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: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03108-w

Fighting fit.

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/d41586-026-03400-9

Ultra-rich philanthropists are disrupting biomedical science. Plus, why physicists have kept an antimatter particle caged for months and whether it’s really possible to be swallowed by a whale and survive.

Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03374-8

The drug improved the ability to focus — but only in women. Plus, US climate scientists are facing a deluge of public-records requests and why a sleep-disorder drug might be the next big blockbuster.

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: 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.