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Environmental impacts from European food consumption can be reduced with carbon pricing or a value-added tax reform

January 21, 2026

Multi-regional input–output model for environmental footprints Food consumption by households in the EU is strongly related to environmental…

EEnvironment

Commercial fishing amplifies impacts of increasing temperature on predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystems

January 20, 2026

Tucker, M. A. & Rogers, T. L. Examining predator–prey body size, trophic level and body mass across marine…

EEnvironment

Distributed multitudes of bio-inspired, biodegradable Lagrangian sensors for environmental sustainability

January 17, 2026

Bioresorbable distributed Lagrangian sensors may enable environmentally sustainable spatio-temporal mapping of acute disasters through integrated dynamic and chemical sensing.…

SScience

Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of mammalian metabolites

January 15, 2026

Training dataset A training dataset of known human metabolites was obtained from the HMDB, the largest and most…

SScience

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis

January 15, 2026

Database curation For prokaryotes, 75 million sequences were curated from 47,545 fully sequenced prokaryotic genomes obtained from the NCBI…

SScience

3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators

January 15, 2026

Single-layer microelectrodes fabrication Extended Data Fig. 2 illustrates the fabrication process of single-layer microelectrodes. Below are the step-by-step details:…

SScience

Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos

January 15, 2026

Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…

TTechnology

Ligand-specific activation trajectories dictate GPCR signalling in cells

January 15, 2026

Biosensor constructionGibson assembly All cloning, except for site-directed mutagenesis, was conducted using Gibson assembly (NEBuilder HiFi DNA Assembly…

EEnvironment

January 15, 2026

Selection of global river deltas We selected 40 deltas globally, prioritizing 35 deltaic systems with the greatest exposed…

PPhysics

An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser

January 14, 2026

Morgan, D. Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing (Academic Press, 2010). Hashimoto,…

PPhysics

Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays

January 14, 2026

Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat.…

PPhysics

Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons

January 14, 2026

Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…