Technology

Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10945-2 Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries

Obituary: Susumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel prizewinner in physiology or medicine

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02340-8 Fearless molecular biologist who revealed the workings of antibodies and memories.

Three rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02181-5 The smallest building blocks are enabling next-generation solutions.

Underdog ‘spin qubits’ leap forward in race to a useful quantum computer

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02357-z Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower error rates.

The first known cephalopod was only a millimetre long and lived about 520 million years ago

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02319-5 The locomotion of modern cephalopods, such as squid and cuttlefish, relies on buoyancy control achieved mainly by a specialized structure called a siphuncle. The…

In situ structure of the poxvirus portal complex

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10856-2 Cryo-electron tomography uncovers the structure of a conserved hexameric ‘portal complex’ that spans the core wall in vaccinia virus, and shows how it is associated…

Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10861-5 New Mongolian fossil evidence shows zhelestids were not placental-like herbivore relatives, but a dental variant within Zalambdalestoidea, with distinctive molars…

Avalanche-like intercalation and intraparticle correlations in graphite

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10862-4 Operando optical microscopy shows avalanche-like lithium deintercalation (intercalation) processes as the dilute stages of graphite are emptied (filled), showing how…

How mosquitoes are conquering the world — in four charts

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03966-w Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range.

Sequential reading of a stepwise-shortened peptide immobilized on nanopore

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10881-1 A nanopore-based ‘chop and measure’ method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution by using enzymatic digestion to progressively shorten the N terminus one…

Amazonian earthwork survey indicates ancient population was much larger than thought

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02321-x Aerial laser-scanning data reveal that, from ad 100 to ad 300, an area spanning less than 3% of the Greater Amazonia region probably supported between 1.25 million and…

Enzymatic glycosylation and amidation reshapes polyene bioactivity

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10834-8 Pathways to previously undescribed polyenes, including unusual enzymes that introduce more sugars onto polyene scaffolds, are discovered, and their accessibility…