Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03368-y
A previously unknown strain left a stamp on modern varieties of the world’s most popular sugar source.
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Sugarcane genomes offer sweet surprise: mystery ancestor
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How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role
Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6
Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.
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Paper or plastic?
The chairs by the pharmacy counter are hard bioplastic and contoured — supposedly — to the human body. They’re not the right shape for Harold or for anyone else who might actually need to sit on them. Too high off the ground, sized for…
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Key coral species are functionally extinct after record-breaking heatwave
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The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch — from Interstellar to Spider-Man
Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics. Although many of them disagree wildly about how the century-old theory describes reality, something they seem to agree on is…
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How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says
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Advice on how to get good sleep is everywhere, with the market for sleep aids worth more than…
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Ancient graffiti and brain complexities: Books in brief
Elusive Cures
Nicole C. Rust Princeton Univ. Press (2025)
Over the past few decades, brain research has produced effective treatments for pain, insomnia, postpartum depression, paralysis and spinal muscular atrophy, but some trials for…
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AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science
AI’s inclination to be helpful affects many of the tasks that researchers use LLMs for.Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found.
The…
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Watch SpaceX launch its record-breaking 139th mission of the year today
SpaceX will launch its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a four-hour window that…
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