Nature, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02903-7SDG 17 offers an “enabling” blueprint for meeting ambitious targets, including measures to tackle poverty, hunger and climate change, says Kate Roll.

Nature, Published online: 10 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03202-xThe easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissues from those of others.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03303-7Efforts to make therapeutics from the tiny RNA molecules have been ‘in a little bit of a slump’, but that might soon change.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03309-1Machine learning and artificial neural networks allow graphene to become an accurate and general-use ‘taste taster’ — plus, how pacific-salmon migrations cycle nutrients and contaminants on a continental scale, and the 2024 science Nobel winners.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03288-3Quantum machines have a noise threshold past which classical machines cannot best them, researchers have learnt.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03248-xLaser-induced imaging of radioactive elements was used to work out the age of an ancient cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The results reveal that the narrative scene is 51,200 years old, making it the earliest known example of representational art. This study...