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The 46 companies scrambling to commercialize fusion for energy

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Neil Savage

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02513-5Whether the billions of dollars of investment will lead to an inexhaustible source of clean electrical power is not yet known.

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Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Neil Savage

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02506-4Shadowed by past disasters, nuclear engineers are developing different types of reactor, fuel, coolant and material that could help to make fission the zero-carbon energy technology of (...)

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A practical recycling strategy for making thiophosphate molecules with enzymes

mercredi 26 août 2026

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02482-9An enzymatic platform for constructing the thiophosphate molecular motif without relying on large amounts of expensive reagents has been developed. The method lays the foundation for developing enzymatic cascades to (...)

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Can nuclear reactors hit the road?

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Katherine Bourzac

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02510-8Fission facilities that fit in a truck could provide portable power where it’s needed — but some people question whether it’s worth the cost, safety compromises and the risk of sending the raw materials for bombs into (...)

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Spontaneously charged water drops induce corrosion

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Zhongyuan Ni, Xiaomei Li, Aaron D. Ratschow, Lin Jian, Xiaoteng Zhou, Pravash Bista, Diego Cortes, Gunnar Glasser, Haojian Luo, Shuai Chen, Jiyao Yu, Yongkang Wang, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Kaloian Koynov, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen Butt

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10941-6Experiments have shown that spontaneously charged water drops can damage coatings on metal surfaces, leading to corrosion of the metal.

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Plasma-jet movie is astronomy’s summer blockbuster

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Yosuke Mizuno

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02522-4Just 116 images exist of the active galaxy 3C 345 — but an AI-driven algorithm has created a highly detailed video of the plasma jets blasted from its centre.

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Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single polyatomic molecular ion

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Zhenlin Wu, Tim Duka, Mariano Isaza-Monsalve, Miriam Kautzky, Vojt?ch Švarc, Andrea Turci, René Nardi, Marcin Gronowski, Micha? Tomza, Brandon J. Furey, Philipp Schindler

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10915-8Non-destructive single-molecule absorption spectroscopy is achieved by detecting photon recoil from a trapped molecular ion, enabling single-photon-sensitive measurements of molecular vibrational (...)

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Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Regev Schweiger, Sangjin Lee, Chenxi Zhou, Tsun-Po Yang, Stacy Li, Rashesh Sanghvi, Matthew Neville, Katie Smith, Kirsty Roberts, Ayrun Nessa, Sam Wadge, Kerrin S. Small, Peter J. Campbell, Kristian Almstrup, Peter H. Sudmant, Raheleh Rahbari, Richard Durbin

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10901-0Single-molecule long-read sequencing of human sperm reveals variation in recombination across donors and that a substantial fraction of non-crossover gene conversions arises before meiosis, distinct from PRDM9-driven (...)

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Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Martha G. Garcia-Garcia, Micha? J. Wójcik, Srijan Thota, Luke Drake, Amma Otchere, Oluwatobi Akinwale, Lizmaylin Ramos, Rui Ponte Costa, Mark J. Wagner

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10946-1Simultaneous imaging of premotor cortex and cerebellar granule cells in mice learning two skills in parallel shows that trajectories generalize in cortex but coherently reorient apart in granule cells, supporting (...)

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Primate-specific regulation of the human glycosphingolipid gatekeeper UGCG

mercredi 26 août 2026 par Canrong Wu, Sanshan Jin, Jiuyin Xu, James Jiqi Wang, Xiaoqi Guo, Yunhai Li, Zhenyu Cao, Mengting Jiang, Qingning Yuan, Wen Hu, Changyao Li, Youwei Xu, Ming-Wei Wang, Yi Jiang, H. Eric Xu

Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10927-4Cryogenic electron microscopy structures of full-length human UGCG, the gatekeeper that dictates the scale and composition of glycosphingolipid diversity, are reported, showing that it uses a metal-independent catalytic (...)

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