Study sites Field work took place in ten smallholder farming villages (2,400–3,000 metres above sea level, temperate climate) in Jumla District, Nepal (Fig. 1, Supplementary Fig. 2 and Supplementary Method 2). Jumla is a remote mountainous district, situated in the Karnali Province of western Nepal. Rates of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition are very high…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 06 May 2026 An audit of TikTok’s recommendation algorithm using hundreds of automated ‘bot’ accounts during the 2024 US presidential election finds that the ‘For You’ feed of the platform steered users towards Republican-aligned political content, regardless of their initial political leanings. Source link
Experimental set-up A biaxial apparatus, CrackDyn, was used to perform the experiments (Fig. 1a). The apparatus housed two PMMA plates (40 × 10 × 1 cm and 45 × 10 × 1.8 cm). Experiments were conducted on PMMA rather than natural rocks because it provides three main advantages for scaling laboratory observations to natural fault systems. First, owing to its lower elastic stiffness compared with rocks,…
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01159-7 Depletion of sex hormones that enable male development induces neuroinflammation that disrupts hormonal signalling and immune responses against brain tumours. Source link
Ethics statement Throughout this study, we took care to follow relevant ethical standards. The use of sock puppet accounts is an established research technique for investigating personalization and bias on internet platforms12,24,45, provided it is strictly for noncommercial, public-interest purposes and does not compromise user privacy. Previous work and legal precedent have indicated that the…
Cell lines The syngeneic mouse GBM model SB28 was provided by H. Okada, and GL261 was obtained from the Developmental Therapeutic Program, NCI. CPA was provided by the Castro-Lowenstein Laboratory, and KR158 was provided by L. Deleyrolle. The mouse bladder cancer cell line MB49 was obtained from the Animal Tumour Core at the Cleveland Clinic. The mouse…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 06 May 2026 Combining climate models with statistical learning allows an assessment of the relative contributions of different factors to trends in winter precipitation at mid-latitudes. Thermodynamic (non-circulation-related) effects are mostly consistent between models and observations, but whether circulation-related changes are forced or unforced remains unclear. Source link
Credit: K.C. Alfred/U-T San Diego/ZUMA Wire/Alamy On 26 June 2000, J. Craig Venter accompanied then US president Bill Clinton and geneticist Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project (HGP), into the East Room of the White House to celebrate the completion of the first draft of the human genome. The cordiality on show belied…
The Duplicate Review Checker screens peer reviews for suspicious content.Credit: Grace Cary/Getty A first-of-its-kind artificial-intelligence tool detects duplicate or suspiciously similar peer-review reports. The system — developed by Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), based in Bristol, UK — can help to uncover cases of plagiarized or template-like peer reviews, which individuals or organized groups use…
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01244-x The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Source link