LoginRivers deliver unexpectedly high loads of microplastics to the sea
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02866-x
Intense rains coupled with poor waste management cause big spikes in pollution.Reading view
Daily briefing: Text-message tutoring keeps kids learning when schools close
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02888-5
Twenty-minute phone calls from tutors improved children’s maths learning during emergency school closures. Plus, Denisovans made excellent deer hunters and Beatles puns are here, there and everywhere in scientific literature.Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11079-1
Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02834-5
Drugs that imitate the effect of GABAergic neurons slow the growth of tumours called gliomas in mice.AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1
Academics explain that their research freedom beats the increased salary they would get in the corporate sector, but emerging hybrid models might allow them to get the best of both worlds.Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami’s birth
Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02809-6
Seismic data pinpoint the collapse of an underwater volcano, and reveal how the eruption triggered a destructive tsunami.