<i>De novo</i> design of enantioselective artificial metalloenzyme photocatalysts
Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11317-6
De novo design of enantioselective artificial metalloenzyme photocatalystsNature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11317-6
De novo design of enantioselective artificial metalloenzyme photocatalystsNature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11252-6
Author Correction: Catalyst-free, microdroplet-mediated waste plastic conversion to diacidsNature, 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: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03357-9
Analysis of nearly 30,000 brain scans yields detailed timeline of how the brain matures — and hints at the consequences of disrupting it.Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03110-2
A good way to learn?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/d41586-026-03063-6
Salt-marsh plants can protect inland areas against huge waves — but seemingly only up to a point, and big storms cause progressive damage.Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03066-3
In nematodes, a metabolite induced by the cold links low temperatures to a body-wide signal that promotes longevity. This signalling system is also seen in human cells.Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03342-2
Physicists trap and cool down positron for months to measure its ‘magnetic moment’ with extraordinary precision.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/s41586-026-11183-2
The use of zeolites with an appropriate pore structure combined with a high CO/olefin ratio is shown to catalyse olefin carbonylation and produce primary and secondary carboxylic acids as the main products.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.Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11184-1
The structure of PCDH1 bound to the ANDV spike defines the structural determinants of hantavirus–receptor recognition.