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Author Correction: Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control
Nature, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11104-3Author Correction: Endocannabinoids facilitat…
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What remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise
An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic …
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Groundbreaking laser of ghostly particles may be impossible to build
A year ago, researchers made a splash with a wildly creative idea for building a laser from notoriously elusive particle…
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A nuclear reactor is being installed a mile underground in Kansas
Deep Fission has just received safety approval from the US Department of Energy for a reactor design that it plans to in…
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Author Correction: Signalling thresholds and negative B-cell selection in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Nature, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11080-8Author Correction: Signalling thresholds and …
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Satellite images before Nepal disaster showed warning signs
Nature, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02746-4Images revealed the accelerated movement of a…
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UN finally admits global warming will shoot past 1.5 ºC climate limit
Nature, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02753-5Earth will breach a long-standing target befo…
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Can we really reverse global warming after overshooting 1.5°C?
A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of t…
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Are you made of real-world quarks or virtual-world qubits?
Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, doe…
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Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Nature, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11071-9Author Correction: Plasticity and language in…
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How Ukraine created world-leading prostheses amid the chaos of war
Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record nu…
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The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it –…
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The UK just had its hottest summer ever
The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the reco…
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Charmed by comets
Nature, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02383-xAstronomy that has long gripped people’s imag…
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Mountain warming means there will be more disasters like the Nepal flood
Mountainous regions across the planet are warming especially fast, melting the ice that glues rocky slopes and glaciers …
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China’s regulatory innovation for new biomedical technologies
Nature, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02737-5China’s regulatory innovation for new biomedi…
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When AI does science, who is accountable for mistakes?
Nature, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02735-7When AI does science, who is accountable for …
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The best new science-fiction books of September 2026
From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new s…
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How our bodies adapt to extreme temperatures – until it gets too hot
No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to …
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Scale of snakebites estimated globally
Nature, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02642-xUsing available data and modelling to assess the…
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What’s your lab’s archetype? The answer could inform how you use AI
Nature, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02543-zA white paper gives research groups four priorit…
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Order from disorder: do we need a new law of physics?
Nature, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02685-0A radical proposal that evolutionary pressures a…
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The leap second is dead. Long live the leap hour?
Nature, Published online: 31 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02669-0Fear of a possible ‘negative’ leap second is acc…
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Should we all be taking low doses of lithium to prevent Alzheimer’s?
Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see…