The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10840-wClimate and econometric modelling reveal that human-induced climate change is shifting the burden of childhood malaria in Africa.

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10840-w

Climate and econometric modelling reveal that human-induced climate change is shifting the burden of childhood malaria in Africa.

A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10754-7A silicon quantum processing unit executes high-fidelity multiqubit circuits, with all time-varying control signals generated by a digitally programmed cryogenic com…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10754-7

A silicon quantum processing unit executes high-fidelity multiqubit circuits, with all time-varying control signals generated by a digitally programmed cryogenic complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor controller and delivered to the low-noise, exchange-only qubit device through a high-density superconducting ribbon cable.

Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10861-5New Mongolian fossil evidence shows zhelestids were not placental-like herbivore relatives, but a dental variant within Zalambdalestoidea, with distinctive molars al…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10861-5

New Mongolian fossil evidence shows zhelestids were not placental-like herbivore relatives, but a dental variant within Zalambdalestoidea, with distinctive molars alongside zalambdalestid skull and limb traits.

Enzymatic glycosylation and amidation reshapes polyene bioactivity

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10834-8Pathways to previously undescribed polyenes, including unusual enzymes that introduce more sugars onto polyene scaffolds, are discovered, and their accessibility thr…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10834-8

Pathways to previously undescribed polyenes, including unusual enzymes that introduce more sugars onto polyene scaffolds, are discovered, and their accessibility through clean and efficient fermentation and potential for safe use as antifungal treatments is described.

Weight-four parity checks in a spin-shuttling architecture

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10766-3A silicon spin-qubit device comprising a shuttling bus for transporting qubits is used to achieve parity checks up to weight four, highlighting the feasibility and b…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10766-3

A silicon spin-qubit device comprising a shuttling bus for transporting qubits is used to achieve parity checks up to weight four, highlighting the feasibility and benefits of incorporating shuttling into semiconductor quantum processors.

Relatively few Black people benefited in the 1930s and 1940s from mortgages backed by the US government

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02246-5Newly digitized mortgage records from 38 US states reveal the profound racial inequality of two mortgage programmes during the 1930s and 1940s. These loans, supporte…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02246-5

Newly digitized mortgage records from 38 US states reveal the profound racial inequality of two mortgage programmes during the 1930s and 1940s. These loans, supported by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration, were mainly responsible for the emergence of a US society that idealized home ownership. However, Black households were systematically excluded from receiving such loans. By contrast, immigrants received mortgages proportional to their number.

New-deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10850-8New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally e…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10850-8

New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes.

Perpendicular switching of polarization in layered ferroelectrics

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10839-3Perpendicular switching of the polarization state in the layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 is demonstrated by means of trilinear coupling, allowing manipulation of the…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10839-3

Perpendicular switching of the polarization state in the layered ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 is demonstrated by means of trilinear coupling, allowing manipulation of the in-plane polarization component with an out-of-plane electric field.

Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02367-xDiscovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02367-x

Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.

Sequential reading of a stepwise-shortened peptide immobilized on nanopore

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10881-1A nanopore-based ‘chop and measure’ method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution by using enzymatic digestion to progressively shorten the N terminus on…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10881-1

A nanopore-based ‘chop and measure’ method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution by using enzymatic digestion to progressively shorten the N terminus one residue at a time, together with repetitive N-terminus re-reading.