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Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter storm in the USA had demographic consequences for surviving populations, including delayed breeding and reproductive failures that are likely to persist for several years.

When 100 social and behavioural science claims were examined, 34% of reanalyses closely matched the original results, with 74% reaching the same conclusion, revealing limited robustness of single-path analyses and the need to address analytical uncertainty.

Global integration of information is critical for memory and cognition. Here, the authors show that high gamma and ripple frequency oscillations burst coincidentally across sensory and association cortical areas as memories are encoded and recalled.

Global Burden of Disease analysis found that in 2023, suboptimal diet was estimated to be responsible for 4 million deaths and 97 million morbidity burdens from ischemic heart disease.

Most studies assessing food self-sufficiency look at calories and neglect nutrient gaps. Comparing food demand and potential food production under land and water constraints, this study quantifies 9 key nutrient gaps for each of African’s 54 countries.

A new optical imaging study demonstrates that norepinephrine and the state of arousal influence hemodynamic correlations across cerebral cortex, calling for a conceptual shift in interpreting functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

Dissociative ionization of H₂ molecules by the combination of a phase-locked attosecond laser pair and a few-cycle NIR laser shows that ion–photoelectron entanglement influences electronic coherence in H₂⁺, allowing control over the degree of entanglement by varying the delay between the pulses.

Encoding quantum information in qudits instead of qubits allows for several advantages, but scalable native entangling techniques would be needed. Here, the authors show how to use light-shift gates to perform entangling operations on trapped ion systems, with a calibration overhead which is independent on the qudit dimension.

Hoffmann et al. show that the glycolytic intermediate fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, which accumulates in the absence of aldolase, regulates focal adhesions by relieving RCC2-mediated Rac1 inhibition.

The authors conduct a national inventory on individual tree carbon stocks in Rwanda using aerial imagery and deep learning. Most mapped trees are located in farmlands; new methods allow partitioning to any landscape categories, effective planning and optimization of carbon sequestration and the economic benefits of trees.

Robustness checks and reproduction of analyses with existing and updated data based on 110 articles in economics and political science journals with data and code-sharing requirements found high levels of robustness and reproducibility and determined that robustness was not dependent on author characteristics or data availability.

Toker et al. present an AI framework that identifies mechanisms of consciousness. The model predicts new drivers of unconsciousness and identifies subthalamic nucleus stimulation as a potential therapy for disorders of consciousness.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is predicted to slow with climate change. Sea surface temperature data and climate model analysis show that since 1900 natural variability has been dominant in AMOC changes; anthropogenic forcing is not yet reliably detectable by this method.

Predation rate flips with latitude: it is strongest in the canopy at high latitudes, but stronger in the understory in the tropics. This reversal reflects stratification of predators, reshaping how we understand forest food webs across vertical strata.

Precision oncology requires access to high quality data, as well as the application of current technologies. Here, the authors use federated learning to predict clinical outcomes in anal cancer patients across 16 centres as part of the atomCAT consortium.

Floquet engineering is emerging as a tool to control quantum materials. Here it is applied using non-resonant optical fields to coherently dress Hubbard excitons in Sr₂CuO₃, driving wavefunction rotations between bright and dark states.

Analyses of large-scale, multitaxa and long-term thermophilization patterns in forests, grasslands and alpine summits across Europe provide insight into shifts in community composition among different ecosystems in a warming world.

Magnon transport is confined to a plane by sandwiching BiFeO₃ between layers of non-polar antiferromagnetic LaFeO₃, resulting in efficient magnon transport and a higher voltage output through spin–charge conversion that can be controlled using electric fields. These results have implications for electric-field-controlled spin-based memory and logic elements.

Dynamos can generate magnetic fields, which are present across various scales in space plasmas. Here, the authors show evidence for a turbulent dynamo in the terrestrial magnetosheath, indicating that Earth’s magnetosheath may be used as a natural laboratory for testing dynamo theories and simulations.

Analysis combining multiple global tree databases reveals that whether a location is invaded by non-native tree species depends on anthropogenic factors, but the severity of the invasion depends on the native species diversity.

The morphology of hole-selective contacts is key to the stability of perovskite solar cells. Feng et al. use self-assembled molecules with extended conjugation and hydroxyl groups to form dense, amorphous films that suppress degradation induced by ion migration.

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys provide estimates of the extent of prior infection in a population. In this nationally representative survey from Mexico, the authors estimate seroprevalence after the first epidemic wave at ~25%, with variation by region, age, socioeconomic status, and education level.

Ongoing chikungunya virus replication leads to the accumulation of inflammatory macrophages and CD4⁺ T cells in joint-associated tissues. Inhibition of chikungunya virus replication during chronic disease reduced viral RNA and joint inflammation in mice.

