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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.

A fast starburst wind consumes most of the energy from supernovae

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10231-1

Starburst galaxies are seen to host galaxy-scale winds, which are super-fast and could be powered entirely by the thermal pressure of gas heated by supernovae.

Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain drives lethal PFA ependymoma

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10264-6

Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain prolongs hindbrain differentiation in male individuals and drives sex differences in the incidence and prognosis of posterior fossa type A (PFA) ependymoma, an aggressive childhood brain tumour.

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10267-3

Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

Decadal-scale droughts disrupted the African Humid Period in the Sahara

Nature, Published online: 25 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10336-7

Sedimentary time-series data of Lake Yoa in Chad covering the past 10.25 thousand years (kyr) show that the mid-Holocene African Humid Period experienced several decadal-scale droughts, caused by sudden inputs of freshwater into the North Atlantic.
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