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Daily briefing: This AI-powered robot is a table-tennis master
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01356-4‘Ace’, a robotic arm, can best elite ping-pong players. Plus, a new network of cells in a mouse’s brain …
Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could …
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01287-0The National Science Foundation is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing …
Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01342-wExtinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain …
Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01344-8Workers at the elite US university want higher pay and better protection for vulnerable students.
Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01113-7Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. …
What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01061-2Funding worries and publishing trends loom large in the minds of scientists surveyed by Nature Index.
Publisher Correction: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10503-wPublisher Correction: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
How your heartbeat could keep cancer at bay
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01296-zPressure on the heart as it pumps blood stops cancer cells from multiplying in mouse hearts.
We need to talk about failure in science
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01254-9Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t …
Wikipedia-based AI model reveals the 100 technologies to watch
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00980-4Researchers mined the online encyclopedia to find the innovations that are gaining momentum fastest in science and industry.
What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what …
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01131-5My career as a goalkeeper taught me how to handle failure during my PhD. Or so I thought.
Field re-entrant superconductivity in Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10547-yField re-entrant superconductivity in Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates
Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use …
Nature, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10560-1Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize
Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01338-6Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.
Human cooperation undergoes constant breakdown and repair
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01048-zReal-world data reveal that cooperation continually falls and rebounds. Motivation to cooperate must therefore be actively renewed rather than …
‘Jumping genes’ help a bacterium that causes hospital infections to adapt quickly
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01274-5Over the past three decades, mobile DNA sequences called transposable elements have proliferated throughout the genome of Enterococcus faecium, …
Meeting the moment: how scientific philanthropies are expanding their reach
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01043-4As public funding continues to shift under researchers’ feet, could charitable organizations hold the key to preserving scientific research?
Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01104-8Cell biologist Mark Terasaki will give US$25 million of his own money to preserve the legacy of a pioneering …
Waiting for them
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01069-8A dream fulfilled.
Daily briefing: Big <i>G</i> is more mysterious than ever
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01347-5A decades-long experiment has brought researchers no closer to the value of the gravitational constant. Plus, how the X …
A bat coronavirus can enter human cells through a previously unknown gateway
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00908-yThe identification of a receptor that is recognized by a subset of alphacoronaviruses provides insights into ‘spillover’ risk and …
Robot can beat elite players at table tennis
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01045-2Ace — an AI-controlled table-tennis robot — shows that autonomous systems can compete with humans at complex, fast-paced, interactive …
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00627-4How a research proposal generated by artificial intelligence transformed my approach to teaching and supervision.
‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and …
Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01285-2Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.
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