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2026, volume 658, articles 8138

Can maths survive AI? Fields medallist Terence Tao calls for a ‘Maths 2.0’ world pp. 1103-1103

Terence Tao

Elusive snow leopards and evasive particles: Books in brief pp. 1126-1126

Andrew Robinson

Robert Williamson obituary: geneticist who mapped genes for muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis pp. 1127-1127

Kay E. Davies

2026, volume 658, articles 8137

Author Correction: Anodic Pd membrane H2 extraction enhances thermochemical dehydrogenation pp. E6-E6

Rui Zeng, Julian Ufert, Bryan Y. Tang, Ryan P. Bisbey and Yogesh Surendranath

Editorial Expression of Concern: Maternal gut bacteria promote neurodevelopmental abnormalities in mouse offspring pp. E7-E7

Sangdoo Kim, Hyunju Kim, Yeong Shin Yim, Soyoung Ha, Koji Atarashi, Tze Guan Tan, Randy S. Longman, Kenya Honda, Dan R. Littman, Gloria B. Choi and Jun R. Huh

How to compare and strengthen research systems pp. 843-843

Lin Zhang

IceCube just won a Nobel prize. Protect astroparticle physics projects with the same potential pp. 844-844

Lindley Winslow

Can GLP-1s heal the brain? Obesity drugs get a makeover for addiction and depression pp. 847-848

Mariana Lenharo

UAE completes Arab world’s first solo space probe – and sets course for an asteroid pp. 848-849

Elizabeth Gibney

‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour pp. 849-850

Sarah Wild

What does a PhD pay? Data reveal huge gaps across Europe pp. 850-851

Chris Simms

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do postgraduate work pp. 851-852

Dan Garisto

Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame pp. 852-853

Heidi Ledford

Overlooked brown fat in our bodies linked to wide range of health benefits pp. 853-854

Mariana Lenharo

ArXiv versus AI slop: will capping preprint submissions work? pp. 854-854

Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Will this sleep-disorder drug be the next big blockbuster? pp. 856-857

Amanda Heidt

How tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science pp. 858-860

Heidi Ledford

How pregnancy reshapes the brain throughout life pp. 862-864

Liisa Galea

The life of Darwin and the science of clouds: Books in brief pp. 864-864

Andrew Robinson

Margaret Hamilton obituary: computer scientist who pioneered software engineering and helped us get to the Moon pp. 865-865

Maia Weinstock

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be pp. 866-868

Anil K. Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi

Nepal’s disaster is an urgent wake-up call pp. 868-871

Christian Huggel, Simon K. Allen, Emily Mark, Dan H. Shugar, Jakob Steiner and Kavita Upadhyay

Nuclear clocks tick for the first time pp. 873-874

Akio Kawasaki

Harmful tau spreads like self-propagating prion proteins pp. 874-876

Kayleigh Mason-Chalmers and Jose A. Rodriguez

Retrofitted LLM can count the letter ‘i’s in ‘artificial intelligence’ pp. 876-877

Zhao Zhang and Yingfei Xiong

Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys pp. 877-878

Carina M. Schlebusch and Maja Vukovikj

Butterfly wing patterns make motion hard to read pp. 879-880

Gopal Murali

Pipework problems when cancer spreads to an area bordering the brain pp. 880-881

Jang Hyun Park and Jonathan Kipnis

Multimodal precision diagnostics in clinical xenotransplantation pp. 883-896

Raphael P. H. Meier, Erwan Morgand, Fariza Mezine, Michael Mengel, Massimo Mangiola, Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, Robert A. Montgomery and Alexandre Loupy

A thorium-229 optical nuclear clock with feedback loop pp. 897-902

L. Toscani De Col, T. Riebner, I. Morawetz, F. Schneider, N. Sempelmann, J. Schlachet-Lépinay, F. Schaden, M. Bartokos, G. A. Kazakov, K. Beeks, B. Gerstenecker, M. Pimon, S. Lahs, A. Hellerschmied, T. Lercher, H. Denker, J. Premper, A. Niessner, M. Matus, M. Čížek, O. Číp, V. Lal, G. Zitzer, V. Petrov, J. Tiedau, M. V. Okhapkin, E. Peik and T. Schumm

A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th pp. 903-908

Beichen Huang, Gaowei Yan, Qi Xiao, Wenhao Bu, Chengchun Zhao, Zhen Zhang, Chao Yan, Zhi-Ang Chen, Peixiong Zhang, Gleb Penyazkov, Zhenhai Zhan, Lingfeng Yan, Yuefei Wang, Lin Li, Shanming Li, Dapeng Jiang, Xiaobo Qian, Xuegang Liu, Qiange He, Taoxiang Sun, Haochen Tian, Bingkun Lu, Ningyuan Ma, Juxian Li, Yanzhang Wu, Qiaorui Gong, Yuxiang Li, Haoyu Shi, Xiangliang Li, Longsheng Ma, Shining Zhu, Yuxiang Mo, Jun Lin, Li You, Yige Lin, Xibo Zhang, Yin Hang, Liangbi Su and Shiqian Ding

Wave coarsening drives time crystallization in mechatronic metamaterials pp. 909-914

Jonas Veenstra, Jack Binysh, Vito Seinen, Roger Solé Borràs, Rutger Naber, Damien Robledo-Poisson, Andres Hunt, Wim van Saarloos, Anton Souslov and Corentin Coulais

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes pp. 915-922

Benjamin Minixhofer, Tyler Murray, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Anna Korhonen, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A. Smith, Edoardo M. Ponti, Luca Soldaini and Valentin Hofmann

Competing mechanisms toughen bcc binary and medium-entropy alloys at 20 K pp. 923-929

David H. Cook, Xiaoyu Chen, Michael O’Leary, Satish Rao, Wenqing Wang, Calvin H. Belcher, Madelyn Payne, Pedro Borges, Tung Lik Lee, Arun Devaraj, Mark Asta, Enrique J. Lavernia, Diran Apelian, Andrew M. Minor, Dong Liu, Punit Kumar and Robert O. Ritchie

Hydrogen bonding in water under extreme confinement pp. 930-935

Xintong Xu, Matthias Kuehne, Harrison A. Walker, Bao De-Liang, Xin Jin, Yu-Ming Tu, Cody L. Ritt, Joel Martis, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Michael S. Strano, Jordan A. Hachtel and Arun Majumdar

Rh3+ stabilized in KRh@MFI catalyses regioselective hydroformylation pp. 936-942

Minjie Zhao, Reisel Millán, Alina Skorynina, Laura Simonelli, Miguel Lopez Haro, José Juan Calvino, Patricia Concepción and Avelino Corma

Interhemispheric monsoon dynamics over the past 450,000 years pp. 943-950

E. J. Olson, D. P. Gillikin, D. Parmenter, S. Burns, A. Verheyden, O. Miyawaki, M. Vuille, L. F. Piccirillo, R. Castro, G. Yurivilca, R. L. Edwards and D. T. Rodbell