Different agricultural management systems, for example, conventional versus organic, can have different benefits and challenges. Authors here examine the biodiversity, crop yield and ecosystem multifunctionality impacts of transitioning from conventional to organic agriculture across 179 global croplands.

The Amazon faces worsening droughts, yet little is known about large-scale variation in the physiological limits of Amazon trees. Here, the authors reveal family-level conservatism in embolism resistance and estimate that Brazilian and Guiana shield forests are more resistant than Western Amazonia forests.

Achieving lateral doping gradients in organic semiconductors (OSCs) via solution processing is crucial but remains a challenge. A gold-activated persulfate doping strategy can locally oxidize OSCs and create a lateral doping gradient, enabling low contact resistance and high carrier mobility in solution-processed organic field-effect transistors.

This study shows that the Cantor alloy (CoCrFeNiMn), inert to hydrogen at room temperature, forms a stoichiometric hydride under high-pressure, high-temperature conditions, supported by X-ray, neutron diffraction, and ab initio calculations.

It is unclear whether the harsh abiotic conditions of drylands hinder biological invasions. This global analysis shows that drylands are vulnerable to non-native plants and are likely to become more so as native plant diversity declines and grazing pressure intensifies.

He et al. identify a central regulator of condensate size and dynamics in the Chlamydomonas CO₂-fixing condensate, the pyrenoid. KEY1 phosphorylates EPYC1, a linker protein for Rubisco, to maintain pyrenoid size and number through the cell cycle.

Over five years, implementation of the NHS England Lung Cancer Screening Programme achieved high early-stage detection rates and demonstrated that the programme is both feasible and scalable for reaching high-risk and underserved populations.

Schwade et al. report HAMSTER, a physics-informed machine learning framework for predicting the quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian of complex chemical systems. It yields accurate property prediction of halide perovskites across various temperatures and compositions for systems containing 50,000 atoms.

The breast cancer screening trial found that using automated artificial intelligence to triage and support decisions in mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis was not noninferior to double reading.

Sedimentary time-series data of Lake Yoa in Chad covering the past 10.25 thousand years (kyr) show that the mid-Holocene African Humid Period experienced several decadal-scale droughts, caused by sudden inputs of freshwater into the North Atlantic.

Millimeter-wave tunable dielectrics are beneficial for next generation wireless communication technologies. Here, the authors demonstrate that topological polar structures formed in PbTiO₃/SrTiO₃ superlattices exhibit large in-plane dielectric tunability at millimeter-wave frequencies.

Selecting for varieties of commercial crops with enhanced nutritional quality is important in agriculture. Here, the authors identify alleles of a gene in tomatoes that give rise to increased levels of vitamin E and find that the promoter of the gene is differentially methylated.

A method is described for the manufacture of pivoting colloidal assemblies comprising rotating diamond and rotating triangle geometries that show tunable folding and unfolding by thermal fluctuations and actuation by magnetic attractions.

In clinical validation of a liquid biopsy assay, the approach enabled fast and accurate molecular diagnosis of EBV⁺ Burkitt’s lymphoma in more than 200 children and young adults in Tanzania and Uganda.

An improved faba bean reference genome and resequencing of winter and spring faba bean accessions identify genetic determinants of winter hardiness.

The Nobel prizewinner used quantum and molecular mechanics to model the dynamics of complex chemical systems.

Thermal inertia is used to infer physical properties of asteroid surfaces. Here, authors propose that the low thermal inertia of asteroids Bennu and Ryugu is driven by cracks in rocks resulting from geological processes within the parent body – or more recently through micrometeorite impacts

The thromboxane A₂ receptor (TP) is an important mediator of cardiovascular homeostasis. Here, authors report two structures of active TP-G_q bound to U46619 and I-BOP, revealing a molecular mechanism of TP activation and providing mechanistic insights into disease-associated TP mutations.

After performing a focused CRISPR–Cas9 screen, Skafar et al. identify riboflavin (vitamin B₂) as a regulator of FSP1 stability that modulates phospholipid peroxidation and ferroptosis sensitivity in cancer cells.

Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this gut–brain pathway restores memory in aged mice.

In this atlas paper, the authors provide a transcriptomic and spatial taxonomy of myeloid cells in the central nervous system of mice and humans in health and pathology.

Combining topological phenomena with correlated electron physics could help enable next-generation quantum devices. Here, the authors demonstrate a topological metal-insulator transition within the ferromagnetic phase of K₂Cr₈O₁₆.

The Mouse Cancer Cell line Atlas (MCCA) provides major advances towards a mechanistic understanding of cancer genomes.

Multiferroic materials are of interest because they allow control of their magnetic properties through electric fields. However, room-temperature magnetoelectrics often show antiferromagnetic order, reducing the effects of such coupling. A novel approach demonstrates switchable electric field control over a local magnetic field through the indirect route of exchange bias.