NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03265-y
Gemma Conroy
{"title":"Microdosing LSD shows some cognitive benefits - but only for women.","authors":"Gemma Conroy","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03265-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03265-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-11290-0
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
{"title":"Author Correction: Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm.","authors":"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","doi":"10.1038/s41586-026-11290-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11290-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03237-2
{"title":"Light and mirrors move large quantum computers closer to reality.","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03237-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03237-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03228-3
Helen Pearson, Benjamin Thompson
{"title":"Audio long read: How to stay smart in the age of AI - the science of critical thinking.","authors":"Helen Pearson, Benjamin Thompson","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03228-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03228-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-02623-0
Laura Woodrow
{"title":"Lessons from Katrina: how to rebuild academia from the ground up.","authors":"Laura Woodrow","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-02623-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02623-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03275-w
James Dinneen
{"title":"Climate scientists face deluge of public-records requests about fossil-fuel studies.","authors":"James Dinneen","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03275-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03275-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-11293-x
Yuanlong Zhang, Angran Li, Lekang Yuan, Mingrui Wang, Weihao Zhao, Zhenbo Wang, Boyang Zang, Yangxuan Zhou, Tao Yu, Lin Gao, Yu Wu, Rongkang Zhu, Mengyi Tian, Kun Li, Jiamin Wu, Pu Dai, Qionghai Dai
{"title":"Cortex-wide imaging in naturally behaving mice with 1-gram wireless mesoscopes.","authors":"Yuanlong Zhang, Angran Li, Lekang Yuan, Mingrui Wang, Weihao Zhao, Zhenbo Wang, Boyang Zang, Yangxuan Zhou, Tao Yu, Lin Gao, Yu Wu, Rongkang Zhu, Mengyi Tian, Kun Li, Jiamin Wu, Pu Dai, Qionghai Dai","doi":"10.1038/s41586-026-11293-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11293-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Revealing how distributed cortical circuits coordinate behavior in freely moving animals remains a central challenge in systems neuroscience, constrained by limited fields of view, low throughput, and the tethering required by current miniaturized microscopes<sup>1-4</sup>. Here, we present Airscope, a wireless mesoscope delivering 4 μm lateral resolution across a 6 mm field of view at 12.5 Hz, weighing 1.0 gram. An aspheric-lens design achieves a 2.84× shorter total track length than previous miniaturized microscopes<sup>1,2,5,6</sup> while matching the neuron yield of benchtop one-photon mesoscopes; a tailored wireless link supports cable-free calcium imaging from >8,500 neurons per animal (25‑fold increase). Paired with a zero-shot behavior analyzer, Airscope enables cortical imaging across rich behavioral conditions, including room-scale enriched arenas, swimming assays, and multi-organ implantation, with concurrent recording from multiple animals. Using Airscope, we demonstrate versatile applications of untethered cortical imaging across diverse behavioral paradigms. We identify cortical activity patterns across multiple dorsal regions that correlate with behavioral signatures of social dominance, and show dorsal-cortical population activity prospectively decodes competition outcomes across paired animals. We observe reward-location-associated cortical activity patterns during maze exploration, and characterize Granger-causal influence from spinal cord to cortex during fear conditioning, enabled by simultaneous brain-spinal recordings. By uniting large-scale, cellular-resolution recording with unconstrained behavior, Airscope makes naturalistic, multi-animal cortical recording experimentally practical, and provides a broadly accessible technology for systems neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03339-x
Xiaoying You
{"title":"Experienced researchers 'disrupt' less than rookie scientists - but their ideas last.","authors":"Xiaoying You","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03339-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03339-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-19DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03328-0
Dom Byrne
{"title":"Why failure is a taboo topic in science.","authors":"Dom Byrne","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03328-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03328-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149224486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NaturePub Date : 2026-10-16DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-03112-0
Ian Li
{"title":"The pianist who never played.","authors":"Ian Li","doi":"10.1038/d41586-026-03112-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03112-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":56.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}