n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix Summary Multiple critical vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2026-25049) in the workflow automation platform n8n let authorised attackers bypass a…
How a protein repurposes vitamin B12 as a light sensor Summary Researchers report how the bacterial photoreceptor CarH uses a vitamin B12 derivative, adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl), as a chromophore by co-opting…
Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain Article metadata Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00284-7 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw100/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00284-7/d41586-026-00284-7_52008560.jpg Summary New work discussed…
How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells Article meta Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00338-w Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00338-w/d41586-026-00338-w_52019320.jpg Summary New research in mice shows that…
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right Summary OpenScholar is an open-source system that pairs a language model with a retrieval database of…
Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss Summary Researchers analysed genetic data from 139,416 human embryos to chart chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidies) that underlie many pregnancy…
A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences Summary Recent work discussed by Chang and McMullan highlights a tumour-to-brain communication route in lung cancer. Wei et al. (published in Nature) show that…
Machine learning slashes the testing needed to work out battery lifetimes Summary Researchers (Zhang et al.) have developed a machine-learning approach — described in a Nature paper and summarised here…
Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Article Date: 04 February 2026Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00309-1 Summary Global biodiversity is declining rapidly — species are vanishing at…
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects Article Meta Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00358-6 Article Image: Main image Summary Researchers have engineered a new…
