Retractions can reshape scientists’ careers in unexpected ways
Authors whose work has been retracted often build larger networks than do those without retractions, a study found.Credit: Halfpoint/iStock via
What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare
The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies Peter Turchin Beresta Books (2025)
A Chinese AI tool can manage chronic disease — could it revolutionize health care?
Estimate suggest more than 180 million older people in China live with chronic diseases.Credit: Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty A Chinese
‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models
Thousands of paper documents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s meteorological archives are now being digitized.Credit: Derrick Muheki/INERA DRC
Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)
YATSI fellows visiting NKT Photonics in Birkerød, Denmark.Credit: Tom Jersø/Danish Academy of Technical Sciences As early-career researchers navigate increasingly complex
Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02818-x How the five-fold symmetrical bodies of starfish and other echinoderms evolved is a
Different flames
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s
Newfound immune cell in mice hints at why inflammation spikes with old age
Macrophages, which hoover up pathogens, have been implicated in the chronic inflammation that sets in with the march of time.Credit:
working with farmers to protect a reintroduced species
“Since 2012, I’ve worked with the Tonkawa Foundation, in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico, on the recovery of the Mexican wolf
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
An AI tool can screen thousands of journals, and identify ones that violate quality standards.Credit: PaulPaladin/Alamy Researchers have identified more