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Mathematician who reshaped theory of symmetry wins Abel Prize

Masaki Kashiwara’s work spans distant mathematical disciplines.Credit: Peter Bagde/Typos1/The Abel Prize Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize,

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US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has frozen hiring for non-faculty positions.Credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/Getty The onslaught of US spending

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How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers

Animals do not always need to be used in preclinical studies.Credit: Evgenyi Eg / Getty While Catharine Krebs was working

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Errors in the Huntington’s disease gene accumulate slowly and then all at once

Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition, stems from a mutation in the HTT gene sequence in which a trio of nucleotides,

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Stay safe from online hate with these five tips

With papers to write, grants to apply for and students to teach, cybersecurity can be a low priority for scientists.

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How a vast digital twin of the Yangtze River could prevent flooding in China

China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the third-longest on the planet, flowing more than 6,000 kilometres from

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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat

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Solanum pan-genetics reveals paralogues as contingencies in crop engineering

Plant material, phenotypic analyses and imaging Details on all plant material used in this study, including the passport identification numbers

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How academia’s ‘lone wolf’ culture is harming researcher mental health

Adam Levy 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind matters: academia’s mental health crisis, a podcast from Nature

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US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts

Some universities across the United States are reducing or halting their PhD admissions because of federal-funding uncertainties stemming from actions