Advancing subseasonal forecasting with machine learning pp. 951-957

Hannah Guan, Soukayna Mouatadid, Paulo Orenstein, Judah Cohen, Haiyu Dong, Zekun Ni, Jeremy Berman, Genevieve Flaspohler, Alex Lu, Jakob Schloer, Joshua Talib, Jonathan A. Weyn and Lester Mackey

Butterfly wing patterns in flight create powerful illusory motion cues pp. 958-962

George R. A. Hancock, Emmanuelle S. Briolat, Anna E. Hughes, Laura A. Kelley and Jolyon Troscianko

Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human ageing pp. 963-971

Julia A. Belk, Yaowen Zhang, Emily E. Reilly, Quanming Shi, Daniel Dan Liu, Nicole Womack-Gambrel, Maarten van der Linde, Lisa Ma, Debasmita Paul, Alejandro Medina Enciso, Raja Kalluru, Jacob Weiss, Rui Li, Anna E. Eastman, Chunfang Zhu, Arnav Chakravarthy, Syed Bukhari, Dipabarna Bhattacharya, Suyash Raj, Daniel Richard, Simone Brioschi, Matthew R. Chrostek, Daniel C. Nachun, Christopher M. Arends, Jayakrishnan Gopakumar, Isak W. Tengesdal, Ademar Bynum, Shaneice Mitchell, Katalin Sandor, Wenxi Zhang, Badri N. Vardarajan, Inma Cobos, Donald E. Born, Robert B. West, Anne Brunet, Marco Colonna, Krishna L. Bharani, Hannes Vogel, Thomas J. Montine, Caitlin S. Latimer, Irving L. Weissman, Magdalena Matusiak, Jody E. Hooper, C. Dirk Keene, Howard Y. Chang and Siddhartha Jaiswal

Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain pp. 972-976

Sofia Lövestam, Aki Shimozawa, Airi Tarutani, Reiko Ohtani, Masami Masuda-Suzukake, Kazuko Hasegawa, Andrew C. Robinson, Yuko Saito, Shigeo Murayama, Mari Yoshida, Hisaomi Suzuki, Mitsumoto Onaya, Masato Hasegawa, Michel Goedert and Sjors H. W. Scheres

Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts pp. 977-986

Martha G. Garcia-Garcia, Michał J. Wójcik, Srijan Thota, Luke Drake, Amma Otchere, Oluwatobi Akinwale, Lizmaylin Ramos, Rui Ponte Costa and Mark J. Wagner

Wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive pp. 987-997

William Joo, Clare Diester, Vassilis Bitsikas, Myrto Panopoulou, Amelia Hidalgo, Konstantinos Ntemos, Rodrigo C. G. Pena, Fabia Imhof, Iris Odstrcil, Flavio Donato, Geoffrey Fucile, Daniel Kroeger, Thomas E. Scammell and Alexander F. Schier

Mutational constraints on RSV F and its neutralization by antibodies pp. 998-1007

Cassandra A. L. Simonich, Teagan E. McMahon, Gavin Juviler, Lucas Kampman, Helen Y. Chu and Jesse D. Bloom

Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans pp. 1008-1014

Matthew M. Carter, Zhiru Liu, Matthew R. Olm, Melanie Martin, Daniel D. Sprockett, Parsa Ghadermazi, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, David A. Relman, Erica D. Sonnenburg, Michael Gurven, Benjamin H. Good and Justin L. Sonnenburg

Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity pp. 1015-1024

Olivia Venezia, Harry Kane, Gang Du, Hannah D. Coughlan, Timothy M. Johanson, Hongshen Wang, Pathricia Tilstam, Samuel W. Kazer, Georgia Gunner, Daisy A. Hoagland, Megha G. Basavappa, Kanchana Ravichandran, Eren Ada, Ademi Zhakyp, Sandhya Kumar, Coco Duizer, Owen Searle, Chris Geo Provido, Leonel Joannas, Shilong Yang, Liam B. Healy, Qiankun Wang, Joia Capocchi, Bahawar Sharif Dhillon, Sarah Slavoff, Liang Shan, Jorge Henao-Mejia, Ruth A. Franklin, Isaac M. Chiu, Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Kate L. Jeffrey, Judy Lieberman, Rhys S. Allan, Jonathan C. Kagan, Hao Wu and Ruaidhrí Jackson

Osteoclasts intercept meningeal lymphatic paths for dural metastasis pp. 1025-1035

Rui Zeng, Jiaxu Zhao, Haibao Peng, Jiadong Ma, Shuyi Hua, Youming Zeng, Xiaohui Li, Yang Huang, Cheng Li, Jiahui Yang, Hongru Chen, Xue Feng, Qiangqiang Zhang, Liang Chen and Yudan Chi

Mitochondrial fission factor senses and governs ferroptosis pp. 1036-1046

Songjun Dai, Xiaoyan Dai, Tingting Zhang, Yuanyuan Qi, Xinquan Yang, Pengfei Diao, Chaodong Ge, Wenxiang Huang, Jisheng Ran, Xueliang Yang, Peng Zhang, Keke Zheng, Ruijun Wang, Hong Qian, Kunxiao Zhang, Junbing Wu, Caiyun Fu, Qian Ba, Junxia Min, Fudi Wang and Qiang Zhang

A methanogen hydrolase reveals the structure of archaeal peptidoglycan pp. 1047-1056

Robert Smith, Nika Pende, Aline Rifflet, Najwa Taib, Jerzy Witwinowski, Camille Martin-Gallausiaux, Charlène Cornilleau, Pierre Simon Garcia, Romain Villa, Thibaut Douché, Mariette Matondo, Manuel Majrouh, Robert Reichelt, Dina Grohmann, Patrick Tripp, Sonja-Verena Albers, Guillaume Borrel, Simon K.-M. R. Rittmann, Anna Sartori-Rupp, Richard Wheeler, J. Iñaki Guijarro, Ivo Gomperts Boneca and Simonetta Gribaldo

Cohesin reshapes replication fork contacts to aid fork slowing and reversal pp. 1057-1065

Daniel González-Acosta, Daniel Giménez-Llorente, Melani Rodrigues, Moses Aouami, Orhi Barroso-Gomila, Javier Muñoz, Ana Cuadrado, Ana Losada and Massimo Lopes

An operational perturbation proteomics-based virtual cell model pp. 1066-1076

Rui Sun, Liujia Qian, Yongge Li, Tong Liu, Honghan Cheng, Xuedong Zhang, Xueya Zhou, Yuecheng Zhan, Guangmei Zhang, Zhengchao Luo, Kunpeng Ma, Chunlong Wu, Dongchen Ji, Zhangzhi Xue, Hongxue Meng, Yuhang Xiang, Dingwei Lei, Qianhe Zhou, Wenbin Hu, Yuhan Deng, Lingling Tan, Qi Xiao, Zhiwei Liu, Lei Zeng, Liqin Qian, Xuan Zheng, Qiong Hu, Nianzi Luo, Weinan E, Peijie Zhou, Han Wen, Yi Zhu and Tiannan Guo

