Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Five movements from the edge of the singularity

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03116-wChange is in the air.

— In the AI era, coding means thinking like a systems architect

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02715-xProgramming is still an essential skill, but how you do it needs to change, says Jacques Cornwell.

— Economics Nobel awarded for work on stabilizing economies in crisis

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03251-4Laureates share award that builds on the theories that contributed to governments intervening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Author Correction: Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity

 

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Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11266-0Author Correction: Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity

— Editorial Expression of Concern: Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring

 

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Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11070-wEditorial Expression of Concern: Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring

— Author Correction: Timing and trajectory of BCR::ABL1-driven chronic myeloid leukaemia

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11253-5Author Correction: Timing and trajectory of BCR::ABL1-driven chronic myeloid leukaemia

— Keep medical doctors in academia — without them, health-care research will suffer

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03225-6Better career support and more funding stability is needed to retain this invaluable group of scientists.

— What does a PhD pay? Data reveal huge gaps across Europe

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03181-1Earnings come in a combination of scholarships and salaries and vary widely between countries, an analysis by international federation Eurodoc reveals.

— I told ChatGPT to ‘continue’ — it went too far

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02714-yAn ambiguous instruction caused the chatbot to send three e-mails from Ying Zhao’s connected account. The incident advanced Zhao’s project, but showed that chatbots need limits.

— Does the decline of book reading mark the end of rational thinking?

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03224-7Smartphones and artificial intelligence are undermining our ability to follow a complex argument, with grave consequences.

— Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11250-8Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria

— Beyond the solvent fog: watching molecules dance in the crowd

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02970-yA technique called time-resolved X-ray liquidography has been used to shed precision light on the steps involved in a classic chemical reaction.

— Breaking down nerve-cell scaffold relieves chronic pain in mice

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03159-zResults could help researchers to develop painkillers that are safer and more effective than existing treatments.

— Watch this invisible tattoo appear under UV light

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03210-zThe ink could be useful for medical tattooing, but more tests are needed before it is widely available.

— Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03216-7Nature staff discuss a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

— An experiment to glimpse the future Amazon — in pictures

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02909-3David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise?

— Chimp and gorilla brains resist weight loss with age — unlike human brains

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03158-0The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life

— Publisher Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11273-1Publisher Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life

— Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03240-7The incident has prompted discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in scientific imagery.

— Hidden signals in sleep can predict future health

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03207-8From a single night of sleep, AI tools can uncover physiological patterns linked to disease and mortality that are missed by conventional sleep measures.

— Private, offline and yours: how to search the literature with local AI systems

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03227-4Concerns about privacy, reproducibility and cost are prompting scientists to use models on their computers rather than in the cloud.

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