Researchers building support networks and engaging in political action say it helps reduce burnout from news overwhelm.Credit: Matthieu Delaty/AFP via Getty
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Cutting aircraft soot emissions is not enough to curb contrail clouds
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The contrail clouds formed by jet engines contribute to…
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Catalyst diverts course of industrial process to make valuable hydrocarbons
Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00803-6
A catalyst with two cobalt components potentially opens the way to sustainable processes for manufacturing light olefins — key ingredients for making plastics and detergents.
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The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics
Sample collection
The first phase of the 1KCP project enrolled 1,379 participants aged 18–76 years (737 men and 642 women) from the Health Examination Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. Peripheral blood…
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Electric dipole moment drives the dynamics of the TNFR1 complex I signalosome
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Super-potent opioids could be safer-than-expected alternatives to conventional painkillers
Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00806-3
Modified nitazenes, opioids 1,000 times stronger than morphine, show remarkably few adverse effects in rodents, renewing the potential of these drugs for pain relief.
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Hydroxy-induced cobalt oxides for syngas to light olefins
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Evidence of the pair-instability gap from black-hole masses
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100 years of synthetic fuels
Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00808-1
The Fischer–Tropsch synthesis shaped history by providing a way of making liquid fuels from coal. It is now causing a stir again as a route to sustainable fuels.
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An enteric neuron ionotropic receptor regulates salt stress resistance
Growth of C. elegans strains
C. elegans strains were grown on nematode growth medium (NGM) plates seeded with Escherichia coli OP50 at 20 °C. unc-122p::dsRed or gfp were used as co-injection markers (at 40 ng µl−1) to generate transgenic…
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