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.

Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami’s birth

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02809-6Seismic data pinpoint the collapse of an underwater volcano, and reveal how the eruption triggered a destructive tsunami.

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02809-6

Seismic data pinpoint the collapse of an underwater volcano, and reveal how the eruption triggered a destructive tsunami.

AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1Academics explain that their research freedom beats the increased salary they would get in the corporate sector, but emerging hybrid models might allow them to …

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1

Academics explain that their research freedom beats the increased salary they would get in the corporate sector, but emerging hybrid models might allow them to get the best of both worlds.