on wild meat consumption in Central Africa from over 12,000 households spanning 252 locations. Wild meat consumption increased from 0.73 to 1.10 million tonnes between 2000 and 2022, with an increasing demand from towns and cities.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This longitudinal study shows that racial diversity in higher education is associated with higher student salaries in top earning professions like law and business.👇🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Through a decade-long warming experiment, a study in Nature demonstrates that warming significantly increases antibiotic resistances in grassland soils🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hundreds of loci under selection are discovered in ancient genomic data of West Eurasians in a new Nature paper 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature describes a modular tool for targeted transfer of mitochondria to different cell types 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... and News & Views piece 👇https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00910-4

A Nature paper reports the identification of a genetic locus that is associated with the efficacy of GLP-1 medication for weight loss 👇🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study published in Nature presents CHARM, a single-cell 'four-omics' sequencing method that profiles genome conformation, histone modifications, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression within the same cell.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A unique strategy to target glioma stem cells uses a synthetic superenhancer selectively expressed in these cells. The combination of cytotoxic and immune-modulatory payloads elicits significant anti-tumour effects and prevents recurrence in mouse models. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this week’s special issue of Nature, four papers present multi-team collaborations testing reproducibility, replication and analytical robustness in the social and behavioural sciences. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A study in Nature integrates wearable watch data with blood biomarkers to predict insulin resistance🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A policy evaluation in northern Nigeria shows the importance of education and community support in delaying child marriage among girls. 👇🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A tiny fossil fish (less than 3cm long) from the 436-million-year-old Chongqing Fish Bed represents the earliest articulated remains of any bony fish in the fossil record, and informs our understanding on the origins of all bony fishes today.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study describes a skin-intrinsic pathway whereby infection triggers the release of metabolites from keratinocytes. The metabolites in turn act as an "endogenous adjuvant" to drive antibody responses both locally and distally.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An article in Nature finds that tropical insects have a limited ability to cope with future warming, based on an analysis of around 2,300 insect species along Afrotropical and Neotropical elevational gradients.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41... and www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hunter-gather ancestry persisted widely well until after the arrival of farming in the Rhine-Meuse region and may have contributed to the Bell Beaker expansion in the area, a Nature paper reports 👇🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A genetic variant in Cyclin D3 that was historically under positive selection in Sardinians impairs parasite growth in erythroblasts, suggesting that malaria – now eradicated in Sardinia – was the selective pressure. See paper published in Nature 👇🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Targeting the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) rather than motor regions doubles efficacy of TMS treatments for Parkinson’s disease. Seems that various DBS targets for Parkinson’s are selectively connected to the SCAN rather than effector-specific motor regions.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A unified 1 Mb DNA model with genome‑wide, single‑base outputs: AlphaGenome advances variant effect prediction across expression, chromatin, TF binding, and splicing modalities. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study projects future impacts of climate change on malaria burden in Africa through 2050, using 25 years of data on climate, extreme weather, malaria burden and control interventions, and socioeconomic environment. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Muscularis macrophages help maintain gut homeostasis but also spread α-synuclein along the gut-brain axis, promote T cell expansion, and drive Parkinson’s disease progression in mice, a Nature paper reports. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two registered clinical trials in Nature report the successful use of the GLP-1 and glucagon receptor co-agonist Mazdutide for type 2 diabetes.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature reports the prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathological Changes in a Norwegian population-based cohort, assessed using a blood-based biomarker🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An article in Nature assesses the effect of Australian protected areas on vegetation in adjacent areas, and finds evidence of a positive spillover effect, that is, increases in a given vegetation type relative to what would be expected from the broader landscape.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A meta-analysis of 34,000 individuals identifies reproducible associations between gut microbial species and diet and health markers. The associations were used to generate a ranking of species that are either positively and negatively associated with health markers.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient DNA analysis at the important archaeological site of Shimao city in northern China provides insights into the social organization and burial practices in a Neolithic community🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature finds that 0.37 million tonnes of wild meat are extracted annually in Amazonia.This amount of wild meat can meet nearly half of protein and iron dietary requirements for rural people and a substantial portion of their needs for B vitamins and zinc.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How related is economic inequality to mental health? This meta-analysis shows a complex picture in which this relationship is only evident among low-income populations and in contexts of high inflation. 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do video glitches impact hiring decisions, trust in a medical provider, and parole decisions? A study published in Nature finds that these glitches negatively impact these decisions by breaking the illusion of face-to-face contact 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Speech sounds like vowels and consonants in native and foreign languages elicit similar neural responses in the superior temporal, but only during native listening does this area encode word boundaries, frequency, and language-specific information. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marburg virus is a highly virulent/transmissible filovirus with no vaccine/treatments and recent outbreaks in Africa. Scientists have isolated/characterized a highly potent neutralizing monoclonal antibody effective against Marburg and related viruses Dehong and Ravn.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Nature paper details a new AI model called EchoPrime, which can read and interpret echocardiograms 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study looks at the mortality impacts of unmanaged rainfall and future sea level rise, with disproportionate risk for children, women, and residents of slums in a developing megacity🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Computer vision, on which many AI applications rely on, is based on non-consensual datasets, compromising fairness and accuracy in AI. Now, an ethically curated, diverse human-image data set, sets a new standard for responsible data curation and trustworthy AI. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature reports high-resolution structures of aSyn fibrils 1B and their in vivo seeding product 1BP. They appear remarkably similar, suggesting a high-fidelity conformational replication process to perpetuate MSA-like pathology 🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snake bites kill/debilitate 1000s of people annually in Sub-Saharan African. A new nanobody cocktail is shown to be highly effective against 17 of the most dangerous African snake species. Unlike other anti-venoms it also protects against venom-induced dermal necrosis🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study in published in Nature presents a comprehensive resource of immunological changes occurring during normal aging 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Where do invertebrates without calcium-rich bones or shells store their calcium? In the fruit-fly, at least, it’s the malpighian tubules, where calcium is mobilised by a neuropeptide hormone called Capability. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An article in Nature reports that ecosystem energy flow, through food consumption by wild birds and mammals, has decreased by over one third in sub-Saharan Africa since around 1700 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short-necked sauropodomorph from a new Triassic locality in Argentina shows sign of the neck extension that characterised its larger, later cousins.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...