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Volume 24, issue 10, 2026

A cortical semantic map integrates fractions and integers in the human brain pp. 1-29

Daniela Valério, Samuel Debray, Alireza Karami, Maxime Cauté, Nicolás Gravel and Stanislas Dehaene

Actionable solutions to address antibody validation failures pp. 1-22

Katherine Blades, Michael Biddle, Robert Froud, Eva M Krockow and Harvinder Virk

Inadequate antibody validation places substantial numbers of animal and human tissue samples at risk of waste pp. 1-22

Michael Biddle, Jemma Cooper, Katherine Blades, Dominic Ruddy, Eva M Krockow and Harvinder Virk

Moral and perceptual conflict processing are implemented by distinct brain activation and functional connectivity patterns pp. 1-38

Ruida Zhu, Marcus Grueschow, Marius Moisa, Chao Liu and Christian C Ruff

Tolerance measured at one developmental stage mispredicts climate resilience in an animal with a complex life cycle pp. 1-25

Hao Song, Tingyu Shi, Meijie Yang, Xiaoyan Liu, Zhuoqing Li, Pu Shi, Yu Wu, Bassem Allam, Andrew Jeffs, Bradley Skelton and Tao Zhang

Recombination shapes the dynamics of selective constraint in global populations of human gut bacteria pp. 1-31

Zhiru Liu and Benjamin H Good

Volume 24, issue 9, 2026

Intrinsic timescale develops hierarchically from sensorimotor to association cortex in youth and stabilizes in adulthood pp. 1-24

Golia Shafiei, Joëlle Bagautdinova, Valerie J Sydnor, Dani S Bassett, Deanna M Barch, Matthew Cieslak, Yong Fan, Elizabeth Flook, Alexandre R Franco, Gregory Kiar, Audrey C Luo, Michael P Milham, Linden Parkes, Taylor Salo, Leah H Somerville, Tien T Tong, Russell T Shinohara and Theodore D Satterthwaite

Nightjars trade off cruising speed efficiency for hovering capabilities and link upstroke thrust production with restricted wing folding pp. 1-18

L Christoffer Johansson, Gabriel Norevik, Sonja Friman and Anders Hedenström

Arousal-driven critical roaming reproduces human functional connectivity dynamics pp. 1-23

Anagh Pathak and Demian Battaglia

No evidence for modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase during natural breathing pp. 1-16

Lucas Jeay-Bizot, Raniyah Chishti, Uri Maoz and Aaron Schurger

How the brain dances across critical boundaries pp. 1-4

Audrey J Sederberg

Volume 24, issue 8, 2026

Inhibitory tone in the dentate gyrus dynamically prioritizes memory flexibility or stability by tuning a sensitivity-consistency continuum pp. 1-23

Elena Pérez-Montoyo, José María Caramés, Raquel Garcia-Hernandez, Mónica Peralta-Cañadas, Santiago Canals and Encarni Marcos

Towards a research renaissance: Empowering early career researchers through mentored AI use pp. 1-4

Douglas R Call, Mary Sanchez-Lanier, Ananth Kalyanaraman and Sascha H Duttke

grafify online: A web app for graphing and statistical analysis pp. 1-6

Avinash R Shenoy

Neural encoding of pain is robust within but unstable between individuals pp. 1-22

Laura Tiemann, Felix S Bott, Elisabeth S May, Moritz M Nickel, Vanessa D Hohn, Cristina Gil Ávila, Nicolò Bruna, Paul Theo Zebhauser and Markus Ploner

Volume 24, issue 7, 2026

Identity-specific reward expectations in orbitofrontal cortex guide goal-directed choices pp. 1-22

Phillip P Witkowski, Noelle Henein, Nicole Moussa, Geoffrey Schoenbaum and Thorsten Kahnt

A developmental shift in glucocorticoid receptor expression preserves glucocorticoid sensitivity in the adult suprachiasmatic nucleus pp. 1-32

Kristian Händler, Varun K A Sreenivasan, Violetta Pilorz, Celia Martinez-Perez, Iratxe Elorduy, Tomas J Casas, Marianne Lehmann, Jon Olano Bringas, Laura Escobar Castañondo, Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Federico N Soria, Henrik Oster, Malte Spielmann and Mariana Astiz

Endogenous auditory and motor brain rhythms predict individual speech tracking pp. 1-32

Christina Lubinus, Anne Keitel, Jonas Obleser, David Poeppel and Johanna M Rimmele

