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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 …
Subspace communication in the hippocampal–retrosplenial axis
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10481-zHippocampal–neocortical communication reconfigures predetermined circuit motifs to flexibly encode experiences.
Mesoscale atomic engineering in a crystal lattice
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10431-9Electron-beam control enables deterministic placement of tens of thousands of atomic defects in three-dimensional crystals, creating stable, programmable artificial …
SNOR promotes translation restart after dormancy
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10530-7High-resolution in situ cryo-electron tomography in Schizosaccharomyces pombe identifies SNOR protein, which binds to ribosomes during dormancy induced by …
Lineage and organ signals sequentially build organ intrinsic nervous systems
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10490-ySystems-level analyses of organ intrinsic nervous systems reveal that these networks are initially configured by lineage-dependent programmes, and their …
Gaussian boson sampling with 1,024 squeezed states in 8,176 modes
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10523-6A programmable photonic quantum processor, Jiuzhang 4.0, incorporates 1,024 high-efficiency squeezed states into a hybrid spatial–temporal encoded 8,176-mode circuit.
Ecotypes of triple-negative breast cancer in response to chemotherapy
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10469-9Treatment data for triple-negative breast cancer show the importance of macrophage subtypes and cancer-cell metaprograms for interferon signalling, HLA …
Twenty-first century emergence of alpine fire in Central African mountains
Nature, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10511-wA twenty-first century fire is shown to be the first to have affected a high-elevation region in the central …
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