Algorithmic tools promise to help researchers cut through the mass of scientific literature, but serendipitous encounters with papers remain essential for scientific progress.
“It has become…
Algorithmic tools promise to help researchers cut through the mass of scientific literature, but serendipitous encounters with papers remain essential for scientific progress.
“It has become…
LTT 9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (Rp ≈ 4.7 R⊕, Mp ≈ 29 M⊕) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hr, placing it deep within the “hot-Neptune desert,” where Neptunian planets are seldom found. We present new James Webb Space…
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Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00642-5
A suggestion that mutant insects could detect narcotics or explosive substances, and how ash seeds feature a screw propeller, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
GBD 2016 Dementia Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurol. 18, 88–106 (2019).

Every biological process requires energy, from a neuron firing to a cell making proteins, and from digesting dinner to taking a stroll. Energy flows constantly through every part of a cell, in chemical, thermal, mechanical or electromagnetic…