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Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10372-3
Direct conversion from alkenes to alkynesNature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10372-3
Direct conversion from alkenes to alkynesNature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00769-5
Microbial diversity loss seen after a course of some commonly prescribed antibiotics can persist for years.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10179-2
A machine-learning model that integrates data from wearable devices (such as smartwatches) with blood biomarkers and demographic data can predict whether someone has insulin resistance, enabling timely lifestyle interventions to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00843-y
Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00841-0
An exemplary book gets much right, but misses the point that the nation’s tech dominance has more to do with globalization than with policy choices.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00422-1
Almost half of the scientists who responded said they have or had second jobs during their degrees.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00849-6
Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00380-8
Patterns in continuous data from wearable devices could reveal early metabolic dysfunction long before routine clinical tests detect it.Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00842-z
More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00859-4
Is there no such thing as a shark? Plus, the role of videogame icon Doom in science and how people with a religious connection to glaciers are responding to their loss.Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00831-2
A new simulation models processes such as DNA replication and cell division in a virtual bacterial cell. Plus, China is giving science a billion-dollar spending boost and why national statistics are in trouble.Nature, Published online: 14 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00814-3
The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country’s bid for self-reliance.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10376-z
Author Correction: SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancerNature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00767-7
Tightly packed molecular chains can start to wiggle in many directions when an enzyme introduces energy.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00845-w
Nature staff discuss some of the week's top science news.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00813-4
The 1990s game has been run on bacteria and a satellite and played by neurons in a dish.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00844-x
The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00743-1
The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00782-8
Activity levels and daytime sleepiness can be combined into a ‘behavioural clock’ that predicts whether a fish will have a short life or a long one.Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00825-0
New technique aims to prevent bats from spreading disease, the science behind health supplements and the ‘same-ifying’ effect of writing with AI.