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Nobel Prizes 2026: brain switches, ‘ghost’ particle hunter, and 'the chemistry of life'
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03208-7Nature rounds up the Nobel Prizes for science —…
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Neanderthal Europe was as much a wooden age as a stone age
When Neanderthals dominated Europe, it was likely that wood was at least as important to them as stone for working into …
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194-year-old tortoise has exceptional DNA repair systems that fight off ageing
The genome of Jonathan the giant tortoise, a 194-year-old resident of St Helena island, has been probed to understand ho…
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OpenAI has dumped 722 maths papers – now it must clean up the mess
OpenAI is using mathematics as a test site for its most capable AI models, and that means it has a responsibility to dea…
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Stunning early mammal fossil sheds light on the evolution of suckling
A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, al…
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Colonisation of Australia led to big increase in wildfire danger
An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the expulsion of Indigenous communities in th…
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How we ditched presentations and embraced silence in our lab meetings
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02836-3Swapping to a system in which lab members read …
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A guide to Nature Index tables
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02999-zInformation on the methodology used in the rank…
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Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02864-zIdentity crisis.…
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Chemistry Nobel for solving mystery of how ‘handed’ organic molecules can emerge
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03093-0Prize awarded to two chemists who probed why li…
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OpenAI announces 722 mathematical discoveries in one go
AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics, but now OpenAI has released hundreds of papers at the same time – …
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been honoured for their work on making molecules form the correct mirror images…
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Can your brain grow new neurons? How researchers are solving a century-old puzzle
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03132-wScientists have debated for decades whether the…
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Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H<sub>2</sub> extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11244-6Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H2 extrac…
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Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones
Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect…
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The telescope that could reveal what dark matter and dark energy are
The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years'…
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Impossibly fast-moving stars are revealing the Milky Way’s mysterious heart
Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Stu…
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The most ambitious ideas to save the world from El Niño
A monster El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean – but there may be ways we can stop the worst impacts from occurring…
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Maintaining global science collaboration during conflict requires fairer rules
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03176-yMaintaining global science collaboration during…
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The Great Barrier Reef requires special attention in the developing super El Niño
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03174-0The Great Barrier Reef requires special attenti…
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Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of high-energy neutrinos
The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos, which act like 'ghostly messe…
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The top cancer success stories of the past 50 years, by the numbers
Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03157-1Outcomes have improved drastically in the Unite…
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