Nature, Published online: 20 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02070-9The balance between bacterial communities in the gut affects the likelihood of a positive response to drugs called checkpoint inhibitors.

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01703-3Hubble observations of faint galaxies suggest that such objects could have been the seeds of very early supermassive black holes.

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07576-wAntisense RNAs boost gene expression by accelerating the export of mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm through the Dbp2-mediated formation of double-stranded RNAs, which might explain the prevalence of antisense RNAs.

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01509-3Scientists have long sought to explain how fish can sense the direction of sound, given the challenges that hearing underwater poses. An experimental study testing a variety of models now provides some answers.

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01645-wA little-studied sensory structure called the Krause corpuscle is responsible for detecting light touch and is essential for normal sexual behaviour in mice. The findings have interesting implications for human sexual intimacy.

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07522-wEvidence from neuroscience and related fields suggests that language and thought processes operate in distinct networks in the human brain and that language is optimized for communication and not for complex thought.