Towards globally equitable bioinformatics adoption pp. 1-5

Paulyna Magaña, Piraveen Gopalasingam, Jennifer R Fleming, Oleg Kovalevskiy, Augustin Žídek, ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer, Agata Laydon, Roz Onions, Eva Akurut, Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Yalbi Itzel Balderas-Martínez, Sanjana Fatema Chowdhury, Saikat Chowdhury, Sylvia Christie, Govinda Rao Dabburu, Fatoumata Gnine Fofana, Ronald Galiwango, Mahipal Ganji, Daudi Jjingo, Fredrick Elishama Kakembo, Grace Kebirungi, Shahiid Kiyaga, Ayoub Ksouri, Sanjeet Kumar Mahtha, Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho, Jack Mason, Jose Arturo Molina-Mora, Patricia P N Nabisubi, Emmanuel Nji, Houcemeddine Othman, Martina Soledad Paoletta, Nicole M Scherer, Bhagya Senadheera, Adrián Gustavo Turjanski, David Twesigomwe, Andrew Walakira, Sameer Velankar and Cath Brooksbank

Positive early-life olfactory memory is rooted in the olfactory bulb and triggers large-scale changes beyond the olfactory system pp. 1-27

Jules Dejou, Anna Athanassi, Théo Brunel, Marc Thevenet, Anne Didier and Nathalie Mandairon

Neuronal protein Sex-lethal modulates tRNA synthesis via the polymerase III subunit Polr3E in male Drosophila neurons pp. 1-1

Freya Storer, Colin D McClure, Alicia Estacio Gomez, Lucy J Minkley, Tsz Lam Wong, Nina Markevych and Tony D Southall

Engineering resilient gene drives for sustainable malaria control by predicting, testing and overcoming target site resistance in Anopheles gambiae pp. 1-1

Ioanna Morianou, Lee Phillimore, Bhavin S Khatri, Louise Marston, Matthew Gribble, Austin Burt, Federica Bernardini, Andrew M Hammond, Tony Nolan and Andrea Crisanti

Social learning dynamically shapes moral decision-making by biasing subjective valuation pp. 1-1

Julien Benistant, Valentin Guigon, Alain Nicolas, Edmund Derrington and Jean-Claude Dreher

Sequential neural dynamics underlie unconscious integration and conscious perception of visual stimuli pp. 1-1

Maëlan Q Menétrey, Michael H Herzog and David Pascucci

The cell cloud: Adopting systems biology concepts in the era of single-cell immunology pp. 1-4

Tal Shay, Christophe O Benoist and Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer

Why biology must prioritize data reanalysis in the era of artificial intelligence pp. 1-4

Daniel Ghaderi, Ali Sahimi, Benjamin Esser, Kelly V Ruggles and Roy Maimon

Volume 24, issue 6, 2026

Normative assembly rule reveals fairness in microbial communities pp. 1-14

Teemu Kuosmanen, Juhani Rantanen, Dovydas Kičiatovas, Sanna Pausio, Ville-Petri Friman, Teppo Hiltunen and Ville Mustonen

Human neuronal firing varies with the frequency of local field potential oscillations pp. 1-24

Zahra Jourahmad, Raissa K Mathura, Layth S Mattar, Melissa C Franch, Danika L Paulo, Mohammed Hasen, Nicole R Provenza, Benjamin Y Hayden, Sameer A Sheth, Eleonora Bartoli and Andrew J Watrous

Evolutionary analysis of transcription elongation factors reveals conserved and lineage-specific regulatory domains pp. 1-29

Alex M Francette, Aakash Grover, Nathan Clark and Karen M Arndt

Aging and metabolism contribute separately to brain–body health pp. 1-40

Asa Farahani, Zhen-Qi Liu, Filip Morys, Roqaie Moqadam, Yashar Zeighami, Mahsa Dadar, Alain Dagher and Bratislav Misic

Volume 24, issue 5, 2026

Targeted sequencing enhances detection of pangolin trafficking hotspots and dynamics of both domestic and global trade markets pp. 1-31

Sean P Heighton, Jérôme Murienne, Mukesh Thakur, Alain Didier Missoup, Wirdateti Wirdateti, Chabi Sylvestre Djagoun, Sery Bi Gonedelé, Gabriel Ngua Ayecaba, Brice Roxan Momboua, Flobert Njiokou, Anne-Lise Chaber, Helen C Nash, Barbora Černá Bolfíková, Sylvain Dufour, Guy T Gembu, Ayodeji Olayemi, Jordi Salmona, Amaia Iribar, Yves Cuenot and Philippe Gaubert

Environmental uncertainty shapes human effort learning pp. 1-21

Rong Bi, Jan Grohn, Patricia L Lockwood, Miriam C Klein-Flügge and Lilian Weber

Volume 24, issue 4, 2026

Cell type-agnostic transcriptomic signatures enable uniform comparisons of neural maturation pp. 1-30

Sridevi Venkatesan, Jonathan M Werner, Yun Li and Jesse Gillis

We need to correct the wide-spread omission of equal contribution in article indexing pp. 1-4

