Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01912-y

Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01911-z

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01876-z

The papal letter goes beyond a religious document and diagnoses a failure in AI governance that the scientific community should heed.

Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10784-1

Author Correction: Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01886-x

The treasure trove of fossils and bones has already revealed a new species of extinct whale.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01878-x

Evidence from fossilized poo reveals the diverse diet of ancient ground squirrels. Plus, the science behind the peptide craze and our innate tendency to wander anticlockwise.

Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01707-1

The free platform, called Journal Trends, could also allow integrity sleuths to spot low-quality publications.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01864-3

Submarine dives reveal complex deep-sea ecosystems living on whale remains — plus, a way to turn plant material into nylon.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10645-x

SIRT7 safeguards X-chromosome integrity and dosage balance with autosomes.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10629-x

Analyses of brain single-cell transcriptomes from human, mouse, lizard, lamprey and amphioxus reveal that duplicated genes (ohnologues) played a pivotal part in early vertebrate cell-type diversification.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10631-3

Tumour network mapping of diffuse midline glioma (DMG) defines a conserved and prognostically important brain network in children with DMG, consistent with the hypothesis that DMGs exploit otherwise healthy brain circuits to promote tumour growth.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10636-y

Macroscopic quantum coherence arises in two-component exciton Bose–Einstein condensates within MoSe2/hBN/WSe2 electron–hole bilayers, exhibiting distinct spin–valley polarized phases, quantum phase transitions under magnetic fields and stable condensate behaviour up to approximately 1.8 K.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10634-0

Sleep and exercise can slow clonal haematopoiesis and limit mutant cell-driven atherosclerosis.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10646-w

A co-optimized AI hardware–software system using resistive-memory computing improves energy efficiency and parallelism for sparse signal reconstruction in imaging and three-dimensional vision applications.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10639-9

Phylogenomic reconstruction of the proteome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor sheds light on the origin of eukaryotes, indicating an important role of horizontal transfer of genes from diverse bacterial and viral donors.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10613-5

Molecular glue degraders of the RNA-binding protein HuR have therapeutic potential for BRAF-mutant cancers.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10632-2

Near-infrared fluorescent carbon nanotubes exhibit light-induced quantum friction in water, in which exciton interactions slow nanoscale motion and enable optical control of diffusion and fluid dynamics.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10580-x

A chemical and biological redox process that resembles processes in petrochemical refining is used to convert lignin from poplar into a single, valuable bioproduct, adipic acid, in high yields.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10538-z

The first data of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory deliver high-precision neutrino oscillation parameters, improving measurements and demonstrating readiness to determine neutrino mass ordering.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10588-3

Mitochondria interact directly with the nuclear pore complex via VDAC1–RANBP2 binding to sustain nuclear ATP levels.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10628-y

Experimental demonstration of quantum error-correcting codes combined with error detection and post-selection applied to a trapped-ion quantum processor shows improvements in logical error rates ranging from 11× to 800× compared with several physical circuit baselines.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10611-7

A global annual migration-flow dataset (1990–2024) is produced using deep-learning models and diverse sources to estimate movements across 230 countries with improved temporal resolution, coverage and uncertainty estimates.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10630-4

Accelerated Arctic glacier disintegration and a more dynamic sea ice cover are increasing iceberg-delivered dropstones in the deep ocean, reshaping seafloor habitats and extending cryospheric impacts far beyond glaciers.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10555-y

A systematic review and analysis shows how user-centred design can be integrated into, and strengthen, co-production approaches for building user-driven climate adaptation products.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10633-1

Linafexor is a rapidly cleared FXR agonist designed to mimic natural bile acid signalling, achieving transient receptor activation with strong efficacy and reduced toxicity in preclinical and early clinical studies.

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01662-x

Japan and South Korea are challenging Western peers in a shifting research landscape.

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10763-6

Author Correction: De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10748-5

A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01690-7

Almost half of the scientists who responded said that they feel broadly negative towards artificial intelligence, but they think that some tools are better than others.

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01817-w

Theories about how ice crystals grow in cooling liquids are wildly inaccurate when compared with experimental data, but studies are starting to illuminate the earliest moments in freezing.

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10745-8

Author Correction: A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01846-5

Arson attacks at Ebola hospitals are a cry for regional development

Nature, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01847-4

Preventing cancer requires more than a list of carcinogens

Nature, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10749-4

GPR15-guided CD8⁺ T regulatory cells control intestinal inflammation

Nature, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10735-w

Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome