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Received — 13 April 2026 ⏭ Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds

High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10339-4

Large-scale lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations enable a model-free, highly precise determination of the strong coupling constant αs, reducing theoretical uncertainty and improving precision tests of particle physics.

High-fidelity collisional quantum gates with fermionic atoms

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10356-3

A robust composite pair-exchange gate based on controlled interactions of fermionic atoms in an optical superlattice demonstrates high fidelities and long Bell-state lifetimes, marking an important step towards a fully digital fermionic quantum computer.

Population-scale repeat expansions elucidate disease risk and brain atrophy

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10345-6

Decreased brain volumes and increased NfL levels can be observed earlier than disease diagnosis in short-tandem-repeat-associated neurological diseases.

Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10260-w

Daily satellite data reveal that Earth’s artificial lights at night are highly volatile, with frequent brightening and dimming between 2014 and 2022.
Received — 8 April 2026 ⏭ Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds
Received — 2 April 2026 ⏭ Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Developmental organization of sensory and sympathetic ganglia

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10313-0

Findings suggest that neural crest fate bias predominantly emerges within the neural tube, and that only a minor subset of delaminated progenitors retain multipotency to generate both sensory and sympathetic derivatives.

Evidence of the pair-instability gap from black-hole masses

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10359-0

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA’s fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog shows evidence of a clear pair-instability gap in the distribution of binary black-hole secondary masses but is absent in the larger primary masses.

Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10290-4

The transcription factor ATF4 is shown to regulate double-stranded DNA repair within vulnerable CUX2+ upper-layer 2/3 cortical neurons, enabling their survival during development.

AhR inhibition promotes axon regeneration via a stress–growth switch

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10295-z

AhR functions as a neuronal brake on axon regeneration, integrating environmental sensing, protein homeostasis and metabolic signalling to control the balance between stress adaptation and axonal repair.

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5

A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more recent papers and papers from journals that require data sharing.

Evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10340-x

The seventh cholera pandemic, driven by El Tor Vibrio cholerae, evolved separately in Bangladesh and India, with the Ganges Basin acting as the global source, and its evolution has been shaped by phage defence system changes, influencing severity and transmission.

Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9

When 100 social and behavioural science claims were examined, 34% of reanalyses closely matched the original results, with 74% reaching the same conclusion, revealing limited robustness of single-path analyses and the need to address analytical uncertainty.
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.
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