Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10997-4

Evidence from Bianfu Cave shows specialized hunting, expedient stone-tool production and extensive bone use of Denisovans, providing new insights into their ecology, behaviour and cultural legacy in eastern Asia.

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 26 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03153-w

Building a living cell from scratch requires overcoming a bottleneck that has remained unresolved despite decades of progress: orchestrating the spatiotemporal integration of core functional modules. To tackle this barrier, the SynCell Asia Initiative outlines a strategy for developing core functional modules followed by their systems-level integration through the establishment of a centralized, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biofoundry.

Nature, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10482-y

Autonomous closed-loop framework for reproducible perovskite solar cells

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10307-y

A mummified fossil of the early Permian reptile Captorhinus reveals the potential ancestral amniote breathing mechanism and its impact on terrestrial vertebrate evolution.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10304-1

Long-range interactions mediated by protein electric dipole moments have a role in driving the assembly and disassembly of super-signalling complex I for promoting NF-κB signalling.

npj Digital Medicine, Published online: 28 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41746-026-02575-9

A multicenter randomized clinical trial of portable transcranial alternating current stimulation for major depressive disorder

Oncogene, Published online: 07 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41388-026-03712-0

Arginine methylation-dependent stabilization of SUV39H1 promotes breast cancer growth