2026-09-22
Gaurav Kumar Lohia, Ying-Tsun Chen, Samantha Chen, Ayesha Beg, Erin Theiller, Aomeng Cui, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Sebastián A. Riquelme
Here, Lohia et al show that pyrimidine metabolism is a driver of pulmonary remodelling and bacterial infection in people with cystic fibrosis.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77940-z2026-09-22
Maria Garcia-Cremades, Jonathon R. Campbell, Natasha Strydom, Belén P. Solans, Samer Mouksassi, Ziran Li, Patrick P. J. Phillips, Gustavo E. Velásquez, Payam Nahid, Dick Menzies, Radojka M. Savic
Pooling data from 7750 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide, in this study, the authors defined disease-severity phenotypes based on clinical and treatment features, stratifying patients by risk of unfavourable outcomes to enable risk-adapted, stratified care.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77931-02026-09-21
Shiela Pearl Quiobe, Ata Kalirad, Raphaela Zurheide, Hanh Witte, Christian Rödelsperger, Ralf J. Sommer
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77839-92026-09-21
Peng Yang, Xiaoyue He, Hongli Zhang, Zeyu Feng, Liyang Wen, Li Wen, Yin Xu, Bo Chen, Mingjun Xiao, Xin Chen, Gang Zou
White circularly polarized luminescence materials are promising but combining favorable white-light colorimetric properties and strong chiroptical activities is difficult. Yang et al. adopted a dual-loop active learning strategy to realize high-performance materials and devices.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77409-z2026-09-21
Haozhou Li, Pan Liu, Hu Dong, Aldo Dekker, Michiel M. Harmsen, Huichen Guo, Xiangxi Wang, Shiqi Sun
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77852-y2026-09-21
Andrea G. Murachelli, Farid El Oualid, Titia K. Sixma
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77841-12026-09-21
Lingyi Fang, Ming Ren, Biwen Li, Xuzheng Liu, Suzhe Liang, Julian Petermann, Mohammad Gholipoor, Tonghan Zhao, Johannes Sutter, Paul Fassl, Henry Weber, Ralf Niemann, Linjie Dai, Renjun Guo, Uli Lemmer, Fabian Fertig, Ulrich W. Paetzold
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77840-22026-09-21
Daoyong Zhang, Tao Wu, Biao Li, Degong Ding, Ruilin Li, Jiyao Wei, Hengyu Zhang, Chenxia Kan, Yuxin Yao, Pengjie Hang, Zhiguo Yu, Zhenyi Ni, Kaifu Qiu, Deren Yang, Xuegong Yu
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77843-z2026-09-21
Daniel Mehlig, Iain Staffell
Analysis of Britain’s entire vehicle fleet finds electric cars now match petrol and diesel cars in mileage and lifespan and produce less than half the lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of conventional vehicles, based on real-world usage data.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77892-42026-09-20
Chenchen Ding, Zhengwu Liu, Yibei Zhang, Can Li, Jianshi Tang, Bin Gao, Hao Yu, Huaqiang Wu, Ngai Wong
Efficient processing of high-dimensional datasets demands minimal information loss and reduced computational complexity. Ding et al. report a memristor-based system that boosts data simplification efficiency and accuracy, supporting applications in image reconstruction, biomedical signal analysis, and LLM fine tuning.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76272-22026-09-19
Marie Emilie Dourthe, Mehdi Latiri, Etienne Lengliné, Guillaume Charbonnier, Chaimae Saji, Grégoire Huré, Camille Gillet, Jérôme Doss, Aurore Touzart, Lucien Courtois, Agata Cieslak, Mathieu Simonin, Norbert Ifrah, Hervé Dombret, Olivier Hermine, Nicolas Boissel, André Baruchel, Jacques Ghysdael, Elizabeth Macintyre, Philippe Rousselot, Christine Tran Quang, Guillaume P. Andrieu, Vahid Asnafi
Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is a potent immunosuppressant used to prevent and treat acute organ transplant rejection and severe aplastic anemia. Here, the authors discover that ATG can be repurposed to induce TNF-driven cell death in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77027-92026-09-19
Kazuma Kobayashi, Farid Ahmed, Jaewan Park, Subhankar Sarkar, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
The authors introduce an operator-learning framework for real-time virtual sensing that reconstructs inaccessible interior physical fields from sparse, heterogeneous measurements and operating conditions.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77463-72026-09-19
Yue Yu, Qixuan Lin, Shucheng Fang, Joseph G. Thomas, Yibing Zhou, Zichen Xi, Jun Ji, Yizheng Zhu, Linbo Shao, Bingzhao Li, Mo Li
The authors combine molecular-dimer calculations with simplified, coarse-grained simulations to predict the crystal structure of metal-organic cages and show how cage shape and the directionality of interactions influence the structures formed.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77864-82026-09-19
Ray Zirui Zhang, Christopher E. Miles, Xiaohui Xie, John S. Lowengrub
Estimating parameters of partial differential equations from data with quantified uncertainty is computationally demanding. Here, authors combine bilevel local operator learning with low rank adaptation to enable efficient gradient-based posterior sampling without adjoint equations, pretraining data, or sampling network weights.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77768-72026-09-19
Yuchen Ma, Jiachen Wu, Chang-Yin Ji, Liangcai Cao, Guangwei Hu
Researchers show that a single optical fiber can transmit hyperspectral images using a tiny nanophotonic encoder, opening a path toward compact, flexible probes for imaging and sensing.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77550-92026-09-19
Mo-Dian Liu, Guobang Jiang, Jizhai Cui, Yongfeng Mei, Xiao-Dong Chen, Jian-Wen Dong
Using kirigami, the authors create a photonic crystal whose topology can be mechanically reconfigured, allowing corner states and light-routing paths to be switched after fabrication.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77880-82026-07-27
