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Nature, Published online: 06 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01800-xAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. Source link...

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01456-7In mice, a lack of maternal iron impairs an iron-dependent enzyme that activates the male sex-determining gene, causing some XY embryos to develop ovaries. Source link...

Diseases caused by HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis could surge globally as a result of research-grant cuts made by the US National Institutes of Health. Credit: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running...

The miniature curved compound eye, called CurvACE, was inspired by the eyes of insects.Credit: Alain Herzog, EPFLElectrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his colleague at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea asked him why the...

Lis Gallant’s ADHD helps her to switch her attention rapidly to manage field site safety and data collection under intense volcanic conditions.Credit: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory/USGSFor volcanologist Lis Gallant, her first clue that she might have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) came...

A storm-chasing campaign will help scientists to understand why some storms yield large, damaging hailstones and others generate no hail at all. Credit: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/GettyHail regularly pulverizes crops and smashes up homes around the world — but it remains a...

The National Science Foundation has suspended its plans to set a blanket rate for all overhead-cost funding on research grants.Credit: B Christopher/AlamyThe US National Science Foundation (NSF) has paused a policy that threatened to cost universities hundreds of millions of...

Bottlenose dolphins’ whistles will be analysed using artificial intelligence.Credit: Georgette Douwma/Nature Picture LibraryWill artificial intelligence (AI) finally allow us to talk to animals? To spur progress towards that dream, a contest is offering a US$500,000 cash prize for AI use...

AnimalsMale and female adult mice, aged between 2 and 7 months old, from the following mouse lines were used: C57BL/6 J wild-type (Charles River), Drd1-Cre (Gensat: EY262), Adora2a-cre (Gensat: KG139), Slc6a3-cre (JAX: 006660), Ai14 (tdTomato, JAX: 007914), Ai35 (Arch-GFP, JAX: 012735)...

Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas — a NASA-funded research institution that maintains key archives and information...