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…
Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10079-x Article Image: Summary Researchers developed a reactivity-guided metabolomics workflow that chemically captures labile…
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement Published: 04 February 2026 — STAR Collaboration, Nature Summary The STAR Collaboration reports the first evidence that spin correlations of strange quark–antiquark…
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads Article meta Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10105-6 Article Image: Summary This Nature paper introduces hifiasm (ONT), a new mode of…
Integrated structural dynamics uncover a new B12 photoreceptor activation mode Article Date: 04 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10074-2 Article Image: (not provided) Summary This study maps, with high temporal and…
Mosquito–capsid interactions contribute to flavivirus vector specificity Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that direct interactions between mosquito VCP (valosin-containing protein) and flavivirus capsid proteins help determine which mosquito species can…
