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Campaigners who want scrutiny of biometrics research on Uyghurs, Tibetans and other groups are frustrated by slow progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This year's pivotal election will shape the future of US science. Rising international competition and domestic concerns are also at play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers are among those who feel uneasy about the unrestrained use of their intellectual property in training commercial large language models. Firms and regulators need to agree the rules of engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are gaps in our understanding of how and why digital misinformation propagates. To help design effective interventions to minimize the spread of falsehoods, researchers need data and transparency from online platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-reliance and a wish to set the agenda might explain concerted push to produce domestic journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governments must act now on vaccine and pathogen-sample sharing, or any agreement will be a promise only on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Burning crop waste causes devastating pollution in South Asia. When local administrators have appropriate incentives to control burning, incidents go down — a finding that could guide future efforts to manage air pollution. Role of bureaucratic actions in controlling crop-residue burning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Machine learning has been used to turn a survey of local waste-management practices into a global inventory of plastic emissions. The data show that tackling plastic pollution will require reduced production and consumption.Global inventory of plastic emissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too little opportunity to help tackle the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many climate scenarios bake in a temperature overshoot before technologies are used to scrub the atmosphere clean of emissions. Emerging science says that is probably a fool’s errand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Paris agreement must align their schedules — or progress will slip. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Private-investor approaches for measuring the emissions associated with lending to governments risk creating perverse incentives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The country’s record of adaptability and reinvention might stand it in good stead as it strives to get back on track. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five scholars share their science-policy priorities for the incoming government as it faces urgent challenges in tackling climate change, health, inequality and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world should redouble its efforts on the SDGs, not abandon them. Here’s how to progress the United Nations’ agenda towards 2050. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today’s polarized political climate, researchers who combat mistruths have come under attack and been labelled as unelected arbiters of truth. But the fight against misinformation is valid, warranted and urgently required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A surging market for ‘fish maw’ is pushing threatened species to the brink. Researchers are trying to limit the damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As climate and food-security pressures intensify, the world’s most populous continent sees clear opportunities to reimagine meat — just as it did for affordable solar panels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was modelled after DARPA, the hugely successful US tech funder. Can Britain’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency — ARIA — create revolutionary innovations? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some of the world’s biggest carbon emitters are going to the polls this year — the results could determine whether humanity can correct its trajectory of dangerous global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A sample of roughly two million WhatsApp messages highlights urgent concerns about the spread and prevalence of AI-generated political content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic researchers have a unique opportunity to benefit society — and their research — by spending time in government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hundreds of millions of people cross deficient bridges each day. With damage to these structures likely to intensify because of climate change and ageing, technicians and policymakers must act to make them safer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academics are calling for greater transparency in harassment cases. But do the benefits outweigh the risks? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not. Six steps can begin to counteract this inequity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considerable uncertainties surround whether and how Earth could bounce back from a transgression of the temperature limits agreed in Paris. An analysis of overconfidence in models suggests that it might be safer to avoid such a path.Analysis of climate pathways that do not comply with the Paris agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Funders launch projects with US$70 million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Only 63 climate-change interventions led to significant reductions in carbon emissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fed up with a lack of political progress in solving the climate problem, some researchers are becoming activists to slow global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Are urban trees and parks essential to improving the environment and human health — or just a sop to middle-class ideals of gentrification? Two books debate these opposing views. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A meta-analysis of 21 carbon-pricing schemes suggests that the strategy reduces greenhouse-gas emissions. Deciding how high to set prices is the next step — and one that might benefit from the insights of less-aggregated studies in various sectors.Meta-analysis of carbon-pricing strategies around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The network of emerging economic powers known as BRICS is ramping up its science collaboration. Researchers need to be involved in decisions as plans develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Volunteers played a key part in validating a gigantic neuroscience study mapping the fruit-fly brain. It shows what can be achieved through crowdsourcing research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The power of big tech is outstripping any ‘Brussels effect’ from the EU’s AI Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tens of thousands of studies evaluating government programmes are collecting dust in institutional vaults. Sharing them could benefit everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some scientists think the decision regarding EcoHealth Alliance is fair; others say it might negatively affect virus surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Countries are cracking down on tobacco use and vaping — the laws could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars, say scientists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To elevate the nation’s science, sex and gender analysis must be embedded in study design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As science becomes more globalized, researchers must safeguard sensitive data from inadvertent legal breaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With renewal of the two countries' decades-long science pact still on hold, there is too much talk about the risks of collaboration — and too little about the benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Kingdom is correct to attempt to end the single largest preventable cause of illness and death, as was New Zealand before its government changed its mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PhD supervisors can learn a lot from innovations at other stages in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From governance to climate impacts, the world’s urban environments face many difficulties. A new journal, Nature Cities, aims to bring together researchers who are rising to the challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]