Don’t click on the LastPass ‘create backup’ link – it’s a scam
Don’t click on the LastPass ‘create backup’ link – it’s a scam Summary LastPass has warned customers about a phishing campaign that began around 19 January 2026 which urges users…
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders
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…
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS
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…
Illuminating how the bird inner retina works without oxygen solves a 350-year-old structural mystery
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…
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’
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…
A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia
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…
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09917-9 Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This Nature paper reports matter-wave interference of metal nanoparticles (sodium…
Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum
Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10012-2 Article Image: Summary This Nature paper presents multi-proxy geochemical reconstructions (Mg/Ca, Mg/Li,…
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09983-z Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This Nature study (microTOUCH-baby) used dense, strain-resolved metagenomics to…
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44
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…