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/s41586-026-11205-z

Pinal, a 16-billion-parameter artificial intelligence model, designs functional proteins from natural-language descriptions, demonstrating experimentally validated activities and improved CO2-fixation product yields without iterative optimization.