Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. Tobia Spampatti argues in Nature Climate Change that pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes. 🧪

More than 62,000 people in Europe may have died from heat-related causes in the summer of 2024, according to a study in Nature Medicine. The authors also suggest a new early-warning system that can reliably predict heat-health emergencies at least 1 week in advance. go.nature.com/48vdZrn 🧪

Many researchers who study autism caution that there is insufficient data to link autism and Tylenol, or acetaminophen, and that focusing on such a link is no more than a distraction. Nature examines the evidence for a link between the medication and autism. 🧪

Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genotype-phenotype data from over 450,000 people was analyzed to discover 205 genomic loci where an allele associated with increase adiposity was associated with a lower cardiometabolic disease risk to an individual, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4pDuTKP #medsky 🧬 🧪

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Behind the scenes: researching long COVID and menstruation'. 🛟 What does long COVID mean for menstruation? 👩‍🔬 This piece explores the gendered gaps in health research and the power of inclusive inquiry. 🔗 bit.ly/468oUG1 @natureportfolio.nature.com

We are excited to present the shortlists for the 2025 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science. Congratulations to the thirteen excellent candidates who made it to this year’s shortlist. Read more about the candidates and learn more about the award: go.nature.com/46nlAWy #WomeninStem

Metastasis remains difficult to treat owing to the heterogeneity of metastatic cancer cells and the various dynamic steps of the metastatic cascade. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering discusses the design of nanomedicines for the specific treatment of metastasis. 🔒

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands of people in South America each year. Nature reports on how Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a home-grown vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. #medsky 🧪

This is one of the largest studies to link gestational diabetes to neurodevelopmental disorders in children go.nature.com/4nLMmih

Can stem cells help to regain brain function after stroke? Our new study in NatureComms @natureportfolio.nature.com shows that they can and dissect the key mechanisms driving recovery. t.co/KRfAHfkNIH

The authors of a Comment article in Nature urge researchers, national academies, funders, universities, governments and intergovernmental agencies to work together to ensure that, when governments decide to deploy sanctions, the impact they might have on science is fully considered. 🧪

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

A study in Communications Psychology shows that people tend to give more additive advice than subtractive when supporting those with mental health issues. This bias contributes to a feeling of being overwhelmed in self-management. go.nature.com/4gqyGqm 🧪

A paper in Nature Climate Change reports that there’s a bias in climate change health impact attribution towards direct heat effects and extreme weather in high-income countries, highlighting the lack of global representation in current efforts. go.nature.com/3KgMkQZ #medsky 🧪

A paper in Nature reports that people cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by introducing prohibitive, task-specific guardrails. 🧪

Around 354 million people in North America and Europe are likely to have been affected by fine particulate matter pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire season, a paper published in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/42iffKC ⚒️ 🧪

A study in Nature Climate Change shows that the ocean carbon sink unexpectedly declined in 2023 despite record-high sea surface temperatures (SSTs), primarily due to SST-driven outgassing of CO2 in the subtropics. 🌊 🧪

A feature in Nature outlines how researchers are using artificial intelligence to decode the speech of animals, and the technology may enable humans someday to talk back to them. 🧪

A paper in Nature describes the most complete and oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur, known as a pachycephalosaur. The fossil, from the Early Cretaceous, pushes back evidence for the origin of the frontoparietal dome by at least 14 million years. go.nature.com/4pycUp6 #Paleosky 🧪

Environmental scientist and global advocate Jessica Hernandez spoke with Nature about her work to secure women’s rights and to integrate Indigenous science into environmental policy. 🧪

A Review in Nature Reviews Rheumatology discusses how alterations in the gut are linked to the development of arthritis. The authors challenge the concept of the ‘leaky gut’ hypothesis. 🔒

The whole Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is not a uniform mirror-like surface in which anything above it is reflected specularly, instead the smoothness of the water surface evolves spatially and temporally. Watch this interesting Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qX... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Increases in wildfires are expected to cause a notable increase in premature deaths, according to two studies in Nature. go.nature.com/4mynauQ go.nature.com/4nJoxI5 #medsky ⚒️ 🧪

Repeated head impacts in young athletes can cause neuron loss and inflammation long before signs of neurodegenerative diseases appear, according to a study in Nature. The findings may help explain early symptoms in people exposed to contact sports. go.nature.com/4pjHdzw #medsky 🧪

A project many years in the process, we’re pleased to present our work on multi-ancestry meta-analysis across a boatload of traits in the UK Biobank: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering discusses the power challenges of wearable health monitoring systems. AI-enabled microgrids can address this by enabling sustainable energy harvesting and efficient power management. go.nature.com/4gnxi7W 🔒

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

A Nature Careers feature explores the ways scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews. #Academicsky 🧪

Happy birthday, @natrevneuro.nature.com 🎉

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A study in Nature Climate Change shows that dragonfly species with mating-associated wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost habitat because of climate change and wildfire. go.nature.com/4nvkfDS 🔒

A paper in Nature presents a new artificial intelligence model that can predict how a person’s health might change over their lifetime. This tool could help doctors and health planners to better understand and prepare for personalized medical needs. go.nature.com/4n6giWi #medsky 🧪

Over 70% of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean are projected to be in a state of erosion by 2040, increasing to nearly all reefs in 2100 if warming exceeds 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/48m9Y8F 🌊 🧪

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Near-complete local extinction on Red Sea reefs! During the 2023 heatwave, 100% of host anemones bleached, 94–100% of anemonefish disappeared, and 66–94% of anemones died, collapsing an iconic mutualism. @natureportfolio.nature.com #coral #bleaching #RedSea www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Prochlorococcus — Earth’s smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism — may see population reductions of up to 51% in tropical oceans by 2100 under moderate and high warming scenarios, according to a study in Nature Microbiology. go.nature.com/3V3mvGn 🌊 🧪

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3InFngj #Paleosky 🧪

🚨 Beyond excited that our new paper is out today in @natureportfolio.nature.com We find that people are more likely to cheat when they delegate to AI than when acting themselves. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature presents the methodology used to train a large-scale reasoning model in DeepSeek-R1, the open AI model released earlier this year. The paper shows the reasoning ability of the LLM is improved by pure reinforcement learning. go.nature.com/3VVz1ba 🧪

Climate warming could increase tropical forest soil respiration rates, according to field experiment results published in Nature Communications. The study suggests that future warming could lead to greater carbon losses from tropical soils than previously anticipated. 🧪 ⚒️

Join us for the 3rd Nature Conference on Nucleic Acid Medicines in Boston (Dec 8-10) with an amazing lineup of speakers. 4 weeks left 4 early bird registration! natureconferences.streamgo.live/cracking-the... @natureportfolio.nature.com @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com

In a World View article for Nature Reviews Microbiology, Marion Koopmans reflects on an intensifying anti-science sentiment from the perspective of a concerned scientist looking for solutions, arguing that we cannot stand by. go.nature.com/3I49ae6 🔒

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪

Long COVID is associated with abnormal uterine bleeding, but not impaired ovarian function, according to a paper in Nature Communications. The study identifies potential mechanisms for this relationship that could inform future therapeutic targets. go.nature.com/4gr39F1 #medsky 🧪

In anticipation of its official launch in 2026, explore a preview of the intended scope of @natsensors.nature.com with its new pre-launch Collection on Sensing Technologies. ⚛️

Phage therapy uses bacteriophages to target bacteria and treat infections. A Primer in Nature Reviews Methods Primers discusses the practical aspects of phage therapy. go.nature.com/3JXfVPv 🔒