Xiao Wei
Nature Communications, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-76070-w Here, the authors present ViscoClamp, a hydrogel that stabilizes the local mechanical environment around cells, restores bone-forming activity under diabetes-related stress, and improves jaw and skull bone repair in animal models.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76070-w2026-07-27
Jiaxin Han
Nature Communications, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75881-1 The authors propose an explainable multivariate anomaly detection framework that adaptively learns hyperbolic spatio-temporal structures, discovers dynamic graph topologies, and localizes anomaly causes. The method improves robustness, interpretability, and detection accuracy.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75881-12026-07-27
Zhongzi Wu
Nature Communications, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75525-4 Structural variation in pigs remains poorly understood. Here, the authors analyse the genomes from 2,445 pigs to create a map of structural variation in pigs and explore how these variants affect gene activity, domestication and body size.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75525-42026-07-25
Suryakanta Mondal
Nature Communications, Published online: 25 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75886-w Correlated oxides are known to exhibit metamagnetic switching from a non-ferromagnetic to ferromagnetic phase. Here, the authors demonstrate an electrically driven inverse-metamagnetic transition from a ferromagnetic state to an antiferromagnetic-like phase in an epitaxial Sm1-xSrxMnO3 thin film.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75886-w2026-07-25
Helgi Hilmarsson
Nature Communications, Published online: 25 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75391-0 The authors present Gnomix, a local ancestry framework that delivers leading accuracy across diverse admixed datasets on both whole-genome and array data with high efficiency, together with Gnofix, its fast phasing-error correction counterpart.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75391-02026-07-25
Kyuseon Jang
Nature Communications, Published online: 25 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-76056-8 Y2Te3 thermoelectrics degrade in moist air as water molecules enter along grain boundaries. The authors show that 1 at.% Bi segregates to these boundaries, suppressing moisture ingress and preventing chemical degradation while preserving performance.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76056-82026-07-24
Jingyun Li
Nature Communications, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75879-9 This study finds that climate change modestly alters optimal solar-wind ratios, whereas deployment pathways that diverge from climate-consistent optimal ratios can substantially increase electricity supply costs and capacity needs across regions.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75879-92026-07-24
Alessandro Soncini
Nature Communications, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75612-6 Toroidal magnetic states are difficult to prepare and detect in molecules. The authors show that near-infrared light can drive finite-temperature toroidal polarization in an Fe10Dy10 molecular ring, enabling magnetoelectric readout.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75612-62026-07-24
Yujie Yuan
Nature Communications, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-76010-8 Removing NOx from oxygen-rich industrial flue gas is difficult, especially with SO2 present. An IrIn/Beta catalyst turns SO2 into ammonium sulfate intermediates, promoting NOx high removal under harsh simulated industrial conditions.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76010-82026-07-24
Yunshuo Wu
Nature Communications, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75982-x Cutting industrial nitrous oxide emissions is vital for climate and ozone protection, but current methods need high temperatures. A platinum catalyst converts 99.99% at 150 °C using methane and could cut treatment costs by 62%.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75982-x2026-07-23
Abhijith Jayakumar
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75439-1 Algorithms sampling from thermal states of many-body systems often get stuck in restricted, metastable states. Here, authors prove that the true underlying models can nevertheless be accurately recovered from these trapped samples, establishing rigorous learning guarantees for discrete distributions.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75439-12026-07-23
Yihan Xie
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75723-0 Gene expression mapping in mice reveals how genetic risk for opioid dependence shapes transcriptional architecture of the brain. Here authors show that the Oprm1 risk allele (G) links to glial changes, while the protective allele (A) promotes neuronal plasticity.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75723-02026-07-23
Alejandro Santos-Mayo
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75653-x Advancing toward human brain simulation remains a major challenge. Here, the authors introduce Concept2Brain, an AI web tool that predicts neural activity, thus generating synthetic and reproducible EEG datasets from text or picture inputs.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75653-x2026-07-22
Gabriela Demarchi
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-75322-z Flexible payments for environmental services, allowing partial compensation when deforestation stays below a threshold, reduce contract breaches and improve forest conservation relative to zero-deforestation contracts in the Brazilian Amazon.]]>
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75322-z