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Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise
Nature, Published online: 05 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00734-2Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some …
Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart?
Nature, Published online: 05 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00521-zIn a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help …
All the world is staged
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00131-9Exits and entrances.
Hunt for reactive metabolites uncovers unusual chemistry in a human pathogen
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00652-3A workflow was developed to selectively capture bacterially produced compounds containing a reactive diazo chemical group. This enabled the …
Daily briefing: The return of the snail — the month’s best science …
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00751-1The most jaw-dropping science images from February. Plus, whether cancer blood tests actually work and what we lose when …
Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00645-2To meet the growing demand for radiology artificial-intelligence tools, a 3D vision–language model called Merlin was trained on abdominal …
Under pressure: the reality of Mexico’s research system
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00442-xResearcher Oscar Xavier Guerrero Gutiérrez speaks out about the unstable conditions that Mexican scientists face — and what can …
How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00299-0Rafael Prieto-Curiel explains how his models of organized crime could improve public safety in his home country.
Skin cells boost distant antibody responses
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00379-1How the skin enables immune defences is not fully clear. Now a pathway has been found in skin cells …
Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies — but disaster is not …
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00659-wThe Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a …
Do wet or dry soils trigger thunderstorms? It depends on how the …
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00376-4Satellite data show that wind conditions affect the connection between soil moisture and thunderstorms, which could be used to …
A genetic switch turns off parental behaviour and drives infanticide in male …
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00656-zMale parenting in mammals is highly variable, ranging from caring to neglectful and abusive. The brain and behaviour of …
Funding from individual donors: lessons from the Epstein case
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00658-xUniversities need to establish and empower compliance teams to ensure adherence to ethical funding policies.
Magnetic fluid offers better seal in heart-plugging medical procedure
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00375-5An injectable fluid has been used to close off part of the heart in animals — a potentially improved …
AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00681-yThe Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write …
Stress-hormone signalling protects spreading cancer cells from immune system
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00650-5Metastasis occurs when cancer cells spread to other organs and escape elimination by the immune system. Analysis reveals that …
Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00711-9After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of …
Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00377-3An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species in mountainous terrain reveals a risk of …
Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10157-8A study investigating the emergence of squamous tumours in the upper gastrointestinal tract of the mouse shows that an …
Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10008-yNew findings from articulated head and trunk material of Megamastax amblyodus yield previously unseen morphological details of a Silurian …
Wide-swath altimetry maps bank shapes and storage changes in global rivers
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10218-yObservations of river channel geometry and monthly water storage changes for 126,674 river reaches worldwide are derived from the …
Exapted CRISPR–Cas12f homologues drive RNA-guided transcription
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10166-7Specialized σ factors interact with nuclease-dead, CRISPR–Cas12f proteins to form potent, RNA-guided gene activation systems that function independently of …
Homologous recombination deficiency and hemizygosity drive resistance in breast cancer
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10197-0Germline and somatic interactions define actionable genomic patterns driving acquired therapy resistance in breast cancer.
Structural basis of RNA-guided transcription by a dCas12f–σ<sup>E</sup>–RNAP complex
Nature, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10178-3Cryogenic electron microscopy reveals how dCas12f with σE recruits RNAP to targeted DNA, initiating transcription at a fixed downstream …
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