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Nature, Published online: 14 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02504-6 Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

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Mutaciones encontradas en familias colombianas dieron esperanza para el desarrollo de tratamientos. Datos alterados e imágenes sospechosas ponen en cuestión los beneficios

Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question

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A field experiment among Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms suggests an approach to improve auditor reporting

More than a decade after shark mislabeling was first highlighted in Brazil (1), generic commercial names such as caçao (2–4), galeos (5), rock salmon and huss (6), flake (7), palombo (8), tollo, and cazón (9) continue to obscure shark species identity worldwide. DNA-based surveys repeatedly reveal that products sold under these names comprise multiple shark species, including threatened and internationally regulated taxa (2–12). Although these commercial names differ among countries, they produce the same outcome: species identity is progressively lost as shark products move from capture to consumption, precisely where fisheries management, wildlife trade regulation, sustainability claims, and informed consumer choice depend on it.

When a disease outbreak occurs, sequencing the responsible pathogen and posting its genome to a public database facilitates research into diagnostic tests and vaccines. However, the benefits of sharing genomic data quickly and widely are not equally shared. Many outbreaks begin in lower-income countries (1), where health workers and scientists collect samples and generate sequences that are then used by well-resourced institutions to create proprietary tests, therapeutics, and patents (2). When there is little return for sharing data, countries may decide to share less [as Indonesia did in 2006 (3)], making the equity problem a security problem as well. Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Pandemic Agreement in 2025 (4), and they are now negotiating an annex called Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) (5). The current terms of the annex will help in emergencies but overlook the steps required to establish enduring equitable practices.

Prior expectations guide attention and support perceptual filtering during decision-making. In mice performing a visual discrimination task, choices depended on trial-by-trial differences between consecutive stimuli (|ΔDir|). We hypothesized that ...