Daily briefing: Will AI really be the death of us all?

Nature, Published online: 24 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03029-8Nature unpacks why AI companies are calling for a slowdown. Plus, the best clock ever and a new, unusual phase of boron.

Nature, Published online: 24 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03029-8

Nature unpacks why AI companies are calling for a slowdown. Plus, the best clock ever and a new, unusual phase of boron.

Daily briefing: Text-message tutoring keeps kids learning when schools close

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02888-5Twenty-minute phone calls from tutors improved children’s maths learning during emergency school closures. Plus, Denisovans made excellent deer hunters and Beat…

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02888-5

Twenty-minute phone calls from tutors improved children’s maths learning during emergency school closures. Plus, Denisovans made excellent deer hunters and Beatles puns are here, there and everywhere in scientific literature.

Daily briefing: Ancient rise in CO<sub>2</sub> hints at what could happen today

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02581-7A sharp rise in carbon dioxide around 56 million years ago was catastrophic for forests. Plus, mRNA-based flu vaccines have been approved in the United States and …

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02581-7

A sharp rise in carbon dioxide around 56 million years ago was catastrophic for forests. Plus, mRNA-based flu vaccines have been approved in the United States and Anthropic is to introduce an AI watermark.

Daily briefing: New evidence of the mysterious ‘glueballs’

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02558-6Physicists have found evidence of a particle made entirely of force-carrying gluons. Plus, what changes to US vaccine recommendations mean for children and the way…

Nature, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02558-6

Physicists have found evidence of a particle made entirely of force-carrying gluons. Plus, what changes to US vaccine recommendations mean for children and the ways food scientists are improving chocolate.

Daily briefing: The first archaeological evidence of death by trebuchet

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02546-wMore than 160 fractures are evidence of a fast, grisly cause of death. Plus, the health risks of the mummy trade and a controversial new type of surgery for Alzhei…

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02546-w

More than 160 fractures are evidence of a fast, grisly cause of death. Plus, the health risks of the mummy trade and a controversial new type of surgery for Alzheimer’s disease.

Daily briefing: What scientists can learn from a solar eclipse

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02519-zResearchers will have two minutes to gather data on the solar corona. Plus, people across cultures are all ticklish in the same way and how the El Niño could spell…

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02519-z

Researchers will have two minutes to gather data on the solar corona. Plus, people across cultures are all ticklish in the same way and how the El Niño could spell disaster for the Amazon rainforest.

Daily briefing: AI agents sniff out decades-old errors in scientific literature

Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02500-wAI can spot errors quickly, but should only be used to check ‘objective’ facts, researchers say. Plus, a Tupperware-sized magnetic-field detector and Gen Z researc…

Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02500-w

AI can spot errors quickly, but should only be used to check ‘objective’ facts, researchers say. Plus, a Tupperware-sized magnetic-field detector and Gen Z researchers’ tips on building resilience.

Daily Briefing: How smallpox reached the Americas

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02432-5Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm smallpox was introduced to the Americas from Europe. Plus, the month’s best science images and the changing patterns of …

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02432-5

Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm smallpox was introduced to the Americas from Europe. Plus, the month’s best science images and the changing patterns of Europe’s wildfires.

Daily briefing: ‘Raygun’ AI can shrink or supersize proteins

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02420-9The tool can add, remove or swap protein subunits using similar steps to natural evolution. Plus, spin qubits are back in the quantum race and the drugs that could p…

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02420-9

The tool can add, remove or swap protein subunits using similar steps to natural evolution. Plus, spin qubits are back in the quantum race and the drugs that could prevent long COVID.

Daily briefing: Orcas smash sunfish to smithereens

Nature, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02307-9The dolphins might be helping their young eat, or just having fun. Plus, the beauty and skill of scientific illustration and a crash course in quantum computing.

Nature, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02307-9

The dolphins might be helping their young eat, or just having fun. Plus, the beauty and skill of scientific illustration and a crash course in quantum computing.