Nature, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10635-z

By embedding core computer vision principles into a large-scale optical metasurface, an efficient vision processing system using far fewer parameters is demonstrated to outperform many digital models and enables deployment on edge devices.

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01992-5

The dominant control of soil nitrogen retention changes at a threshold of around 700 mm precipitation, according to an analysis of soil nitrogen and biogeochemical measurements from 31 sites across the United States.