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2026, volume 656, articles 8127

Why science must reinforce its social contract pp. 274-274

Peter Gluckman

Led by the nose: a queen’s scent shapes naked mole rat society pp. 299-300

Chris G. Faulkes

A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can feed intestinal tumours pp. 302-303

Souvik Patra and Evan C. Lien

AI identifies interactions in CRISPR complexes to improve specificity of DNA editing pp. 304-305

Hoi Yee Chu and Alan S. L. Wong

2026, volume 656, articles 8126

Author Correction: Authigenic mineral phases as a driver of the upper-ocean iron cycle pp. E1-E1

Alessandro Tagliabue, Kristen N. Buck, Laura E. Sofen, Benjamin S. Twining, Olivier Aumont, Philip W. Boyd, Salvatore Caprara, William B. Homoky, Rod Johnson, Daniela König, Daniel C. Ohnemus, Bettina Sohst and Peter Sedwick

Author Correction: OR7A10 GPCR engineering boosts CAR-NK therapy against solid tumours pp. E2-E2

Luojia Yang, Paul A. Renauer, Kaiyuan Tang, Josh Saskin, Liqun Zhou, Charles Zou, Seok-Hoon Lee, Madison Fox, Samuel Johnson-Noya, Benedict Weiss, Stephanie Deng, Paris Fang, Binfan Chen, Giacomo Sferruzza, Saba Fooladi, Kai Zhao, Daniel Park, Feifei Zhang, Jiayi Tu, Jing Chen, Jennifer Moliterno, Murat Gunel, Lei Peng and Sidi Chen

Why the need for the WHO has never been greater pp. 9-9

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ pp. 11-12

James Dinneen

Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost pp. 12-13

Freda Kreier

First volunteer gets Ebola vaccine — three months after the outbreak began pp. 14-15

Dhruv Shenai

This AI Raygun can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing pp. 15-16

Gemma Conroy

Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal pp. 16-17

Davide Castelvecchi

White House rolls out AI funding — and signals a new era for US science pp. 17-18

Dan Garisto and Kaia Glickman

Exclusive: the science papers that patents cite the most pp. 19-23

Richard Van Noorden, Heidi Ledford and Edward Chen

Could mending damaged DNA prolong life? pp. 24-26

Elizabeth Quill

The secret relationships that govern life on Earth pp. 28-30

Richard Schiffman

Why pain hurts more when we’re lonely, and the myth of original sin: Books in brief pp. 30-30

Andrew Robinson

Obituary: Susumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel prizewinner in physiology or medicine pp. 31-31

Adrian Hayday

Plans for nuclear-powered merchant ships must confront risks pp. 33-36

Jihong Chen and Zheng Wan

Europe can become a bioengineering powerhouse with these three changes pp. 36-38

Vasilis Ntziachristos, Thomas Schwarz-Romond and Fiona M. Watt

Artificial algal blooms could remove atmospheric carbon — but can they be used responsibly? pp. 39-40

Sara Nawaz

Judicious use of LLMs could speed up progress in the social sciences pp. 40-41

James N. Druckman

Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally pp. 42-44

Haoran Zhang and Marzyeh Ghassemi

Venus’s rift valleys could be its secret to staying active pp. 42-42

Katherine Skipper

Electric dipoles go sideways in thin ferroelectric film pp. 44-45

Elzbieta Gradauskaite

DNA-shredding CRISPR enzyme takes aim at cancer cells pp. 45-46

Mehran Takallo and Raymond H. J. Staals

An entangling gate for dual-rail erasure qubits pp. 47-53

D-Wave Quantum Inc.

Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3 pp. 54-59

Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Nishkarsh Agarwal, Maya Gates, Cong Li, Pu Yu, Robert Hovden and Ismail El Baggari

Family of magnetic field-boosted superconductors in rhombohedral graphene pp. 60-66

Junseok Seo, Armel A. Cotten, Shenyong Ye, Mingchi Xu, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Jixiang Yang, Emily Aitken, Prayoga P. Liong, Phatthanon Pattanakanvijit, Zach Hadjri, Rasul Gazizulin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mingda Li, Dominik M. Zumbühl and Long Ju

Perpendicular switching of polarization in layered ferroelectrics pp. 67-72

Pushpendra Gupta, Sergio Puebla, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Xinyan Li, Sajid Husain, Ting-Ran Liu, Peter Meisenheimer, Vishantak Srikrishna, Dmitri Nikonov, Matthew Chen, Yogesh Kumar, Ashish Omar, Koushik Das, Barat Achinuq, Sujoy Roy, Yu-Tsun Shao, Yimo Han, Sayeef Salahuddin, Amrita Mathuriya, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Philippe Ghosez, Javier Junquera and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Insulator-free topological photonic multi-lane highways pp. 73-79

Xiaohan Cui, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Mudi Wang, Zi-Xuan Gao, Xiao-Dong Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Yun Lai and C. T. Chan

Non-epitaxial perovskite polariton laser diode operating under direct current pp. 80-85

Anatoly P. Pushkarev, Daria Khmelevskaia, Ivan A. Matchenya, Stepan A. Baryshev, Denis A. Sannikov, Alexey A. Ekgardt, Eduard I. Moiseev, Natalia V. Kryzhanovskaya, Alexey E. Zhukov, Dmitry V. Krasnikov, Alexandr A. Marunchenko, Alexey V. Yulin, Albert G. Nasibulin and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Semiconducting and magnetic lanthanide MXenes from intercalated halides pp. 86-91

Qian Fang, Liming Wang, Kai Chang, Hongxin Yang, Pu Yan, Kecheng Cao, Mian Li, Jianming Xue, Xiaoping Ouyang, Zhifang Chai and Qing Huang

Alternating CO2 and bicycloalkane copolymerization to circular polyesters pp. 92-97

Min Zhu, Xavier Westworth, Yingluo Zhao, Gaurav S. Deshmukh, Deepak K. Barange, Tao Zhang, Ravikumar R. Gowda, Linda J. Broadbelt and Eugene Y.-X. Chen

Ligand-enabled distal desaturative lactonization of aliphatic acids pp. 98-105

Tanay Pal, Md Saimuddin Sk, Yazhinimuthu C M, Somnath Kar, Animesh Ghosh and Debabrata Maiti

Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization pp. 106-114

Jun Yu, J. Keith Moore, Francois W. Primeau, Anthony F. Michaels, Amy G. Nuno, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Michael N. Levy, Keith Lindsay, Hui Wang, James T. Randerson and Adam C. Martiny

Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments pp. 115-122

Ashwini Ashokkumar, Luke Hewitt, Isaias Ghezae and Robb Willer

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa pp. 123-128

Baopeng Song, Zhifei Zhang, Luke C. Strotz, Timothy P. Topper, Andrej Ernst, Junye Ma, Zhiliang Zhang, Mei Luo, Lars E. Holmer, Yue Liang, Yazhou Hu, Caibin Zhang, Yanlong Chen and Glenn A. Brock

Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk pp. 129-139

Tobi Alegbe, Bradley T. Harris, Laura Fachal, Lucia Ramirez-Navarro, Marcus Tutert, Monika Krzak, Mennatallah Ghouraba, Michelle Strickland, Matiss Ozols, Celeste E. Cohen, Saniya Khullar, Eleonora Khabirova, Nikolaos I. Panousis, David Ochoa, Noor Wana, May Xueqi Hu, Jason Skelton, Jasmin Ostermayer, Kimberly Ai Xian Cheam, D. Leland Taylor, Yong Gu, Claire Dawson, Tina Thompson, Kenneth Arestang, Nilanga Nishad, Biljana Brezina, Charry Queen Caballes, Wendy Garri, Steven Leonard, Vivek Iyer, Miles Parkes, Chris Wallace, Rebecca E. McIntyre, Cristina Cotobal Martin, Gareth-Rhys Jones, Tim Raine and Carl A. Anderson

