Nature, Published online: 17 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10249-5
Publisher Correction: Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated Gi signalling
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Publisher Correction: Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated G<sub>i</sub> signalling
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Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
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Statistical approximation is not general intelligence
In a Comment, Chen et al. argue that success in behavioural tests — including variants of the Turing test — is evidence of artificial general intelligence (AGI; see E. K. Chen et al. Nature 650, 36–40; 2026). We find this problematic, on…
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Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts
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Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical sciences to…
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Student dilemma: physical science or physical education?
Nature, Published online: 17 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00297-2
Practical physics classes were competing with the allure of sports in the 1800s, and top tips for the best-smelling garden, in this week’s peek at the Nature archives.
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Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM?
For more than 70 years, physicians seeking to diagnose mental-health conditions have turned to the ‘bible for psychiatry’ — The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Last updated in 2022, and published by the…
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Scientists Make a Game-Changing Find in the Bennu Asteroid
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar System was in the earliest phase of its…
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Oldest wooden structure predates Homo sapiens by 200,000 years
Nearly half a million years ago – far earlier than researchers once believed – early humans were already building wooden structures.
A research team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University, reporting in Nature, excavated…
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Why don’t more Tatooine-like exoplanets exist in our Milky Way galaxy? Astronomers might have an answer
It’s one of the most instantly recognizable scenes in cinematic history: Luke Skywalker gazes at a double sunset to the haunting melody of a mournful French horn. And while “Star Wars” may take place in a galaxy far, far away, planets orbiting…
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Scientists Found a Massive Lava Tube Hiding Beneath the Surface of Venus
Scientists may have found the first evidence of underground tunnels lurking beneath the surface of Venus, carved by the planet’s ancient volcanic activity.
A team of researchers from the University of Trento spotted what…
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