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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.
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Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10784-1
Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
This World Cup could be the most high-tech yet — the innovations to watch for
Nature, 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.
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea
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.
My diverse academic background is affecting my PhD studies — what do I do?
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.
World Cup: science must tackle footballers’ mental and physical health
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.
Daily briefing: Ancient ground squirrels ate like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
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.
Tool flags suspicious journals before researchers submit papers
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.
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.
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.