Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief

Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes

What a 1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans

Guinea-Bissau suspends a US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives

Cause of vision loss discovered in overlooked genes

Canny cattle: at least one cow knows how to use tools

Bodies like ours aren’t considered in academia’

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

Have environmental microplastics levels been overestimated?

Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s this protein helps explain why

NIH ends support for some human fetal-tissue research - dismaying scientists

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026

What your breath says about the bacteria in your gut

Editorial Expression of Concern: The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM

Publisher Correction: Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury

Publisher Correction: Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing

The biggest Schrödinger’s cat’ yet physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition

ADHD is on the rise, but why?

Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus

Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions

Extreme barocaloric effect at dissolution

Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot

Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism

Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter cortical interneuron subtypes

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi

Core-envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths

Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period

Identification of an allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon

Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits

The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation

Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins

Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten

Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer

Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets

Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy

Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate

Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing

LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family

Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry

Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum

Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome

Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture

Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the xa0;initiation of T cell responses via CD44

Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations

Accretion bursts xa0;crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk

Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders

Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean

The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS

Untangling the connection between dopamine and ADHD

Quantum effect observed for biggest objects yet