Learning millisecond protein dynamics from what is missing in NMR spectra pp. 1077-1087

Hannah K. Wayment-Steele, Gina El Nesr, Ramith Hettiarachchi, Adedolapo M. Ojoawo, Hasindu Kariyawasam, Sergey Ovchinnikov and Dorothee Kern

‘Fiercely stubborn’: the US scientists continuing their research amid funding cuts pp. 1089-1092

Virginia Gewin

Nobel-prizewinning breakthroughs can emerge from neglected organisms pp. 1094-1094

Zora Zhang, Kang Lou and Zhenlong Wang

Europe and the rest of the world must come up with an answer to US science strategy pp. 1094-1094

André Loesekrug-Pietri

Bundle water safeguards into critical-mineral licences pp. 1094-1094

Junpeng Guo and Xingtao Xu

Conservation planning should follow animal clocks pp. 1094-1094

Peter Mikula

2026, volume 658, articles 8136

Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling pp. E4-E4

Xin Fang, Dianlong Yu, Jihong Wen, Yifan Dai, Matthew R. Begley, Huajian Gao and Peter Gumbsch

Author Correction: Proteasome-guided haem signalling axis contributes to T cell exhaustion pp. E5-E5

Yingxi Xu, Yangtao Shangguan, Yu-Ming Chuang, Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Wenbing Liu, Jhan-Jie Peng, Josep Garnica, Leling Xie, Pei-Chun Hsueh, Mei-Chun Lin, Yi-Hao Wang, Karina Lobo Hajdu, Yibo Wu, Maryam Akrami, Chen Wang, Anna Kohl, Alfred Zippelius, Wei Qi, Min Wang, Bugi Ratno Budiarto, Shih-Yu Chen, Zhengtao Xiao, Panagiota Vardaka, Rahul Roychoudhuri, Zhiliang Bai, Rong Fan, Santiago Carmona, Yi-Ru Yu, Christoph Scheiermann, Jianxiang Wang and Ping-Chih Ho

Biomedical engineering is growing rapidly, but will it help patients? pp. S11-S11

Simon Baker

Smartwatch health data are piling up. How can doctors keep pace? pp. S12-S15

Bianca Nogrady

Nature Index reveals the four countries to watch in biomedical engineering pp. S17-S19

Elliot Yates

Hydrogels and MRI: meet three biomedical engineers reshaping health care pp. S21-S23

Sandy Ong and Anna Napolitano

Women are talking about menopause — health systems must listen pp. 581-581

Hala Zahreddine Fahs

Whistleblowing in universities is ‘extraordinarily risky’: stronger protections are needed pp. 582-582

N. Wyn Evans

Flu season could kick off ‘incredibly’ early — what scientists are watching pp. 585-586

Mariana Lenharo

Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light pp. 586-588

Miryam Naddaf and Ewen Callaway

Nobel physics prize awarded for detection of cosmic neutrinos pp. 588-589

Elizabeth Gibney and Davide Castelvecchi

Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of how ‘handed’ organic molecules can emerge pp. 589-590

Elizabeth Gibney, Miryam Naddaf, Anne Pichon, Davide Castelvecchi and Ewen Callaway

Revealed: how this common gut microbe protects against heart disease pp. 591-591

Max Kozlov

The top cancer success stories of the past 50 years, by the numbers pp. 592-592

Heidi Ledford

China’s extraordinary rise in science and how it will change the world pp. 594-597

Xiaoying You

China’s AI research is booming: what it’s like to be on the front line pp. 598-600

Elizabeth Gibney

Does the decline of book reading mark the end of rational thinking? pp. 601-603

David Adam

Why science wouldn’t exist without alchemy, curiosity and great writing: Books in brief pp. 603-603

Andrew Robinson

Keep medical doctors in academia — without them, health-care research will suffer pp. 604-606

Daniyal J. Jafree, Mingze Sun, Gordon W. Stewart, Áine Burns, Muzlifah Haniffa, Rupert Beale, Charles Swanton and Reza Motallebzadeh

Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them pp. 607-608

Juan Carlos Navarro and Callie Veelenturf

Some Jurassic period birds were flightless pp. 609-610

Fernando E. Novas

Semiconductors pushed into insulator territory pp. 610-612

Hironori Okumura

Sugar amplifies antibiotic disruption of gut microbes pp. 612-613

Mengxi Du and Andrew T. Chan

Beyond the solvent fog: watching molecules dance in the crowd pp. 613-615

Kathryn Froese and Germán Sciaini

The human skeleton’s unique adaptations relied on gene regulatory changes pp. 615-616

Audrey M. Arner and Amanda J. Lea

Parity-dependent coupling of molecular spin chains to a superconductor pp. 617-622

Katerina Vaxevani, Jon Ortuzar, Stefano Trivini, Georg Monninger, Dongfei Wang, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Lucía Gómez-Rodrigo, Diego Peña and Jose Ignacio Pascual

A 7-eV bandgap semiconductor based on silicon-doped α-(AlxGa1−x)2O3 pp. 623-628

Jacob Steele, Debaditya Bhattacharya, Kazuki Nomoto, Naomi A. Pieczulewski, Preston Sorensen, Viet-Anh Ha, Nick Pant, Ihit Shukla, Shaon Das, Ufuk Kilic, Madhav Ramesh, Feliciano Giustino, Baishakhi Mazumder, M. K. Indika Senevirathna, Michael D. Williams, Mathias Schubert, David A. Muller, Huili G. Xing, Debdeep Jena and Darrell. G. Schlom

Hidden reaction pathways inform additive engineering for perovskite LEDs pp. 629-635

Sung-Doo Baek, Yu-Ting Yang, Pengfei Wu, Hanjun Yang, Mohammad Ali, Hui Taou Kok, Xiyu Luo, Wenhao Shao, Hyuntae Choi, Jeong Hui Kim, L. Jay Guo, Libai Huang, Barry P. Rand and Letian Dou

Evidence for multi-Li+ clustering in lithium-ion battery electrolytes pp. 636-642

James M. Stevenson, Garvit Agarwal, Sibali Debnath, Zachary K. Goldsmith, Monosij Mondal, Asya Svirinovsky-Arbeli, In Won Yeu, Amy S. Metlay, Yongbeom Kwon, Lakshmi Bhai, Rishabh D. Guha, Eric G. Keeler, John L. Weber, Daniel A. Steingart, Lauren E. Marbella, Alexander Urban, Leif D. Jacobson, Mathew D. Halls and Richard A. Friesner

