Research outputs (expanded)

A white paper from 135 researchers across eight Horizon Europe-funded consortia warns that fragmented EU policy — not just pesticides — is a major barrier to reversing wild-pollinator decline, and sets out 15 recommendations to inform the European Commission’s Pollinators Initiative.

A Nature Communications study confirms Saxifraga candelabrum traps, digests, and absorbs nutrients from insects — meeting all four formal criteria for carnivory and validating a hypothesis Charles Darwin first proposed in 1875 but could not prove.

A Denmark-Austria research team describing a new rove beetle genus from China’s Yunnan Province and northern Laos named it Luffy, after the elastic-limbed One Piece protagonist. The ZooKeys paper, like nearly all modern taxonomic description, publishes open access under CC BY 4.0.

A six-year DNA barcoding partnership between Ecuador’s Inabio and the University of Guelph’s Centre for Biodiversity Genomics identified 8,057 candidate insect and arachnid species at the Mashpi-Tayra reserve, 97% of them locally endemic — a demonstration of what shared genomic reference infrastructure can do at scale.

A Beijing-led team engineered a ruthenium-ceria nanocatalyst that converts a lignin-derived quinone into 1,4-cyclohexanediol, a plastics and resins building block, at 96.7% yield using only water as the solvent, no organic solvent required.

ATLAS’s April 2026 result sets record-tight limits on the Higgs boson’s self-coupling, the last untested piece of the Higgs mechanism. The paper’s byline: over 5,500 collaboration members — a real test case for crediting authorship at scale.

Zoological Survey of India researchers have described Apristurus drona, a new deep-sea catshark with striking white eyes, discovered off Kerala’s coast and confirmed through combined DNA barcoding and morphological analysis under India’s Deep Ocean Mission.

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Scripps Research have identified a small molecule, pghi-4, that blocks a bacterial enzyme called SagA and restores the antibiotic vancomycin’s ability to kill vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, a drug-resistant ‘superbug.’ The work, published in Nature Communications, was supported by six funders including the NIH and the Australian Research Council.

More than 100 fossils from a 567-million-year-old site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, including Dickinsonia, Kimberella and Funisia, push back key milestones in early animal evolution by 5 to 10 million years. The find, led by AMNH’s Scott Evans with Stanford, Penn State and Dartmouth, was funded by a NASA Exobiology grant and three NSF earth-science awards.

MIT, TU Munich, and University of Antwerp researchers have identified why solid-state batteries often fail: electrical imbalances at the grain boundaries inside the solid electrolyte trigger the lithium dendrite growth that short-circuits the cell. Adjusting how the electrolyte is processed cut that imbalance and raised the critical current density by over 300%.

A 1.43-million-year-old trackway of 21 footprints at Kenya’s Lake Turkana shows some Paranthropus boisei individuals stood up to 1.8 meters tall and appear to have moved together as a group — new evidence, from a US-Kenya research collaboration, that reshapes how large and how social this early hominin species really was.

Fossil vertebrae from the giant shark Otodus megalodon, long believed destroyed in a 1989 museum transfer, have been rediscovered on a shelf at a Danish museum. Re-analysis of the specimens, published in Palaeontologia Electronica, confirms the species could exceed 24 meters (79 feet) in length.

A generative AI system called Raygun, described in Nature on 29 July 2026, can shrink, expand and edit natural proteins while aiming to preserve their fold and functional sites — reframing protein length as a designable variable rather than a fixed constraint, and sharpening a validation bottleneck that already outpaces wet-lab screening capacity.

A 2026 Journal of Informetrics study uses CRediT data to measure contribution among co-corresponding authors, finding it rises with byline position.

On July 1, 2026, arXiv left Cornell University’s umbrella to become arXiv, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Cornell and the Simons Foundation are founding Members with board seats on a 12-member board; a $10M Simons/Schmidt Sciences gift funds cloud migration. The arxiv.org URL, free access, staff, and moderation process are unchanged.

Software citation in 2026 runs on a three-cornered stack. The roles of DataCite, GitHub, and Zenodo — and what integrators should do about the seams.

Data papers and software papers don’t map cleanly onto the 14 CRediT roles. A practical guide to the friction and where the taxonomy needs work.