- — Can NIH-funded research on racism and health survive Trump’s cuts?
- Nature, Published online: 16 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01538-6The US administration has cancelled ‘DEI grants’ without defining DEI, leaving health-equity researchers in the dark.
- — US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad
- Nature, Published online: 16 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01540-yIn response to US turmoil, premier establishments such as the European Research Council have sweetened incentives to attract talent.
- — ‘Minimalist’ quantum computer simulates movements of molecules
- Nature, Published online: 16 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01591-1A single trapped ytterbium ion can be used to simulate complex changes in the energy levels of organic molecules interacting with light.
- — Daily briefing: Yes, you can find love during your PhD
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01590-2The highs and lows of looking for ‘the one’ during a PhD. Plus, mice with a human gene grow bigger-than-usual brains and reptiles might have evolved 35 million years earlier than we thought.
- — Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01517-xLucrative prizes are offered for an AI-powered breakthrough in communications between humans and other species.
- — How CAR-T cancer therapies could harm the brain
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01426-zImmune-system responses to cell therapies produce long-term effects on cognition in mice.
- — Powerful CRISPR system inserts whole gene into human DNA
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01518-w‘Directed’ evolution in the laboratory creates an editing tool that outperforms classic CRISPR systems.
- — The world’s richest people have an outsized role in climate extremes
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01427-yThe consumption and investments of the wealthiest 10% contribute disproportionately to the emissions that drive heat waves and drought.
- — World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01496-zTreatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
- — Atacama sunshine helps to pull water from thin air
- Nature, Published online: 16 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01425-0A device involving solar panels and a gel produces substantial amounts of water in one of the world’s driest deserts.
- — Ku limits RNA-induced innate immunity to allow Alu-expansion in primates
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09104-wKu limits RNA-induced innate immunity to allow Alu-expansion in primates
- — Stem cells coaxed into most advanced amniotic sacs ever grown in the lab
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01498-xThe sacs grew to roughly 2 centimetres wide and could be used to study early pregnancy.
- — Seeking a job in science? How hiring practices across industry and academia compare
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01514-0Why is recruitment often speedier in industry? Julie Gould investigates what the two sectors can learn from each other in the race to source top talent.
- — AI language models develop social norms like groups of people
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01500-6When LLMs are grouped together, they exhibit similar characteristics to human societies.
- — PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
- Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01486-1Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
- — How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01532-yResearchers put a portable antimatter containment system through its paces at CERN — plus, the maths of a black hole fly-by.
- — Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08968-2Observations of a luminous quasar from the high-resolution spectrometer Resolve aboard XRISM revealed highly inhomogeneous wind structure outflowing from a supermassive black hole, which probably consists of up to a million clumps.
- — Past warm intervals inform the future South Asian summer monsoon
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08956-6Proxy records and climate simulations show that in past warm intervals, the South Asian summer monsoon was characterized by an increase in monsoon rainfall, and weakening and strengthening of different parts of the monsoon circulation, consistent with future projections.
- — Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08928-wCurrent trends imply that we will transgress most of the planetary boundaries by 2050; however, ambitious, urgent and universal action to ameliorate climate change and increase resource efficiency can effectively reduce the degree of transgression.
- — Radiation-induced amphiregulin drives tumour metastasis
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08994-0Radiotherapy induces expression of the EGFR ligand amphiregulin, which promotes metastasis growth at remote sites in mouse models and human patients by shifting myeloid cells towards an immunosuppressive state.
- — Taurine from tumour niche drives glycolysis to promote leukaemogenesis
- Nature, Published online: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09018-7The taurine–taurine transporter axis is a critical dependency of aggressive myeloid leukaemias.
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