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Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria
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.
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Newly discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years
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.
Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex
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.
SIRT7 regulates dosage compensation and safeguards the female X chromosome
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10645-x
SIRT7 safeguards X-chromosome integrity and dosage balance with autosomes.
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
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.
Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain
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.
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs
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.
A prognostic human brain network for diffuse midline glioma
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.
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer
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.
Mutation-dependent responses to sleep and exercise in clonal haematopoiesis
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.
Efficient and accurate neural-field reconstruction using resistive memory
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.
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis
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.
Molecular glue degraders of HuR suppress BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10613-5
Molecular glue degraders of the RNA-binding protein HuR have therapeutic potential for BRAF-mutant cancers.
Light-induced quantum friction of carbon nanotubes in water
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10632-2
Near-infrared fluorescent carbon nanotubes exhibit light-induced quantum friction in water, in which exciton interactions slow nanoscale motion and enable optical control of diffusion and fluid dynamics.
Lignin to adipic acid in a high-yield chemical and biological redox process
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10580-x
A chemical and biological redox process that resembles processes in petrochemical refining is used to convert lignin from poplar into a single, valuable bioproduct, adipic acid, in high yields.
Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10538-z
The first data of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory deliver high-precision neutrino oscillation parameters, improving measurements and demonstrating readiness to determine neutrino mass ordering.
Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10588-3
Mitochondria interact directly with the nuclear pore complex via VDAC1–RANBP2 binding to sustain nuclear ATP levels.
A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10623-3
Whole-brain, cellular-resolution imaging reveals a hierarchical thalamus–brainstem attractor network that encodes recent history and shapes behavioural bias in zebrafish.
Improved quantum processor logical error rates via correction and detection
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10628-y
Experimental demonstration of quantum error-correcting codes combined with error detection and post-selection applied to a trapped-ion quantum processor shows improvements in logical error rates ranging from 11× to 800× compared with several physical circuit baselines.
Deep learning four decades of human migration
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10611-7
A global annual migration-flow dataset (1990–2024) is produced using deep-learning models and diverse sources to estimate movements across 230 countries with improved temporal resolution, coverage and uncertainty estimates.