Daily briefing: Researchers re-enact an epic ancient canoe trip

Nature, Published online: 26 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02025-8Researchers have shown how Stone Age people might have canoed from Taiwan to Japan more than 30,000 years ago by doing it themselves. Plus, cancer cells can steal energy-making machinery from nerve cells and what the battle between the Trump administration and Harvard University means for science.

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Daily briefing: Researchers re-enact an epic ancient canoe trip

Nature, Published online: 26 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02025-8Researchers have shown how Stone Age people might have canoed from Taiwan to Japan more than 30,000 years ago by doing it themselves. Plus, cancer cells can steal energy-making machinery from nerve cells and what the battle between the Trump administration and Harvard University means for science.