You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Majestic photos of Earth juxtaposed against the Moon, as seen from Artemis II, are sure to become iconic portraits of our home planet. Our photo team…
Nature, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01118-2 Images snapped during a fly-by capture a solar eclipse and unprecedented details of the far side of the Moon. Source link
Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front of them were the results of Lu’s latest attempt to turn back time for ageing retinal nerve cells. If it worked, the method he was using could help to restore eyesight to older…
Specks of eraser dust contain enough DNA to identify the animal products used to in books.Credit: The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester In May 2006, Tim Stinson travelled to England to tour the libraries of London, Oxford and Cambridge. At the time, he was editing a fourteenth-century poem for his…
Nature, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00913-1 The problem of page numbering in reprinted articles, and experiments to find the source of a typhoid outbreak, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. Source link
Psychedelic drugs boost some of the crosstalk between brain regions.Credit: K H Fung/SPL Different psychedelic drugs have a strikingly similar effect on networks in the brain, finds the most comprehensive analysis so far of the mind-altering substances. The work, published in Nature Medicine on 6 April1, identified a ‘signature’ pattern of brain activity associated with…
Data and study area The foundational dataset for this global analysis of ALAN dynamics was the Black Marble product suite of NASA (Collection 1), derived from the DNB sensor onboard the VIIRS instrument3. The DNB observes light in the wavelength range of 500–900 nm, with an equatorial local overpass time of roughly 1:30 a.m. Standardized quality assurance…
Materials availability New plasmids associated with this study were deposited to Addgene under Mugnier Lab and McCulloch Lab and are associated with this publication. Statistics and reproducibility Sample size was not predetermined and experiments were not randomized or blinded. In vitro experiments were derived from two independently generated biological replicates, arising from different parentals except…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 08 April 2026 The placenta — a temporary organ of the offspring — attaches to the mother’s uterus, from which it taps a blood supply. A high-resolution map of individual cells at this junction now reveals some of the specific cell–cell interactions involved and pinpoints cell types that are vulnerable in common pregnancy…
Michalet, R. et al. Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness in plant communities. Ecography 38, 335–345 (2015). Article ADS Google Scholar Bertness, M. D. & Callaway, R. Positive interactions in communities. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9, 191–193 (1994). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Callaway, R. M. et al….