Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 04 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00903-5Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecular network regulating the ancestral processes of feeding, growth and reproduction.

Development requires the coordinated action of many genes across space and time, yet numerous species can develop discrete, alternate phenotypes. S...

The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...

Bumble bees (Bombus) are prominent keystone pollinators globally and thus serve as model taxa for numerous facets of biology from social evolution to foraging economics. Many of the ∼265 species are i...

Millennia after the advent of pesticides and nearly eight decades into the widespread use of synthetic compounds, the role of such chemicals in modern society remains pivotal, despite persistent conce...

A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

Analysis of the longest-lived mammal, the bowhead whale, reveals an improved ability to repair DNA breaks, mediated by high levels of cold-inducible RNA-binding protein.  &nbs...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the overnight assault showed that Russia “clearly doesn’t feel enough pressure to stop prolonging the war.”

The apparent collapse of the latest summit and renewed Russian attacks show that Trump’s hopes for a negotiated solution to the war remain distant.

Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00896-3Nanopore RNA sequencing is a potent technology for the detection of RNA modifications. Nanopore modification-aware base-calling models have been recently developed, and this Progress article discusses their limitations, including modification cross-reactivities, variability in false positive rates and modification-calling threshold choices.

A combination of whole-genome NanoSeq with deep whole-exome and targeted NanoSeq is used to accurately characterize mutation rates and genes under positive selection in sperm cells.

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.