Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10372-3

Direct conversion from alkenes to alkynes

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00769-5

Microbial diversity loss seen after a course of some commonly prescribed antibiotics can persist for years.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10179-2

A machine-learning model that integrates data from wearable devices (such as smartwatches) with blood biomarkers and demographic data can predict whether someone has insulin resistance, enabling timely lifestyle interventions to prevent progression to type 2 diabetes.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00843-y

Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00841-0

An exemplary book gets much right, but misses the point that the nation’s tech dominance has more to do with globalization than with policy choices.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00422-1

Almost half of the scientists who responded said they have or had second jobs during their degrees.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00849-6

Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00380-8

Patterns in continuous data from wearable devices could reveal early metabolic dysfunction long before routine clinical tests detect it.

Nature, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00842-z

More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.

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.