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Daily briefing: Bogus citations will get you banned from arXiv
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01648-9arXiv’s stance on AI-hallucinated references is a good start, but not tough enough, say some researchers. Plus, the brain’s …
Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01615-4An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having …
Why are PFASs so hard to replace?
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00429-8As the toxic legacy of ‘forever chemicals’ grows, researchers are racing to develop safer alternatives.
Becoming a mother leaves long-lasting molecular memories
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01327-9In mice, motherhood induces transcriptional changes in the brain that endure beyond short-term hormonal shifts. Postpartum stress disrupts these …
Monkeys that ‘draw’ reveal a neuronal population that encodes combinable actions
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00928-8When faced with unfamiliar problems, humans and other animals must plan and execute action sequences that they might not …
High-fidelity identification of guest species in porous materials
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10527-2A reconstruction method based on Gaussian-apodized single-sideband electron ptychography removes artefacts to enable the high-fidelity identification of guest species …
Astrocyte glucocorticoid receptor signalling restricts neuronal plasticity
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10512-9Combined single-cell transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility sequencing analysis of mouse primary visual cortex across postnatal development reveals that the …
Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10571-yThe buffer pool designed to compensate for unintended carbon losses from the largest forest climate mitigation programme in the …
Mitochondrial <span>l</span>-2-hydroxyglutarate is a physiological signalling metabolite
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10564-xl-2-Hydroxyglutarate is identified as a legitimate physiological signalling metabolite, and control of its levels is essential for postnatal growth …
A SAUR gene enhances maize drought resilience by promoting silk elongation
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10566-9The Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) protein ZmSAUR72 in maize (Zea mays) promotes silk growth via regulation of H+-ATPase …
Early fossil eukaryotes were benthic aerobes
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10533-4Integrated palaeontological, sedimentological and geochemical analyses of ancient rocks from Australia show that early eukaryotes were largely restricted to …
Divergent urban storm response to convective, frontal and tropical systems
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10479-7Analysis of five types of warm-season storms in Texas using three-dimensional radar reflectivity data shows that urbanization can influence …
Design of one-component quasisymmetric protein nanocages
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10554-zQuasisymmetry could arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system of strongly interacting building blocks with programmed curvatures, and …
Imaging hidden objects with consumer LiDAR via motion-induced sampling
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10502-xResearchers enable hidden-object imaging on consumer LiDAR by fusing multiple frames with a motion-based model, achieving three-dimensional reconstruction, tracking …
Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10570-zUsing high-resolution satellite imagery combined with a deep-learning-based framework to build a national energy inventory enables a data-driven assessment …
A deep-learning framework reveals whole-body perturbations at cell level
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10535-2An analysis of diet-induced obesity using MouseMapper—a suite of foundation-model-based deep-learning algorithms—identifies structural alterations of the infraorbital branch of …
Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10297-xA drawing-like task designed to study compositional generalization identifies a specific neural population in the ventral premotor cortex in …
A critical initialization for biological neural networks
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10528-1Basic properties of symmetric random matrices can explain the emergence of macroscopic patterns in neural networks, suggesting that initialization …
Feature-specific threat coding in lateral septum guides defensive action
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10520-9The populations of CRHR2-expressing neurons in the lateral septum of mice involved in threat-related behaviour in response to environmental …
Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10509-4Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the …
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10485-9Bright squeezed vacuum light boosts nonlinear atomic tunnelling ionization more than 20-fold compared with coherent light, enabling quantum control …
Genetic analysis of circulating metabolic traits in 619,372 individuals
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10532-5A genome-wide association study combining data from the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank identifies many common and low-frequency …
De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10464-0Researchers designed two-component proteins forming quasisymmetric cages via geometric frustration, enabling tunable virus-like assemblies for cargo delivery, cellular uptake …
A pathogen lncRNA secreted into rice sequesters a host miRNA for virulence
Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10572-xA fungal long non-coding RNA from Magnaporthe oryzae translocates into rice cells to sequester a host microRNA that normally …
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