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The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02834-5Drugs that imitate the effect of GABAergic neurons slow the growth of tumours called gliomas in mice.
Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11079-1Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1Academics explain that their research freedom beats the increased salary they would get in the corporate sector, but emerging …
Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami’s birth
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02809-6Seismic data pinpoint the collapse of an underwater volcano, and reveal how the eruption triggered a destructive tsunami.
Why our common ancestor with chimpanzees keeps getting further away
The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be. Columnist …
Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia
Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks …
Heat spikes over Tibet may help explain severe Californian flooding
Unusually high temperatures over the mountainous region can kick-start a chain of events that ultimately leads to a severe deluge on the US West Coast, …
Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from …
The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process
Why don’t dogs look up when a low-flying plane passes overhead? part …
Readers continue to share stories of how their own dogs respond to aircrafts
This week’s new questions
Why do people appear younger and better-looking in a mirror than in a photograph? Are humans the only animals that cry? If so, why?
Tom Gauld on an introduction to basic philosophical astronomy
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Twisteddoodles on spies through the ages
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Unexpected hints of dark matter should breathe life into particle physics
With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark …
NASA’s next major telescope might see alien oceans and rainbows
The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot the glint of water on habitable planets, and maybe more
Lost quantum traces could reveal dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider
Particle collisions are inherently quantum, but much of that character is lost when we turn them into classical data. Sarah Alam Malik explores whether preserving …
Denisovan tools from cave in China shows how mysterious humans lived
A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at the site …
Scientists find a bone-building switch that could fight osteoporosis
An experimental compound called AP503 significantly strengthened bones in mice by activating GPR133, a receptor that boosts bone formation while slowing bone loss. Because the …
Ozempic and Wegovy linked to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks
Semaglutide, the drug found in Ozempic and Wegovy, was linked to nearly 40% fewer asthma attacks in a large real-world study. It was also associated …
Why is there controversy around OpenAI’s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?
8 September should have been an exciting day of celebration for mathematicians worldwide. Instead, it became a confusing, salacious and intriguing drama. Why was the …
Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in
Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b …
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains exceptionally high levels of methanol, suggesting it formed under conditions very different from those that shaped most comets in our solar …
Devil’s Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britain’s tallest …
Britain’s towering Devil’s Arrows were built from 25-tonne stones hauled at least 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks around 4,000 years ago. The discovery reveals an …
“Parachute science” is failing the tropics, home to more than 80% of …
Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species …
Chinese scientists find a hidden atomic structure that unlocks methane
Scientists found that a tiny atomic structure that forms on nickel oxide during methane conversion is more effective than the metallic nickel long believed to …
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