Wenying Shou

The time has come for big changes to improve research funding pp. 1-4

Peter Kolarz

Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness pp. 1-17

Thomas A Püschel, Rachel M Hurwitz and Chris Venditti

Emotion regulation success involves systematic gradient-based reconfigurations of large-scale activation patterns in the human brain pp. 1-24

Ruien Wang, Remi Janet, Carmen Morawetz and Anita Tusche

An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research pp. 1-13

Rita Banzi, Monika Varga, Yuri Andrei Gelsleichter, Constant Vinatier, David Moher, Florian Naudet and on behalf of the OSIRIS-Delphi Study Group

Volume 24, issue 3, 2026

Prenatal and early postnatal periods differentially shape the maturation of human cortical microstructure and myelin pp. 1-18

Thanos Tsigaras, Juergen Dukart, Stuart Oldham, Simon B Eickhoff and Casey Paquola

Genotype-fitness mapping of adaptive mutants reveals shifting low-dimensional structure across divergent environments pp. 1-29

Olivia M Ghosh, Grant Kinsler, Benjamin H Good and Dmitri A Petrov

Self-allocation bias in performance-based cooperative decisions is driven by self-interest rather than distorted performance encoding pp. 1-24

Sihui Zhang, Xue Yong, Yina Ma and Christoph W Korn

A bacterial ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae may explain its backboned phylogeny pp. 1-33

Siqi Liu, Sarah L Svensson and Daniel Falush

A responsible authorship culture is needed and it is a collective responsibility pp. 1-2

Véronique Kiermer, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and Magdalena Skipper

Volume 24, issue 2, 2026

Grik2b and Grik2c kainate receptors regulate oviposition in Bactrocera dorsalis pp. 1-23

Bin Liu, Jingwei Yang, Long Ye, Yang Xiao, Guohong Luo, Muyang He, Guy Smagghe, Yongyue Lu and Daifeng Cheng

Neurofilament light chain may serve as a cross-species blood biomarker to assess aging and predict mortality pp. 1-12

Carina Bergmann, Lisa M Häsler, Marius Lambert, Stephan A Kaeser, Stephanie A Schultz, Barbara Riond, Marco Weiss, Martina Balz, Tobias Knauf-Witzens and Mathias Jucker

New approaches to meta-analyze differences in skewness, kurtosis, and correlation pp. 1-15

Pietro Pollo, Szymon M Drobniak, Hamed Haselimashhadi, Malgorzata Lagisz, Ayumi Mizuno, Laura A B Wilson, Daniel W A Noble and Shinichi Nakagawa

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review pp. 1-17

Carl T Bergstrom and Kevin Gross

Host plant phylogeny predicts arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities, but plant life history and fungal genetic change predict feedback pp. 1-21

Robert J Ramos, Brianna L Richards, Peggy A Schultz and James D Bever

Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism pp. 1-21

Tanmay Dixit, Ming Liu, Jana M Riederer, Jonah M Walker, Cameron J Blair, Jess Lund, Collins Moya and Claire N Spottiswoode

Is scientific reform an unwinnable arms race? pp. 1-3

Marcus R Munafò and George Davey Smith

Light intensity and opsin sensitivity shape the morphology of cone photoreceptor outer segments pp. 1-20

Jingjin Xu, Zihan Chang, Wei Deng, Luwei Qian, Honggang Su, Xun Huang, Yunsi Kang, Haibo Xie and Chengtian Zhao

The human dorsal anterior cingulate facilitates acceptance of unfair offers and regulates inequity aversion pp. 1-26

Shotaro Numano, Chris Frith and Masahiko Haruno

Volume 24, issue 1, 2026

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review pp. 1-24

David Alvarez-Ponce, Gabrial Batz and Luis Ramirez Torres

Microglial activity during postnatal development is required for infantile amnesia in mice pp. 1-20

Erika Stewart, Louisa G Zielke, Antje R de Boer, Gabrielle Guillaume Boulaire, Sarah D Power and Tomás J Ryan

TDP-43-mediated alternative polyadenylation is associated with a reduction in VPS35 and VPS29 expression in frontotemporal dementia pp. 1-19

Vidhya Maheswari Jawahar, Yi Zeng, Ellen M Armour, Mei Yue, Kathryn Citrano, Anastasiia Lovchykova, Madison M Reeves, Bailey Rawlinson, Michael DeTure, Judith A Dunmore, Yuping Song, Sophie K Ball, Zbigniew K Wszolek, Neill R Graff-Radford, Bradley F Boeve, David S Knopman, Gregory S Day, Scott A Small, Dennis W Dickson, Michael E Ward, Tania F Gendron, Yongjie Zhang, Mercedes Prudencio, Aaron D Gitler and Leonard Petrucelli