September 3, 2026
Spotify identified five songs that defined the summer of 2026 using streaming data, cultural impact and editorial assessment.
Ariana Grande’s “hate that i made you love me” was the platform’s most-streamed song of the season, while tracks by Ella Langley, Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, Shakira and Burna Boy, and Yung Miami also made the list.
The University of Cambridge and its partners published the first complete central-nervous-system connectome of a male fruit fly, covering both the brain and ventral nerve cord.