First glowing animals lit up the oceans half a billion years ago

Publisher Correction: FOXO1 is a master regulator of memory programming in CAR T cells

India’s 50-year-old Chipko movement is a model for environmental activism

The Middle East’s largest hypersaline lake risks turning into an environmental disaster zone

Charles Darwin investigates: the curious case of primrose punishment

Chemistry lab destroyed by Taiwan earthquake has physical and mental impacts

More work is needed to take on the rural wastewater challenge

Any plan to make smoking obsolete is the right step

Monkeypox virus: dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest

Breaking ice, and helicopter drops: winning photos of working scientists

European ruling linking climate change to human rights could be a game changer here’s how

Lethal AI weapons are here: how can we control them?

Star Formation Shut Down by Multiphase Gas Outflow in a Galaxy at a Redshift of 2.45

Author Correction: Interim analyses of a first-in-human phase 1 2 mRNA trial for propionic acidaemia

Author Correction: Targeting SWI SNF ATPases in enhancer-addicted prostate cancer

How ground glass might save crops from drought on a Caribbean island

Dozens of genes are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder

Multimodal cell atlas of the ageing human skeletal muscle

How to freeze a memory: putting worms on ice stops them forgetting

Your perception of time is skewed by what you see

Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst mass bleaching event on record

How volcanoes shaped our planet and why we need to be ready for the next big eruption

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Living on Mars would probably suck here’s why

Detectors deep in South Pole ice pin down elusive tau neutrino

Dogwhistles, drilling and the roots of Western civilization: Books in brief

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is transforming’ because of repeated coral bleaching

Daily briefing: why queasiness kills hunger

Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink

Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs

Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified

Burnt remains of Maya royalty mark a dramatic power shift

Daily briefing: Goldene’ is a gilded cousin of graphene that is one atom thick

Violent volcanoes have wracked Jupiter’s moon Io for billions of years

Meet goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick

AI’s keen diagnostic eye

Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking some rapidly’

This water bottle purifies your drink with energy from your steps

AI and robotics demystify the workings of a fly’s wing

DNA glycosylases provide antiviral defence in prokaryotes

Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits

Methane emission from a cool brown dwarf

Stepwise activation of a metabotropic glutamate receptor

The economic commitment of climate change

Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates

Refining the impact of genetic evidence on clinical success

Seismological evidence for a multifault network at the subduction interface

Biogeographic response of marine plankton to Cenozoic environmental changes

Control of working memory by phase-amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons

Network-level encoding of local neurotransmitters in cortical astrocytes