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by David Payne / 8min
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02435-2 A webinar offers advice to hiring managers and jobseekers.
by Melissa Hobson / 8min
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02199-9 As urban expansion in Maputo threatens to destroy mangrove forests, marine biologist Célia Macamo is studying how to save them.
by Meghie Rodrigues / 2h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02453-0 Four researchers born after 1997 describe how they stay motivated and cultivate resilience during difficult times.
by Anzhi Sheng / 3h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10973-y
by Lin Shan / 3h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10978-7
by Manasi Kumar / 3h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02450-3 Global conventions have mainly overlooked the psychological and social impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Here’s how to change that.
by Miryam Naddaf / 3h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02276-z QED Science says that its metrics reduce bias by assessing papers solely on the basis of their originality and validity.
Yesterday
by Chenghao Duan / 4h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10984-9
by Roberto Serrano / 4h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02447-y Without strong standards and smart oversight, artificial intelligence risks eroding the foundations of higher education.
by Zachary Sentell / 4h
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01681-8 By ruthlessly narrowing down his priorities, Zachary Sentell managed to publish several papers in the final year of his PhD and graduate on time.
Aug 7, 2026
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Nature, Published online: 07 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02462-z Targeting shared proteins could help to control bacterial subtypes that current vaccines do not protect against.
Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole rats offer tantalizing hints
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.
Aug 6, 2026
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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.
by Dhruv Shenai / 3d
Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02458-9 The device’s simple design could rival much more complex alternatives in biophysics research — and could even be used to search for dark matter.
by Elizabeth Gibney / 3d
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.
by Ferran Alet / 3d
Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2
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Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02360-4 Measuring the deformation of a surface hit by a falling droplet offers insights into water’s erosive power.
by Chris Stokel-Walker / 4d
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.
Aug 5, 2026
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Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02429-0 Vehicles are less likely to smash into deer on the road where the big cats are on patrol.
by Edward Chen / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02440-5 Existing treatments for food allergy are limited.
by Lynne Peeples / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02438-z Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ‘cardiometabolic’ conditions.
by Chao Luo / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10970-1
by Ayuko Hoshino / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10977-8
by Maren Hunsberger / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02445-0 Researchers untangle the chemistry behind turning PVC into high-grade motor lubricant — plus, how engineered yeast can help make a cancer drug.
by Arttu Jolma / 4d
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.
by David Kuridze / 4d
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.
by Qingwen Jiang / 4d
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.
by Dezhi Zhou / 4d
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.
by Sara G. Pelaz / 4d
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.
by Eric Munyaneza Nuwayo / 4d
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.
by Nitish Mehta / 4d
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.
by Joon-Hyuk Lee / 4d
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.
by Johann Wenckstern / 4d
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.
by Cole Maguire / 4d
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.
by Sihui Zhu / 4d
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 enabl
by Lev Haldar Kendrick / 4d
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10875-z A cold-atom quantum simulator reveals the pseudogap metallic state in the Hubbard model, mapping its phase diagram and advancing understanding of doped Mott insulators and high-temperature superconductivity.
by Yueling Yuan / 4d
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