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…
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…
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…
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes Article meta Article Date: 15 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09637-0 Image: Figure 1 Summary The authors generated near telomere-to-telomere assemblies…
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion Article Date: 15 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09576-w Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-025-09576-w/MediaObjects/41586_2025_9576_Fig1_HTML.png Summary This paper describes a strategy to overcome a major…
Spatial metabolic gradients in the liver and small intestine Article Date: 15 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09616-5 Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-025-09616-5/MediaObjects/41586_2025_9616_Fig1_HTML.png Summary This Nature paper maps metabolite abundances and metabolic activity…
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…
Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China Summary This Nature paper presents a process-based reconstruction of relative sea level (RSL) for southeastern China through the Holocene and compares…
Patchy nanoparticles by atomic stencilling Summary This paper demonstrates a bottom-up “atomic stencilling” method that patterns ligands on faceted gold nanoparticles (NPs) with nanometre precision. The approach uses iodide adsorption…
A conserved H3K14ub-driven H3K9me3 for chromatin compartmentalization Article Date: 15 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09624-5 Article Title: A conserved H3K14ub-driven H3K9me3 for chromatin compartmentalization Article Image: (not provided) Summary This…
