Nature

Should the Loch Ness Monster have a scientific name?

AI can spark creativity — if we ask it how, not what, to think

Don’t assume that women’s low retraction rates reflect male ‘boldness’

AlphaFold can help African researchers to do cutting-edge structural biology

No world-changing discoveries without biodiversity

Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas

Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia

Student mental health is in crisis — here’s how to help

Developing super-tortillas to address malnutrition in Latin America

‘We’re humans — brilliant and a mess’: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on trust and optimism

AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers

Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings

To infinity and beyond Earth’s pale blue dot: Books in brief

Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways

Huge Chinese cell atlas reveals surprising immune variation among peoples

Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage

Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans’ technological talents

Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis

Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae

Abstract Crohn’s disease often presents with fistulae, abnormal tunnels that connect the intestine to the skin or other organs. Despite their profound effect on...

Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

Abstract The challenges associated with the transition of life from water to land are profound 1 , yet they have been met...

Blood protein thwarts deadly fungal disease

Decay of driver mutations shapes the landscape of intestinal transformation

Abstract Colorectal cancer (CRC) has traditionally been thought to develop through stepwise mutation of the APC tumour su...