UAE completes Arab world’s first solo space probe <b>– </b>and sets course for an asteroid

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03154-4The device will be launched on a joint UAE-US-built craft. Some researchers say it could be the last mission constructed with outside help.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03154-4

The device will be launched on a joint UAE-US-built craft. Some researchers say it could be the last mission constructed with outside help.

Woody ‘blankets’ are being deployed on Arctic permafrost to reduce carbon emissions

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03045-8A start-up company is testing whether stabilizing areas of rapidly eroding permafrost can prevent greenhouse-gas emissions.

Nature, Published online: 08 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03045-8

A start-up company is testing whether stabilizing areas of rapidly eroding permafrost can prevent greenhouse-gas emissions.

The science of superintelligence and why AI is still a useful word

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03198-6President Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03198-6

President Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet.

Nobel Prizes 2026: brain switches, ‘ghost’ particle hunter, and ‘the chemistry of life’

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03208-7Nature rounds up the Nobel Prizes for science — plus, hints of the ancestral human gut microbiome.

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03208-7

Nature rounds up the Nobel Prizes for science — plus, hints of the ancestral human gut microbiome.

Cryo-EM structure of a methanogen nitrogenase–PII protein supercomplex

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11116-zCryo-electron microscopy of a nitrogenase supercomplex from a methane-producing archaeon reveals a mechanism in which PII proteins drive assembly of such structur…

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11116-z

Cryo-electron microscopy of a nitrogenase supercomplex from a methane-producing archaeon reveals a mechanism in which PII proteins drive assembly of such structures to regulate nitrogenase activity in response to nitrogen availability.

Observation of critical topological phase transition

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11067-5Using an acoustic metamaterial platform, a critical topological phase transition is experimentally demonstrated establishing a hierarchical phase transition organ…

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11067-5

Using an acoustic metamaterial platform, a critical topological phase transition is experimentally demonstrated establishing a hierarchical phase transition organization, in which topology shapes criticality beyond the conventional Landau–Ginzburg paradigm and standard topological phase transitions.

A nuclear clock synchronized to <sup>229</sup>Th

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11122-1A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th establishes laser-addressed nuclei as operational clock references and 229Th:CaF2 as a stable, reproducible solid-state plat…

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11122-1

A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th establishes laser-addressed nuclei as operational clock references and 229Th:CaF2 as a stable, reproducible solid-state platform for compact nuclear clocks and nuclear quantum sensors.

Human lung organoid modelling of tissue-resident antiviral T cell responses

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11114-1Lung organoids containing endogenous resident immune cells show that SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits protective, tissue-resident memory T cell responses, demonstrati…

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11114-1

Lung organoids containing endogenous resident immune cells show that SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits protective, tissue-resident memory T cell responses, demonstrating local recall immunity and providing a platform for the study of human tissue-resident antiviral defence.