Like coffee and ice cream: an interview with Sam and Eli Morten
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02412-9 Joint operation.
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Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02506-4 Shadowed by past disasters, nuclear engineers are developing different types of reactor, fuel, coolant and material that could help to make fission the zero-carbon energy technology of choice.
The best-managed industrial waste in history
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02508-2 Expanded use of nuclear energy will protect the environment even without fresh options for waste disposal.
Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety?
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02509-1 Oversight agencies suddenly face pressure to rapidly assess a range of relatively untested reactor designs.
The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they really work?
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02570-w The world’s most popular antidepressant drugs are under fire. But are they really harder to quit than heroin?
Vaporization trick enables ‘tandem’ solar cells to be made at lower temperatures
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02469-6 A clever approach for evaporating a compound used to make perovskite semiconductors tackles a vexing challenge in scaling up next-generation solar cells.
South Africa’s ‘registration law’ for scientists could be a template for the world — if the nation gets it right
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02568-4 The plan to force some scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the current version lacks clarity.
Harnessing nuclear power for a clean-energy future
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02505-5 Generating electricity using fission has a chequered past. New approaches such as smaller reactors could transform the technology into a more nimble source of always-on, carbon-free power.
Five highlights from nuclear-power research
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02512-6 Advanced materials, cancer risk analysis and other developments from recent studies.
The 46 companies scrambling to commercialize fusion for energy
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02513-5 Whether the billions of dollars of investment will lead to an inexhaustible source of clean electrical power is not yet known.
A raft of start-up firms is betting on nuclear fusion
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02511-7 The phenomenon that makes stars shine and hydrogen bombs explode has yet to be reliably tamed for energy generation. But that isn’t stopping companies from trying.
This pulsating muscle graft mimics benefits of exercise
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02664-5 Mice with the surgical implant developed more muscle mass, strength and bone density.
Does the shingles vaccine cut heart disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02663-6 Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.
Using nuclear waste to power space missions
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02514-4 Researchers plan to use radioactive isotopes to power systems on a future Mars rover.
Can nuclear reactors hit the road?
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02510-8 Fission facilities that fit in a truck could provide portable power where it’s needed — but some people question whether it’s worth the cost, safety compromises and the risk of sending the raw materials for bombs into communities.
The push to clear nuclear power’s waste-disposal hurdle
Nature, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02507-3 The technical issues have mostly been solved, but the long-term potential peril of radioactive material has made it difficult to find politically acceptable sites.
How tech-enhanced sleep could improve rest but erode privacy
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02573-7 Technologies that promise better-than-usual sleep could improve people’s performance and health but also turn the need for rest into an auditable obligation. Ethical norms and regulations are needed.
Assessing students in the AI era
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02632-z Assessing students in the AI era
How one researcher captured a vanished world of UK government science
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02094-3 Oral historian Emmeline Ledgerwood’s PhD investigated how privatization affected civil-service scientists at the end of the twentieth century.
Amend copyright licences to halt AI misuse and reassert human control
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02633-y Amend copyright licences to halt AI misuse and reassert human control
More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02635-w Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.
Addendum: Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11017-1 Addendum: Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
Protecting education in the middle of war zones
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02634-x Protecting education in the middle of war zones
A guide to securing your first research fellowship: what reviewers are looking for
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02115-1 How early-career researchers can strengthen their track record, boost their research proposal and assess institutional fit.
These rodent OnlyFans stars are helping to fund scientific research
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02550-0 The platform, mostly known for its adult content, has provided a financial lifeline amid US federal-funding uncertainty. And now the marmots have their own cryptocurrency too.
The future of peer review requires AI support, not AI bans
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02631-0 The future of peer review requires AI support, not AI bans
How to manage AI risks while reaping the benefits
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02567-5 As the world debates how to regulate artificial intelligence, Europe’s lawmakers are doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they?
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02569-3 Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.
The brain struggles to make new neurons in people with depression
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02661-8 High resolution, wide-coverage map of the hippocampus reveals possible pathways for therapy.
Asthma in some boys stops at puberty: mouse results hint at why
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02611-4 Study suggests that male hormones have an effect on nerve endings in the lungs.
China is changing the shape of global health. The terms are still up for negotiation
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02622-1 Health-care partnerships can provide other nations with cheap diagnostics, medicines and more — but global institutions should help to ensure that they also strengthen local capacity and preserve sovereignty.
Ancient surveying instrument found in Egypt
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02382-y The earliest known example of a tool used to build in a straight line, and remembering an early trailblazer in radio communication in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.
Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record — and study nuclear weapons
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02620-3 Pacific Fusion is breaking ground next door to a US nuclear-weapons laboratory, hoping the partnership will give it an edge.
Frontier-technology markets are too narrow — here’s how to widen them
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02572-8 Governments need to keep their procurement processes as open as possible, or they will face risks of technological lock-in down the line.
Daily briefing: How ‘thunderquakes’ probe underground geology
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02665-4 Thunder generates acoustic waves that can help scientists probe the Earth, a person’s own mitochondria have been injected into their eyes in an attempt to restore their vision and economists call for ‘pro-worker’ AI,
Patient’s own mitochondria injected into eyes in attempt to restore vision
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02616-z Injection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring vision.
The exoskeletons are coming (to a store near you)
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02641-y Technology to help people walk, run and jump is moving rapidly from labs to hiking trails.
Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02571-9 A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.
Earth-shaking thunder probes underground geology
Nature, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02596-0 Seismologists measured the varying speeds of a ‘thunderquake’ to survey an area with little seismic activity.
Sleuth identifies dozens of studies that used the wrong antibody
Nature, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02352-4 The case is the latest example of a scientific workhorse being misused in experiments.