Nature

A circuit that integrates drive state and social contact to gate mating

Abstract Internal motive states, such as sexual arousal, drive behaviour in response to social cues. However, little is known about how internal states and external cues are integrated to re...

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Sacrificial metal speeds up synthesis of nano-alloys from multiple elements

Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition

A ductile chromium–molybdenum alloy resistant to high-temperature oxidation

Abstract Even with the rapid development of renewable energy sources, improving the efficiency of energy conversion from fossil or synthetic fuels remains a challenge because, for example, c...

Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole–Aitken basin

Abstract The ancient South Pole–Aitken impact basin provides a key data point for our understanding of the evolution of the Moon, as it formed during the earliest pre-Nectarian epoch of luna...

The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone

Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded

Customizable AI systems that anyone can adapt bring big opportunities — and even bigger risks

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Microbe discovery holds promise for sustainable biotechnology

Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

Stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas

Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain

The cutting-edge medical approaches that could transform ageing

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789

From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition

Connecting the dots: I trace the history of the East Kolkata Wetlands

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon

Weaponizing uncertainty in science and in public health puts people in harm’s way

A room temperature rechargeable all-solid-state hydride ion battery

Violin therapy: Books in brief

Biothreat hunters catch dangerous DNA before it gets made