Nature

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Universities are relying on AI-detection software to catch cheating. How well do the programs work?

From cloning to gene-editing: the enduring legacy of Dolly the sheep

Neutrino’s nursery found: the ‘Shadow Blaster’

Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research

Hadean bridgmanite in the source of a present-day ocean island

Abstract Constraining the complex dynamics of the inner Earth unites research efforts across several scientific disciplines, including geochemistry, geophysics a...

Directly probing the carrier transfer length in 2D-material transistors

A pathogen lncRNA secreted into rice sequesters a host miRNA for virulence

As transistors get smaller, electrodes must keep shrinking too

Tin perovskite transistors stabilized through volatile coordination

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue

AI systems devise hypotheses and ways to test them

A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

Abstract Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this p...

Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction

Ozone erosion started decades before the ozone hole’s discovery

Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany

The poetry of twilight and the awe-inspiring magic of eclipses: Books in brief

Dementia risk in middle-aged people linked to a blood protein

Europe’s record heatwave: does the continent have a new climate?

Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled

Laser light switches on heat flow in ultra-thin structures

A Streptomyces megacluster encodes synergistic biotin-targeting antibiotics

‘Megacluster’ of genes enables bacteria to make potent antibiotic mixture