Briefing

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent the spread than public health agencies are

During the latter part of June, Mars will put on a couple of eye-catching shows, teaming up first with a bright star and then, late this month, with the moon.

The lagoon nebulas were observed under the near-pristine dark skies of northern Arizona.

The coverage offered by the Fliti Galaxy Projector is incredible, but it doesn’t have the best build quality.

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from achieving “breakout,” the ability to quickly turn “yellowcake” uranium into bomb-grade fuel, with its new high-speed centrifuges

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet’s volcano for the first time

Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators

Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01854-x

The hearts started to beat in the pig–human hybrids, which survived for 21 days.

Nature, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01802-9

Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest.

Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world’s most diverse marine environments