Nature, Published online: 14 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00814-3

The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country’s bid for self-reliance.

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10376-z

Author Correction: SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00767-7

Tightly packed molecular chains can start to wiggle in many directions when an enzyme introduces energy.

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00845-w

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

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00813-4

The 1990s game has been run on bacteria and a satellite and played by neurons in a dish.

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00844-x

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Nature, Published online: 13 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00743-1

The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00782-8

Activity levels and daytime sleepiness can be combined into a ‘behavioural clock’ that predicts whether a fish will have a short life or a long one.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00825-0

New technique aims to prevent bats from spreading disease, the science behind health supplements and the ‘same-ifying’ effect of writing with AI.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00594-w

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00764-w

Faculty members are spending ever more time outmanoeuvring students who want to cut corners with artificial intelligence.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04062-9

I have a five-year gap in my publication record. Last year, I published seven academic articles as either the first or corresponding author. Here’s why one level of output isn’t better than any other.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00598-6

Potatoes, coffee and protein are at the centre of some intriguing studies from the past five years.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00709-3

Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00547-3

The author of Just F**cking Say It offers tips to boost your confidence as a public speaker.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10302-3

Author Correction: Gut stem cell necroptosis by genome instability triggers bowel inflammation

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00801-8

Wobbling signal could explain some extremely bright supernovae

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00798-0

A study reveals how the asexual Amazon molly defies evolutionary expectations — plus, evidence of what might be powering superluminous supernovae.

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.

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10183-6

A 4D imaging architecture using a large-scale, coherent LiDAR focal plane array comprising more than 0.6 million photonic components and associated electronics integrated on-chip can obtain coherent images at high frame rates over useful distances.