Nature, Published online: 07 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02488-3

Nature staff discuss how animal studies are starting to uncover how DNA repair could prolong life, and how COVID-19 can reawaken dormant viruses.

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

Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI

Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02430-7

Two very different methods are used to estimate the human toll of heatwaves such as those now hitting parts of Asia and Europe.

Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02235-8

The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.

Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02460-1

Funding is being terminated for projects including a future CERN experiment and the iconic Lovell Telescope.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10970-1

Thermally evaporated perovskite/silicon tandems via formamidinium eutectic

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/s41586-026-10871-3

High-spatial-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal a far more complex and dynamic solar scene than previously observed and show that ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities drive plasma mixing on the Sun.

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/s41586-026-10883-z

A three-dimensional printing method transforms hydrogel particles into aligned microfibres during extrusion, creating structural anisotropy to accelerate muscle tissue regeneration.

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10874-0

Amygdala astrocyte primary cilia are disrupted during stress, and their restoration leads to improvements in stress-related behaviour in mice.

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/s41586-026-10879-9

Stimulation of human cortex reorganizes neural assemblies and induces cell-type-specific gene regulatory programs, establishing an ex vivo framework that links stimulation parameters to circuit and transcriptional responses for designing targeted neuromodulatory therapies.

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.