Nature, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10921-w
Author Correction: Cucurbituril-based anion-conducting membranes with supramolecular nanoporesNature, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02419-2
Nature staff discuss a massive survey of insects in the Amazon, and unusual orca behaviour caught on video.Nature, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02371-1
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10939-0
Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human agingNature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10920-x
Author Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late lifeNature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02195-z
Researchers are looking for ways to extract the metal from underground reservoirs that use less water.Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02420-9
The tool can add, remove or swap protein subunits using similar steps to natural evolution. Plus, spin qubits are back in the quantum race and the drugs that could prevent long COVID.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10945-2
Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteriesNature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02367-x
Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02179-z
The field seems to be on the cusp of big advances, but a concerted effort is needed to realize its true potential.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10852-6
Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core structural and replicative proteins of bacteriophages.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10791-2
In senescent cells, mitochondria-derived acetyl-CoA promotes histone acetylation and increases chromatin accessibility at inflammatory gene loci. Inhibition of SLC25A1 attenuates these effects, underscoring the therapeutic potential of targeting mitochondrial metabolism and its epigenetic crosstalk to delay age-related functional decline.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10848-2
A simple organic catalyst enables direct alternating copolymerization of CO2 with bicycloalkanes to produce high-performance polyesters that can be selectively depolymerized and recycled in a closed-loop lifecycle.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10862-4
Operando optical microscopy shows avalanche-like lithium deintercalation (intercalation) processes as the dilute stages of graphite are emptied (filled), showing how local disorder governs phase-transition dynamics and ion transport in lithium-ion battery electrodes.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10839-3
Perpendicular switching of the polarization state in the layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 is demonstrated by means of trilinear coupling, allowing manipulation of the in-plane polarization component with an out-of-plane electric field.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10850-8
New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10766-3
A silicon spin-qubit device comprising a shuttling bus for transporting qubits is used to achieve parity checks up to weight four, highlighting the feasibility and benefits of incorporating shuttling into semiconductor quantum processors.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10834-8
Pathways to previously undescribed polyenes, including unusual enzymes that introduce more sugars onto polyene scaffolds, are discovered, and their accessibility through clean and efficient fermentation and potential for safe use as antifungal treatments is described.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10754-7
A silicon quantum processing unit executes high-fidelity multiqubit circuits, with all time-varying control signals generated by a digitally programmed cryogenic complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor controller and delivered to the low-noise, exchange-only qubit device through a high-density superconducting ribbon cable.Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10841-9
Complete sequencing of more than 2,000 centromeres from diverse humans reveals structures and elevated mutation rates that shape the evolution of these critically important regions.
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