Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02901-x

Traces of the psychoactive compound arecoline suggest that two people regularly sucked on psychoactive betel nuts. Plus, what motivates people to take action on climate change and the promise of nasal vaccines.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02867-w

The AI giant claims to have solved one of maths’ trickiest problems, but questions swirl over should get the credit. Plus, an atlas of every single DNA letter mutation in humans and why more bioengineered microorganisms aren’t making it out of the lab.

Nature, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02838-1

The deaths of two children in separate gene-therapy trials could have a profound effect on China’s biomedical industry, say researchers. Plus, an AI system has formalized Fermat’s last theorem and the impact of Nancy Grace Roman.

Nature, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02831-8

A new study could fuel debate about whether the Bunsen burner still has a place in the modern lab. Plus, the United States is shifting a huge swathe of biomedical research to the military and boat-bashing orcas are just having a good time.

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01648-9

arXiv’s stance on AI-hallucinated references is a good start, but not tough enough, say some researchers. Plus, the brain’s code seems to be in constant flux and how to learn to love networking.

Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01248-7

Looking at a childlike version of your face might help you see childhood memories more clearly. Plus, some AI disease-prediction models are trained on suspect data and how thermal imaging can reveal night-flying birds.

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01238-9

Researchers are using airborne DNA to get snapshots of the make up of ecosystems. Plus, what scientists in Hungary think about the end of Viktor Orbán’s government and the penguins helping to monitor ‘forever chemicals’.

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01132-4

Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.