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An entangling gate for dual-rail erasure qubits

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10822-y A fast, low-error entangling gate for dual-rail cavity erasure qubits preserves a strong error hierarchy, advancing scalable quantum error correction with…

A dependency map enhanced with next-generation 3D cancer models

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10843-7 Integration of genome-scale CRISPR screening data from traditional cell lines and next-generation cancer models expands the representation of tumour subtypes and…

AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

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AI Influencers Are Heading Into Uncharted Territory

Some creators fear the EU AI Act’s regulatory chaos will upend their lucrative businesses. Others are owning it by incorporating AI transparency into their creative process.

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Publisher Correction: Progressive plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10963-0 Publisher Correction: Progressive plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis

Exclusive: the science papers that patents cite the most

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02386-8 Nature reveals the studies that are mentioned most often in patent filings — and why.

Switching off the FNIP1 gene protects against metabolic disease

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02391-x A study of more than one million people shows that rare genetic variants that disrupt the FNIP1 gene are associated with a favourable metabolic profile and a roughly…

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02443-2 Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

Maps of chromosomal regions crucial for cell division reveal high diversity

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02327-5 Centromeres are regions of chromosomes that are required for cell division. Complete sequence characterization of centromeres from a diverse group of 65 individuals…

ZFP36L2 orchestrates stress-adaptive plasticity in regeneration and cancer

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10890-0 The RNA-binding protein ZFP36L2 mediates stress-adaptive plasticity in intestinal regeneration and colorectal cancer metastasis.

FNIP1 variants are associated with favourable metabolism in 1 million humans

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10864-2 The FNIP1 pathway has a role in human energy metabolism, and its inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy in cardiometabolic disease.

Ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities driving plasma mixing on the Sun

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10871-3 High-spatial-resolution observations of the solar photosphere reveal a far more complex and dynamic solar scene than previously observed and show that ubiquitous…

An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10885-x An evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial haem-sensing mechanism that predates the emergence of haemoglobin-based oxygen transport could have therapeutic value in…