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 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…
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…
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 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 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 Summary This Nature paper describes how a murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) protein, m11 (named vCD44BP), binds the cell-surface receptor…
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…
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,…
Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins Summary This Nature study introduces new in vivo BONCAT models (PheRS* and TyrRS*, plus comparison with MetRS*) to label nascent neuronal proteins…
