Nature, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01837-6

Enjoy the month’s best science images. Plus, a smartphone’s selfie camera can monitor your heart rate and whether AI will drag astrophysics down to Earth.

Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01799-9

Newly-discovered ‘ruptoblasts’ explode to shower nearby cells with toxic chemicals. Plus, how psychology is tackling its reproducibility crisis and when to settle, according to maths.