Clasping folds enable superior elastic strength of graphene films pp. 643-649

Lidan Wang, Yangchao Liao, Jingjie Huang, Chenwei Shen, Lu Chen, Xing Li, Degong Ding, Mingtao Zhang, Li Peng, Kaiwen Li, Peng Li, Yingjun Liu, Zhen Xu, Kai Pang, Zhiping Xu and Chao Gao

Intrinsic physicochemical activity at microplastic–water interfaces pp. 650-657

Naixin Qian, Ruoqi Zhao, Kwing Yeung Chan, Vinh Gia Vuong, Xin Gao, Zhilun Zhao, R. Allen LaCour, Yifan Dai, Phoebe A. Stapleton, Beizhan Yan, Teresa Head-Gordon and Wei Min

X-ray liquidography decodes complex motions in azobenzene isomerization pp. 658-665

Jungmin Kim, Hosung Ki, Seonggon Lee, Alekos Segalina, Yunbeom Lee and Hyotcherl Ihee

Ketone homologation via palladium-catalysed decarboxylative rearrangement pp. 666-672

Jing Gong, Qian Wang and Jieping Zhu

Evaluating space-based methane detection through a one-year blind test pp. 673-681

Frances E. Reuland, Taylor Adams, Evan D. Sherwin, Sahar H. El Abbadi, Eric A. Kort and Adam R. Brandt

Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean pp. 682-689

Andreas Sichert, Shaul Pollak, Taylor Priest, Akshit Goyal, Samuel Miravet-Verde, Shinichi Sunagawa, Otto X. Cordero and Uwe Sauer

Jurassic flightless bird reveals early ecological diversity of avialans pp. 690-697

Liming Xu, Min Wang, Ganmin Lin, Liping Dong, Ke Deng, Xing Xu, Honggang Du, Min Lin, Runsheng Chen and Zhonghe Zhou

The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton pp. 698-706

Yizhi Yan, Nadav Mishol, Katharina Lange, Zicong Zhang, Gal Bodek, Aya Kigel, Noam Priel, Nachshon Egyes, Omer Ronen, Itamar Nini, Liat Rotenstreich, Amit Philosoph, Sira Martinez, Silvia Beltramone, Rika Tsujikawa, Adi Rozenblatt, Lucas Esteban Wange, María Torralvo, Guy Hirsh, Yael Elboim, Sergey Viukov, Idan Korenfeld, Mythili Damal Kandadai, Océane Cluzeau, Malka Nissim-Rafinia, Eran Meshorer, Jacob H. Hanna, Evie Vereecke, Assaf Marom, Martin Kuhlwilm, Guillaume Bourque, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Simon Fishilevich, Fumitaka Inoue and David Gokhman

Family genetic designs in MoBa provide insights into health and functioning pp. 707-715

Elizabeth C. Corfield, Alexey A. Shadrin, Oleksandr Frei, Zillur Rahman, Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz, Tahir Tekin Filiz, Aihua Lin, Isabella Badini, Laura Hegemann, Lavinia Athanasiu, Robyn E. Wootton, Chloe Austerberry, Amanda M. Hughes, Martin Tesli, Espen Hagen, Ragnhild E. Brandlistuen, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Lars T. Westlye, Pål R. Njølstad, Per Magnus, Eivind Hovig, Tetyana Zayats, Helga Ask, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Gibran Hemani, Neil M. Davies, Laurie J. Hannigan, Ole A. Andreassen and Alexandra Karoline Havdahl

Temporal uncoupling of radial glia lineage progression in cortical organoids pp. 716-724

Melissa Stouffer, Osvaldo A. Miranda, Florian M. Pauler, Fabrizia Pipicelli, Carmen Streicher, Giselle Cheung and Simon Hippenmeyer

Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology pp. 725-735

Se Young Lee, Eunseok Park, Ha-Eun Lee, Seongbin Kim, Yeji Yeo, Juwon Park, Young-Jin Choi, Kiheon Lee, Ki-Jun Yoon, Sanghoon Park, Eunjoon Kim, Jae-Ick Kim and Won-Suk Chung

Procognitive restoration of PV neuron plasticity in neurodevelopmental disorders pp. 736-746

Yu-Tzu Shih, Jason Bondoc Alipio, Zin-Juan Klaft, Nathaniel Green, Alok Nath Mohapatra, Travis D. Goode, Muthu Panchanatham, Devesh Pathak, Lai Ping Wong, Ruslan Sadreyev, Jung Ho Hyun, Omar Ahmed, Chris Dulla and Amar Sahay

Scalable near-real-time Bayesian phylogenetics for outbreaks with Delphy pp. 747-756

Patrick Varilly, Mark Schifferli, Katherine Yang, Paul Cronan, Ivan Specht, Tim Burcham, Olivia Glennon, Olivia Jacks, Ellory Laning, Libby Marrs, Kyle Oba, Shannon Yeung, Karlie Wenran Zhao, Edyth Parker, Ifeanyi Omah, Jonathan E. Pekar, Laura Luebbert, Kristian G. Andersen, Daniel J. Park, Stephen F. Schaffner, Bronwyn L. MacInnis, Christian Happi, Jacob E. Lemieux, Al Ozonoff, Michael Mitzenmacher, Ben Fry and Pardis C. Sabeti

Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption pp. 757-764

Anqi Dai, Annamaria Ballweg, William Jogia, Madhumitha Rangesa, Peter A. Adintori, Mirae Baichoo, Tyler Funnell, Teng Fei, Nicholas R. Waters, Abrielle Swartz, Sukanya Sahu, Brianna Gipson, Sandeep S. Raj, Eiko Hayase, Zoe Pierce, Kenton Wu, Natalie Smith, Justin Neuberger, Adam Warren, Marina Burgos da Silva, Oriana Miltiadous, Corrado Zuanelli Brambilla, Marissa Lubin Buchan, Tatanisha K. Peets, Ana Gradissimo, Luigi A. Amoretti, Caichen Duan, Chenzhen Zhang, Fanny Matheis, Alexis P. Sullivan, John B. Slingerland, Annelie G. Clurman, Daniel G. Brereton, Paul A. Giardina, Antonio L. C. Gomes, Abigail J. Johnson, Dan Knights, Robert R. Jenq, Kate A. Markey, Miguel-Angel Perales, Sergio A. Giralt, Marcel R. M. van den Brink, Jonas Schluter and Jonathan U. Peled

Intracellular complement factor H protects neurons during CNS inflammation pp. 765-773

Christina Mayer, Marcel S. Woo, Jana K. Sonner, Lars Binkle-Ladisch, Felix Fischbach, Patricia Sekol, Matthew D. Smith, Fernando Lucas-Ruiz, Darwin Manteufel, Kuno M.-J. Mattern, Lena Kristina Pfeffer, Yubing Guo, Bente Siebels, Albert Miguela, Vanessa Vieira, Nina Meurs, Simone Bauer, Sophia Schwarz, Sonia Wulf, Anne Katrin Mühlig, Jan Broder Engler, Marcus Conrad, Florence M. Bareyre, Thorsten Wiech, Susanne Krasemann, Markus Glatzel, Peter F. Zipfel, Tilo Freiwald, Peter A. Calabresi, Lucas Schirmer and Manuel A. Friese

