Nature, Published online: 14 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01412-xIf Europe wants to create a high-risk, high-reward research body, it needs grass-roots backing.

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01367-zA book cataloguing mysterious events challenges scientists to provide some answers, and Charles Darwin continues his investigations of crimes against primroses, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Nature, Published online: 13 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01434-5A survey of people in 168 countries finds that Internet use might boost life satisfaction and sense of purpose. Plus, what a Neanderthal’s Mona-Lisa smile tells us about ourselves and how the cauliflower got its whorls.

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01413-wCheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones.

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01314-yResearchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.

Nature, Published online: 14 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01338-4Some genes carry an ‘imprint’ on either the maternal or the paternal copy, which determines whether or not that copy is expressed. This 1984 discovery changed how scientists think about gene regulation and inheritance.