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Cocoa yield in Brazil, Ghana, and Indonesia was increased by up to 20% by using hand pollination techniques and reduced by up to 31% with 7 °C warmer average temperatures, according to analyses published in Communications Earth & Environment. https://go.nature.com/4hM80R3 🧪

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Medical advances in the past few decades have redefined migraine as a treatable and manageable condition. Research is also leading to a better understanding about the condition and pointing to directions for future work. Read the Nature feature. 🧪

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A paper in Nature Metabolism presents a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes. https://go.nature.com/41bJ921 🔒

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Nominations for the 2025 John Maddox Prize are now open. The prize recognises researchers who stand up and speak out for science and evidence-based policy, advancing public discussion around difficult topics, despite challenges or hostility. https://go.nature.com/4194lp6

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The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity argues that international collaboration and information-sharing is essential to enable worldwide actions. 🧪

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The likelihood to recall a dream in the morning and the ability to remember its content are modulated by a combination of stable individual traits and dynamic night-by-night and seasonal change, according to a study in Communications Psychology. https://go.nature.com/3EKJaCd 🧪

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A paper in Nature Energy reports on a flow reactor that produces syngas (a mixture of CO and H2) through on-site utilization of air-captured CO2 using light. 🧪

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A study in Nature finds that, since 2000, glaciers have lost between 2% and 39% of their ice regionally and about 5% globally. https://go.nature.com/3Qz4Tj7 🧪

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A data descriptor in Scientific Data presents Style Aligned Artwork Datasets (SALAD), and an example of fruit-SALAD with 10,000 images of fruit depictions, which provides a benchmark dataset for computer vision. https://go.nature.com/4ba23L0 🧪

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NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo 🧪 #AcademicSky @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

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A feature in Nature presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of institutional retraction rates of research articles around the globe over the past decade, for which Nature’s news team used figures supplied by three private research-integrity and analytics firms. #Academicsky 🧪

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The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. https://go.nature.com/3CMl75y

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Do you love methods as much as we do? 💕 Join editors from Nature Methods, @methodsprimers.bsky.social @natprot.bsky.social and BMC Methods Feb 24 for a "Love Methods Week" session + Q&A about publishing methods papers, protocols and primers! Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bd4bda...

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Insights into leprosy epidemiology from an isolated population located in the Brazilian Amazon doi.org/10.1038/s415... #scientificreports @natureportfolio.nature.com

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A study of a captive population of nine emus and rheas suggests that they may be capable of problem solving, according to a paper in Scientific Reports. https://go.nature.com/4hM6TAy 🧪

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A 2018 survey of more than 4,000 Wikipedians found that 12% had a doctorate. Scientists made up one-third of the Wikimedia Foundation’s 16 trustees. A feature from Nature Careers outlines how scientists contribute to Wikipedia. 🧪

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A study in Nature Communications using humanized NOVA1 mice reveals its specific effects on splicing and vocalization. https://go.nature.com/3X7la2C

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A paper in Nature reports that the loggerhead turtle can learn and remember the magnetic signature of an area and does a ‘turtle dance’ when in a location that they associate with food. https://go.nature.com/4jSQEDo 🐢 🧪

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Global insect invasions are increasing, driven by advances in globalization and technology. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses the effects of increasing trade and transport on insect invasions worldwide, and strategies for mitigation. https://go.nature.com/3X6QkHk

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A paper in Nature presents a generative AI tool that could help video game designers to craft gameplay iteratively. The AI model, developed by researchers at Microsoft, generated robust 3D worlds that obeyed the mechanics of the video game they were designed for. https://go.nature.com/41mNgcG 🧪

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The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise is out! Herculean effort bringing together >200 estimates of glacier loss outside the ice sheets. Bottom line is 273 gigatonnes per year of ice loss since the year 2000! 😲 Open-access article: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🥼❄️ @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Tomorrow is #LoveYourPetDay, a very important day for us at Springer Nature. We love to celebrate the wonderful pets that bring joy to our lives and inspire our work. With our #PetsOfSN from around the world, we hope to showcase the amazing bond we share with our pets and spread some joy!

