- November 9, 2025
DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy
Watson shared in the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in elucidating the structure of DNA.
inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
In her work for the documentary Shadow Scholars, Patricia Kingori visited Kenya to meet academic ghostwriters.Credit: Anna Patarakina Four years
Francis Crick beyond the double helix
Francis Crick served in the British Admiralty and conducted research into naval mines.Credit: GL Archive/Alamy Crick: A Mind in Motion
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Llama 3 is a large language model owned by tech firm Meta.Credit: MauriceNorbert/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at
Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in 1665, he
How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role
Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6 Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from
Copper-free chips generate robust ‘combs’ of multicoloured light
Nature, Published online: 22 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03130-4 A stable ‘frequency comb’ of photons with discrete colours has been generated on
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining — some to single percentage points — as a surge in
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar
Andean peoples hunted and gathered long after they embraced farming
Nature, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03283-2 Remote-sensing data reveal hunting corrals that were used well into the eighteenth century.