A new Nature study by Egan, Bisbee and Tucker surveyed US voters and found that 4.9% of white adults overall, and 13.5% of young white men specifically, agreed with statements framing demographic change as an existential threat to their race and endorsing white cultural superiority. The researchers argue this trend deserves as much scrutiny as the widely discussed rightward political shift among Latino voters ahead of the 2026 midterms.
A concept discussed via Nature.com outlines transforming static research papers into interactive AI agents that readers could query directly. The idea would let users converse with a paper's content, methods, and data rather than just reading a fixed text.
Researchers describe a molecular computation approach that proceeds through energetically downhill reactions rather than requiring external energy input to drive each step. This design allows chemical systems to perform computational operations while consuming less energy than conventional molecular computing schemes.
Researchers from the BASE Collaboration at CERN sealed 92 antiprotons inside a specialized ultrahigh-vacuum trap, then drove them 7.5 kilometers around the lab's grounds without losing them. The experiment, published in Nature, demonstrates that antimatter can survive real-world transport rather than staying confined to the site where it's produced.
Researchers report that certain marine bacteria work cooperatively, rather than individually, to break down complex carbohydrates released by algae. The finding, published in Nature, suggests these microbes divide labor in processing large polysaccharide molecules that no single species could efficiently degrade alone.
A research team describes the methodology used to design DNA scaffold and compute domain sequences for a molecular computing system, using scaffolds of varying length (120, 288 and 624 bases) derived partly from biologically sourced M13 DNA. They applied a thermodynamic sequence design approach with strict energy constraints to ensure reliable binding while minimizing unwanted cross-reactions between strands.
Researchers analyzed a 2021 survey of 3,227 non-Hispanic white Americans conducted through the Cooperative Election Study (CES), a major academic polling platform run via YouGov. The team purchased questionnaire space across five CES modules to examine how demographic traits, partisanship and geography relate to support for white nationalist views. Respondents were drawn from an opt-in panel weighted to approximate a nationally representative sample of US adults.
Researchers report interim results from the ongoing Algonquin study, a multicentre, open-label trial evaluating a BPd drug combination in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. The analysis covers patients enrolled in the trial's second phase, with data collected through late October 2025 after enrollment closed in September 2022. Eligible patients had failed prior treatments including lenalidomide and proteasome inhibitors, but had not previously received pomalidomide or BCMA-targeted therapy.
A compiled body of scientific literature examines how microbial and engineered enzymes degrade synthetic polymers, with much of the progress concentrated on PET plastics through hydrolase and cutinase-based approaches. The references trace advances from early enzymatic surface modification studies to more recent engineered PET depolymerases capable of breaking down and recycling plastic bottles at scale.
Researchers using engineered HCT116 cell lines with degradable cohesin components (RAD21, WAPL, CTCF) and SMARCAL1 showed that cohesin actively reorganizes chromatin contacts around replication forks. This reshaping helps slow down forks and promotes their reversal when replication stress occurs, linking genome organization machinery directly to DNA replication control.
Researchers studying the heavy-fermion superconductor UTe2 examined whether a newly observed memory effect—where past current pulses alter later superconducting behavior—could simply be an artifact of Joule heating from the applied current pulses. By analyzing temperature during pulse protocols and testing how the effect scales with current amplitude, duration, and especially the speed at which current is switched off, they found the memory effect strengthens with faster relaxation rates, which actually reduces total energy deposited, undermining a simple heating explanation.
The publisher issued an author correction to a previously published study examining how obesity rates are plateauing in developed nations while accelerating in developing ones. The correction notice itself does not detail the specific data or textual changes, only confirming that an amendment was made to the original article under its Creative Commons license.
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