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.

Avalanche-like intercalation and intraparticle correlations in graphite

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10862-4Operando optical microscopy shows avalanche-like lithium deintercalation (intercalation) processes as the dilute stages of graphite are emptied (filled), showing how…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10862-4

Operando optical microscopy shows avalanche-like lithium deintercalation (intercalation) processes as the dilute stages of graphite are emptied (filled), showing how local disorder governs phase-transition dynamics and ion transport in lithium-ion battery electrodes.

The piezochiral effect

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10845-5The piezochiral effect, a new member of the family of strain-responsive functionalities alongside piezoelectricity and piezomagnetism, is introduced, enabling contro…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10845-5

The piezochiral effect, a new member of the family of strain-responsive functionalities alongside piezoelectricity and piezomagnetism, is introduced, enabling control of chirality through mechanical strain, with future applications in photonics, spintronics, biosensing and quantum information.

Mitochondrial metabolism and epigenetic crosstalk drive SASP

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10791-2In senescent cells, mitochondria-derived acetyl-CoA promotes histone acetylation and increases chromatin accessibility at inflammatory gene loci. Inhibition of SLC25…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10791-2

In senescent cells, mitochondria-derived acetyl-CoA promotes histone acetylation and increases chromatin accessibility at inflammatory gene loci. Inhibition of SLC25A1 attenuates these effects, underscoring the therapeutic potential of targeting mitochondrial metabolism and its epigenetic crosstalk to delay age-related functional decline.

Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10852-6Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core s…

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10852-6

Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core structural and replicative proteins of bacteriophages.