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Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02325-7Ants and bees are known to use spatial memories to navigate to fixed locations, such as a nest. Virtual-reality experiments in which Drosophila fruit flies follow fictive odour plumes now show that these insect

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

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10849-1GOOSE enables the design and testing of thousands of disordered protein region sequences to reveal distinct sequence-to-function relationships.

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

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02321-xAerial 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 3 million people and contained more than 2

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10839-3Perpendicular switching of the polarization state in the layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 is demonstrated by means of trilinear coupling, allowing manipulation of the in-plane polarization component with an out-

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10847-3The cryo‑EM structure of the Oryza sativa photosystem II–light harvesting complex II supercomplex in its native membrane reveals the intact plant photosystem architecture, retaining physiologically relevant pro

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10850-8New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes.

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

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02329-3Whole-genome sequencing of hundreds of childhood tumours, enriched for pretreated, relapsed and metastatic samples, shows that cancer therapies, especially platinum-based ones, are associated with rapid acquisi

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10856-2Cryo-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 with viral functions such as assembly, mRNA r

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