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...

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07998-6By implementing random circuit sampling, experimental and theoretical results establish the existence of transitions to a stable, computationally complex phase that is reachable with current quantum processors.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03266-9Many climate scenarios bake in a temperature overshoot before technologies are used to scrub the atmosphere clean of emissions. Emerging science says that is probably a fool’s errand.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03254-zUse of precision spectroscopy to test physical models, such as the magnetic interactions of atoms, is often hampered by the lack of reliable values for fundamental properties of the nucleus. This limitation has been overcome for beryllium-9 by precisely determining the nuclear...