The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases

Human-driven ecosystem changes and human–wildlife–livestock contact can drive the emergence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases 3 , 4 , 5 , but how much these processes shape landscapes of outbreak risk is poorly…

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Single-nucleus transcriptome-wide association study of human brain disorders

Although genome-wide association studies have identified numerous loci associated with neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, many of these loci lie in non-coding regions that influence gene expression in…

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Lu+ optical frequency references with accuracy verified at the 19th digit

However, as the scientific community seeks consensus on a new standard, and several state-of-the-art optical standards now report evaluated fractional uncertainties below 10 −18 , verification by same-species comparisons…

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Competition heats up in the regenerative-medicine ranks

The gap between the United States and China could shrink in the coming years if the broader trend of China’s rapid expansion in the index — particularly in the health sciences — continues. Source: Nature Index. Data…

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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking

In praise of human teachers: universities must resist outsourcing everything to AI Yan, who teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, was using an agentic AI called Codex to set up an online course on a…

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How do I rekindle my motivation for earning my PhD?

During my studies, I transitioned from wet-lab work to bioinformatics, driven by both the unsustainable work–life balance at the bench and a growing curiosity about computational approaches. Since making the switch…

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Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control

Support organizations UK: Surviving Economic Abuse US: National Domestic Violence Helpline 12:14 Research Highlights Nature: Mercury is shrinking with age — faster than thought Nature: Cognitive resilience helps to…

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Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling

Energy storage Mechanical engineering Structural materials Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08658-z Published online In the version of the article initially published, the authors erroneously used…

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Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip

That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s annual cloud conference, in Hangzhou. The chip is the Zhenwu V900. Alibaba said in a…

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Need a Nothing phone cheaper? Now's the time to buy

We've covered a number of its products, and for the most part, they are pretty good. If you've been thinking about picking something new up, we'd highly recommend checking out Amazon's latest sale , with devices starting…

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