Beyond the solvent fog: watching molecules dance in the crowd

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02970-y

A technique called time-resolved X-ray liquidography has been used to shed precision light on the steps involved in a classic chemical reaction.

Hidden signals in sleep can predict future health

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03207-8

From 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

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03227-4

Concerns about privacy, reproducibility and cost are prompting scientists to use models on their computers rather than in the cloud.

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

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03181-1

Earnings come in a combination of scholarships and salaries and vary widely between countries, an analysis by international federation Eurodoc reveals.

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

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03224-7

Smartphones and artificial intelligence are undermining our ability to follow a complex argument, with grave consequences.

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

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.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03225-6

Better career support and more funding stability is needed to retain this invaluable group of scientists.

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

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 chatbo…

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02714-y

An 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.