Mechanism of age-related accumulation of mtDNA mutations in human blood pp. 140-148

Rahul Gupta, Timothy J. Durham, Grant Chau, Masahiro Kanai, Md Mesbah Uddin, Wenhan Lu, M. Austin Argentieri, Konrad J. Karczewski, Daniel Howrigan, Pradeep Natarajan, Wei Zhou, Benjamin M. Neale and Vamsi K. Mootha

A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions pp. 149-158

Shan Zhao, Heying Shan, Xiao Liu, Yu Qian, Jingyao Huang, Yi-Ran Liu, Zhenfei Jiao, Lichen Ye, Lin Cong, Xiaoou Wang, Zhi-Yuan Wang, Danyang Li, Ming-Quan Chen, Kai Wang, Ling Fu, Xu-Fei Du, Si Wu and Yu Mu

Cortical development dynamics across autism spectrum disorder mouse models pp. 159-172

Lena A. Schwarz, Christoph P. Dotter, Sergey Isaev, Michela Lisi, Daniel Malzl, Christoph Büschl, Sabrina Ladstätter, Bárbara Oliveira, Matteo Barel, Bernadette Basilico, Chaitanya Chintaluri, Sarah Gorkiewicz, Mohammad Goudarzi, Tereza Belinova, Stephan Reichl, Gintarė Sendžikaitė, Satish Arcot Jayaram, Peter Koppensteiner, Christoph Sommer, Tim P. Vogels, Jörg Menche, Igor Adameyko, Peter V. Kharchenko, Christoph Bock and Gaia Novarino

Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield pp. 173-182

Shudong Chen, Yupan Zou, Huanshuo Cui, Qingfeng Dong, Dandan Yang, Xiaozhen Huang, Shujing Cheng, Peiyong Xin, Jinfang Chu, Wen Song and Cao Xu

Universal cell embedding provides a foundation model for cell biology pp. 183-191

Yanay Rosen, Yusuf Roohani, Ayush Agrawal, Leon Samotorčan, Tabula Sapiens Consortium, Stephen R. Quake and Jure Leskovec

Disparate privacy risks from medical AI pp. 192-198

Moritz A. Knolle, Martin J. Menten, Friederike Jungmann, Felix Meissen, Ben Glocker, Daniel Rueckert and Georgios Kaissis

Targeting cancer-specific mutations with RNA-triggered chromatin shredding pp. 199-206

Jingkun Zeng, Zhiyuan Cheng, Huadong Chen, Zhaojun Wang, Jared Thompson, Kadin T. Crosby, Hesong Han, Arushi Singhal, Wayne Ngo, Chenglong Xia, Daniel Rosas-Rivera, Zeyuan Zhang, Min Hyung Kang, Ying Mao, Morgan E. Diolaiti, Giselle C. Lee, John F. X. Diffley, Yixuan Song, Longhui Qiu, Nathan M. Krah, Niren Murthy, Ryan N. Jackson, Yang Liu, Alan Ashworth and Jennifer A. Doudna

Steatosis shapes prognosis-defining liver metastasis heterogeneity in CRC pp. 207-215

Yiming Peng-Winkler, Xiao-Zheng Liu, Sanne M. L. Verheul, Charlotte Girondel, Sebastian Igelmann, Sara Marie Rotter, Michail Doukas, Ming Liu, Anke Vandekeere, Mélanie Planque, Juan Fernández-García, Sébastien Tabariès, Marta Buetas-Arcas, Sandra Martínez-Martín, Florian Döbbe, Margherita Demicco, Ines Vermeire, Janine Theile, Johannes Ceuppens, Jonas Haesevoets, Emma Tobarra-López, Dorien Broekaert, Johannes Georg Bode, Tom Luedde, Peter Vermeulen, Daniele V. F. Tauriello, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Steve Stegen, Laura Soucek, Tiago De Oliveira, Lena-Christin Conradi, Peter M. Siegel, Cornelis Verhoef and Sarah-Maria Fendt

LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair pp. 216-226

Claire S. Goul, Aakriti Jain, Samira Yitiz, Zahra E. Soltani, Serim Yang, Simon Rapp, Martina Spacci, Scot Federman, James Sacco, Huinan Li, Lauren D. Enriquez, Nalan Liv, Laralynne Przybyla and Roberto Zoncu

Spatial distribution of the proteome in the human body and in cancers pp. 227-236

Liang Yue, Wenhao Jiang, Sainan Li, Meng Luo, Ning Fan, Xiaolu Zhan, Rui Sun, Honghan Cheng, Zhangzhi Xue, Tong Liu, Qianhe Zhou, Kexin Chen, Tian Lu, Fang Guo, Dongwei Li, Weigang Ge, Zongxiang Nie, Mengge Lyu, Jun A, Yingrui Wang, Yingdan Chen, Zhenhai Fu, Nan Xiang, Lu Li, Fengchao Yu, Guo Ci Teo, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Meng Wang, Michael P. Snyder, Ben C. Collins, Qi Xiao, Ruedi Aebersold, Fei Xu, Hui Yang, Sijia Zhang, Yi Han, Yi Zhu, Yong Ji, Yan Li and Tiannan Guo

Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins via neural iterative selection−expansion pp. 237-249

Benjamin Fry, Kaia Slaw and Nicholas F. Polizzi

Diverse binding poses of agonistic neurotoxins on human Nav1.6 pp. 250-259

Xiao Fan, Jian Huang, Lin Yang, Jiaofeng Chen, Huan Wang, Xiaoshuang Huang, Jinli Geng, Qinglin Wu, Yuzhen Xie, Fangzhou Lu, Qinmeng Guo, Zilin Shen, Xueqin Jin and Nieng Yan

Retraction Note: Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst pp. 260-260

The CHIME/FRB Collaboration, Bridget C. Andersen, Kevin Bandura, Mohit Bhardwaj, P. J. Boyle, Charanjot Brar, Daniela Breitman, Tomas Cassanelli, Shami Chatterjee, Pragya Chawla, Jean-François Cliche, Davor Cubranic, Alice P. Curtin, Meiling Deng, Matt Dobbs, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Emmanuel Fonseca, B. M. Gaensler, Utkarsh Giri, Deborah C. Good, Alex S. Hill, Alexander Josephy, J. F. Kaczmarek, Zarif Kader, Joseph Kania, Victoria M. Kaspi, Calvin Leung, D. Z. Li, Hsiu-Hsien Lin, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Juan Mena-Parra, Marcus Merryfield, B. W. Meyers, D. Michilli, Arun Naidu, Laura Newburgh, C. Ng, Anna Ordog, Chitrang Patel, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ue-Li Pen, Emily Petroff, Ziggy Pleunis, Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Mubdi Rahman, Scott Ransom, Andre Renard, Pranav Sanghavi, Paul Scholz, J. Richard Shaw, Kaitlyn Shin, Seth R. Siegel, Saurabh Singh, Kendrick Smith, Ingrid Stairs, Chia Min Tan, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Keith Vanderlinde, D. V. Wiebe, Dallas Wulf and Andrew Zwaniga

Science-backed tips on how to avoid distractions pp. 261-263

Nikki Forrester

Scientists don’t need more trust, they need public allies pp. 266-266

Anandita C. Sabherwal and Gregg Sparkman

How scientists can tackle the paradox of political polarization pp. 266-266

Peter Calow

Put health systems at the centre of European heatwave plans pp. 266-266

Chirantan Chatterjee, Indrajit Adhikari and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Lab leaders should follow football’s lead and have coaching qualifications pp. 266-266

Pat Casey