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Tolullah Oni has developed a platform to transfer the intellectual capital of African diaspora scholars back to the continent go.nature.com/4jw87DW

To heal sick cities, scientists and residents must work together

Nature - Tolullah Oni has developed a platform to transfer the intellectual capital of African diaspora scholars back to the continent.

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 2:03 PM UTC

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Nature research paper: Touch-sensing digital pixel fibre enables interactive garment GUI go.nature.com/4eNk9Wb

Touch-sensing digital pixel fibre enables interactive garment GUI

Nature - Multifunctional digital fibres integrate display, touch sensing, computation and multimodal input–output, enabling flexible, washable garments with interactive graphical interfaces...

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 1:39 PM UTC

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Salt-marsh plants can protect inland areas against huge waves — but seemingly only up to a point, and big storms cause progressive damage go.nature.com/4zN43nE

Can plants defend coasts against storms?

Nature - Salt-marsh plants can protect inland areas against huge waves — but seemingly only up to a point, and big storms cause progressive damage.

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 1:09 PM UTC

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Obituary: Robert Williamson (1938-2026) geneticist who mapped genes for muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis go.nature.com/4yCva3T

Robert Williamson obituary: geneticist who mapped genes for muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis

Nature - Researcher and policy adviser who championed tests and treatments for genetic diseases.

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 11:25 AM UTC

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Latest from the Nature Pod 🔊 Scientists put a salt marsh in a giant wave-machine: here's what they learned go.nature.com/4i9dTJh

Scientists put a salt marsh in a giant wave-machine: here's what they learned

Nature - Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 October 2026

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 11:02 AM UTC

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The speed at which regions of the brain mature during early adolescence can forecast the emergence of mental-health conditions up to four years before symptoms develop go.nature.com/47yuVfc

Teen depression and anxiety predicted by childhood brain development

Nature - Analysis of nearly 30,000 brain scans yields detailed timeline of how the brain matures — and hints at the consequences of disrupting it.

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 10:03 AM UTC

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Nature research paper: Drought and disease trigger novel interactions among top predators go.nature.com/486FgyW

Drought and disease trigger novel interactions among top predators

Nature - Climate-driven drought and prey decline triggered lynx predation on raptors, reducing raptor fitness and abundance and producing cascading effects across lower trophic levels.

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nature · Oct 22, 2026 · 8:02 AM UTC

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Nature research paper: Additive manufacturing of ultralong and architected single crystals go.nature.com/486Y0hT

Additive manufacturing of ultralong and architected single crystals

Nature - A free-form additive manufacturing method that uses alternating and pulsed heat inputs is described for fabricating metre-tall, centimetre-diameter single crystals of Ti-6Al-4V, as well as...

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 5:59 PM UTC

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Nature research paper: Enzyme-embedded polyesters for accelerated biodegradation in the deep sea go.nature.com/483lUea

Enzyme-embedded polyesters for accelerated biodegradation in the deep sea

Nature - Near-complete deep-sea degradation of enzyme-embedded compostable polyesters shows that thermal enzyme embedding greatly accelerates breakdown across marine environments while preserving...

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 4:29 PM UTC

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Nature research paper: The anatomy of a personal health agent go.nature.com/4Bl56wH

The anatomy of a personal health agent

Nature - A multi-agent framework that coordinates data science, medical reasoning and health coaching over longitudinal wearable and clinical data to provide holistic personal health support is...

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Nature Podcast · Oct 21, 2026 · 3:54 PM UTC

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This week on the pod: 🧂 How salt marshes could protect coastal regions from super-storms 💀 Putting a face to the Denisovans go.nature.com/4i0pY4H

Scientists put a salt marsh in a giant wave-machine: here's what they learned

Nature - Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 October 2026

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 3:54 PM UTC

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“We are finally starting to put a face to the Denisovan” go.nature.com/4dSoW8B

This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like

Nature - Archaeologists identified skulls from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives.

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 3:48 PM UTC

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Scientists have mapped one of the most mysterious parts of the human brain in unprecedented detail go.nature.com/4zIRwSb

Huge mapping study reveals how your brain tracks what your body is feeling

Nature - Signals in the insula region, deep in the brain, can make people feel hot, tingly and nauseous.

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 3:13 PM UTC

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Physicists trap and cool down positron for months to measure its 'magnetic moment' with extraordinary precision go.nature.com/4dPtuwr

A single antimatter particle in a cage opens door to 'revolutionary' physics

Nature - Physicists trap and cool down positron for months to measure its 'magnetic moment' with extraordinary precision.

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 1:22 PM UTC

Nature research paper: Engineered TYK2 dependence enables myeloid-selective IL-10 receptor agonism go.nature.com/4hYEp87

Engineered TYK2 dependence enables myeloid-selective IL-10 receptor agonism

Nature - A tetravalent nanobody-based myeloid-selective IL-10 receptor agonist recapitulates IL-10’s potent suppression of monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells while avoiding...

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 12:32 PM UTC

Some of the richest people in history are using charitable donations to explore fresh approaches to funding scientific research go.nature.com/4jyUzrq

How a new wave of science philanthropists can have the greatest impact

Nature - Tech entrepreneurs are bringing an engineer’s eye to research funding. They must be open about their findings to reap maximum benefit.

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 12:13 PM UTC

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done? go.nature.com/4sfUkDV

How tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science

Nature - Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 11:36 AM UTC

Evidence grows for ‘circadian depression’ go.nature.com/3UgaX5N

Body clock disruptions contribute to one in four cases of depression, suggests large study

Nature - Evidence grows for ‘circadian depression’, but more evidence is needed to change diagnosis and treatment guidelines.

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nature · Oct 21, 2026 · 10:21 AM UTC

Nature research paper: Elp1 is required for myeloid differentiation and brain repopulation go.nature.com/4jtnqgN

Elp1 is required for myeloid differentiation and brain repopulation

Nature - Primary cultured haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells are used to analyse the molecular mechanisms of brain myeloid differentiation, and this platform enabled the identification of...