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Procrastination, productivity and inspiration: how research is like designing video games
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00895-0After leaving academia, Bennett Foddy sees connections between games design, creativity and research, as he tells John Tregoning.
Immune cells in the blood drive brain ageing — blocking them improves …
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01531-7Old T cells secrete an enzyme that can impair cognitive function in mice.
Does the PSA test for prostate cancer save lives? New data reverse …
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01549-xHealth-evidence reviewers reverse recommendation on a blood test that detects a biomarker of a common cancer after decades of …
Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01545-1More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.
Are we really headed for a ‘super’ El Niño? What the science …
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01538-0An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its …
NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01537-1Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than …
Author Correction: The AIM2 inflammasome exacerbates atherosclerosis in clonal haematopoiesis
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10573-wAuthor Correction: The AIM2 inflammasome exacerbates atherosclerosis in clonal haematopoiesis
Author Correction: Postprandial lipid metabolism durably enhances T cell immunity
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10620-6Author Correction: Postprandial lipid metabolism durably enhances T cell immunity
Mental-health research is too often invisible — it is time to change …
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01550-4Mental illness needs visibility more urgently than almost any other area of medicine and health care. A new award …
Protective maternal gut instincts
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01322-0Pregnancy poses many challenges, including protecting against infection and increased nutritional demands. Pregnancy-associated gut changes offer some help.
At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected …
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01546-0Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.
Obesity has risen in all countries — but at a faster pace …
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00909-xTrajectories of obesity prevalence over the past 45 years reveal patterns of growth, plateau and decline that differ across …
The futile beauty of flightless birds
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01081-yNavigating by the stars.
Are non-antibiotic drugs contributing to antimicrobial resistance?
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01376-0Plans to address drug resistance typically focus on the use of antibiotics, but there are signs that compounds with …
Antifungal resistance is growing – will new treatments turn the tables?
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01380-4Trials of drugs to fight deadly resistant infections are advancing, but they might fall victim to overuse of agricultural …
Economic reform can save antibiotic innovation
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01378-yGovernments must create meaningful incentives for biopharmaceutical companies to develop antimicrobial products.
State media control shapes LLM behaviour by influencing training data
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01486-9State control of the media is shown to alter the training data of large language models (LLMs) through its …
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.
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