- — Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01029-8After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
- — How does the brain control consciousness? This deep-brain structure
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01021-2In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.
- — Take Nature’s poll: How will Trump’s policies affect US science?
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01031-0The new administration is reshaping the research landscape in the United States in profound ways. What do you think of all the changes?
- — What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00973-9A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.
- — Strategic atom replacement enables regiocontrol in pyrazole alkylation
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08951-xStrategic atom replacement enables regiocontrol in pyrazole alkylation
- — Hidden states and dynamics of fractional fillings in twisted MoTe2 bilayers
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08954-8Hidden states and dynamics of fractional fillings in twisted MoTe2 bilayers
- — Solar cells made of Moon dust could power up a lunar base
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00971-xLunar soil processed to form ‘moonglass’ allows the creation of efficient, radiation-resistant solar panels.
- — Journal targeted by paper mill still grappling with the aftermath years later
- Nature, Published online: 03 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01010-5Dozens of problematic papers remain in the literature, after a publication hit by fraudsters pledged to tackle the issue.
- — A toolkit for seeing how the fly brain’s visual system works
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00885-8A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all the visual neurons have been quantified, and a large collection of genetically engineered fly lines have been shared, providing a comprehensive toolkit for studying fly vision.
- — World’s tiniest pacemaker could revolutionize heart surgery
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01028-9Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research suggesting that a shingles vaccination reduces the risk of dementia.
- — Photoinduced copper-catalysed deracemization of alkyl halides
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08784-8A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond cleavage.
- — A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08800-xUsing a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of 7 years by approximately one-fifth.
- — Mastering diverse control tasks through world models
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08744-2A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour by imagining future scenarios.
- — Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08796-4Neonatal antibiotic use is shown to reduce immune response to infant vaccines, accompanied by reduced abundance of Bifidobacteria in the gut microbiota, with experiments in mice indicating that probiotic therapy could be beneficial.
- — Near-field photon entanglement in total angular momentum
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08761-1Non-classical correlations between two photons in the near-field regime give rise to entanglement in their total angular momentum, leading to a completely different structure of quantum correlations of photon pairs.
- — Formation and composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08719-3A modelling study shows that the trace-element composition of Earth’s Hadean protocrust is similar to that of the current average continental crust, severely compromising geochemical arguments for when and how plate tectonics began.
- — Metal–support frontier orbital interactions in single-atom catalysis
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08747-zThe acetylene hydrogenation activity and stability of a palladium single-atom catalyst are both controlled by the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the oxide support.
- — Millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic systems for electrotherapy
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08726-4A millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic system with an onboard power supply and a wireless, optical control mechanism is developed for general applications in electrotherapy and specific uses in temporary cardiac pacing.
- — A RISC-V 32-bit microprocessor based on two-dimensional semiconductors
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08759-9A RISC-V microprocessor capable of executing standard 32-bit instructions has been designed with 5,900 MoS2 transistors and a complete standard cell library based on 2D semiconductor technology.
- — Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08813-6A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action.
- — Clinically relevant clot resolution via a thromboinflammation-on-a-chip
- Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08804-7In thromboinflammation, early tissue plasminogen activator administration directly improves endothelial barrier function, prophylactic defibrotide and enoxaparin suppress microvascular thromboinflammation through endothelium-mediated mechanisms and combining enoxaparin with crizanlizumab reduces microvascular occlusion and protects endothelial function in sickle cell disease.
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