Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, responds to the attack on the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Transposable elements (TEs) are key contributors to genome evolution, yet their macroevolutionary roles in adaptive radiations remain poorly understood, as high-quality genomic resources at sufficient...

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-00995-7Hybridization, the exchange of genes between divergent lineages, is now recognized as widespread across eukaryotes and essential to understanding genome evolution. In this Review, Schumer and Rieseberg overview methodological advances facilitating recent progress, reassess the frequency, causes and consequences of hybridization, and highlight key open questions.

The evolution of life is characterized by major transitions, i.e., the evolution of new targets of selection (e.g., prokaryotes, eukaryotes, multic...

By documenting the unique pain caused by dozens of insect stings, entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created a one-of-a-kind guide to the world's most painful stings.

Encerrado-Manriquez et al. show that honey bee hive sociality influences pesticide deposition across hive matrices, with worker bees buffering the colony and the queen affecting colony-wide distributi...

Suresh and Linksvayer use insect phylogeny to show that transitions to eusociality are not generally driven by haplodiploid sex determination systems but strongly associated in one specific lineage, t...

Saturation mutagenesis of the FCY1 promoter in budding yeast shows that adaptation to 5-fluorocytosine is not accessible through single cis-regulatory mutations, despite large mutational effects on pr...

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Reuse of homologous genes during the evolution of similar traits or ecological transitions is often taken as evidence that evolution is repeatable ...

Dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI) are key mechanisms regulating gene expression from the X chromosome in male-hete...

Preprints don’t change much after peer review — and are rarely retracted.

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Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females to suppress reproduction and preserve eusocial hierarchy.

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

DeepDETAILS enables cross-modality deconvolution of bulk sequencing samples.

Age and early life adversity (ELA) are key determinants of health, but whether they affect similar physiological mechanisms across tissues is unknown. We generated DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles acro...

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

Phenotype-agnostic methods detect inversion polymorphisms involved in cryptic ecological adaptation in Neotropical butterflies.

Nature Methods - EviAnn surpasses existing genome annotation methods by leveraging gene expression and protein sequence homology evidence to achieve higher accuracy and efficiency.

Species risk to climate change depends in part on their capacity to evolve. Here authors show that the microclimates that native bees occupy in their nests shapes the way tolerance to heat evolves and species corresponding sensitivity to warming.

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.

Nature Protocols, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41596-026-01362-wSniffles2 is an open-source software for reliable detection of structural variants (50 bp and upward) from long-read sequencing. Sniffles2 is able to call variants over a wide variant allele fraction (5–100%) and across multiple samples (population).

The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.

This practical field guide for non-specialists working with genomic datasets argues that the hardest part of genomic research is selecting the right dataset and offers a five pillar framework to navig...

Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...

Abstract. Recent discoveries reveal that many complex intraspecific polymorphisms are shaped by a single supergene that maintains coadapted genetic variant

The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.