Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10581-w Enhanced preformation of the α particle, a strongly bound system of two protons and two neutrons, in 104Te causes it to be the fastest ground-state α-emitting nucleus known so far.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10450-6 Bohmian mechanics remains unchallenged by tunnelling experiment

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01567-9 Inflammatory stress is shown to reprogram a subset of human haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). These inflammatory memory (HSC-iM) cells have reduced differentiation and pass on inflammation-related gene programs to their immune-cell progeny. HSC-iM cells accumulate with age, and cancer-associated mutations affect HSC-iM cells mo…

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10595-4 Near-field radiative heat transfer between silicon nitride membranes is enhanced several-fold by using metamaterials, opening opportunities for thermal energy harvesting and infrared sensing applications.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10576-7 A fully phased genome assembly of the sugarcane foundational cultivar POJ2878 reveals extensive subgenome recombination and non-homologous chromosomal rearrangements.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10542-3 Integration of gene expression data from multiple tissues across four mammalian species reveals conserved transcriptomic signatures of mammalian ageing and mortality and uncovers the modular architecture of ageing and mortality hallmarks.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10541-4 Trait-based ecosystem modelling shows that impact-driven darkness and body-size-dependent extinction thresholds, rather than carbon-dioxide increase or acidification, drove most of the observed end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10525-4 Enabling parental mediation of online activities and children’s knowledge of where to seek help after sexual harassment or assault is associated with higher rates of disclosure of technology-facilitated CSEA.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10591-8 Plants sense water deficiency through SAM8 protein condensation, which responds to reduced hydration and triggers stress adaptation by altering RNA export and gene translation.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01652-z As the leader of the Missouri Botanical Garden, he called global attention to the biodiversity crisis.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01413-y Stacks of transistors built from nanomembranes that can be rolled onto a substrate have been used to fabricate 3D circuits.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10543-2 Hailstone trajectory simulations conducted under historical and future scenarios show a shift towards larger hailstones, resulting in global hailstorm-induced damage potential increasing by around 40% by the late twenty-first century.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10579-4 A direct, dynamical black-hole mass measurement in a strongly lensed little red dot at high redshift indicates that it is a massive black-hole seed caught in its earliest accretion phase.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10526-3 Researchers mapped how transcription factors define neuron lineages in fruit fly brains, revealing hierarchical genetic programs that shape and specialize circuits controlling motivated behaviours such as mating.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10569-6 Genome-wide analyses indicate that accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations, a hallmark of ageing, may be caused by cryptic replication errors, which act as passenger mutations that eventually become detectable with age owing to age-related somatic mosaicism, rather than oxidative damage.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10609-1 A broadband, sub-wavelength time-domain microscope is described, enabling the observation that terahertz light trapped within a cavity can mediate attractive interactions in a tunable van der Waals material.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10521-8 An experimental realization of device-independent randomness amplification is demonstrated using superconducting qubits, in which a source of weak, correlated randomness is converted into virtually perfect random bits, certified by a Bell test.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01636-z A large-scale experiment tested the impact of changing the Bluesky feed-ranking algorithm on political content and perceptions during the 2024 US presidential election. By making feeds more representative of users, the ‘diversified extremity’ algorithm reduced exposure to polarizing content and made perceptions of social norms …

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01571-z An investigation of the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank has identified more than 88,000 associations between more than 8,000 genomic regions and metabolic traits. The combined size of the sample enabled the detection of many more associations than in previous efforts.

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01661-y Cellular-ageing clocks based on gene activity could be more sensitive than previous measures.