Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2

Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10963-0

Publisher Correction: Progressive plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10977-8

Editorial Expression of Concern: Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10798-9

Results from a panel of assays that analyse different aspects of DNA sequence specificity reveal more than 100 new motifs to aid the characterization of putative human transcription factors.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10890-0

The RNA-binding protein ZFP36L2 mediates stress-adaptive plasticity in intestinal regeneration and colorectal cancer metastasis.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10843-7

Integration of genome-scale CRISPR screening data from traditional cell lines and next-generation cancer models expands the representation of tumour subtypes and genomic alterations in The Cancer Dependency Map.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10867-z

A mild chemical process upcycles polyvinyl chloride waste into polyalphaolefin lubricants with tunable properties, offering an economical route to plastic recycling and improved carbon circularity.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10822-y

A fast, low-error entangling gate for dual-rail cavity erasure qubits preserves a strong error hierarchy, advancing scalable quantum error correction with substantially improved fault-tolerant performance.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10865-1

An ‘encapsulation epitaxy’ mechanism is used to grow air-stable, two-dimensional superconducting films at the interface of a 2D–3D hybrid substrate, holding promise for use in fabrication of superconducting quantum circuitry.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10806-y

The international collaboration of the Human Cancer Models Initiative presents a comprehensive resource of next-generation cancer models from 2,780 donors with 25 cancer types and integrated tumour–model genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic analyses.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10860-6

Astrocytes promote central nervous system (CNS) immunity through antigen presentation and activation of CD40 in astrocytes by CD40L expressed by CD4+ T cells in a model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10884-y

Virtual Tissues (VirTues), a foundation model for spatial proteomics that captures tissue organization across scales, supports marker reconstruction, cell segmentation and typing, niche annotation, spatial biomarker discovery and patient stratification across heterogeneous panels and datasets.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10740-z

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prognostic potential.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10863-3

Female restitution in interspecific sugarcane hybrids between Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum spontaneum arises from second division restitution, as haplotype-resolved F1 genomes reveal duplicated, partially recombined maternal chromatids and distinctive recombination signatures, resolving its meiotic mechanism and enabling breeding strategies to accelerate crop improvement.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10830-y

A clinically annotated multi-omic organoid resource with matched tumour samples from 256 patients across 5 cancers maps gene dependencies, reveals subtype-specific vulnerabilities and uncovers treatment-driven changes, expanding mechanistic insight and models for precision oncology.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10873-1

M12 is a metabolically activated molecular glue that recruits diverse proteins to DCAF11 for ubiquitin-mediated degradation, revealing a glutathione-dependent mechanism that broadens targeted protein degradation across multiple substrates.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10859-z

Polarization measurements of the magnetar 1E 1547.0−5408 provide strong evidence that vacuum birefringence shapes X-ray propagation, offering an important observational test of quantum electrodynamics in extreme magnetic fields.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10864-2

The FNIP1 pathway has a role in human energy metabolism, and its inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy in cardiometabolic disease.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02289-8

Observations of a magnetized stellar core indicate that in an ultra-strong magnetic field, empty space can polarize light.

Nature, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10957-y

Gasdermin D-mediated delivery of caspase inhibitors to suppress pyroptosis