Life science_
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A brain implant reported as multifunctional decodes speech and hand gestures at the same time, in real time. Most implants to date do one or the other.
Nature · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02895-6
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Pharmaceutical companies are opening private structural and assay data to AI protein models. The public databases these models were trained on are small next to what industry has kept internal.
Nature · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02882-x
Big events_
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A super El Nino is already under way, with effects on fisheries and weather. Nature sets out what the rest of the cycle is expected to bring.
Nature · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02826-5
Science careers_
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AI researchers who stay in academia forgo around 1.5 million dollars compared with industry pay. The gap is now large enough to be named.
Nature · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1
Funding and policy_
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The NSF is restructuring how it awards funding to match White House priorities, with quantum information among the areas affected.
Nature · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02892-9