Some pterosaurs may have boasted bold iridescence ScienceNews By: Taylor Mitchell Brown 8 June 2026 at 18:00 A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and magentas.
Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome Nature By: Alexander S. Bates · Jasper S. Phelps · Minsu Kim · Helen H. Yang · Arie Matsliah · Zaki Ajabi · Eric Perlman · Kevin M. Delgado · Mohammed Abdal Monium Osman · Christopher K. Salmon · Jay Gager · Benjamin Silverman · Sophia Renauld · Farzaan Salman · Janki Patel · Matthew F. Collie · Jingxuan Fan · Diego A. Pacheco · Yunzhi Zhao · Wenyi Zhang · Laia Serratosa Capdevila · Ruairí J. V. Roberts · Eva J. Munnelly · Nina Griggs · Helen Langley · Borja Moya-Llamas · Zuoyu Zhang · Ryan T. Maloney · Szi-chieh Yu · Amy R. Sterling · Marissa Sorek · Krzysztof Kruk · Nikitas Serafetinidis · Serene Dhawan · Finja Klemm · Paul Brooks · Ellen Lesser · Jessica M. Jones · Sara E. Pierce-Lundgren · Su-Yee Lee · Yichen Luo · Andrew P. Cook · Theresa H. McKim · Dimitrios Stasi Giakoumas · Benjamin Gorko · Justin Ellis-Joyce · Jiayi Zhang · Emily C. Kophs · Tjalda Falt · Alexa M. Negron-Morales · Austin Burke · James Hebditch · Kyle P. Willie · Ryan Willie · Sergiy Popovych · Nico Kemnitz · Dodam Ih · Kisuk Lee · Ran Lu · Akhilesh Halageri · J. Alexander Bae · Ben Jourdan · Gregory Schw 8 June 2026 at 01:00 Nature, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10735-wDistributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome
Daily briefing: Lung microbiome linked to a mysterious tissue-scarring condition Nature By: Jacob Smith 4 June 2026 at 01:00 Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01828-7Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis appears to be linked to a receptor that’s responsible for keeping bacteria in check. Plus, scientists’ thoughts on Microsoft’s newest quantum chip and what drives us to want to socialize.