Nature

China needs to deal with discarded electric-vehicle batteries

Nature project to encourage early-career researchers in peer review is working

Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork

Sunflower ‘virgin births’ enable accelerated crop breeding

Do universities serve their community?

Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics

The scars of war last for centuries: how we understand collective trauma needs to change

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

What language do bats speak? I’m trying to find out

North America’s birds are declining where they should be thriving

Rice paddies produce food for billions ― and lots of methane

China’s dementia incidence is rising fast ― outpacing the global average

Structure and mechanism of the plastid/parasite ATP/ADP translocator

A pope, a polymath and plucky women: Books in brief

How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution

Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex

Abstract Navigating social environments is a fundamental challenge for the brain. It has been established that the brain solves this problem, in part, by representing social information in a...

Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning

Controversial geoengineering projects to test Earth-cooling tech funded by UK agency

Trends in the seasonal amplitude of atmospheric methane

How climate change will burden our children: data reveal a lifetime of extreme heat

Highly sensitive method captures rare RNAs in blood to search for disease

‘Second chance’: convicted US chemist Charles Lieber moves to Chinese university

‘Forever’ molecules arrange themselves into cell-like structures

An ultrasensitive method for detection of cell-free RNA