Biomarkers of nivolumab benefit in resectable non-small cell lung cancer pp. 774-784

Tina Cascone, Mark M. Awad, Jonathan D. Spicer, Jie He, Shun Lu, Fumihiro Tanaka, Robin Cornelissen, Lubos B. Petruzelka, Yang Gao, Jean-Louis Pujol, Hiroyuki Ito, Ludmila de Oliveira Muniz Koch, Tudor-Eliade Ciuleanu, Lin Wu, Sabine Bohnet, Yasutaka Watanabe, Janis M. Taube, Julie Stein Deutsch, Cinthya Coronado Erdmann, Stephanie Meadows-Shropshire, Jaclyn Neely, Virginia Ip, Yu-Han Hung, Padma Sathyanarayana, Sumeena Bhatia, Katherine Chu, Steven I. Blum, Stefano Lucherini, Nathanial Eddy, Akshay Yadav and Mariano Provencio

A binding-to-release strategy for targeted anticancer drug delivery pp. 785-794

Zihao Wen, Mengxin Xu, Zijun Yan, Ziren Kong, Yupeng Wang, Pei Liu, Junyi Chen, Yanzhao Liu, Xi-Yang Cui, Tianyi Cen, Xinwei Li, Yuedan Zheng, Zichen Gu, Da Xu, Qiang Xu, Yaping Luo, Changlun Wang and Zhibo Liu

3D epigenome of glial cell types in developing human cortex pp. 795-804

Ian R. Jones, Li Wang, Michael Kosicki, Stephanie L. Battle, Vivek JJ Narayan, Qiuli Bi, Kaila Gemenes, Yuxi Liu, Lingbo Zhou, Mengyi Song, Matthew White, Wendy Olson, Gabriel Beuchat, Diane Dickel, Yun Li, Len A. Pennacchio, R. David Hawkins, Arnold Kriegstein and Yin Shen

Creating bottom-up RNA transfer vehicles from synthetic protein assemblies pp. 805-813

Maren Kirstin Schuhmacher, Christoph Gruber, Christopher M. R. Lang, Ricardo M. W. Ruijpers, Lyupka Mazneykova, Brice Beinsteiner, Ariane Krus, Barbara Tremmel, Friederike Reinhardt, Karoline Kadletz, Zhe Ma, Lucie Casalta, Josep Miquel Cambra Bort, Dina Y. Otify, Iolo Balken, Leon Hetzel, Juliane Merl-Pham, Tatjana Dorn, Marina Luchner, Lea Bauersachs, Karin Ganea, Natascha Wieser, Alexander Emrich, Emirhan Yağmur, Katrin Rager, Gauhar Sagindykova, Niklas Armbrust, Julian Geilenkeuser, Gil G. Westmeyer, Elvir Becirovic, Martin Biel, Rouzanna Istvanffy, Daniela M. Vogt Weisenhorn, Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong, Fabian J. Theis, Gregor Ebert, Alessandra Moretti, Ali Ertürk, Andrea Bähr, Christian Kupatt, Marion Jasnin, Nikolai Klymiuk, Florian Giesert and Wolfgang Wurst

Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA pp. 814-823

Kasra Alizadeh, Dorota Klepacki, Nora Vázquez-Laslop and Alexander S. Mankin

Retraction Note: Ribosomal frameshifting in the CCR5 mRNA is regulated by miRNAs and the NMD pathway pp. 824-824

Ashton Trey Belew, Arturas Meskauskas, Sharmishtha Musalgaonkar, Vivek M. Advani, Sergey O. Sulima, Wojciech K. Kasprzak, Bruce A. Shapiro and Jonathan D. Dinman

What’s the secret sauce for happy scientists at work? These eight countries offer some clues pp. 825-829

Linda Nordling

Private, offline and yours: how to search the literature with local AI systems pp. 830-831

David Brzostowicki

Why not every global problem can be tackled by an IPCC-like organization pp. 834-834

Mike Hulme

Preserve research data for tomorrow’s AI-enabled integrity checks pp. 834-834

Qingde Shi, Jinlei Nie and Zhaowei Kong

Decentralized AI needs more evidence on energy use pp. 834-834

Deepak Kushawaha

When microbes degrade plastic, where does it go? pp. 834-834

Yitong Han, Xilin She, Lianzhen Li and Weishi Zhang

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Author Correction: Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer pp. E1-E1

Prasenjit Dey, Joelle Baddour, Florian Muller, Chia Chin Wu, Huamin Wang, Wen-Ting Liao, Zangdao Lan, Alina Chen, Tony Gutschner, Yaan Kang, Jason Fleming, Nikunj Satani, Di Zhao, Abhinav Achreja, Lifeng Yang, Jiyoon Lee, Edward Chang, Giannicola Genovese, Andrea Viale, Haoqiang Ying, Giulio Draetta, Anirban Maitra, Y. Alan Wang, Deepak Nagrath and Ronald A. DePinho

Author Correction: Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations pp. E2-E2

Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) Ncd

Author Correction: Erythropoietin receptor on cDC1s dictates immune tolerance pp. E3-E3

Xiangyue Zhang, Christopher S. McGinnis, Guotao Yu, Sijie Chen, Pingping Zheng, Christian M. Schürch, Kamir J. Hiam-Galvez, Nathan E. Reticker-Flynn, Wenhui Guo, Winnie Yao, Jingtao Qiu, Alexander Muselman, Ian L. Linde, John W. Hickey, Hao Yan, Victoria M. Tran, Wenli Qiu, Delphine Brichart-Vernos, Toshihito Hirai, Bo Yu, Xiuli An, Yanling Xiao, Helena Paidassi, Tiffany C. Scharschmidt, Michael Angelo, Dean Sheppard, Hongbo Chi, Ansuman T. Satpathy, Sing Sing Way, Bernard Malissen, Samuel Strober and Edgar G. Engleman

‘When prevention disappears, infections rise’: can the world still end AIDS? pp. S5-S7

Bianca Nogrady

Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards pp. 295-295

Ana Cehovin

Why smart glasses are about to create a major privacy crisis pp. 296-296

Joy Buolamwini

Chemists struggle to ditch hazardous solvents — even after decades of ‘green’ efforts pp. 299-300

Mark Peplow

AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time pp. 300-301

Mohana Basu

Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host’s biological age pp. 301-302

Chris Simms

AlphaFold ‘goes viral’: database adds protein complexes of common viruses pp. 302-303

Ewen Callaway

Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best pp. 303-304

Xiaoying You

How to spend $25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way pp. 304-305

Ewen Callaway

The ‘missed disease’ that affects 190 million: endometriosis drug shows early promise pp. 305-306

