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Author Correction: Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells
Nature, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10770-7
Author Correction: Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells
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AI has entered the workforce: tax tech profits, not people
Nature, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01877-y
As machines replace human labour, welfare states built on salary-linked taxation will need fundamental redesign.
Daily briefing: Deep-sea whale graveyard is a treasure trove of fossils
Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01905-x
Researchers have uncovered more than 400 fossilized whale bones in an ocean-floor chasm. Plus, the working lives of scientists, in pictures, and how AI could slow the pace of research publication for the better.
Terms of endearment? Bias in first-name eponyms for species named after people
Nature, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01916-8
Terms of endearment? Bias in first-name eponyms for species named after people
Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone
Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01912-y
Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.
Why we seek to fly: Books in brief
Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01911-z
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
I advise the Vatican and the UN on AI — don’t dismiss the Pope’s message as theology
Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01876-z
The papal letter goes beyond a religious document and diagnoses a failure in AI governance that the scientific community should heed.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.