Nature Communications

A shared speed encoding model for running and backing away behaviours in segregated neural circuits

Jiajia Chen, He Li, Na Lian et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70755-y

Abstract How neuronal firing within a circuit encodes behavioural intensity, like running speed, is largely unknown. Projections from temporal association cortex (TeA) and superior c...

All-optical logic processing unit using Kerr nonlinearity of MXene

Yanqi Ge, Wenkai Wang, Meng Wang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70834-0

Permeable nanoreactor eye drop for enzymatic cascade-mediated treatment for acute retinal injury model mimicking geographic atrophy

Jingjing Shen, Haibin Zhao, Yuan Fang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70761-0

Systematic background selection with BasCoD enhances contrastive dimension reduction in single cell genomics

Kwangmoon Park, Zhongxuan Sun, Ruiqi Liao et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70652-4

Atomic-scale strain waves for stronger and more ductile lightweight steels

Qiankun Yang, Weisong Wu, Wei Zhang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70841-1

Exploring electron spin dynamics in spin chains using defects as a quantum probe

Loic Soriano, Achuthan Manoj Kumar, Guillaume Gerbaud et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70589-8

CLOUD: A Scalable and Physics-Informed Foundation Model for Crystal Representation Learning

Changwen Xu, Shang Zhu, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70467-3

Abstract Predicting crystal properties is essential for understanding structure-property relationships and accelerating material discovery. However, conventional approaches like expe...

Neural circuit models for evidence accumulation through choice-selective sequences

Lindsey S. Brown, Jounhong Ryan Cho, Scott S. Bolkan et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70267-9

Abstract Decision making is traditionally thought to be mediated by neurons that accumulate evidence through persistent activity. However, recent decision-making experiments in roden...

Controllable assembly of sub-1 nm nanowires for the construction of aerogels

Yuxiang Du, Yueyue Xiu, Xin Yang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70713-8

Abstract Aerogels exhibit excellent properties owing to their nano-sized building blocks and unique structures. With increasing application demands, traditional...

Calcium-mediated calreticulin-IRE1α interaction drives dynamic fluctuation of IRE1α activity under chronic endoplasmic reticulum stress

Jianwei Cao, Xudong Zhao, Yunxin Xu et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70679-7

Polar chromosomes are rescued from missegregation by spindle elongation-driven microtubule pivoting

Isabella Koprivec, Valentina Štimac, Mario Đura et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-69830-1

Reactivating exhausted tumor-infiltrating T cells by a bispecific DC-T cell engager in mice

Xuhao Zhang, Yu Gao, Wenbo Hu et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70876-4

Reliable uncertainty estimates in deep learning with efficient Metropolis-Hastings algorithms

Matthias Schmal, Patrick Mäder Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70015-z

Abstract Approaching problems with data-driven models often requires reliable uncertainty estimates. Bayesian neural networks can offer these for deep learning models. Without the kn...

Global record-shattering breadbasket droughts emerge from moderately extreme regional events

Ji Li, Jakob Zscheischler, Emanuele Bevacqua Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70700-z

Abstract Simultaneous droughts across multiple maize-producing regions can strike record-shattering portions of the global maize agricultural area, threatening global food security a...

Spatial transcriptomics uncovers vasculature-centered cellular interactions driving Japanese encephalitis progression in a mouse model

Zhihua Ou, Zhaoyang Wang, Qi Chen et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70047-5

Global patterns and drivers of soil microbial nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency

Decai Gao, Yakov Kuzyakov, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70602-0

Abstract While nutrient use efficiency of soil microorganisms, the proportion of assimilated nutrients allocated into biosynthesis rather than invested in minera...

Submicrowatt-driven near-infrared luminescence from perovskite-fluoride quantum-cutting heterostructures for gas sensing

Yue Wang, Donglei Zhou, Ruoxi Wang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70670-2

Local lateral connectivity is sufficient for replicating cortex-like topographical organization in deep neural networks

Xinyu Qian, Amir Ozhan Dehghani, Asa Borzabadi Farahani et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70065-3

Programmable ferroelectric rectifier for reliable and efficient neuromorphic crossbar array

Youngmin Kim, Yoon Jung Lee, Jiwoong Yang et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70727-2

Structures of respiratory supercomplexes and ATP synthase oligomers in mammalian mitochondrial inner membrane

Atsuki Nakano, Takahiro Masuya, Shinsuke Akisada et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70578-x

A blueprint for local and distal invasion programs in glioblastoma

Rony Chanoch-Myers, Toshiro Hara, Alissa C. Greenwald et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70470-8

Structural evolution of carbon frameworks realizes in vitro interfacial transport in metabolically reprogrammed senescent cells for senolysis

Xuelian Wang, Hanyu Ma, Yongqiang Li et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70810-8

Vertical substitution strategy to enable cooperation between spin–orbit coupling and transition dipoles for organic phosphorescence

Kikuya Hayashi, Riku Shimura, Ryo Miyashita et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70371-w

Abstract The emission from organic molecules can be broadly classified as fluorescence or phosphorescence, and it is used in a wide range of applications from optoelectronics to bioi...

A cyanide-free route towards the electrosynthesis of nitriles

Jiahui Xian, Lulu Wang, Ziyu Mi et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70732-5

Phosphoregulation of the novel hemi-arrestin MAPK scaffold Sms1 prevents untimely mating

Boris Sieber, Laura Merlini, Wanlan Li et al. Mar 17, 2026 10.1038/s41467-026-70631-9

Abstract Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are ancestral kinases that form essential signalling cascades. However, scaffolds that recruit kinases to subcellular locations and...

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