Electric vehicles cut pollution in China — and prevent 260,000 premature deaths
Nature, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01781-5
Having fewer fossil-fuel-powered cars on the road is reducing some pollutants, but not others.Nature, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01781-5
Having fewer fossil-fuel-powered cars on the road is reducing some pollutants, but not others.Nature, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01609-2
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10694-2
Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplantNature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01799-9
Newly-discovered ‘ruptoblasts’ explode to shower nearby cells with toxic chemicals. Plus, how psychology is tackling its reproducibility crisis and when to settle, according to maths.Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01623-4
From 2016 to 2020, almost one-third of papers by authors in China had multiple corresponding authors — but policy reforms are expected to have dampened the trend.Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01789-x
The therapy activates a protein that could stop pulmonary fibrosis from progressing.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10727-w
Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivoNature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10561-0
Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary productionNature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10562-z
The size of tropical vegetation gross primary productionNature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10589-2
Improved fractionation strategies can identify antibiotics with previously unseen scaffolds and mechanisms, exemplified by manikomycin from Streptomyces rimosus, which acts by targeting the E-site of the bacterial large ribosomal subunit.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10624-2
Analysis of a 25-year satellite record shows that Earth has a persistent east–west albedo symmetry split at 27° E, with clear-sky albedo, cloud radiative effect and open-ocean fraction exhibiting a triple symmetry around this meridian.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10473-z
NASA’s Juno observations show relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and establish a universal scaling law linking shock size to maximum cosmic ray energy.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10612-6
Longitudinal transcriptomic, chromatin and genomic analyses of the two types of IDH-mutant glioma reveal in detail how disease progression is influenced by interdependent genetic, epigenetic and microenvironmental factors.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10551-2
Extensive mining activity leads to large-scale deforestation of dense tropical forests across sub-Saharan Africa, driven particularly by key energy transition minerals such as cobalt.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10575-8
Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein without lowering crop yield when expressed in modern maize, providing a powerful strategy for crop improvement to meet future population demands.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10627-z
Single-cell mapping of cis-expression quantitative trait loci in inflammatory bowel disease revealed distal, enhancer-enriched variants detected at the cell-type level more frequently co-localize with genome-wide association study loci than those identified at the tissue level.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10610-8
Chloroplast plastoglobules act as nitrogen-assimilation hubs in maize, with key enzymes enhancing nitrogen-use efficiency and offering new strategies for developing high-yield, sustainable crops.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10606-4
An analysis of post-sorting plastic packaging shows that target polymer purity is similar across source-separation and post-sorting pathways, but post-sorted plastics contain more contaminants that need to be removed before recyclate production.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10597-2
A non-canonical metabolic route for spermine synthesis mediated by ALDH18A1 limits iron availability and lipid peroxidation in hepatocellular carcinoma.Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10637-x
Chiral perovskite superlattices exhibit room-temperature circularly polarized superfluorescence, with emission intensity and polarization controllable by weak magnetic fields.