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Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01765-5
Interventions that included home visits and cash transfers led to more strapping infants in an Indian state.
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Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10694-2
Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant
Science with military applications is cited more than civilian-only research
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01770-8
Researchers analysed the scientific impact of dual-use research in US patent records and bibliometric databases.
Device could sniff out fusion reactors secretly making material for a nuclear bomb
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01764-6
Antineutrinos made alongside the production of weapons-grade plutonium could be spotted with existing technology.
Daily briefing: These immune cells go out with a bang
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.
What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01623-4
From 2016 to 2020, almost one-third of papers by authors in China had multiple corresponding authors — but policy reforms are expected to have dampened the trend.
This mysterious lung disease affects millions of people — but a drug tested in mice shows promise
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01789-x
The therapy activates a protein that could stop pulmonary fibrosis from progressing.
‘Transformative’ CAR-T therapy allows three people to receive kidney transplants
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01761-9
They had ‘highly sensitized’ immune systems that usually reject donated organs, leaving them with few options for survival.
Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis <i>in vivo</i>
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10727-w
Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo
AI in science recruitment: friend or foe? Join our free webinar
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01774-4
Discover the strengths, limitations and risks associated with using artificial intelligence in your science job applications.
Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01793-1
Passive heart-rate monitoring during regular phone use could provide early warning of health issues — plus, testing Richard Feynman’s solution to the ‘restaurant dilemma’ problem.
Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10561-0
Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10562-z
The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
A natural depsipeptide antibiotic binds the E-site of the bacterial ribosome
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10589-2
Improved fractionation strategies can identify antibiotics with previously unseen scaffolds and mechanisms, exemplified by manikomycin from Streptomyces rimosus, which acts by targeting the E-site of the bacterial large ribosomal subunit.
Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10624-2
Analysis of a 25-year satellite record shows that Earth has a persistent east–west albedo symmetry split at 27° E, with clear-sky albedo, cloud radiative effect and open-ocean fraction exhibiting a triple symmetry around this meridian.
Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10473-z
NASA’s Juno observations show relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and establish a universal scaling law linking shock size to maximum cosmic ray energy.
Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10612-6
Longitudinal transcriptomic, chromatin and genomic analyses of the two types of IDH-mutant glioma reveal in detail how disease progression is influenced by interdependent genetic, epigenetic and microenvironmental factors.
Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10551-2
Extensive mining activity leads to large-scale deforestation of dense tropical forests across sub-Saharan Africa, driven particularly by key energy transition minerals such as cobalt.
Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10603-7
A small-peptide signalling axis involving RGF family members controls resilience to cold stress in tomatoes and rice; modulating this pathway prevents cold-induced yield losses.
Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein in maize
Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10575-8
Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein without lowering crop yield when expressed in modern maize, providing a powerful strategy for crop improvement to meet future population demands.