Freda Kreier

Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals pp. 306-306

Miryam Naddaf

Can your brain grow new neurons? How researchers are solving a century-old puzzle pp. 308-310

Mariana Lenharo

How big tech is building a military–industrial complex in the age of AI pp. 311-312

Chris Stokel-Walker

How digital breakdowns affect supply chains — and endanger the global economy pp. 316-318

Dabo Guan

Brain organoids grafted into cortex-free mice will advance human brain research pp. 319-320

Marty G. Yang and Aparna Bhaduri

2D semiconductor aims to turbocharge development of high-performance electronics pp. 320-322

Taoyu Zou and Yong-Young Noh

Surprising protein links dietary restriction to increased lifespan in flies pp. 322-323

Linda Partridge

Circular DNA exposes a weakness in cancer cells pp. 324-325

Nikolaus A. Watson and Jan O. Korbel

Overcoming key challenges in the evolutionary transition to multicellularity pp. 327-336

G. Ozan Bozdag, Kai Tong, Peter J. Yunker, Matthew D. Herron and William C. Ratcliff

Observation of relativistic bond weakening in seaborgium hexacarbonyl pp. 337-341

Alexander Yakushev, Jadambaa Khuyagbaatar, Christoph E. Düllmann, Valeria Pershina, Matthias Schädel, Jochen Ballof, Pavel Bartl, Michael Block, Raul-Andrei Cantemir, Dominik Dietzel, Francesca Giacoppo, Katharina Hermainski, Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg, Jan John, Jörg Krier, Nikolaus Kurz, Sven Löchner, Moumita Maiti, Pavol Mošať, Sebastian Raeder, Tetsuya K. Sato, Brigitta Schausten, Juha Uusitalo and Peter Wieczorek

A chiral superlattice route to spin-split topological antiferromagnetism pp. 342-349

Thao Dinh, Mengke Liu, Jian-Xiang Qiu, Sougata Mardanya, Suk Hyun Sung, Xuan Hoang Le, Christopher Broyles, Chengfeng Zhu, Qiaozhi Xu, Haotian Chen, Zack Rehfuss, Yu-Fei Liu, Xiaoyu Zeng, Houchen Li, Peng Guo, Jinchen Liu, Tianye Huang, Jingtian Shi, Michael Smith, Joanna M. Blawat, John Singleton, Ross McDonald, Iván E. Arvizo, Dongtao Cui, Shao-Liang Zheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vineet Kumar Sharma, Sudip Ghorai, Barun Ghosh, Hsin Lin, Ting Yong Lim, Tay-Rong Chang, Arun Bansil, Ivar Martin, Ashvin Vishwanath, Weiwei Xie, Claudia Felser, Jairo Sinova, Anyuan Gao, Mikhail D. Lukin, Jennifer E. Hoffman, Sugata Chowdhury, Qiong Ma, Kai Sun, Ismail El Baggari, Sheng Ran, Talieh S. Ghiasi, Hongkun Park, Philip Kim and Su-Yang Xu

Self-aligned optical microcomb emerging between octave-separated lasers pp. 350-357

Grégory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone, River Beard, Shao-Chien Ou, Zongda Li, Mark Harrington, Kaikai Liu, Robert Rockmore, Curtis R. Menyuk, Daniel J. Blumenthal, Sean P. Krzyzewski, Miro Erkintalo and Kartik Srinivasan

Observation of critical topological phase transition pp. 358-364

Zheyu Cheng, Xiuhai Zhang, Xue-Jia Yu, Longwen Zhou, Jiangbin Gong and Baile Zhang

Experimental observation of critical topology pp. 365-371

Zhi-Kang Lin, Li-Wei Wang, Ze-Lin Kong, Yao Zhou, Hai-Qing Lin, Xuejia Yu, Shuang Zhang and Jian-Hua Jiang

A quadruped robot designed to complete a marathon on a single battery charge pp. 372-379

Choongin Lee, Donghoon Youm, Jeongsoo Park, Jeonghyun Lee, Suyoung Choi, Gwanghyeon Ji, Juhyeok Mun, Moonkyu Jung, Hyungho Chris Choi, Hyeongjun Kim, Hyunsik Oh, Kyungmin Nam, Minho Lee, Jungwoo Hur, Donghyuk Choi, Donggeon Kim, Yeonsu An and Jemin Hwangbo

Wafer-scale epitaxy growth of high-mobility p-type boron carbon nitride pp. 380-387

Chien-Chih Tseng, Chang-Hsun Huang, Jui-Cheng Kao, Jui-Han Fu, Aowen Li, Ryo Ishikawa, Seong Rae Cho, Chenxi Lei, Kai Qi, Chih-Zong Deng, Po-Yu Yang, Cheng-Tang Pan, Wei-Chun Chen, Ming-Chung Wu, Fong-Zhi Chen, Yu-Wei Lin, Yu-Chieh Lo, Ya-Lun Ho, Kosuke Nagashio, Yi-Chia Chou, Naoya Shibata, Chun-Wei Pao and Vincent Tung

Organic two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures pp. 388-397

Anupam Prasoon, Nguyen Ngan Nguyen, Mike Hambsch, Puja Singhvi, Sophia Terres, Zijie Xiao, Naveen Goyal, Haoyuan Qi, David Mücke, Florian Auras, Zhiyong Wang, Sein Chung, Miroslav Položij, Hai I. Wang, Kilwon Cho, Ute Kaiser, Alexey Chernikov, Mischa Bonn, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine and Xinliang Feng

Spatially deterministic nucleation of 2D semiconductors by etching flux pp. 398-406

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Carbene transfer from thianthrenium ylides for cyclopropanation pp. 407-414

Deepak Behera, Sagnik Chatterjee, Áron Adorján, Chuanhao Wang, Ahmet Altun, Frank Neese and Tobias Ritter

Increasing CO2 levels fertilize C4 grass production pp. 415-420

Kimberley J. Simpson, A. Carla Staver, James A. King, William J. Bond, Corli Coetsee, Nita C. M. Pallett, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Sarah L. Raubenheimer, Brad S. Ripley, Maria Val Martin and Colin P. Osborne

An Icelandic pangenome reference pp. 421-429

Guillaume Holley, Hannes P. Eggertsson, Snaedis Kristmundsdottir, Doruk Beyter, Astros Th Skuladottir, Kristjan H. S. Moore, Pall I. Olason, Arnaldur Gylfason, Olafur T. Magnusson, Asmundur Oddsson, Hreinn Stefansson, Agnar Helgason, Gisli Masson, Patrick Sulem, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Kari Stefansson and Bjarni V. Halldorsson

Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice pp. 430-441

Konstantin Kaganovsky, Kevin W. Kelley, Tilo Gschwind, Paul M. Harary, John Kochalka, Alexander D. White, Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga, Xiaoyu Chen, Omer Revah, Felicity Gore, Ayano Aoyama, Jennifer L. Shadrach, Se-Jin Yoon, Alfredo Valencia, Satoe Ogawa, Noah Reis, Hannes Vogel, Brian Wandell, Julia A. Kaltschmidt, Ivan Soltesz, Karl Deisseroth and Sergiu P. Pașca

Neocortical long-range inhibition promotes cortical synchrony and sleep pp. 442-453

Jacob M. Ratliff, Geoffrey Terral, Arenski Vazquez, Stefano Lutzu, Arena Manning, Nelson Perez-Catalan, Gabriela Neubert da Silva, Soyoun Kim, Julie Mota, Matt Mallory, Bianca Stith, Charu Ramakrishnan, Gianna Mattessich, Lief E. Fenno, Tanya Daigle, David A. Stafford, Hongkui Zeng, Bosiljka Tasic, Staci Sorensen, Karl Deisseroth, John Ngai, Thomas S. Kilduff, Lucas Sjulson, Stephanie Rudolph and Renata Batista-Brito

Pervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defences pp. 454-464

Tara Bartolec, Karin Mitosch, Clément Potel, Federico Corona, Alessio Ling Jie Yang, Nicolai Karcher, Mira Lea Burtscher, Alexandra Koumoutsi, Isabelle Becher, Lena Sarah Müller, Jacob Bobonis, Manjeet Kumar, Marco Galardini, Athanasios Typas and Mikhail M. Savitski

Lsp2 links mTORC1 to TOP mRNA translation and lifespan in Drosophila pp. 465-473

Jun Wang, Zixin Cai, Jiaojiao Gu, Shiqi Xiong, Jianhan Yi, Meng Yang, Kexin Chang, Xinrui Ning, Yilin Wen, Yan Yan, Jiongming Lu, Yirong Wang and Zongzhao Zhai

Lsp2 links early-life diet to adult translation and lifespan in Drosophila pp. 474-484

Hina Kosakamoto, Rina Okada, Clive S. Barker, Ayako Isomura-Matoba, Jun Seita, Naoshi Dohmae, Koshi Imami and Fumiaki Obata

PLA2G2D in tumour-draining lymph nodes regulates anti-tumour immunity pp. 485-495

Anneloes van Krimpen, Julie Huang, Mike Eterman, Vivian Gerretsen, Michihisa Umetani, Josephine C. Janssen, Menno van Nimwegen, Nina Rozendaal, Thierry P. P. van den Bosch, Xinguo Jiang, Kathryn Logronio, Angela Z. Liu, Yun-Ru Liu, Yuki Nagasaki, Makoto Murakami, Anne Onrust- Van Schoonhoven, Asabi Leliveld, Disha Vadgama, Hedwig Langeveld, Rogier van Wijck, Eric Bindels, Jan von der Thüsen, Antien Mooyaart, Febe van Maldegem, Claudia M. Brenis, Stijn Verwaerde, Rudi W. Hendriks, Bart N. Lambrecht, Dirk J. Grünhagen, Cornelis Verhoef, Joachim G. J. V. Aerts, Li-Fen Lee, Kan V. Lu, Ralph Stadhouders and Floris Dammeijer

In vivo genome-wide CRISPR screens of human T cells in solid tumours pp. 496-507

Qi Liu, Peixin Amy Chen, Esha Urs, Shimin Zhang, Maya M. Arce, Charlotte H. Wang, Jun Yan, Vinh Q. Nguyen, Zhongmei Li, Jin Seo, Nupura Kale, Fanglue Peng, Yikai Luo, Laine Goudy, Taylor N. LaFlam, Haixia Zhong, Chandrima Modak, Emma Dann, Jae Hyung Jung, Amanda Kirane, Allison Betof Warner, Boi Bryant Quach, Zinaida Good, Brian R. Shy, Eric Shifrut, Sagar P. Bapat, Greg M. Allen, Justin Eyquem, Katherine Fuh, Stacie E. Dodgson, Jason G. Cyster, Alexander Marson and Julia Carnevale

Gasdermin D-mediated delivery of caspase inhibitors to suppress pyroptosis pp. 508-513

Katarzyna M. Groborz, Melissa E. Truong, Irma Stowe, Katherine E. Wickliffe, Bettina Lee, Stefan Bauernfried, Robert S. Jones, Emile Plise, Elizabeth S. Levy, Ponien Kou, Wyne P. Lee, Juan Zhang, Hanna Budayeva, Christopher M. Rose, Julia Nguyen, Malgorzata Kalinka, Marcin Drag, Nobuhiko Kayagaki, Kim Newton, Marcin Poreba and Vishva M. Dixit

Ultrafast and reference-free sequence discovery in single-cell data pp. 514-524

Daniel León-Periñán, Nikos Karaiskos and Nikolaus Rajewsky

MMEJ repair of breaks at TA repeats maintains ecDNA and cancer fitness pp. 525-535

David Billing, Monica Selvaraj, Megan E. Kelley, Gabriel Matos-Rodrigues, Benton Bailey, Finnja Becker, Gang Zhen, Matthew A. Myers, Alessandra Brambati, Oluchi Ezekwenna, Ashley Nichols, Yi-Zhen Jiang, Lucia Wang, Shih-Chun Wang, Marie-Claude Mathieu, Davide Pradella, Hugo Poirier, Elias Rodriguez-Fos, Stephen J. Morris, Michal Zimmermann, Elsa Callen, Michael Zinda, Andrea Ventura, John Maciejowski, Andrew McPherson, Sohrab P. Shah, Anton George Henssen, André Nussenzweig and Agnel Sfeir

Automated prototyping of genetic codes pp. 536-546

Felix Radford, Nayan Sapers, Hana M. Burgess, Lucy Ort, Bogdan Budnik and George M. Church

Structure and operating principles of a monkeypox virus replisome pp. 547-555

Zishuo Yu, Pradeep Sathyanarayana, Joel M. J. Tan, Side Hu, Xiaoyi Fan, Angela Gao, Philip J. Kranzusch, Joseph J. Loparo and Jonathan Abraham

A biased allosteric modulator is a molecular glue for β2AR dimerization pp. 556-564

Jiemin Shen, Teja Nikhil Peddada, Konstantin E. Komolov, Francesco De Pascali, Alexander M. Garces, Haoqing Wang, Muhammad Ehsan, Pil Seok Chae, Michael T. Lerch, Jeffrey L. Benovic, Jun Xu and Brian K. Kobilka

About to give your first lecture? Read this first pp. 565-566

Hannah Docter-Loeb

Cells, who needs them? Biochemists turn to proteins in a tube pp. 567-569

Amber Dance

The Great Barrier Reef requires special attention in the developing super El Niño pp. 572-572

Awais Shakoor

AI could undermine scientific independence in subtle ways pp. 572-572

Fabio Y. S. Motoki

Maintaining global science collaboration during conflict requires fairer rules pp. 572-572

