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Nature: Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil
Nature: Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough
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Nature: Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity
Nature: ‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells
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Nature: Touponse et al.
Nature: Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
Nature: Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings
Nature: Symons et al.
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This is an audio version of our Feature: ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
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Nature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome
Science: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools
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Nature: Pedalino et al.
News: Schrödinger's cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'
Nature: Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking
Nature: Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans
Nature: US science after a year of Trump
Nature: US science in 2026: five themes that will dominate Trump’s second year
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Nature: NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
Nature: Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears
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Research article: Hao et al.
Nature: Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
Nature: Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage
Nature: Rusakov et al.
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Researchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from California to Hawaii, allowing it to act like 44,000 separate seismic-activity detectors. Their method takes advantage of impurities found in glass fibre-optic cables, which reflect light differently when they are stretched and distorted by the pressure of seismic waves.
Science: Seafloor telecom cable transformed into giant earthquake detector
Chemical analysis of the caulking found on the wood an ancient boat has helped researchers identify the origins of the vessel, that sank off the coast of Denmark 2,400 years ago. The team’s analysis suggests it voyaged from much farther away that had been thought — perhaps coming from the Baltic Sea region. The team also found a fingerprint left in the caulk, although who it belonged to is unknown.
LiveScience: Fingerprint of ancient seaborne raider found on Scandinavia's oldest plank boat
Some plants called cycads (Zamia spp.) heat up to attract the beetles that pollinate them. These beetles have heat-seeking sensors in their antennae, which they use locate the plants. Male cycads warm up around 3 hours before females, meaning that beetles head to them before first carrying pollen over to the females.
Science: Heat-seeking beetles drawn to plants that glow in infrared
The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to orbit an ultra-dense pulsar whose intense gravity pulls PSR J2322-2650b into a lemon shape.
New Scientist: Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
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In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2026. We’ll hear about: small-scale AI models that could outcompete Large Language Models in reasoning, clinical trials of gene editing to treat rare human disorders, a sample collection mission from Phobos, and how changes to US policy by the Trump team are expected to impact science.
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