Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00979-3 Psilocybin, a classic psychedelic, has therapeutic potential for psychiatric disorders. A specific brain circuit and receptor have now been found to be required for
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00976-6 Innovative experimental and computational techniques have been developed to study the interface of oil droplets suspended in water, a model system of hydrophobic interaction.
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08796-4 Neonatal antibiotic use is shown to reduce immune response to infant vaccines, accompanied by reduced abundance of Bifidobacteria in the gut microbiota, with experiments
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00755-3 Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration.
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08761-1 Non-classical correlations between two photons in the near-field regime give rise to entanglement in their total angular momentum, leading to a completely different structure
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01019-w The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08744-2 A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08800-x Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08784-8 A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond
Nature, Published online: 02 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00885-8 A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all the visual neurons