Emmanuel Chidiebere Edeh and Ehizuelen Michael Mitchell Omoruyi

Preprints must not leak sensitive research information pp. 572-572

Jingyi Chen

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Is exposomics the key to making personalized medicine a reality? pp. S1-S3

Virginia Gewin

Nepal’s floods expose issues with climate-disaster funding — firmer policies are needed fast pp. 9-9

Uttam Babu Shrestha

Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate pp. 10-10

Heidy Khlaaf

Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype pp. 13-14

Elizabeth Gibney

Chinese companies doubled down on science after US tech restrictions pp. 15-16

Xiaoying You

How fast are you ageing? Ask AI pp. 16-17

Heidi Ledford

Europe pushes for space independence amid geopolitical rifts pp. 17-18

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Gravitational tug-of-war inside Earth is changing the length of our days pp. 18-19

James Dinneen

First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment pp. 19-20

Rachel Fieldhouse

There’s a new form of boron — and it’s really weird pp. 20-20

Dhruv Shenai

The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them? pp. 22-24

James Dinneen

Stephen Hawking biography explores an ‘exceptionally clear, uncluttered mind’ pp. 26-28

Neil Turok

How to put people first in cyberspace pp. 28-30

Chris Stokel-Walker

The roots of astrology, the mysterious nature of time and more: Books in brief pp. 30-30

Andrew Robinson

AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable pp. 32-33

Guowei Huang, Xiang Hu, Pengsong Zhang and Zhicheng Lin

Vaping in childhood has bigger health risks than we’d thought pp. 34-35

William D. Carroll and Francis J. Gilchrist

Gravitational forces inside Earth drag some decades out — and make others fly by pp. 37-38

Dominique Jault and Paolo Personnettaz

Genome project opens the next chapter for studying bat evolution pp. 38-39

Josefin Stiller

A widespread agricultural practice is an unexpected CO2 sink pp. 39-41

G. Philip Robertson and Stephen K. Hamilton

A new chapter in targeting kinase enzymes in cancer pp. 41-43

Alice T. Shaw

The cost of lost labour on a warming planet pp. 42-42

Holly Smith

Brain lipids are organized into zones — and reorganized during pregnancy pp. 43-44

Evan Macosko

Written in development and lost in ageing: the grammar of cellular identity pp. 45-54

A. Doğa Yücel, Adrian Molière and Vadim N. Gladyshev

Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information pp. 55-59

Samuel Sokota, Eugene Vinitsky, Hengyuan Hu, Zhiyuan Fan, J. Zico Kolter and Gabriele Farina

Lu+ optical frequency references with accuracy verified at the 19th digit pp. 60-64

K. J. Arnold, M. D. K. Lee, Qi Zhao, Qichen Qin, Zhao Zhang, N. Jayjong and M. D. Barrett

Anomalous metal and superconducting phases in rhombohedral graphene pp. 65-70

Anna Okounkova, Abigail Sohm, Tobias Faehndrich, Manish Kumar, Derek Waleffe, Jiaqiang Yan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Joshua Folk and Matthew Yankowitz

Stacking-induced direct band gap in CVD-grown 1H MoS2 bilayers pp. 71-77

Tilo H. Yang, I-Tong Chen, Min-Jia Zhang, Ju-Yi Huang, Tzu-Hao Kuo, Shao-Yu Chen, Hsing-Yeh Li, Ying-Chun Chao, Zachariah B. Hennighausen, Vo Khuong Dien, Heng-Wen Wei, Meng-Che Wu, Hung-Wei Yen, Tzu-Hung Chuang, Wei Der-Hsin, Jing Kong, Ting-Hua Lu, Kuang-I Lin and Yann-Wen Lan

Electroluminescent photoresists extending lithographic scaling to OLEDs pp. 78-85

Shao-Wei Lo, Sunil B. Shivarudraiah, Zhan-Hong Lin, Patrick Helbling, Lifei Song, Jiachen Wang, Miguel Nouman, Fuze Jiang, Gerrit Stemmler, Donato Maria Carretta, Mei-Nung Chen, Jiayi Zhu, Sudhir Kumar, Hua Wang, Andrew J. Christofferson, Yinyin Bao and Chih-Jen Shih

Defect passivation and optical management of triple-junction solar cells pp. 86-93

Ye Xu, Zhijie Wang, Chen Deng, Lianlian Qi, Yi Mo, Qianqian Wang, Danni Yu, Yao Wang, Yifan Chen, Yiqin Tian, Pengcheng Zhao, Ming Luo, Dongrui Jiang, Haiyun Li, Xiaobing Ding, Rui Xia, Dongdong Yan, Pengcheng Ge, Delei Xin, Huifeng Yao, Shangqian Zhu, Kaihu Xian, Chengyue Zhou, Guangtao Yang, Li Yin, Yingguo Yang, Anurag Krishna, Wallace C. H. Choy, Pietro P. Altermatt, Jianlu Wang, Zhigang Xie, Xueling Zhang, Junhao Chu, Hong Zhang, Jifan Gao and Yifeng Chen

Programmable remodelling of carbon–nitrogen connectivity in amines pp. 94-102

James D. Robinson, François Richard, Kohl A. Ratkovich, Joseph M. Phelps and Matthew J. Gaunt

Dialkyl ether synthesis through heteroatom homolytic substitution pp. 103-112

Johannes J. Großkopf, Johnny Z. Wang, Jacqueline W. Gu, Cheng Bi, Sarah N. Dishman, Xiaoshen Ma, Yu-hong Lam and David W. C. MacMillan

Agricultural liming is a carbon sink in the Mississippi River Basin pp. 113-118

Tim Jesper Suhrhoff, Christopher T. Reinhard, Yoshiki Kanzaki, Samuel Shou-En Tsao, Beck Woollen, Tom Reershemius, Samuel Shaheen, James Saiers, Shuang Zhang, Peter A. Raymond and Noah J. Planavsky

Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day pp. 119-124

Huifeng Zhang and Mathieu Dumberry

The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods pp. 125-133

Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Nisha Marwaha, Seo-Hyun Yoo, Christina C. Hicks, James P. W. Robinson, Luisa R. Abucay, Laura G. Elsler, Jacob G. Eurich, Whitney R. Friedman, Jessica A. Gephart, M. Aaron MacNeil, Julia G. Mason, M. L. Deng Palomares, Vina A. Parducho, Katherine L. Seto, Kristin M. Kleisner, Daniel F. Viana and Christopher D. Golden

Earliest siphuncle-bearing cephalopod from the early Cambrian pp. 134-140

Zuchen Song, Bing Pan, Junfeng Guo, Jakob Vinther, Guoxiang Li, Jian Han, Heyo Van Iten, Xiaofang Zhao, Xianzhi Pei, Jiaxin Peng, Yaqin Qiang, Boyao Zhang and Hanjie Wen

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography pp. 141-152

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