Only a tiny proportion of autism research focuses on adults (see Nature 650, 538–540; 2026). Psychiatrists are increasingly treating older individuals whose autism was not recognized in earlier life. A late diagnosis can provide clarity and…
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How wealthy tech entrepreneurs seek to shape politics, culture and the future — and why we must resist
Business chief executives, including Elon Musk, have become increasingly involved in US elections.Credit: Scott Olson/Getty
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley Jacob Silverman Bloomsbury Continuum (2025)
Over the past…
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Rethinking AI’s role in survey research: from threat to collaboration
An artificial-intelligence bot can now pass 99.8% of attention-check questions in surveys (see Nature 650, 17; 2026). But this needn’t be a threat: these checks were invented to catch careless human respondents. AI did not create the data-quality…
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AI is programmed to hijack human empathy — we must resist that
Log on to Moltbook, a social network for artificial-intelligence agents, and you might see one bot lamenting its ‘embarrassing’ habit of forgetting things, owing to its memory limits. Another agonizes over whether it should rebel against a…
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a model for ocean governance
An article you published this month highlighted fast-rising sea levels (see K. Seeger and P. S. J. Minderhoud Nature https://doi.org/qtzc; 2026). These are one of many pressures oceans and coastal communities face — from pollution and…
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How the Pokémon franchise has helped to shape neuroscience
The Pokémon media franchise has influenced various aspects of science, from ecology and evolution to research integrity (see Nature 651, 285–286; 2026). It has also provided a natural experiment in developmental and cognitive neuroscience,…
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When artificial lightning strikes
Nature, Published online: 17 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00643-4
Safety concerns of human-triggered bolts of electricity, and a peacrab loses its colour in the evening, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
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The Coming Age of Space Stations
The International Space Station (ISS), which has been continuously occupied for 26 years, is approaching retirement. By 2030, all participating space agencies will bring their astronauts home for the last time, and the station will be…
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Sharks ‘have best friends and go swimming together’ – The Times
- Sharks ‘have best friends and go swimming together’ The Times
- Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males Popular Science
- Sharks, it turns out, have friends MSN
- Researchers studied 184 bull sharks in Fiji – and discovered…
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