Revealed: how Venus flytraps snap shut with astonishing speed
Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01857-2
Softening of the cells on the outermost surface of the trap lets the plant move at a breakneck pace.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01857-2
Softening of the cells on the outermost surface of the trap lets the plant move at a breakneck pace.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10784-1
Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampusNature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01866-1
Nature asked a football-journal chief about emerging trends in the sport, from AI tools to PhD students embedded in teams.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01886-x
The treasure trove of fossils and bones has already revealed a new species of extinct whale.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01129-z
A PhD student in China who has changed his focus twice since obtaining his undergraduate degree is struggling to keep up.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01865-2
Professional player turned medical scientist, Vincent Gouttebarge, tells Nature how sport weighs on the health of athletes.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01878-x
Evidence from fossilized poo reveals the diverse diet of ancient ground squirrels. Plus, the science behind the peptide craze and our innate tendency to wander anticlockwise.Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01707-1
The free platform, called Journal Trends, could also allow integrity sleuths to spot low-quality publications.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01832-x
Organisms called bathynomids boast a bacterial gene that helps them to regulate their metabolism in the cold depths.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01864-3
Submarine dives reveal complex deep-sea ecosystems living on whale remains — plus, a way to turn plant material into nylon.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10640-2
Structures of the AGO maturation complex reveal how chaperones and an RNA duplex drive assembly of the RNA-induced silencing complex.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10645-x
SIRT7 safeguards X-chromosome integrity and dosage balance with autosomes.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10629-x
Analyses of brain single-cell transcriptomes from human, mouse, lizard, lamprey and amphioxus reveal that duplicated genes (ohnologues) played a pivotal part in early vertebrate cell-type diversification.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10596-3
Efficient blue perovskite light-emitting diodes with an external quantum efficiency of 21.8% are achieved through in situ polymerization-driven nanocrystal confinement.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10631-3
Tumour network mapping of diffuse midline glioma (DMG) defines a conserved and prognostically important brain network in children with DMG, consistent with the hypothesis that DMGs exploit otherwise healthy brain circuits to promote tumour growth.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10636-y
Macroscopic quantum coherence arises in two-component exciton Bose–Einstein condensates within MoSe2/hBN/WSe2 electron–hole bilayers, exhibiting distinct spin–valley polarized phases, quantum phase transitions under magnetic fields and stable condensate behaviour up to approximately 1.8 K.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10634-0
Sleep and exercise can slow clonal haematopoiesis and limit mutant cell-driven atherosclerosis.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10646-w
A co-optimized AI hardware–software system using resistive-memory computing improves energy efficiency and parallelism for sparse signal reconstruction in imaging and three-dimensional vision applications.Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10639-9
Phylogenomic reconstruction of the proteome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor sheds light on the origin of eukaryotes, indicating an important role of horizontal transfer of genes from diverse bacterial and viral donors.