Nature Portfolio

28/01/2025

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology details how negative affect shapes impulsivity throughout the opioid addiction cycle and discusses avenues for focused interventions. 🔒

Nature Reviews Psychology

28/01/2025

Nature spoke with infectious-disease specialists about what they’re learning about how humans get sick from the avian influenza virus H5N1, and the chances of a bird-flu pandemic.

Nature News & Comment

28/01/2025

In the past five years, a huge amount of untreated wastewater has been released into English waterways. An analysis in Nature Water of the communication used by the water utilities shows that they have employed strategies used by large polluting industries in the past, prolonging the consequences of this environmental disaster.

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27/01/2025

Temperature-related deaths in European cities could increase by up to 50% by the end of the century in the absence of climate change-mitigation policies, totalling up to 2.3 million additional deaths, suggests a paper published in Nature Medicine.

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27/01/2025

A study in Nature Communications uncovers a U-shaped trajectory in gray matter volume during pregnancy and postpartum, linked to hormonal changes. Brain recovery postpartum correlates with maternal attachment, highlighting the interplay between neuroplasticity, hormones, and maternal well-being.

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27/01/2025

A study in Scientific Reports introduces a novel paradigm for identifying patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease by analyzing visuomotor function under conditions of visual interference.

Scientific Reports

26/01/2025

Developers tell Nature about the tricks they use to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth.

Nature News & Comment

26/01/2025

Homo sapiens may have undergone adaptive genetic changes in their blood groups after leaving Africa, according to research in Scientific Reports. The study, which maps out blood group genetic diversity for 22 H. sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia living between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, suggests that new Rh (RHD and RHCE) alleles emerged after H. sapiens left Africa but before they spread across Eurasia.

Scientific Reports

26/01/2025

A Review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment discusses the observed and projected changes in ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ (rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions), suggesting that subseasonal and interannual volatility will increase markedly with ongoing warming.

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25/01/2025

A study in Nature used deep learning methods to design proteins that can neutralize the effects of three-finger toxins found in snake venom, which could lead to the development of safer and more accessible antivenom treatments.

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25/01/2025

A study in Nature Communications presents multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania, dated to at least 1.95 million years ago and suggests hominins would have lived in a temperate and seasonal environment.

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25/01/2025

The paranormal looms large in pop culture, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was of interest to many scientists. What does this history reveal about the boundaries of science? A Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics examines this question.

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24/01/2025

Few medical options are typically presented to people going through menopause, but t outlook for managing it is now starting to change. A feature in Nature outlines the emerging therapies, which includes a relook at hormone replacement therapy.

Nature News & Comment

24/01/2025

How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. A study in Nature Climate Change shows that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall increasing CO2 uptake.

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24/01/2025

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery reports that the FDA approved 50 new therapeutics in 2024, including approvals for a novel schizophrenia drug and the first NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ) medicine.

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23/01/2025

The consumer genetic-testing company 23andMe is struggling to stay afloat. Nature spoke to specialists to learn about what led to the downfall and what it might mean for consumer genetic testing and research.

Nature News & Comment

23/01/2025

In the Arctic, the risks of the permafrost thaw are perceived differently by communities, and key hazards include infrastructure failure, mobility disruption, decreased water quality and food security, and exposure to diseases, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment.

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23/01/2025

A Comment article in Nature Medicine announces the Quality Health Information for All Commission, to promote equitable access to quality health information from trusted sources and affirm the practice of health communication as a distinct public health discipline.

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