Butterfly wing patterns and flight dynamics work in tandem to create powerful visual illusions that confuse predators, potentially representing one of the most successful visual defence strategies in moving animals.

A dual-precursor chemical system is used to achieve wafer-scale epitaxy growth of boron carbon nitride, a high-performance p-type semiconductor, for potential integration in efficient 2D materials for electronics.

The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.

People who underwent stem-cell transplantation and ate sugar-rich food had disrupted communities of gut microorganisms during antibiotic treatment.

Analysis of cancer growing adjacent to the brain reveals that bone-eroding cells interfere with lymphatic drainage vessels and hinder anti-tumour immune responses.

An innovative safeguard could help to flag proteins devised by artificial-intelligence tools such as AlphaFold, but the digital marker can be erased.

SynthIDBio watermarks AI-generated protein sequences and structures while preserving function, enabling provenance detection and offering a proof-of-concept tool for biosecurity and information integrity.

Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.

Metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in the liver that lack the enzyme necessary to synthesize serine can reprogram hepatocytes to produce this amino acid, thus promoting tumour growth and survival.

Jacob Trefethen, who leads life sciences at the OpenAI Foundation, speaks to Nature about the organization’s ambitions to cure disease.

As AI content makes bad actors harder to spot, scrutiny of organizations must increase without reducing trust.

A jury weighs in on whether a latecomer is simply using their time efficiently or disrespecting their colleagues.

Detailed analyses of ligand choice, linkage vector and linker length enabled the development of bitopic inhibitors of ABL1 and EGFR kinases, including an ABL1 inhibitor with enhanced activity against resistance mutations and reduced off-target toxicity.

Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.

ArmA from Methanobrevibacter smithii, a dominant member of the human gut microbiome, is identified and characterized as a glycosyl hydrolase specific for cleaving the cell wall of methanogens, revealing an unsuspected chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan that includes a previously unidentified sugar.

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Reactive astrocytes emerge as a primary consequence of TSC2 loss in tuberous sclerosis complex, implicating glial dysfunction as a primary driver of pathogenesis and highlighting the astrocytes as potential therapeutic targets for tuberous sclerosis complex-related neuropathology.

Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.

A map of fats across the whole mouse brain reveals a spatial architecture that differs from that seen in gene-expression and protein atlases.

ZMYND8 suppresses IL-2R–STAT5 signalling by inhibiting p300-mediated transcriptional activation of Il2ra to enforce CD8+ T cell terminal exhaustion, and its deletion boosts effector-like states and markedly enhances antiviral and antitumour immunity.

A new Chinese-owned journal Vita aims to compete with established journals.

Researchers quantify the economic damage caused by climate-change-related heat stress on the global workforce.

Observations of rhombohedral graphene on a WSe2 substrate at varying temperature, magnetic field and current indicate the presence of regions of gate space with zero-resistance superconductivity alongside others with finite saturation resistance.

A new Chinese-owned journal Vita aims to compete with established journals.

Digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life. Computer scientist Francine Berman tells Nature that stronger safeguards are required to protect the public interest.

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex exhibits non-linear, cell-type-specific transcriptional trajectories characterized by dynamic remodelling during development, relative stability in midlife and selective molecular reactivation in late adulthood.

Funders, journals and universities must reward the creation of new scientific terrain, not just the efficient mining of old ground.

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing captures molecular changes in the prefrontal cortex across the lifespan and in health and disease.

Century-scale records of agricultural liming and anthropogenic acidity inputs for the Mississippi River Basin show that agricultural liming has acted as a net carbon sink over the past century.

Atomically aligned 1H bilayer MoS2 exhibits a direct band gap, enhanced excitonic emission and stronger valley polarization, establishing its potential for advanced optoelectronic and valleytronic applications.

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

TRAM is a regulator of myddosome assembly through dissociating MyD88 from the TLR–TIRAP complex to enable myddosome maturation and durable downstream signal transduction.

In Drosophila, the protein Lsp2, which is induced by dietary essential amino acids, is a key physiological effector of mTORC1, and mutant flies that lack the Lsp2 gene exhibit reduced translation of TOP mRNAs and improved longevity.

Gene-editing techniques could soon allow researchers to replace entire genes and engineer complex cellular circuits — if the systems can be delivered safely into cells.

Use of e-cigarettes makes it more likely that young people will experience mental-health disorders and take up smoking. Governments must act.

Recovering secondary grasslands have taller plants that can quickly absorb light and nutrients.

Isotope tracing is used to determine the fate of larval dietary amino acids in adult flies, and identifies Lsp2 as a key regulator of translation and lifespan that forms the molecular basis of the effects of early-life protein restriction.

An elegant account of the physicist’s unusual life story highlights the relationships that inspired him.

China tests these therapies faster than the rest of the world but regulatory changes could slow them down.

‘Liming’ to reduce soil acidity has long been considered a carbon dioxide source, but in North America’s largest river basin, it has resulted in net capture of atmospheric carbon.

Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.

A spatial lipidomic atlas of the mouse brain reveals more than 500 biochemical territories that mirror cell types and connectivity, capture oligodendrocyte heterogeneity and ventricular zonation, and are remodelled during pregnancy.

Nature - A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals.

Nature - AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

A population-scale single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex provides a perspective of the transcriptomic landscape in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders, and offers potential targets for therapeutic intervention.

Nature - There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

Nature - An AI revolution is sweeping through education. But teachers who can convey the excitement of thinking and learning are irreplaceable.

Nature - The device is a step towards redefining the second using a new generation of ultra-accurate timepieces.

Nature - A battle of forces, driven by the motion of Earth’s core, can explain small variations in the planet’s rotation, study finds.