Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11246-4

Author Correction: Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11257-1

Atomic-scale spin sensing of a 2D d-wave altermagnet via helical tunneling

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11255-3

Selective, Catalytic Oxidation of Polyethylene Surfaces

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03220-x

International scientific organizations are ready to help the committees that award the prizes to invite a wider range of nominators.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03221-w

Speaking out against misconduct is challenging without external adjudicators.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02974-8

A scientist puzzles over the origins of a curious gelatinous substance, and the complexities of measuring time, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03153-5

Researchers question whether these will work to stem the deluge of manuscipts.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02668-1

A small act of appreciation won’t solve the structural problems of academic life. But it can’t hurt.

Nature, Published online: 14 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03247-0

A tool called IdeaLens helps to judge whether concepts — rather than just writing — in scientific papers are AI-generated.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03226-5

Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature’s job satisfaction survey shows.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03244-3

Preserve research data for tomorrow’s AI-enabled integrity checks

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03245-2

Decentralized AI needs more evidence on energy use

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03246-1

When microbes degrade plastic, where does it go?

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03234-5

Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03255-0

Step into the rainforest with climatologist David Lapola. Plus, watch an ‘invisible’ tattoo be revealed by ultraviolet light and explore PhD remuneration across Europe.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03243-4

Epigenetic genes accumulate faster in big dogs. Plus, what’s know about reports of plague in Russia and the legacy of software engineer Margaret Hamilton.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03231-8

OpenAI has released 700 preprints tackling maths problems. Plus, a gut microbe could protect against cardiovascular disease and the value of silent meetings.

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02715-x

Programming is still an essential skill, but how you do it needs to change, says Jacques Cornwell.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03251-4

Laureates share award that builds on the theories that contributed to governments intervening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11250-8

Antiviral immunity via telomerase-like reverse transcription in bacteria

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02970-y

A technique called time-resolved X-ray liquidography has been used to shed precision light on the steps involved in a classic chemical reaction.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03240-7

The incident has prompted discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in scientific imagery.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03207-8

From a single night of sleep, AI tools can uncover physiological patterns linked to disease and mortality that are missed by conventional sleep measures.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03227-4

Concerns about privacy, reproducibility and cost are prompting scientists to use models on their computers rather than in the cloud.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11253-5

Author Correction: Timing and trajectory of BCR::ABL1-driven chronic myeloid leukaemia

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03181-1

Earnings come in a combination of scholarships and salaries and vary widely between countries, an analysis by international federation Eurodoc reveals.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03224-7

Smartphones and artificial intelligence are undermining our ability to follow a complex argument, with grave consequences.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03225-6

Better career support and more funding stability is needed to retain this invaluable group of scientists.

Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02714-y

An ambiguous instruction caused the chatbot to send three e-mails from Ying Zhao’s connected account. The incident advanced Zhao’s project, but showed that chatbots need limits.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03159-z

Results could help researchers to develop painkillers that are safer and more effective than existing treatments.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03210-z

The ink could be useful for medical tattooing, but more tests are needed before it is widely available.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11273-1

Publisher Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03216-7

Nature staff discuss a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02909-3

David Lapola is testing a big climate-science unknown: how will the forest cope as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise?

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03158-0

The relatively short lifespans of non-human great apes might explain why their brain mass is maintained in later life

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03217-6

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03116-w

Change is in the air.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03128-6

Scientists worry that increasingly capable large language models will beat them to discoveries.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03215-8

Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03193-x

Gene-editing technologies enabled researchers to trace the cell-by-cell development of a single fertilized mouse egg to a late-stage embryo.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03199-5

Study of almost 900 dogs from roughly 120 breeds finds that rapid ageing of large canines is linked to changes in the epigenome.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03218-5

In the Arab world, lack of training, research and discussion about menopause is hampering care. Three changes can help.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02921-7

Suggested change to immigration rules would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11266-0

Author Correction: Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11070-w

Editorial Expression of Concern: Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03212-x

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Plus, the biggest success stories in cancer survival and one of the biggest debates in neuroscience.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03154-4

The device will be launched on a joint UAE-US-built craft. Some researchers say it could be the last mission constructed with outside help.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03045-8

A start-up company is testing whether stabilizing areas of rapidly eroding permafrost can prevent greenhouse-gas emissions.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03197-7

Annotated images and more collected by the four astronauts could inform missions to the lunar surface.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03198-6

President Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03208-7

Nature rounds up the Nobel prizes for science — plus, hints of the ancestral human gut microbiome.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03196-8

The firm used an unreleased model to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02968-6

A material that was previously assumed to be an electrical insulator has been shown to be a semiconductor, with potential uses in electronics and optics.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03072-5

Most disease-associated genetic alterations do not affect the genes themselves, but instead change how strongly they are expressed, often by modifying genome accessibility. Gene expression and accessibility have now been analysed simultaneously in 10 million immune cells from 1,108 people, linking disease-associated changes in accessibility to gene expression.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03060-9

Ultraprecise clocks that use transitions in atomic nuclei to keep time show promise as a next-generation time standard and for probing fundamental physics.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03059-2

Most LLMs cannot reliably evaluate text on the level of individual letters. A technique called byteification retrofits existing models to enable it.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02969-5

The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and microbial losses in industrialized societies.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03069-0

A fossil of an early ancestor of mammals from the Jurassic period reveals a mammal-like throat passage (pharynx) and throat bones (hyoids). It fills a gap in our knowledge about throat features in the animals from which modern mammals evolved their ability to swallow as adults and suckle milk as babies.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03184-y

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices probably spurred the growth of flammable forests.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03189-7

Intestinal bacterium secretes a molecule that reduces cholesterol production, according to a mouse study.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02934-2

Semiconductor crystals grow from tiny nuclei, but the position of these nuclei is difficult to control precisely and can affect the crystal’s properties. An approach using ‘etching flux’ has now been developed that constrains the position at which a nucleus forms, enabling spatially programmable growth of large single crystals of semiconducting material.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11105-2

Gas chromatography analysis of compounds formed by the superheavy element seaborgium shows that the hexacarbonyl complex Sg(CO)6 exhibits lower first bond dissociation energy than the lighter chemical homologue W(CO)6, owing to relativistic bond weakening effects.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11140-z

RNase P RNA forms shifting active and inactive conformers whose catalytic activity depends on Mg2+-driven tertiary-interaction dynamics, which are modulated by binding of accessory proteins.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02836-3

Swapping to a system in which lab members read memos quietly before team discussions helped to create an open culture.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02999-z

Information on the methodology used in the ranking for the 2026 Nature Spotlight: Infectious diseases.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02985-5

Comparable data are key to protecting the world from the next epidemic, says bioengineer Polina Brangel.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03127-7

The United Nations’ deadline for eliminating HIV/AIDS as a public-health threat is unlikely to be met. But medical, political and social advances have raised hopes that longer-term success is still possible.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02983-7

As the Bundibugyo virus public-health crisis continues to evolve, physician Richard Kojan is finding ways to care for people with the infection and helping relatives to visit loved ones safely.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02864-z

Identity crisis.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03093-0

Prize goes to two chemists who probed why life favours one mirror-image molecule over another.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03132-w

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?