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Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00895-0After leaving academia, Bennett Foddy sees connections between games design, creativity and research, as he tells John Tregoning.
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01545-1More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025…
Nature, Published online: 14 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01538-0An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its intensity.
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