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Zeke Hausfather’s call for governments to prepare for the developing super El Niño should extend to ecosystems that have been weakened by repeated climate extremes (see Nature 657, 858; 2026). The Great Barrier Reef, for example, is entering this event during a fragile recovery window.
Repetitive sequences make extrachromosomal DNA vulnerable to breaks, which could be exploited for therapy — but might also promote tumour evolution.
A satisfying congruence between genetics and cell-biology findings, and experiments at altitude with a rotating device that measures radiant energy, in this week’s peek at Nature’s archive. Snippets from Nature’s past.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.
Nature’s senior biology reporter Ewen Callaway reflects on today’s prize for optogenetics — which scientists have anticipated for years.
Twenty-five years after the US anthrax attacks, fears around AI are distracting people from seeing what’s needed to stay safe: a strong, regulated life-sciences sector.
Two books explore how warfare is being reshaped, with influence shifting from states to tech giants.
Outcomes have improved drastically in the United States for some forms of the disease, but those for others continue to lag.
Psychologist Mirta Galesic discusses an increase in hateful comments online, and the science-backed way to react.
A queue of men and women, techies and academics, moved inch by inch down a corridor towards a large door.
Advocates say that delivering lectures and presentations al fresco can energize students and provide them with a complete experience.
A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.
Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.
Biomedical discovery has entered an era in which the limiting resource is no longer data, but our ability to integrate and interpret evidence. DeepEvidence, a new deep research agent, goes beyond retrieving facts and constructs explicit representations of scientific evidence.
Combinatorial optimization (CO) underpins decision-making across science, engineering and industry, especially manufacturing, logistics, healthcare operations and energy management.
Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting the maple seed’s gentle spiral to the forest...
Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
Accelerator-based neutrino physics is entering an energy-frontier regime in which interactions reach the tera-electronvolt scale and produce exceptionally dense, overlapping detector signatures.
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