Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11079-1

Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2

Nature, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02026-1

Academics explain that their research freedom beats the increased salary they would get in the corporate sector, but emerging hybrid models might allow them to get the best of both worlds.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02845-2

Model trained on millions of protein measurements can gauge drug effectiveness in tissue samples taken from people with triple-negative breast cancer.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02598-y

Changes to the Open Science Framework’s policies will come into effect in November, forcing researchers to reconsider their workflows.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02820-x

What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11118-x

Highly efficient base editing at PCSK9 and normal human embryo development

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02751-7

Learn how artificial intelligence can hone your research skills as well as the potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on it.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11025-1

A generative committor-guided path-sampling framework reconstructs rare biomolecular transition pathways and reveals the underlying thermodynamics and kinetics without using predefined collective variables or brute-force sampling, at an acceptable computational cost.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11039-9

This study uses a within-family design to identify significant ancestry differences in complex traits such as height and type 2 diabetes in a genetically diverse population from Mexico City.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10876-y

In mice, a sparse population of sleep-active long-range inhibitory neurons in the neocortex promote widespread cortical synchronization and sleep, revealing a cortical mechanism that contributes to the regulation of sleep.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11001-9

Temporal protein-abundance measurements from systematically perturbed breast cancer cell lines were generated to develop ProteinTalks, a virtual cell model that functions as an operational tool for diverse drug discovery tasks.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10954-1

A specific population of macrophages that express high levels of the enzyme PLA2G2D in tumour-draining lymph nodes is associated with poor prognosis in patients, and inhibiting PLA2G2D improves anti-tumour immunity in mouse models.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10968-9

Deep-foam photolithography uses light-controlled polymer foaming to create high-resolution, multifunctional microstructures with tunable optical, wetting and fluid-handling properties for advanced manufacturing applications.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11004-6

Integrating satellite-derived war-damage data with text-based fatality records through improvement, enrichment and fusion mitigates limitations inherent in each source, revealing complex violence dynamics beyond fatality-centric paradigms, as case studies from Ukraine and Myanmar illustrate.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10997-4

Evidence from Bianfu Cave shows specialized hunting, expedient stone-tool production and extensive bone use of Denisovans, providing new insights into their ecology, behaviour and cultural legacy in eastern Asia.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11002-8

SERPINE1 and SERPINB2-driven fibrin-rich niches locally programme immunosuppressive macrophages and exclude T cells, enabling spatially organized immune evasion in pancreatic ductal carcinoma.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10990-x

Remote phone-based targeted tutoring in five countries produced large, cost-effective learning gains during school closures, outperforming text messaging and working effectively when delivered by governments or non-governmental organizations to strengthen education resilience.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10976-9

Identification and proteomic analysis of bone fragments and teeth from an excavation in Southwest China provide insight into the evolution and phenotype of Denisovans and fill a geographical gap in their documented distribution.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11005-5

GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10979-6

An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.