Boosting research without supporting universities is wrong-headed p.313

Universities are facing a severe financial crisis and some contract staff are hanging by a thread. Senior colleagues need to speak up now.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01788-6

Peer review should be an honest, but collegial, conversation p.314

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01622-z

Hong Kong’s contentious national security law concerns some academics p.321

Plans for the new bill follow months of protests, but researchers are divided about how it might affect them.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01693-y

Astronomers spot first fast radio burst in the Milky Way p.322

The nearby burst came from a magnetized star — and provides a close-up view of one of astronomy’s biggest puzzles.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01666-1

Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts p.323

Influential model judged reproducible — although software engineers called its code ‘horrible’ and ‘a buggy mess’.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01685-y

Why children avoid the worst coronavirus complications might lie in their arteries p.324

Evidence is mounting that healthy blood vessels protect children from serious effects of COVID-19, such as stroke.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01692-z

Lab-grown cells mimic crucial moment in embryo development p.325

Artificial structures developed the rudimentary components of a heart and nervous system.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01757-z

Thousands of people will help scientists to track the long-term health effects of the coronavirus crisis p.326

Cohort studies that follow populations over years have quickly pivoted to trace the pandemic’s physical, mental and social consequences.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01643-8

How #BlackInTheIvory put a spotlight on racism in academia p.327

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01741-7

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science p.328

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01747-1

Regenerative medicine could pave the way to treating baldness p.343

Undifferentiated human stem cells have been coaxed to develop into skin-like structures in vitro. When engrafted onto mice, the structures produce hair — highlighting the potential of the approach for regenerative therapies.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01568-2

Unexpected emission pattern adds to the enigma of fast radio bursts p.344

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01713-x

How sex chromosomes break up to get together p.346

Sex chromosomes must exchange genetic information at a short region during meiotic cell division. Molecular factors have now been found that alter sex-chromosome structure and enhance this exchange process.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01483-6

Incest uncovered at the elite prehistoric Newgrange monument in Ireland p.347

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01655-4

Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source p.351

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2398-2

Resolving acceleration to very high energies along the jet of Centaurus A p.356

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2354-1

Frequency combs induced by phase turbulence p.360

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2386-6

Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs p.365

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2358-x

Hierarchically structured diamond composite with exceptional toughness p.370

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2361-2

Imaging single glycans p.375

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2362-1

Emergent constraint on Arctic Ocean acidification in the twenty-first century p.379

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2360-3

A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society p.384

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2378-6

Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China p.389

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2284-y

Potential circadian effects on translational failure for neuroprotection p.395

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2348-z

Hair-bearing human skin generated entirely from pluripotent stem cells p.399

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2352-3

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal somitogenesis in gastruloids p.405

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2024-3

An in vitro model of early anteroposterior organization during human development p.410

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2383-9

CRISPR screen in regulatory T cells reveals modulators of Foxp3 p.416

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2246-4

BCR selection and affinity maturation in Peyer’s patch germinal centres p.421

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2262-4

Ensuring meiotic DNA break formation in the mouse pseudoautosomal region p.426

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2327-4

RIC-seq for global in situ profiling of RNA–RNA spatial interactions p.432

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2249-1

Determination of RNA structural diversity and its role in HIV-1 RNA splicing p.438

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2253-5

A lower X-gate in TASK channels traps inhibitors within the vestibule p.443

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2250-8