Australia must abolish law that allows politicians to veto research grants p.7

The upcoming Australian election is an opportunity for researchers to press all parties to reinstate the independence of research funding.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01200-5

How to make Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ a success p.8

One of the world’s most ambitious plans to restore degraded land needs a more meaningful way to measure its achievements.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01201-4

China focuses on ethics to deter another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal p.15

But some question whether a statement from the government will deter scientists from carrying out research that violates ethical norms.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01051-0

Costly SOFIA telescope faces termination after years of problems p.16

NASA and the German space agency ground the telescope on a plane, citing the astronomy community’s concerns over cost and productivity.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01213-0

How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to decolonize fossil science p.18

Rather than excitement, the discovery of the species set off a Latin American movement to stop colonial palaeontology.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01093-4

Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks p.20

Modelling study is first to project how global warming will increase virus swapping between species.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01198-w

How language-generation AIs could transform science p.21

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01191-3

Four lessons from the pandemic to reboot the NIH p.22

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01101-7

Stretched skin cells divide without DNA replication p.31

Analysis of zebrafish larvae reveals that epithelial cells in their skin undergo tension-driven division without DNA replication. This allows rapid expansion, enabling the cells to cover the fast-growing organism.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00790-4

Crosstalk between nerves, immune cells and plaques drives atherosclerosis p.32

Fatty structures called plaques can form in arteries, and are separated from nerves by the artery walls. But this is no barrier to communication — it seems that nerves interact with plaques and immune cells to drive cardiovascular disease.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00508-6

Mycoprotein produced in cell culture has environmental benefits over beef p.34

Would environmental damage be reduced by replacing beef with mycoprotein produced in cell culture? Modelling shows that this change could greatly cut global deforestation, pasture area and greenhouse-gas emissions.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01125-z

Mental replays enable flexible navigation p.35

While rats pause to eat or rest during navigation tasks, neuronal sequences in the brain are replaying routes around moving obstacles, allowing the animals to reach their goals even in changing environments.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01035-0

Light moves artificial cilia to a complex beat p.37

The beating of hair-like structures that enable microorganisms to swim has been replicated in a polymer material that bends and twists with the help of light-sensitive molecular machines.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01080-9

Virtual collaboration hinders a key component of creativity p.38

Experiments and fieldwork show that teams working together online produce fewer ideas than those collaborating in person — a first step towards answering the question of which modes of communication are generally best for creativity.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00126-2

A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple p.41

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04551-1

Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform p.46

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04539-x

Imaging tunable quantum Hall broken-symmetry orders in graphene p.51

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04513-7

One-dimensional Luttinger liquids in a two-dimensional moiré lattice p.57

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04514-6

Observation of chiral and slow plasmons in twisted bilayer graphene p.63

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04520-8

Uniform nucleation and epitaxy of bilayer molybdenum disulfide on sapphire p.69

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04523-5

Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures p.76

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04561-z

Organocatalytic stereoselective cyanosilylation of small ketones p.84

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04531-5

Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein p.90

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04629-w

Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide p.97

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04644-x

Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps p.103

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04617-0

Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation p.108

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04643-y

Intron-mediated induction of phenotypic heterogeneity p.113

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04633-0

Skin cells undergo asynthetic fission to expand body surfaces in zebrafish p.119

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04641-0

Generation of 3D lacrimal gland organoids from human pluripotent stem cells p.126

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04613-4

Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean’s microbiome p.132

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04614-3

Programme of self-reactive innate-like T cell-mediated cancer immunity p.139

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04632-1

Eicosanoid signalling blockade protects middle-aged mice from severe COVID-19 p.146

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04630-3

Neuroimmune cardiovascular interfaces control atherosclerosis p.152

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04673-6

β-Hydroxybutyrate suppresses colorectal cancer p.160

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04649-6

Structure of human chromatin-remodelling PBAF complex bound to a nucleosome p.166

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04658-5

Opening of glutamate receptor channel to subconductance levels p.172

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04637-w