Nature, Published online: 29 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01768-2

Magnetic immune cells in a homing pigeon’s liver might help it to navigate. Plus, the first clinical trial of a gene therapy to restore heart muscle and an unusual reptile museum in Ecuador.

Nature, Published online: 28 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01734-y

The new tool can predict ageing in rodents and monkeys — and time to death in people. Plus, zebrafish sleep in stages, similarly to humans, and the race to intercept lung cancer before it starts.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01713-3

A new AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures. Plus, a biology lab run by ten robots and whether we can truly trust eyewitness accounts during criminal trials.