Nature Briefing

A huge analysis sheds light on open-access compliance. Plus, the quantum internet is closer than we think, and experts weigh in on anatomy and its connection (or lack thereof) to gender.

The uncertain readiness of commercial space outposts, Nobel laureates’ Brexit warning, and the demise of Australia’s fierce marsupial lion.

The lengths biohackers go to to augment their frail human forms. Plus: Hunting out HIV's hiding places, and space-selfies from the Mercury mission.

At least in this timeline. Plus: we hear why a PhD isn’t for everyone and tempt you with the best science books of the season.

“Lesser” institutions make grant money go further, a method of flight new to nature and cuttlefish skin reveals their thoughts.

Canada’s cannabis science boom, how we might track hundreds of thousands of animals from space, and how scientists can tackle trolls.

Alarming losses at the base of the food web, the imminent launch of a mission to Mercury and the man who smells things for NASA.

“But I don't know that it's man made,” says the US President. Plus, delve into Stephen Hawking’s final paper and consider a call for a mass retraction of cardiac-stem cell studies.

It gets dusty. Plus: the IPCC climate change report in the form of emojis and supercharged crime-scene DNA analysis.

A white-knuckle ride for two astronauts, an example of how we’re teaching computers to be biased and the promise and controversy of polygenic risk scores.

A Dutch court orders steeper carbon cuts, how you can share your science with tourists and a call for transparency in the Nobel judging process.

How to score a permanent research position, a hiccup on the Hubble, and a controversial peer-reviewed homeopathy study.

Why computers (and brains) need so much energy, the IPCC’s dire warning to us all, and the Nobel prize goes to climate-change economists.

A tiny chip might have compromised Apple and Amazon, diamond-shaped graphs could prevent correlation-causation confusion and Europe’s ambition open-access plan is being sold stateside.

Scientists will get the jump on fishers in warming Arctic, a deep dive into the frustrating search for dark matter and astronomers might have spotted the first exomoon.

What a scientist’s Wikipedia page says about sexism, ‘test-tube’ evolution wins the Chemistry Nobel Prize and can a dolphin have a personality.

Toast the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, welcome a new world in our Solar System and enjoy a guide for scientists who speak to the media.

A jaw-dropping slide deck, the medicine Nobel winners, and why luck favours the prepared.

Indigenous researchers train to be their own genome experts, the Nobel committee reminds nominators that women exist, and how the WHO learnt to love traditional Chinese medicine.

Manta rays' unique feeding system, evidence of severe image-tampering at a leading plant lab, and a welcome budget boost for French science.