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Women need platforms to celebrate excellence in research and technology Our editorial lays out why we are proud to provide or associate with awards for outstanding researchers and innovators who are women. #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEM @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Hiring clusters has become a strategy for increasing faculty diversity, but little attention is paid to what happens to these clusters after hiring. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues universities must also focus on retaining these hires. https://go.nature.com/41kYPRz 🧪

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Sulforaphane, found in broccoli sprouts, has been shown to reduce blood sugar levels in individuals with prediabetes – according to a study published in Nature Microbiology. https://go.nature.com/4i12Jok 🍎📃

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Two papers in Nature Climate Change suggest that exceeding 1.5 °C in 2024 may indicate that we have entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5 °C average global warming. https://go.nature.com/4hR9GYO https://go.nature.com/3WVdJM1 🧪

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A study published in Scientific Reports details the unique two-year life cycle of the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica, which includes undergoing quiescence in its first year and obligate diapause in its second. https://go.nature.com/4i2YKaH

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Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometres below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. The findings are published in Nature Communications. https://go.nature.com/3X6dpdm

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A Review in Nature Medicine examines how organoid research is moving beyond developmental and disease biology, driving insights into current and emerging health threats and enabling personalized and regenerative medicine applications. 🔒

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A paper in Nature describes the oldest known short-tailed bird. The newly discovered species dates to the end of the Jurassic, around the time of the long-tailed Archaeopteryx, and pushes back the loss of the long tail by nearly 20 million years. https://go.nature.com/3COvOUX #Paleosky 🧪

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A study in Nature Microbiology demonstrates that phenotypic flexibility allows influenza A virus to rapidly respond to environmental pressures in a way that provides dynamic adaptation potential in changing surroundings. 🧪

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Jennifer Danis, expert in environmental and energy law spoke with Nature Energy about shifts in the gas infrastructure landscape of the US, highlighting gaps and opportunities for research and policy to be better aligned for positive change. 🔒

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A study in Nature Medicine shows how global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks would perform in identifying sources of pandemic outbreaks and what the optimal location of monitoring sites would be. https://go.nature.com/3QkT549 #Medsky 🧪

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Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is taught in school, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4aXHcuu 🧪

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Two gigantic canyons on the Moon were carved by streams of impacting rocks within 10 minutes, suggests research in Nature Communications. These analyses provide further insights into an area of the Moon that will be crucial in upcoming space missions. https://go.nature.com/4gm7J5G 🧪 🔭

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A study in Nature Communications found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative effects on non-target plants, animals and microorganisms within terrestrial and aquatic systems. https://go.nature.com/4aY865i 🧪

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A paper in Nature Methods presents Segment Anything for Microscopy, a tool for segmentation and tracking in multidimensional microscopy data. https://go.nature.com/3QiRonW

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A study in Nature Medicine of a rare case of asymptomatic dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s reveals confined tau pathology and unique proteomic features, highlighting potential resilience mechanisms decades beyond expected onset. https://go.nature.com/41fiZfS 🔒

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Nature reports on the coming next-generation obesity drugs, which will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy, aiming to deliver greater weight loss with fewer side effects. 🧪

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“But despair is not an option,” writes Gretchen Goldman in Nature. “It is important to remember that notable gains have been made in federal scientific-integrity protections in the past two decades.” 🧪

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A study in Nature Medicine presents an AI algorithm for direct-to-physician reporting of ambulatory electrocardiographic recordings that has a higher sensitivity for the detection of critical arrhythmias as compared to technicians. https://go.nature.com/41dAtJy #Medsky 🧪

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A Review in Nature Reviews Genetics examines computational and statistical challenges that must be addressed for the rigorous construction of interpretable epigenetic clocks at cell-type and single-cell resolution. https://go.nature.com/3EKFgt0 🔒

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A study in Communications Earth & Environment focusing on Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggests that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life reaching places where it could be detected. 🧪 🔭

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Geochemist Nicolas Randazzo tells Nature about working with material from another planet and how he is planning for his career’s future, knowing that decades could pass before Martian samples get shipped back to Earth. 🧪 🔭

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