Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02515-3

Numerous studies have shown that separating childhood jabs will delay protection and increase costs for families.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02463-y

Airborne camera gathers data about the high-energy particles emanating from the core of our Galaxy.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02461-0

A mixture of proteins in snake blood can prevent the death of mice injected with an otherwise lethal dose of venom.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02496-3

High sea surface temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks and damage coral reefs.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10773-4

Reply to: Pre-clinical data interpretation requires clinical context

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10774-3

Pre-clinical data interpretation requires clinical context

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10787-y

Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10788-x

Reply to: Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10805-z

A framework comprising four dimensions—autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity and generality—is proposed for characterizing AI agents, supporting the construction of agentic profiles for the effective governance of different AI agents.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10909-6

Engineered probiotics equipped with a synthetic glucose-responsive circuit transiently colonize the gut and secrete therapeutic factors when glucose levels increase, enabling safe, oral, sense-and-respond control of diabetes in mouse and primate models.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10916-7

RGP lineage tracing in stem-cell-derived organoids shows highly plastic proliferation and reduced clonal neuronal diversity, indicating that missing non-cell-autonomous niche cues are essential for faithful temporal control of cortical lineage progression.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10756-5

The Review describes shared ancient, conserved mechanisms between human antiviral immunity and bacterial anti-phage systems, outlining universal principles of pathogen sensing, signalling and effector function that reveal common rules governing host–virus interactions across life.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10888-8

Tracing cascading continental-scale medieval megafloods across Europe indicates that current flood management is unprepared for such sequences, highlighting the urgent need for proactive flood risk management strategies that account for unusual series of extreme flood events.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10886-w

CDK4/6 inhibition redirects Rb chromatin occupancy to activate oestrogen-responsive genes, counteracting its own ability to maintain therapeutic cell-cycle arrest.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10907-8

Expression of Meis2 in hippocampal parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in an adult mouse model of neurodevelopmental disorders rescues experience-dependent plasticity, improves memory and network function and suppresses seizures.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10846-4

Observations of an unusual cosmic-dawn source illuminate how early supermassive black holes may have grown rapidly in a gas-enshrouded state; such enshrouded black holes may lie at the heart of the 'little red dots'.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10905-w

Global photovoltaic waste will reach 297–402 million tonnes by 2060, and regionally adapted recycling strategies and international cooperation will be needed to provide equitable and scalable PV waste circularity.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10889-7

A new chemistry-based super-resolution imaging framework is described, enabling 3D, laser-free, highly sensitive and ultralong-term imaging of live cells which overcomes the limitations in spatiotemporal resolution associated with reaction-based imaging methods.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10891-z

By engineering the statistics of light at the micrometre scale using phase-only spatial light modulators, both the state and degree of polarization become spatially programmable, enabling direct encoding of information in a high-dimensional space.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10896-8

Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating policy switches and orbitofrontal cortex supplying value-based contextualization rather than driving continuous policy updating.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10903-y

Cryo-electron microscopy structures show how IS621 bridge recombinase mediates DNA excision, explaining its natural preference for insertion and informing the design of programmable bridge-editing technologies.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10870-4

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier forests.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10724-z

Shocks in the eastern outskirts of the Helix Nebula, detected in Hα emission with the MOTHRA telescope, provide evidence for the recycling of fragmented stellar ejecta into the surrounding gas.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10922-9

The maternal gut microbiome is a predictor of infant eczema.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10878-w

Deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1 reveals an extragalactic globular cluster stream, with analysis and modelling probing the rich dark matter content of the host galaxy.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10880-2

An analysis of the relationships between aboveground biomass and various climatic factors in three major regions of tropical forest shows that understanding the complex interactions between climate, topography and soils is crucial to predict how climate change will affect carbon storage capacity.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10857-1

A high-quality, pristine monolayer cuprate superconductor with a single CuO2 plane is fabricated and used to identify two quantum critical phenomena emerging between the Mott insulating phase and the superconducting phase.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10906-9

An in vivo model that is able to recover human T cells from solid tumours can identify targets to help improve CAR T cell antitumour activity.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10925-6

Potential predictive biomarkers of perioperative nivolumab therapy benefit in non-small cell lung cancer are identified from evaluable participants in the CheckMate 77T trial.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02395-7

In the natural world, an animal can blend strategies so it can advance towards several goals at the same time. An engineering approach called control theory was used to infer people’s goals while they played a simple video game, and showed how three brain regions work together to implement goal blending.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02473-w

Electrical stimulation of the human brain is a promising strategy for slowing cognitive decline. The discovery of cell-type-specific gene programs that are induced in tandem with the activity of networks of neurons in the temporal cortex when it is stimulated could inform the development of therapeutic approaches using stimulation.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02478-5

A photonic time crystal is an optical system of which properties such as its refractive index are modulated strongly and rapidly over time. One has now been obtained all-optically by delivering an intense terahertz light wave onto a material with a specialized microstructure that hosts collective waves of electrons known as plasmons.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02292-z

Different tropical tree species can vary in their ability to withstand drought — and so too, it seems, can distinct populations of the same tree species.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02290-1

Dust can tint the cosmos red, but a compact astronomical object is coloured by turbulent gas around a black hole.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02159-3

Deep imaging of ionized gas in the Helix Nebula uncovers many curved shock waves around a dying Sun-like star. These ‘bow shocks’ are produced when ejected shells of stellar material break up and race outwards. Their changing shapes imply that the shell fragments are being stripped, shredded and mixed into interstellar gas over roughly 10,000 years.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02291-0

Ecologists have long wondered why some tropical forests store more carbon than others. A global satellite survey offers an explanation.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10994-7

Lead carboxylates passivation for meter-scale perovskite solar modules

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02521-5

Genetically modified bacteria lower high blood-sugar in animal trials — plus, how to watch a solar eclipse safely.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02408-5

Out of place.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02498-1

Scientists have been predicting the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02519-z

Researchers will have two minutes to gather data on the solar corona. Plus, people across cultures are all ticklish in the same way and how the El Niño could spell disaster for the Amazon rainforest.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02448-x

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02431-6

Growing traffic on inland waterways could offer an opportunity for cutting emissions.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02374-y

Three studies in non-human primates show that strategically designed vaccines could prime a population of B cells to produce effective antibodies against HIV.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02489-2

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10991-w

Phosphine-mediated azine C–H couplings with water and ammonia

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02454-z

It is shameful that half the country’s population continues to be overlooked by the international community.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02380-0

Where to spot a basking shark and a gloomy tale about an abandoned telescope, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02452-1

Job transitions are challenging, but good communication and planning will help.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02142-y

Researchers will travel to Spain and Iceland to observe the solar eclipse on 12 August, hoping to answer questions about the solar corona.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10947-0

Author Correction: Uncovering the role of LINE-1 in the evolution of lung adenocarcinoma

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02449-w

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02492-7

Funders should look beyond strict age criteria

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02464-x

The case for responsible scientific activism

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02490-9

AI tools speed up analysis, but scientific truths must be grounded in reality

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02491-8

Will AI make our dreams all look the same?

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02451-2

Publicly available AI models and local infrastructure can reduce AI’s environmental footprint while giving researchers greater control over the tools they use.

Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02082-7

If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.