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Received — 26 March 2026 ⏭ Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Genomic history of early dogs in Europe

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10112-7

Genome-wide analysis shows European dogs existed by 14,200 years ago, were already genetically distinct, received less Neolithic Southwest Asian admixture than humans did and contributed substantially to later European dogs.

Exposed phosphatidylserine is an inhibitory molecule in T cell exhaustion

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10266-4

Insights into the mechanism by which phosphatidylserine functions as a non-classical inhibitory molecule during T cell exhaustion, and how phosphatidylserine-targeting antibodies enhance T cell responses are explored.

Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10291-3

New evidence suggests that diffusive oxygen transport through the tracheolar–muscle system is not the limiting factor on insect body size.

Superluminal correlations in ensembles of optical phase singularities

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10209-z

Ultrafast electron imaging shows full phase-space dynamics of optical singularities, which can reach superluminal velocities before annihilation and break the particle-like analogy of topological defects.
Received — 14 March 2026 ⏭ Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds

The dynamic basis of G-protein recognition and activation by a GPCR

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10228-w

Conventional and time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy reveal how NTSR1 dynamically engages and releases different G proteins, capturing over 20 intermediates and uncovering key mechanistic steps in GDP- and GTP-driven activation, subtype selectivity and distinct dissociation pathways.

Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10151-0

Observations of a nearby type I superluminous supernova showing oscillating light-curve bumps provide evidence of a centrally located magnetar in the wake of the explosion, surrounded by an infalling accretion disk undergoing Lense–Thirring precession.

Snapshots of the dynamic basis of NTSR1 G protein subtype promiscuity

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10120-7

Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy during activation of Gαi1βγ and Gα11βγ heterotrimers bound to NTSR1 enables isolation of multiple transient complexes along the activation pathway and reveals structural motifs that stabilize these intermediates.

A sorghum pangenome reference improves global crop trait discovery

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10229-9

A pangenome reference for the phenotypically diverse crop sorghum aims to help accelerate future efforts to breed crops that are better adapted to changing environments.

Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10038-6

A monolithically integrated photonic ski-jump enables scalable, diffraction-limited 2D beam scanning from photonic chips, achieving ultrahigh spot rates, compact footprints and applications spanning displays, sensing and quantum photonics.

Immune evasive DNA donors and recombinases license kilobase-scale writing

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10241-z

INSTALL overcomes fundamental challenges for DNA delivery and integration methods by synergizing immune-stealth nucleic acids with recombinases to enable kilobase-scale integration strategies without viral vectors.

Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from <i>Escherichia coli</i> sepsis

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10225-z

Neonatal sepsis caused by Escherichia coli is associated with reduced transfer of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies and, in a mouse model, can be prevented by maternal preconceptual colonization with probiotic E. coli.

Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10216-0

Ageing reprograms the evolutionary trajectory of KRAS-driven lung adenocarcinoma, limiting primary tumour growth while promoting metastatic dissemination through epigenetic activation of the integrated stress response, and a therapeutic opportunity in older patients is revealed.

A mechanism to initiate emergency type 2 myelopoiesis

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10256-6

Myelopoiesis in response to a parasitic worm infection and the mechanism selective to this form of parasite are revealed.
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