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Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03451-4Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda.
Digging into the mechanisms that underlie soil production November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03811-0Soil produced by the gradual breakdown of rock forms the planet’s thin but crucial ‘skin’. Analyses of a tectonically active landscape along the San Andreas fault aim to address a long-standing question in geomorphology and landscape evolution: what sets the pace at which rock transforms to soil?
A distinctive human genetic lineage persisted in central Argentina for 8,500 years November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03649-6The DNA of ancient individuals dating to between 10,000 and 150 years ago reveals the existence of a long-standing, yet previously uncharacterized, lineage in the Southern Cone of South America — a region comprising what is now Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. People with this ancestry produced offspring with other, […]
Entanglement-enhanced nanoscale single-spin sensing November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09790-6An entanglement-enhanced sensing strategy making use of entangled nitrogen–vacancy pairs is described, demonstrating a 3.4-fold improvement in sensitivity and a 1.6-fold improvement in spatial resolution relative to single nitrogen–vacancy centres under ambient conditions.
Operating two exchange-only qubits in parallel November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09767-5Parallel operation of two exchange-only qubits consisting of six quantum dots arranged linearly is shown to be achievable and maintains qubit control quality compared with sequential operation, with potential for use in scaled quantum computing.
ADHD diagnoses are growing. What’s going on? November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03855-2More children and adults are being diagnosed with ADHD in some countries. Science is helping to understand why — and how best to provide support.
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03853-4The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.
Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09673-wA mechano-intelligent transmission mechanism based on the slipknot delivers precise force signals for clinical practice and robotic operations such as minimally invasive surgery and tendon-driven robotics.
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09796-0A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.
Ferroelectric transistors for low-power NAND flash memory November 26, 2025
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09793-3Ultralow-power ferroelectric field-effect transistors are used to achieve low-power NAND flash memory, overcoming the trade-off between multi-level capability and power efficiency and paving the way for next-generation storage memory.