Author: Miryam Naddaf

Massive atlas of brain region linked to a host of diseases is the most detailed yet

Nature, Published online: 12 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03565-3A global team profiled nearly 26 million brain cells from the basal ganglia to build a cross-species reference database that will help to understand conditions f…

Nature, Published online: 12 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03565-3

A global team profiled nearly 26 million brain cells from the basal ganglia to build a cross-species reference database that will help to understand conditions from Parkinson’s disease to addiction.

‘A perfect scientist, a perfect mum’: researchers mourn two biologists’ deaths in Spanish train crash

Nature, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03564-4Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting.

Nature, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03564-4

Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting.

Record-breaking retraction: scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day

Nature, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03455-8Announcement by IEEE follows publication of a study showing the retracted papers are linked to paper mills.

Nature, Published online: 30 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03455-8

Announcement by IEEE follows publication of a study showing the retracted papers are linked to paper mills.

These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals

Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03325-3As poor publishing practices proliferate, scholarly databases are under pressure to ensure the titles they list are reputable.

Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03325-3

As poor publishing practices proliferate, scholarly databases are under pressure to ensure the titles they list are reputable.

How the pandemic changed trust in science — in four charts

Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03248-zThe largest analysis of its kind reveals the public’s changing relationship with science and the people who do it.

Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03248-z

The largest analysis of its kind reveals the public’s changing relationship with science and the people who do it.

Unprecedented atlas explores mitochondria across the tree of life

Nature, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03195-9The mitoproteomes of five parasites and a plant hold medical potential — and reignite the question of just when the mitochondrion evolved.

Nature, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03195-9

The mitoproteomes of five parasites and a plant hold medical potential — and reignite the question of just when the mitochondrion evolved.

Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light

Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03091-2Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuros…

Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03091-2

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.