LoginBriefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
8 April 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01132-4
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Received — 13 April 2026
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Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01132-4Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.
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Daily briefing: AI spread information about an obviously made-up disease
Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01140-4AI chatbots informed users of the symptoms of ‘bixonimania’ after scientists published just two fake preprints. Plus, different psychedelics work in surprisingly similar ways and an influential report on the economic cost of climate change revisited.
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Daily briefing: AI spread information about an obviously made-up disease
8 April 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01140-4
AI chatbots informed users of the symptoms of ‘bixonimania’ after scientists published just two fake preprints. Plus, different psychedelics work in surprisingly similar ways and an influential report on the economic cost of climate change revisited.
Received — 4 April 2026
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Daily briefing: The countdown to NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launch
Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01097-4The science that NASA’s latest Moon mission will conduct, and why some researchers aren’t fussed about it. Plus, the status of the bird flu outbreak in US cows and what publishers can do about hallucinated citations in scientific literature.
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Daily briefing: The countdown to NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launch
1 April 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01097-4
The science that NASA’s latest Moon mission will conduct, and why some researchers aren’t fussed about it. Plus, the status of the bird flu outbreak in US cows and what publishers can do about hallucinated citations in scientific literature.-
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Daily briefing: Are boys really in crisis? What the science says
Nature, Published online: 31 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01055-0Concerns about boys are widespread, but evidence shows that worries are best understood in the context of all young people. Plus, the month’s best science images and a whole new way that vertebrates slurp.
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Daily briefing: Are boys really in crisis? What the science says
31 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 31 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01055-0
Concerns about boys are widespread, but evidence shows that worries are best understood in the context of all young people. Plus, the month’s best science images and a whole new way that vertebrates slurp.
Received — 2 April 2026
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Daily briefing: Women’s academic careers are knocked by parenthood much more than men’s
Nature, Published online: 30 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01018-5Childcare responsibilities disproportionately affect women’s academic careers. Plus, epic freshwater fish migrations are running into roadblocks and whether NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission is the dawn of a new space age.
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Daily briefing: Women’s academic careers are knocked by parenthood much more than men’s
30 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 30 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01018-5
Childcare responsibilities disproportionately affect women’s academic careers. Plus, epic freshwater fish migrations are running into roadblocks and whether NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission is the dawn of a new space age.
Received — 26 March 2026
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Daily briefing: Tiny bones from Neanderthal fetus point to downfall of the species
Nature, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00963-5A genetic bottleneck appears to have been behind the downfall of the Neanderthals. Plus, AI-generated medical X-rays are getting too realistic to spot and ways to grapple with a tsunami of experimental data.
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Daily briefing: Tiny bones from Neanderthal fetus point to downfall of the species
24 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 24 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00963-5
A genetic bottleneck appears to have been behind the downfall of the Neanderthals. Plus, AI-generated medical X-rays are getting too realistic to spot and ways to grapple with a tsunami of experimental data.-
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Daily briefing: We’ve just had the 11 hottest years on record
Nature, Published online: 23 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00957-3A new report shows that Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any other time in recorded history. Plus, a lab-grown oesophagus and evidence that sperm whales headbutt.
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Daily briefing: We’ve just had the 11 hottest years on record
23 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 23 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00957-3
A new report shows that Earth’s climate is more out of balance than at any other time in recorded history. Plus, a lab-grown oesophagus and evidence that sperm whales headbutt.
Received — 17 March 2026
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Daily briefing: Genomes shake up the shark family tree
Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00859-4Is 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.
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Daily briefing: Genomes shake up the shark family tree
13 March 2026 at 08:00
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.-
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Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00831-2A 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.
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Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
11 March 2026 at 08:00
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.
Received — 14 March 2026
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Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00815-2A 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.
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Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
11 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00815-2
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.-
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Daily briefing: A daily multivitamin slows the signs of biological ageing
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00792-6The daily supplement slows markers of ageing on two epigenetic ‘clocks’. Plus, the real science of skincare and the domino effect of fictional case studies involving opioids in breastmilk.
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Daily briefing: A daily multivitamin slows the signs of biological ageing
10 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00792-6
The daily supplement slows markers of ageing on two epigenetic ‘clocks’. Plus, the real science of skincare and the domino effect of fictional case studies involving opioids in breastmilk.
Received — 11 March 2026
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Daily briefing: How koalas escaped a genetic bottleneck
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00771-xEvidence from koalas suggest that even species pushed to the brink of extinction can recover lost genetic diversity. Plus, the first ‘half Möbius’ carbon-based molecule and a mathematician modelling Mexico’s drug cartels.
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Daily briefing: How koalas escaped a genetic bottleneck
6 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00771-x
Evidence from koalas suggest that even species pushed to the brink of extinction can recover lost genetic diversity. Plus, the first ‘half Möbius’ carbon-based molecule and a mathematician modelling Mexico’s drug cartels.-
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Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart
Nature, Published online: 05 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00754-yEmerging forensic methods can differentiate between twin suspects in criminal cases. Plus, GLP-1 obesity drugs can help stave off addictions and scientists claim to have made a rare hexagonal diamond.
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Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart
5 March 2026 at 08:00
Nature, Published online: 05 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00754-y
Emerging forensic methods can differentiate between twin suspects in criminal cases. Plus, GLP-1 obesity drugs can help stave off addictions and scientists claim to have made a rare hexagonal diamond.