Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Preserve research data for tomorrow’s AI-enabled integrity checks

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03244-3Preserve research data for tomorrow’s AI-enabled integrity checks

— Decentralized AI needs more evidence on energy use

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03245-2Decentralized AI needs more evidence on energy use

— When microbes degrade plastic, where does it go?

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03246-1When microbes degrade plastic, where does it go?

— Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03234-5Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization

— Is this idea from AI or humans? A detector claims it can tell

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03247-0A tool called IdeaLens helps to judge whether concepts — rather than just writing — in scientific papers are artificially generated.

— What’s the secret sauce for happy scientists at work? These eight countries offer some clues

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03226-5Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature’s job satisfaction survey shows.

— Admire another researcher’s work? Tell them about it

 

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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02668-1A small act of appreciation won’t solve the structural problems of academic life. But it can’t hurt.

— 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.

— Daily briefing: Visit a huge climate experiment in the Amazon rainforest

 

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Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03255-0Step into the rainforest with climatologist David Lapola. Plus, watch an ‘invisible’ tattoo be revealed by ultraviolet light and explore PhD remuneration across Europe.

— 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.

— The life of Darwin and the science of clouds: Books in brief

 

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Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03217-6Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

— 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.

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