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The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10349-2

Across 17 forest plots (2.7 million trees, 5,400 species), competition dominated overall, but facilitation was relatively stronger near the equator and declined towards higher latitudes, partly linked to temperature, legumes, mycorrhizal associations and canopy nursing effect.
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DNA damage drives antigen diversification in <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10337-6

An in vitro toolkit for studying VSG diversification defines key molecular requirements underlying the formation of mosaic VSGs, providing an experimental framework for the exploration of antigen diversification in Trypanosoma brucei and in other pathogenic microorganisms.
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Single-cell spatiotemporal dissection of the human maternal–fetal interface

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10316-x

A single-cell multiomic atlas of the human maternal–fetal interface across pregnancy reveals cell types, states and spatial niches, developmental tissue architectures and transcriptional programmes, and identifies cell types with roles in pre-eclampsia, spontaneous preterm birth and miscarriage.
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High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10168-5

The CMS experiment at CERN reports one of the highest-precision measurements of the W boson mass, finding it in line with standard model predictions and at odds with recent anomalous measurements.
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Mummified early Permian reptile reveals ancient amniote breathing apparatus

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10307-y

A mummified fossil of the early Permian reptile Captorhinus reveals the potential ancestral amniote breathing mechanism and its impact on terrestrial vertebrate evolution.
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Multiomics and deep learning dissect regulatory syntax in human development

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10326-9

The Human Development Multiomic Atlas catalogues single-cell accessibility and gene expression data from human fetal cells across 12 organs, enabling the inference of syntactic rules for motifs that govern cell-type-specific transcription factor binding and chromatin accessibility during human development.
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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.
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Entanglement and electronic coherence in attosecond molecular photoionization

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10230-2

Dissociative ionization of H2 molecules by the combination of a phase-locked attosecond laser pair and a few-cycle NIR laser shows that ion–photoelectron entanglement influences electronic coherence in H2+, allowing control over the degree of entanglement by varying the delay between the pulses.
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Dopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10301-4

Longitudinal tracking of mice reveals that stable, specialized social roles emerge spontaneously within groups during a foraging task, with dopaminergic activity in the ventral tegmental area driving sex-divergent patterns of specialization.
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Electric dipole moment drives the dynamics of the&#xa0;TNFR1 complex I signalosome

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10304-1

Long-range interactions mediated by protein electric dipole moments have a role in driving the assembly and disassembly of super-signalling complex I for promoting NF-κB signalling.
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