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Six key developments in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01373-3Antibiotics designed by artificial intelligence, immunotherapy for resistant infections and other highlights from studies and trials.
Bee-inspired navigation robot pinpoints its home using a neural network
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01321-1A simple machine-learning algorithm, inspired by honeybees’ visual memory and sense of direction, enables a flying robot to pinpoint …
Targeted electron beam creates thousands of atomic crystal defects
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01328-8An electron-beam technique that can precisely create thousands of atomic defects in a crystal could be used to build …
Relics of the first stars spotted in a distant, ultra-faint galaxy
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01151-1An observation of an ultra-faint galaxy, captured as it was shortly after the Big Bang, indicates the presence of …
Daily briefing: Ice core is the longest-ever continuous record of Earth’s climate
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01561-1Data from the 2.8-kilometre-deep core stretches back 1.2 million years. Plus, the cost of using AI tools in the …
Antibiotics look like any other drugs — and that’s a problem
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01375-1Medical microbiologist Heiman Wertheim explains why the physical appearance and labelling of antibiotics matter when trying to limit resistance.
Why farm workers need protection from antimicrobial resistance
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01377-zAntibiotic use in agriculture threatens the health of workers and their communities, but there are potential solutions.
The fightback against antimicrobial resistance starts at home
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01372-4Microbiologist Alexander Fleming’s 80-year-old advice is still key to protecting the efficacy of antibiotics.
Did <i>Homo erectus</i> and Denisovans mate? Tooth proteins hint at ancient trysts
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01532-6Genetic analysis suggests interbreeding between two groups of human relatives.
Can AI tools assess coding assignments?
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01139-xYulu Hou and her partner experimented with using ChatGPT to automate marking of undergraduate assignments. Here’s what they learnt.
Growth charts reveal how the brain’s ‘communication highways’ change throughout life
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01318-wStudies of white matter — the tissue used for communication between brain regions — have revealed substantial changes in …
Sleep linked to slower ageing: huge study pinpoints the right amount
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01506-8Health outcomes were better in people who slept for between about six and eight hours a day.
Fast and furious: the gaseous outflows of quasars in the early Universe …
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01485-wObservations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that extremely fast, galaxy-scale outflows from luminous objects called quasars were …
Old antibiotics are being revived to fight new threats
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01379-xThe last antimicrobial peptide was developed decades ago. Now, drug-resistant bacteria are forcing scientists to take a fresh look …
Street sellers and private physicians fuel antibiotic overuse
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01374-2Limited access to medical professionals and irresponsible prescribing practices are contributing to antimicrobial resistance in low-resource settings.
White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10454-2Integration of data representing 35,120 brain scans from diverse global studies enables construction of reference charts that define normative …
An X-linked long non-coding RNA, <i>PTCHD1-AS</i>, and the core features of autism
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10515-6PTCHD1-AS, which encodes a long non-coding RNA, is associated with the aetiology of autism spectrum disorder in humans through …
A synaptic locus of song learning
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10510-xCombining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the …
Eosinophils drive intestinal remodelling and innate defence in reproduction
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10531-6From pregnancy until lactation, eosinophils accumulate in the small intestine where they regulate goblet cell fate and enhance innate …
Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10383-0Global analysis of obesity trends from 1980 to 2024 in 200 countries and territories using data from 4,050 population-based …
Developmental gene expression patterns driving species-specific cortical features
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10491-xMachine learning analysis of cell-type-specific gene expression in mouse and human neocortex and human cortical organoids reveals human-specific cell-type …
Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10524-5A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to …
Asymmetric splitting in dividing lipid-nucleotide multilamellar droplets
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10489-5Structured liquid droplets exhibit asymmetric division in the absence of reconstituted protein machinery.
Large-scale discovery, analysis and design of protein energy landscapes
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10465-zAn analysis of 5,778 domains 28–64 amino acids in length reveals hidden variation in conformational fluctuations, even between sequences …
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