Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading Summary A Nature research briefing summarises a new study (Hunter et al., 2025) showing that mechanical compression from surrounding tissues can trigger a…
Earth’s capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon Summary A new study estimates Earth’s practical geological capacity to store carbon dioxide at about 1,460 gigatonnes (GtCO₂) — far…
The diversity of microbial enzymes that turn a pollutant into an inert gas Summary Reductase enzymes convert the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) into benign dinitrogen (N2). A new…
Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars Summary This Nature study presents seismic evidence for a solid inner core (IC) in Mars with a radius of roughly…
Cocaine-activated ion channels engineered to break the loop of addiction in rats Summary Researchers have engineered ion channels that are selectively activated by cocaine and used them to control neuronal…
Damaged bridges flex and twist to prevent collapse Summary Steel truss bridges — built from connected members — can sometimes survive the sudden loss of a load-bearing element by activating…
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants Summary This Nature paper reports a striking reproductive system in the harvester ant Messor ibericus: queens produce workers only…
Dynamic fibroblast–immune interactions shape recovery after brain injury Summary This Nature paper maps how central nervous system (CNS) fibroblasts respond to focal brain injury and how their interactions with immune…
Rewiring of cortical glucose metabolism fuels human brain cancer growth Summary This Nature study uses clinical stable-isotope infusions in eight patients and parallel mouse models to map how glioblastomas (GBMs)…
Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy Summary The authors introduce PADIT-seq (protein affinity to DNA by in vitro transcription and RNA sequencing), a high-throughput in vitro assay that…
