Daily briefing: Earliest known dog genome pushes genetic record back 5,000 years

Nature, Published online: 26 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00992-0 The 15,000-year-old remains of domestic dogs hint at their importance to early communities with different ways of living. Plus, ‘grade inflation’ hits PhDs and how environmental scientists can reinvent their research when funding is scarce.