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Nature research paper: Twenty-first century emergence of alpine fire in Central African mountains go.nature.com/48Ux1XS

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the US, leaving labs reeling. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

Eight of the top ten officials at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office go.nature.com/4ddMKnt

The personalized treatment encourages the immune system to attack glioblastomas go.nature.com/4ueVVK8

Nature research paper: Enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China go.nature.com/4uHsW1p

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Running a farm, pursuing a research career: what’s the difference? go.nature.com/4ddVGcu

Astronomers have observed some of the first stars, captured as it was shortly after the Big Bang go.nature.com/4nsqoBQ

Does this controversial test save lives? go.nature.com/4uPVLZK

Knocks to the head are linked to both long- and short-term changes to the human gut microbiome go.nature.com/4eOS4Pm

Antibiotics designed by AI, and other key developments in the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance go.nature.com/3RHd5lb

Nature research paper: Enhanced response of extreme compound events to cumulative CO2 emissions go.nature.com/49MVNt7

Half of laboratory mice are not what scientists think they are go.nature.com/4tAb5Zg

A simple machine-learning algorithm, inspired by honeybees’ visual memory and sense of direction, enables a flying robot to pinpoint its home location go.nature.com/4npB980

Nature research paper: State media control influences large language models go.nature.com/4tx15Qs

A staffing shortage is making it difficult for the US National Institutes of Health to spend its US$47-billion budget by awarding research grants. go.nature.com/4uG2mpm

Nature research paper: Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse go.nature.com/4nAQaUQ

Mental illness needs visibility more urgently than almost any other area of medicine and health care. A new award from Wellcome and Nature aims to raise its prominence go.nature.com/42vGIs7

An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its intensity go.nature.com/4eLDCaP

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/4uH7o54

Nature research paper: Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestine of hyperdiverse cichlid fishes go.nature.com/4wv78I9