How to make failure your friend and teacher in science

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03654-3Apprentices develop expertise after doing monotonous tasks repeatedly and learning from their mistakes. Scientists are no different, argues Ruth Morgan.

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03654-3

Apprentices develop expertise after doing monotonous tasks repeatedly and learning from their mistakes. Scientists are no different, argues Ruth Morgan.

He spent a year on ‘Mars’: NASA science officer emerges from mock mission

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03588-wEngineer Matthew Montgomery, who just finished a 378-day simulated Mars mission, talks about what it was like to be out of contact with the rest of humanity for …

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03588-w

Engineer Matthew Montgomery, who just finished a 378-day simulated Mars mission, talks about what it was like to be out of contact with the rest of humanity for a two-week blackout.

Author Correction: Histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 36 guides m<sup>6</sup>A RNA modification co-transcriptionally

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11375-wAuthor Correction: Histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 36 guides m6A RNA modification co-transcriptionally

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11375-w

Author Correction: Histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 36 guides m6A RNA modification co-transcriptionally

What postdoc ads ask for and what they leave unsaid

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02903-9Looking for a postdoc while raising four children made one thing clear to Wenhuan Xu: many adverts describe the ideal applicant much more clearly than they descr…

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02903-9

Looking for a postdoc while raising four children made one thing clear to Wenhuan Xu: many adverts describe the ideal applicant much more clearly than they describe the job itself.

Carlo Rovelli says fundamental physics is overrated

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03626-7The theoretical physicist unpacks the need for more humility in science and whether artificial intelligence could ever become conscious.

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03626-7

The theoretical physicist unpacks the need for more humility in science and whether artificial intelligence could ever become conscious.

AI has transformed maths — this is how we got here

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03627-6The story of how maths came to run the world, and created the artificial-intelligence models that might surpass human mathematicians.

Nature, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03627-6

The story of how maths came to run the world, and created the artificial-intelligence models that might surpass human mathematicians.