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Scientists have synthesized a ribbon-shaped carbon nanostructure built from repeating pentagon and heptagon rings rather than the hexagons found in graphene, according to a report. The altered lattice geometry gives the material metallic electronic properties, distinguishing it from standard semiconducting or semimetallic carbon nanostructures.
A new study by Sicorello and colleagues, published in Nature, re-examines a long-standing assumption in emotion-regulation research: that commonly used tasks measuring cognitive reappraisal accurately capture how good someone is at this strategy. Cognitive reappraisal involves reframing one's thinking about an event to change its emotional impact, such as finding a 'silver lining', and has long been linked to social, occupational and health outcomes.
Scientists successfully grew Asgard archaea in laboratory conditions, a group of microorganisms long considered the closest living relatives of eukaryotes. The cultivation allowed direct study of their cell biology and structures, which had previously only been inferred from genetic data.
A Nature study analyzing more than 2,300 neurons found that over a quarter of neurons sampled from fetal brains carried major chromosomal gains or losses, compared with only about 6% in neurons examined after birth. Researchers, led by Diane Shao of Boston Children's Hospital, say this points to a natural culling process that removes genetically abnormal neurons around the time of birth.
Researchers examining the Arabian desert's climate history found that the region cycled through wetter, greener phases over tens of thousands of years, yet evidence suggests early humans largely did not settle there even during these habitable windows. The findings come from paleoclimate and archaeological analysis of the region rather than from any single excavation site described in detail.
A journalist used large language models to 'vibe-research' a fabricated scientific paper, generating hypotheses, code and text with minimal human input, then worked with Jenny Mahoney, managing editor of IEEE Access, to test whether the fake submission could slip past the journal's review defenses. The experiment follows data showing a sharp rise in detectable AI involvement in academic papers, from about 12 percent in 2023 to an estimated 57 percent in 2025, alongside reports that over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews in 2025 were entirely AI-generated.
A new analysis found that methane emissions from the Permian Basin, the largest US oil-producing region, have not risen even as crude production there has increased. Researchers tracked emissions over time and found levels held steady rather than growing in step with output.
Nature has issued an author correction to a previously published paper describing a chemical defence mechanism bacteria use against phage infection. No details of the specific error or correction were provided in the available notice, which only displayed a browser-compatibility message instead of the correction text.
The source page is a Nature.com article titled 'Making mind pictures takes mental effort,' but the page itself only displays a browser-compatibility notice rather than the actual study details. No specific findings, researchers, or data from the study are available in the retrieved content.
A Nature commentary argues that short-term academic visits to China can help maintain scholarly collaboration amid wider geopolitical strain. The piece suggests such visits as a practical alternative when longer-term exchanges or partnerships face obstacles.
A commentary published in Nature argues that references invented by AI chatbots and inserted into academic manuscripts should be classified formally as research misconduct, rather than dismissed as a minor technical error. The authors call for journals, institutions and funders to establish explicit policies addressing these AI-generated 'hallucinated' citations.
A Nature report examines the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and finds that women remain starkly underrepresented among winners since the prize's inception in 1969. Only a small handful of women have received the award, a pattern the analysis says is more pronounced than in other Nobel categories.