Nature

Daily briefing: COVID’s origins — what we do and don’t know

Flora Graham Feb 24, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00609-6

Treasures of scientific history could be hiding in plain sight

Feb 24, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00298-1

How big is the ‘motherhood penalty’? In Denmark, it adds up to $120,000

Sarah Wild Feb 23, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00463-6

Iron Age mass grave reveals unprecedented violence against women and children

Katie Kavanagh Feb 23, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00535-7

Historically Black US universities chase top research ranking

Alexandra Witze Feb 23, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00366-6

Whistle while you whinny: researchers identify two sounds straight from the horse’s mouth

Katherine Bourzac Feb 23, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00545-5

Daily briefing: New AI drug-discovery engine is ‘on the scale of an AlphaFold4’

Flora Graham Feb 23, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00605-w

Five ways increased militarization could change scientific careers

Christine Ro Feb 20, 2026 10.1038/d41586-025-04168-0

Briefing Chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool

Shamini Bundell, Nick Petrić Howe Feb 20, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00582-0

Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do?

Jenna Ahart Feb 20, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00556-2

Daily briefing: ‘Universal’ vaccine protects mice from multiple pathogens

Jacob Smith Feb 20, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00588-8

Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as US aid cuts bite

Ben Deighton Feb 19, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00117-7

Academia’s parent trap: the struggles faced by researcher mothers

Adam Levy Feb 19, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00157-z

Daily briefing: Automated robot ‘scientists’ spark debate over the future of lab work

Jacob Smith Feb 19, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00557-1

‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens

Liam Drew Feb 19, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00506-y

Blood test holds promise for predicting when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start

Heidi Ledford Feb 19, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00531-x

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Nick Petrić Howe, Elizabeth Gibney Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00534-8

Mid-cycle update

Lucien R. Starchild Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00134-6

Daily briefing: What we know about autism and ageing — and what we don’t

Jacob Smith Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00541-9

This giant virus hijacks cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply wildly

Edward Chen Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00532-w

Chip-scale device efficiently boosts light signals

Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00484-1

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens

Felicity Nelson Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00518-8

Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not

Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00486-z

Personalized mRNA vaccine induces strong, durable immunity in hard-to-treat breast cancer

Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00477-0

Oysters build reefs with optimal geometries

Feb 18, 2026 10.1038/d41586-026-00482-3