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Can nuclear reactors hit the road?

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Katherine Bourzac

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02510-8Fission facilities that fit in a truck could provide portable power where it’s needed — but some people question whether it’s worth the cost, safety compromises and the risk of sending the raw materials for bombs into (...)

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Spontaneously charged water drops induce corrosion

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Zhongyuan Ni, Xiaomei Li, Aaron D. Ratschow, Lin Jian, Xiaoteng Zhou, Pravash Bista, Diego Cortes, Gunnar Glasser, Haojian Luo, Shuai Chen, Jiyao Yu, Yongkang Wang, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Kaloian Koynov, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen Butt

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10941-6Experiments have shown that spontaneously charged water drops can damage coatings on metal surfaces, leading to corrosion of the metal.

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Plasma-jet movie is astronomy’s summer blockbuster

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Yosuke Mizuno

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02522-4Just 116 images exist of the active galaxy 3C 345 — but an AI-driven algorithm has created a highly detailed video of the plasma jets blasted from its centre.

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Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single polyatomic molecular ion

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Zhenlin Wu, Tim Duka, Mariano Isaza-Monsalve, Miriam Kautzky, Vojt?ch Švarc, Andrea Turci, René Nardi, Marcin Gronowski, Micha? Tomza, Brandon J. Furey, Philipp Schindler

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10915-8Non-destructive single-molecule absorption spectroscopy is achieved by detecting photon recoil from a trapped molecular ion, enabling single-photon-sensitive measurements of molecular vibrational (...)

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Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Regev Schweiger, Sangjin Lee, Chenxi Zhou, Tsun-Po Yang, Stacy Li, Rashesh Sanghvi, Matthew Neville, Katie Smith, Kirsty Roberts, Ayrun Nessa, Sam Wadge, Kerrin S. Small, Peter J. Campbell, Kristian Almstrup, Peter H. Sudmant, Raheleh Rahbari, Richard Durbin

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10901-0Single-molecule long-read sequencing of human sperm reveals variation in recombination across donors and that a substantial fraction of non-crossover gene conversions arises before meiosis, distinct from PRDM9-driven (...)

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Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Martha G. Garcia-Garcia, Micha? J. Wójcik, Srijan Thota, Luke Drake, Amma Otchere, Oluwatobi Akinwale, Lizmaylin Ramos, Rui Ponte Costa, Mark J. Wagner

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10946-1Simultaneous imaging of premotor cortex and cerebellar granule cells in mice learning two skills in parallel shows that trajectories generalize in cortex but coherently reorient apart in granule cells, supporting (...)

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Primate-specific regulation of the human glycosphingolipid gatekeeper UGCG

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Canrong Wu, Sanshan Jin, Jiuyin Xu, James Jiqi Wang, Xiaoqi Guo, Yunhai Li, Zhenyu Cao, Mengting Jiang, Qingning Yuan, Wen Hu, Changyao Li, Youwei Xu, Ming-Wei Wang, Yi Jiang, H. Eric Xu

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10927-4Cryogenic electron microscopy structures of full-length human UGCG, the gatekeeper that dictates the scale and composition of glycosphingolipid diversity, are reported, showing that it uses a metal-independent catalytic (...)

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Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control

mercredi 26 août 2026 par David J. Marcus, Anthony E. English, Gunn Chun, Emmaline F. Seth, Rachel Oommen, Sabrina Hwang, Bailey A. Wells, Sean C. Piantadosi, Azra Suko, Sayaka J. Kenmochi, Anupritaa A. Parasnis, Ethan Ancell, Yulong Li, Larry S. Zweifel, Benjamin B. Land, Nephi Stella, Michael R. Bruchas

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10967-wA key role for retrograde neuromodulatory signalling in motivated behaviour is shown through dynamic endocannabinoid release within a thalamostriatal circuit that regulates behavioural engagement during reward (...)

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Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Marianna Foschi, Brandon Zhao, Antonio Fuentes, Katherine L. Bouman, José L. Gómez, Aviad Levis

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10988-5The kine neural reconstruction algorithm produces high-resolution, time-continuous very long baseline interferometry videos, enabling direct measurement of instantaneous plasma velocities and detailed kinematic analysis of (...)

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Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Se Young Lee, Eunseok Park, Ha-Eun Lee, Seongbin Kim, Yeji Yeo, Juwon Park, Young-Jin Choi, Kiheon Lee, Ki-Jun Yoon, Sanghoon Park, Eunjoon Kim, Jae-Ick Kim, Won-Suk Chung

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10964-zNeuroinflammation alone may be dispensable for early synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease.

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