Nature, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03395-3

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Nature, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03416-1

Infectious-disease researchers say the risk of the virus moving between people is low.

Nature, Published online: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03414-3

From underwater speakers to growing super-corals, scientists battle to save reefs around the world.

Nature, Published online: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03371-x

Application of the high-precision technique is part of a clinical trial to treat a genetic disease that can cause liver and nerve damage.

Nature, Published online: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11312-x

Current-Driven Molecular Machine with Rotation-Enhanced Conductance

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11317-6

De novo design of enantioselective artificial metalloenzyme photocatalysts

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11252-6

Author Correction: Catalyst-free, microdroplet-mediated waste plastic conversion to diacids

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03161-5

Tolullah Oni has developed a platform to transfer the intellectual capital of African diaspora scholars back to the continent.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03355-x

The United Nations’ latest climate report is a stark reminder that limiting warming to the safest levels is now likely out of reach.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03360-0

Archaeologists identified skull fragments from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03375-7

Researcher and policy adviser who championed tests and treatments for genetic diseases.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03311-9

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11096-0

Now that hyperacute rejection of pig xenografts can be reliably prevented, subtler immune-mediated graft injuries have emerged that conventional diagnostics often miss; a multimodal precision diagnostic framework is proposed to detect these injuries earlier, guide personalized immunosuppression and inform future gene editing strategies.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11145-8

Salt marsh platforms resist erosion under extreme waves, but vegetation damage reduces wave attenuation; substantial wave attenuation by vegetation is mainly limited to low-energy marsh coasts with waves below 1 m.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11152-9

A multi-tissue signalling system links cold temperature to enhanced longevity and proteostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11188-x

Experimental and modelling data indicate that WEE1 promotes re-entry of quiescent cells into the cell cycle, potentially explaining the toxic side effects of WEE1 inhibitors in cancer therapies.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11207-x

Methanoglobus dolicholipophagus AA-75 is a thermophilic archaeon isolated from a Chinese petroleum reservoir that converts methanol into methane, carbon dioxide and acetate, and uses saturated and unsaturated fatty acids to produce methane.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11179-y

An environment-regulated state is identified across multiple cell types at the root tip, revealing a shared dichotomy between cells with and without this state.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11186-z

CD51+ astrocytes promote synapse formation in the developing cortex, circuit plasticity in the hippocampus and circuit remodelling after stroke.

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11165-4

Genetic and proteomic analyses in human neurons and mouse models of Angelman syndrome (AS) show that loss of the ubiquitin ligase UBE3A leads to an overabundance of asparagine synthetase, and that this is linked with many AS phenotypes.