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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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The Virtual Tissues foundation model resolves spatial proteomics across scales

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10884-y Virtual Tissues (VirTues), a foundation model for spatial proteomics that captures tissue organization across scales, supports marker reconstruction, cell…

Thermally evaporated perovskite/silicon tandems via formamidinium eutectic

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10970-1 Thermally evaporated perovskite/silicon tandems via formamidinium eutectic

Editorial Expression of Concern: Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10977-8 Editorial Expression of Concern: Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02445-0 Researchers untangle the chemistry behind turning PVC into high-grade motor lubricant — plus, how engineered yeast can help make a cancer drug.

An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10798-9 Results from a panel of assays that analyse different aspects of DNA sequence specificity reveal more than 100 new motifs to aid the characterization of putative…

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…

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.

In situ particle-to-fibre transformation of hydrogels for 3D printing

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10883-z A three-dimensional printing method transforms hydrogel particles into aligned microfibres during extrusion, creating structural anisotropy to accelerate muscle…

Stimulation modulates gene-linked cell assemblies in the human brain

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10879-9 Stimulation of human cortex reorganizes neural assemblies and induces cell-type-specific gene regulatory programs, establishing an ex vivo framework that links…

A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse cancers

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10806-y The international collaboration of the Human Cancer Models Initiative presents a comprehensive resource of next-generation cancer models from 2,780 donors with 25…

Antigen presentation by CD40 + MHC-II + astrocytes promotes CNS autoimmunity

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10860-6 Astrocytes promote central nervous system (CNS) immunity through antigen presentation and activation of CD40 in astrocytes by CD40L expressed by CD4+ T cells in a…