Nature

Soft photonic skins with dynamic texture and colour control

Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared

Defossilize our chemical world

The poetic life and death of a glow-worm

Help small-scale gold miners to transition away from mercury use

To improve resilience to climate change, track what endures

Artificial skin mimics the octopus’s art of disguise

Rethink how we build AI to enable effective climate-change mitigation

Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it

Retire ‘seminal’ from the scientific vocabulary

Pandemic PhDs: graduates anxious, but optimistic, about the future

I see Mozambique’s baboons as windows into hominid evolution

These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them

Parity and lactation induce T-cell-mediated breast cancer protection

Shape-shifting electrodes tune optical-frequency converter

AI and quantum science take centre stage under Trump — but with little new proposed funding

Oddly cool super-hot planet has an atmosphere it shouldn’t

Living water and whispering rocks: Books in brief

Hot spot: plants use infrared signals to say they’re ready to reproduce

How the Romans built their empire of concrete

Land-use changes threaten the safety net for birds

Adenosine signalling drives antidepressant actions of ketamine and ECT

Biobanks reveal genetic complexity in human evolution

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity

Abstract Land-use change causes widespread shifts in the composition and functional diversity of species assemblages. However, its impact on ecosystem resilience...

Restoring youth to old immune cells: mRNA therapy turns back the clock