Adventitious carbon breaks symmetry in oxide contact electrification Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that trace, naturally occurring carbonaceous adsorbates (adventitious carbon) on oxide surfaces are a key, previously overlooked symmetry-breaking…
Climbing fibres recruit disinhibition to enhance Purkinje cell calcium signals Summary This study shows that cerebellar climbing fibres (CFs) preferentially engage a specific molecular-layer interneuron (MLI) subtype (MLI2) through glutamate…
A strong constraint on radiative forcing of well-mixed greenhouse gases Summary This Nature paper presents the first global, decadal line-by-line calculation of longwave (LW) instantaneous radiative forcing (IRF) for well-mixed…
Catabolism of extracellular glutathione supplies cysteine to support tumours Article Date: 18 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10268-2 Article Image: Figure 1 Summary This Nature study shows that extracellular glutathione (GSH)…
A gene-editing method generates immunotherapeutic CAR T cells in the body Summary Laboratory-manufactured chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are established treatments for some blood cancers and are being explored…
Quirky base pairing attracts rule-breaking enzymes to destroy microRNAs Article Date: 18 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00632-7 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw100/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00632-7/d41586-026-00632-7_52182150.jpg Summary MicroRNAs are short non-coding RNAs that tune gene expression…
Observation of self-bound droplets of ultracold dipolar molecules Summary This Nature paper reports the first experimental observation of self-bound droplets formed from ultracold dipolar molecules. The team cooled a gas…
Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years Summary The authors reconstruct mean ocean temperature (MOT) and global ocean heat content across the past 3 million years using…
Thymic health and immunotherapy outcomes in patients with cancer Article Date: 18 March 2026Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10243-x Summary This Nature study develops a deep-learning pipeline that quantifies “thymic health” from routine…
Contrasting thermophilization among forests, grasslands and alpine summits Article metadata Article Date: 18 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09622-7 Article Image: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09622-7/figures/4 Summary This multi-author Nature study synthesises resurveys of plant…
