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A colossal magma system has been hiding beneath Tuscany
A massive magma reservoir has been detected deep beneath Tuscany, despite showing no obvious signs at the surface. Scientists mapped the roughly 6,000-cubic-kilometer body using …
Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm
Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York City and a …
Stanford scientists discover immune cells that explode like microscopic bombs
Stanford researchers discovered immune cells in flatworms that explode within minutes, killing nearby bacteria and foreign cells before vanishing completely. Their unusually fast and localized …
A solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower arrive on the same …
August brings four major celestial events, including a solar eclipse and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Dark New Moon skies could make the …
Did T. rex leave these 66-million-year-old bite marks?
Fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming are offering a rare glimpse into the feeding behavior of Tyrannosaurus rex. Researchers examined more than 3,000 bones dating back …
Scientists catch a “jumping gene” mid-leap between species
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way that “jumping genes” may move between species and speed up evolution. While these mobile genetic elements were thought to …
Why science must reinforce its social contract
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02444-1Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society’s interests.
Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02439-yThe ancient genetic variant is most common in people of South and East Asian ancestry.
The recovered notes of Professor Alborough
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02252-7Time for a break.
Switching off the <i>FNIP1</i> gene protects against metabolic disease
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02391-xA study of more than one million people shows that rare genetic variants that disrupt the FNIP1 gene are …
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02443-2Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
First poo transplant to treat food allergy in people has ‘exciting’ results
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02440-5Existing treatments for food allergy are limited.
More muscle, less belly fat: mutations to a gene are linked to …
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02438-zAnalysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ‘cardiometabolic’ …
Maps of chromosomal regions crucial for cell division reveal high diversity
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02327-5Centromeres are regions of chromosomes that are required for cell division. Complete sequence characterization of centromeres from a diverse …
Can empty space interact with light — and even change its properties?
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02289-8Observations of a magnetized stellar core indicate that in an ultra-strong magnetic field, empty space can polarize light.
James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01772-6Databases and submission systems are often inflexible. Can’t publishers do more on author names?
<i>FNIP1</i> variants are associated with favourable metabolism in 1 million humans
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10864-2The FNIP1 pathway has a role in human energy metabolism, and its inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy in …
An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10885-xAn evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial haem-sensing mechanism that predates the emergence of haemoglobin-based oxygen transport could have therapeutic value in …
Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10859-zPolarization measurements of the magnetar 1E 1547.0−5408 provide strong evidence that vacuum birefringence shapes X-ray propagation, offering an important …
A cholinergic hub in the nucleus accumbens gates opioid-reward learning
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10887-9Cell-type-specific opioid blockade in accumbal cholinergic interneurons abolishes morphine-reward learning without impairing analgesia and decouples morphine-evoked dopamine elevations from …
DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10873-1M12 is a metabolically activated molecular glue that recruits diverse proteins to DCAF11 for ubiquitin-mediated degradation, revealing a glutathione-dependent …
A tumour-derived organoid biobank maps cancer gene dependencies
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10830-yA clinically annotated multi-omic organoid resource with matched tumour samples from 256 patients across 5 cancers maps gene dependencies, …
Membranolytic peptide programs immunogenic cell death for cancer therapy
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10899-5The synthetic-acid-responsive membranolytic peptide aMPC16-CA50 induces immunogenic membranolytic cell death in tumour cells, robustly potentiating immune checkpoint blockade therapy.
Pseudogap in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator
Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10875-zA cold-atom quantum simulator reveals the pseudogap metallic state in the Hubbard model, mapping its phase diagram and advancing …
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