Giant black-hole pair from the early Universe gives clues to how galaxies form

Nature, Published online: 05 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01006-z

Researchers see most distant pair of supermassive black holes yet observed, and assessing an AI's ability to interpret heart images.

How to make driverless cars safer — expose them to lots of dangerous drivers

Nature, Published online: 22 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00867-8

A method to test and teach autonomous cars how to deal with dangerous situations, and a renewed interest in bats and how they deal with viruses.

The driving test for driverless cars

Nature, Published online: 22 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00868-7

A virtual world filled with bad AI drivers can be used to test autonomous vehicles.

How an increased heart rate could induce anxiety in mice

Nature, Published online: 01 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00612-1

A method to directly stimulate a rodent’s heart shows how bodily states can affect emotions, and assessing the impact of NASA’s mission to move an asteroid.

A twisting microscope that could unlock the secrets of 2D materials

Nature, Published online: 22 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00537-9

How the Quantum Twisting Microscope could give a better ‘picture’ of atom thin layers, and science in Ukraine a year into Russia’s invasion.

How ‘metadevices’ could make electronics faster

Nature, Published online: 15 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00467-6

Getting electronics into super-fast terahertz speeds, and how cognitive changes could alter social media’s effects on young people.

This device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed

Nature, Published online: 15 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00472-9

Inspired by nature, this little wooden ‘robot’ has been designed to bury itself.

Amino acid slows nerve damage from diabetes, in mouse study

Nature, Published online: 25 January 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00213-y

Experiments show the role that serine may play in a common diabetes complication.