A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03727-9 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw100/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03727-9/d41586-025-03727-9_51822036.jpg Summary New analyses and recently reported fossils…
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’ Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00177-9 Article Image: nature.com image Author style Punchy: a clear, record-breaking experiment…
Illuminating how the bird inner retina works without oxygen solves a 350-year-old structural mystery Summary Birds have a thick inner retina packed with neurons but, unusually, that layer lacks its…
More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining Summary A global survey of more than 6,000 researchers who have published in Nature Index journals since 2020…
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS Article meta Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09972-2 Article Title: The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS…
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean Summary This Nature paper compiles 2,782 measurements (2014–2024) of airborne and deposited microplastics (MPs) from 283 sites worldwide, aligns those observations with three…
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10003-3 Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This paper identifies an endothelial lineage in non-mammalian…
Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk Summary The authors report evidence that short-lived accretion bursts in young stellar systems can thermally process dust in the inner protoplanetary disk,…
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations Article meta Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10000-6 Article Image: (not provided) Summary This Nature study performs large-scale, multi-ancestry genomic…
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44 Summary This Nature paper describes how a murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) protein, m11 (named vCD44BP), binds the cell-surface receptor…
