AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference Summary Agents4Science 2025 staged an experiment: every submitted paper and every review was produced by AI agents. Held online on…
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why Article Meta Article Date: 14 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03313-z Article Image: https://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03313-z/d41586-025-03313-z_51551862.jpg Summary This Nature comment argues…
The spectre of malnutrition is back and must be tackled — fast
The spectre of malnutrition is back and must be tackled — fast Summary The UN Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) report shows a worrying reversal: after decades of decline, stunting…
Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a lot easier
Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases: fixing them is about to get a lot easier Article Date: 2025-10-18Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03307-xArticle Image: Image Summary CRISPR-based editing has transformed genetics, but mitochondrial DNA…
Brazil’s COP30 legacy should be to protect more of its forests
Brazil’s COP30 legacy should be to protect more of its forests Summary As host of COP30 in November, Brazil has a tangible opportunity to strengthen forest protection. Authors Paulo Moutinho…
UNESCO stands at a crossroads — researchers must back its new leader
UNESCO stands at a crossroads — researchers must back its new leader Summary UNESCO’s executive board has nominated Egypt’s Khaled El‑Enany as the agency’s next director‑general, a milestone as the…
Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll
Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll Summary Update: A US district judge, Susan Illston, temporarily blocked the mass lay-offs after unions sued; a hearing…
Mysterious cosmic ‘dots’ are baffling astronomers. What are they?
Mysterious cosmic ‘dots’ are baffling astronomers. What are they? Summary The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed hundreds of tiny red sources in very distant, early-universe images. Initially puzzling…
Extreme confinement unleashes water’s hidden electrical capabilities
Extreme confinement unleashes water’s hidden electrical capabilities Summary Wang et al. report that water confined in nanometre-scale gaps between atomically flat crystals shows dramatically altered electrical behaviour compared with bulk…
Efficient quantum thermal simulation
Efficient quantum thermal simulation Summary The authors present a new, practically motivated quantum algorithm for preparing thermal (Gibbs) states of quantum many-body systems. The core is a synthetic Lindbladian that…