Wednesday, 30 September 2026
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Daily briefing: How to save corals from the El Niño ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03138-4 Scientists are trying to help coral reefs survive record ocean temperatures. Plus, the aftermath of a deadly attack on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and whether it’s OK to dodge small talk.
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How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02978-4 The Z machine in New Mexico generates shockwaves that can simulate conditions deep inside our planet.
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Type 2 immune history trains lung macrophages for viral disease tolerance ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11060-y Type 2 inflammation trains nerve- and airway-associated macrophages to confer disease tolerance against lethal influenza by limiting immunopathology and promoting tissue repair without enhancing viral clearance.
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Global mangrove distribution on the open coast is controlled by waves ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11089-z A process-driven mangrove presence or absence model using 20 years of open-source wave data shows that wave conditions are critical in determining where mangroves grow worldwide.
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X-ray liquidography decodes complex motions in azobenzene isomerization ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11068-4 Time-resolved X-ray liquidography films the structural changes of azobenzene during trans-to-cis isomerization in solution with atomic-level precision.
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Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11087-1 By being restricted to target regions by MLLT1–MLLT3 occupancy, activation-induced deaminase activity is able to avoid most off-target mutagenesis during B cell somatic hypermutation.
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Carbene transfer from thianthrenium ylides for cyclopropanation ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11108-z Thianthrenium ylides can be used as a general platform for metal–carbene generation and transfer, including cyclopropanation, σ-bond insertion and sigmatropic rearrangements.
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An amygdala to anterior hypothalamic circuit gates stress sensitivity ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11075-5 The anterior hypothalamic nucleus regulates negative valence in the brain, highlighting a new pathway that controls sensitivity to stressful events and signposting approaches to identify new circuit interactions relevant to mental health.
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Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11063-9 Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evolution.
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Osteoclasts intercept meningeal lymphatic paths for dural metastasis ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11082-6 Osteoclast-derived angiopoietin-2 in the dura mater impairs lymphatic vessel function and weakens anti-tumour immunity against dural metastases, which offers new therapeutic approaches to restore meningeal lymphatic function through select…
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Human genetics implicates a BACH2–NRF2 axis in fetal haemoglobin activation ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11113-2 BACH2 restrains activation of the fetal-haemoglobin-encoding γ-globin genes, while loss of BACH2 enhances NRF2 chromatin occupancy and promotes the formation of activation foci at the γ-globin genes.
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This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03086-z Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.
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Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11061-x Mouse experiments show that Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal degeneration tau filaments retain their distinct structures during templated seeding, supporting strain-specific tau propagation and disease modelling.
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Who’s the loudest of them all? The bare-throated bellbird vies for the prize ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03038-7 The bellbird’s extra-large gape helps it to achieve pneumatic-drill-level volume.
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AI ‘speech clock’ assesses how fast you’re ageing from your voice ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03106-y The pitch and emotional content of your speech are important predictors of accelerated ageing, researchers find.
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Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03033-y An innovative safeguard could help to flag proteins devised by artificial-intelligence tools such as AlphaFold, but the digital marker can be erased.
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Is exposomics the key to making personalized medicine a reality? ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02958-8 Scientists say tailored disease treatments require a comprehensive assessment of a person’s lifelong environmental exposures.
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The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them? ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02965-9 Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
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Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02963-x The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.
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Beware sham scientific societies: the research community must be more vigilant ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03047-6 As AI content makes bad actors harder to spot, scrutiny of organizations must increase without reducing trust.
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The buck stops with me ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02863-0 A note to self.
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How to spend $25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03015-0 Jacob Trefethen, who leads life sciences at the OpenAI Foundation, speaks to Nature about the organization’s ambitions to cure disease.
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I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong? ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02201-4 A jury weighs in on whether a latecomer is simply using their time efficiently or disrespecting their colleagues.
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Restoring hearing in people with a rare form of deafness ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02894-7 How a decades-long quest led to the first gene therapy for deafness caused by a mutation.
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These optical illusions are whybutterflies are so hard to catch ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03124-w High-speed footage of takeoffs reveal that the butterfly markings mislead the eye, making them harder to catch.
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2D semiconductor aims to turbocharge development of high-performance electronics ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02777-x An ultrathin semiconductor that conducts electricity using positively charged ‘holes’ might clear the way for next-generation electronic devices.
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Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02991-7 The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.
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Sugar amplifies antibiotic disruption of gut microbes ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02782-0 People who underwent stem-cell transplantation and ate sugar-rich food had disrupted communities of gut microorganisms during antibiotic treatment.
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Harmful tau spreads like self-propagating prion proteins ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02778-w Structural studies support the idea that fibrillized tau protein, a feature of neurodegenerative disorders, acts as a prion-like template to induce misfolding in healthy tau.
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Pipework problems when cancer spreads to an area bordering the brain ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02783-z Analysis of cancer growing adjacent to the brain reveals that bone-eroding cells interfere with lymphatic drainage vessels and hinder anti-tumour immune responses.
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Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption ↗Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11077-3 Avoiding a diet rich in simple sugars during treatment with antibiotics may mitigate microbiota disruption.