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El Niño goes viral — and scientists learn what makes people care about the climate
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02763-3Evoking emotions is more likely to prompt peo…
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How to build powerful microhabits for your wellbeing – and keep them
Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson…
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The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02834-5Drugs that imitate the effect of GABAergic ne…
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Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century
Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20…
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We may finally know what kick-starts muscle contractions in childbirth
An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny tubes…
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Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11079-1Author Correction: The molecular basis of for…
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Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one
A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but o…
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Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping
A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisi…
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Here is how to understand OpenAI’s major mathematical breakthrough
Since OpenAI announced its solution to one of the prestigious Millennium Prize Problems, mathematicians have been urgent…
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The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero
If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it abs…
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What’s next for mathematics now that AI is upending the field?
Famous and challenging problems in mathematics are falling to AI at a rapid pace. Where does this leave mathematicians a…
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AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1Academics explain that their research freedom…
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Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami’s birth
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02809-6Seismic data pinpoint the collapse of an unde…
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August was the joint hottest month on record
Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and…
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Why our common ancestor with chimpanzees keeps getting further away
The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems …
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Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain
The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process…
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Heat spikes over Tibet may help explain severe Californian flooding
Unusually high temperatures over the mountainous region can kick-start a chain of events that ultimately leads to a seve…
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Unexpected hints of dark matter should breathe life into particle physics
With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a d…
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Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02843-4Evidence suggests that regular calls can keep…
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NASA’s next major telescope might see alien oceans and rainbows
The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot the glint of water on habitable planets, and maybe more…
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Highly efficient base editing at <i>PCSK9</i> and normal human embryo development
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11118-xHighly efficient base editing at PCSK9 and no…
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Denisovan tools from cave in China shows how mysterious humans lived
A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at …