Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10954-1

A specific population of macrophages that express high levels of the enzyme PLA2G2D in tumour-draining lymph nodes is associated with poor prognosis in patients, and inhibiting PLA2G2D improves anti-tumour immunity in mouse models.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10968-9

Deep-foam photolithography uses light-controlled polymer foaming to create high-resolution, multifunctional microstructures with tunable optical, wetting and fluid-handling properties for advanced manufacturing applications.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11004-6

Integrating satellite-derived war-damage data with text-based fatality records through improvement, enrichment and fusion mitigates limitations inherent in each source, revealing complex violence dynamics beyond fatality-centric paradigms, as case studies from Ukraine and Myanmar illustrate.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10979-6

An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11003-7

A proximity-mapping atlas defines tumour-associated proximity antigens, revealing disease-associated membrane spatial communities, and identifies EGFR–CDCP1 as a co-target pair that enhances tumour killing by multispecific therapeutics.

Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03286-y

Six proteomic clocks are applied in a clinical trial to assess anti-aging effects.

Cell Death Discovery, Published online: 03 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41420-026-03327-0

Arrest of human spermatogenesis at the pachytene stage is frequently accompanied by disruption of the piRNA pathway