In this Collection, the editors at Communications Biology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome original research, Reviews and Perspective articles presenting novel insights into how brain and body physiology across animal species is impacted by or resilient to recent environmental changes.

This Collection focuses on research that advances the design, manufacturing, defect detection, and performance assurance of critical mechanical components through innovations in intelligent materials, additive and hybrid manufacturing, and digitally enabled engineering technologies.

This collection highlights methodological research advancing sex- and gender-responsive clinical trial design, conduct, and analysis, with applications across women’s health–related trial settings.

Earth, Planets and Space invites submissions to the special issue “Martian Moons eXploration (MMX): The Science and the Mission Prior to Launch.” With MMX launching in JFY2026, reaching Mars the following year, and returning Phobos samples in 2031, this issue welcomes MMX science, mission updates, and broader community contributions, including those from JpGU‑AGU sessions.

This Collection welcomes original research articles on biomass conversion, biofuels, energy efficiency, related environmental impacts, and innovative technologies that enhance the sustainable use of biomass for energy and beyond.

This Collection welcomes submissions on innovative approaches to waste management, particularly in areas such as waste reduction, recycling, tailings management, and policies with the aim of advancing responsible mining practices and promoting ecological resilience in resource-intensive industries.

This cross-journal collection involving Nature Communications, Communications Physics, Communications Engineering and Scientific Reports aims at exploring a wide range of topics in confined plasmas and nuclear fusion research and invites original research contributions from a variety of devices and laboratories, from tokamaks, stellarators and other compact geometries to world-leading laser and ignition facilities.

This collection aims to present the new findings in electrochemical processes for coatings deposition, along with the analytical spectroscopy techniques that enable their characterization.

This collection focuses on nano-enabled biological approaches that aim to transform modern agriculture toward greater sustainability, resilience, and productivity.

This Collection invites original research on adaptive algorithms and learning-based strategies that push the boundaries of visual quality enhancement.

This edited collection examines how teachers and teacher educators across global contexts navigate professional identity, belonging, and wellbeing while working within increasingly politicised and constrained educational systems. It foregrounds grounded, collaborative, and third-space practices to reimagine teacher education, career trajectories, and sustainable professional futures beyond deficit narratives of attrition.

This Collection presents cutting-edge research on heterostructure-based nanomaterials developed for sustainable environmental remediation and resource management. It highlights innovative approaches for water purification, pollutant degradation, and energy conversion/production, showcasing their potential to address global environmental challenges.

The objective of this collection is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the anti-infectious properties of metal-based nanoparticles, with a particular focus on the adequate characterization of nanoparticles and the appropriate description of evaluation protocols for evaluating anti-infectious activities.

This Collection explores how AI (machine learning, computer vision, robotics) can transform urban construction and demolition waste (CDW) management across monitoring, classification, sorting, and recovery. It welcomes research and case studies on AI-enabled CDW reduction, digital waste mapping, life-cycle assessment, and circular-economy applications.

This Collection invites interdisciplinary research that explores the full spectrum of algae-driven sustainability pathways. Contributions may address fundamental biological advances, technological innovations in cultivation and bioprocessing, life-cycle assessments, policy and governance frameworks, and socio-economic or ethical dimensions of deployment.

This collection welcomes original research articles on addressing challenges and technological optimization for extraction, separation, and recovery of critical elements from byproducts.

This collection highlights cutting-edge advances in autonomous wearable technologies that integrate flexible electronics, advanced materials, and on-body energy solutions for continuous health monitoring. With a focus on electrochemical sensing, scalable architectures, and energy harvesting strategies, it showcases innovations driving next-generation healthcare and personalized medicine.

This special issue aims to present recent advances in distributed machine learning for AIoT, with a strong emphasis on trustworthy, privacy-enhanced, secure, and robust learning frameworks. The focus spans learning paradigms, theoretical foundations, algorithms, system architectures, and real-world applications that enable intelligent IoT under data heterogeneity, communication constraints, limited resources, and adversarial environments.

This collection explores challenges in Parkinson’s disease-modification trials, focusing on endpoints and evolving FDA/EMA regulatory expectations.

This collection explores how big data can be harnessed to build intelligent platforms that prioritize user needs, behaviors, and ethics. It invites research on modeling, personalization, trust, privacy, and responsible AI, aiming to advance adaptive, socially aware systems across domains like healthcare, mobility, and digital communities.