Why locusts congregate in billion-strong swarms — and how to stop them p.497

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02453-8

How schools can reopen safely during the pandemic p.503

Masks, class sizes and hygiene are important, but low community spread is key.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02403-4

Evidence lags behind excitement over blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment p.505

Researchers call for more rigorous clinical trials as rumours abound that US regulators are considering widening access to the potential therapy.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02324-2

The unequal scramble for coronavirus vaccines — by the numbers p.506

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02450-x

Signs of ‘citation hacking’ flagged in scientific papers p.508

An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02378-2

‘Make research fun again’: UK’s powerful funding chief is on a mission to change scientific culture p.508

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02424-z

Millions of students are returning to US universities in a vast unplanned pandemic experiment p.510

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02419-w

Crevasse analysis reveals vulnerability of ice shelves to global warming p.527

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02422-1

Catching plague locusts with their own scent p.528

A pheromone molecule that makes crop-damaging locusts swarm has been identified. Could this pheromone, which is sensed by odorant receptors, be used to trap these insects and prevent the agricultural devastation that they cause?

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02264-x

A conceptual advance that gives microrobots legs p.530

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02421-2

An inventory of plants for the land of the unexpected p.531

New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora, according to the area’s first plant list catalogued by experts. Completing this list poses a formidable challenge that New Guineans are best placed to take up.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02225-4

A dendritic cell multitasks to tackle cancer p.533

Learning how immune cells target tumours is crucial for cancer immunotherapy. The finding that a type of dendritic cell activates two sorts of T cell and coordinates their crosstalk sheds light on immune responses to tumours.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-02339-9

Effects of extracellular matrix viscoelasticity on cellular behaviour p.535

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2612-2

A measure of the size of the magnetospheric accretion region in TW Hydrae p.547

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2613-1

Impact of ionizing radiation on superconducting qubit coherence p.551

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2619-8

Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots p.557

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2626-9

Tying different knots in a molecular strand p.562

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2614-0

Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited p.569

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2617-x

Vulnerability of Antarctica’s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture p.574

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2627-8

New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora p.579

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2549-5

4-Vinylanisole is an aggregation pheromone in locusts p.584

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2610-4

Genetic and functional insights into the fractal structure of the heart p.589

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2635-8

Unique homeobox codes delineate all the neuron classes of C. elegans p.595

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2618-9

Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers p.602

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2467-6

Heterotypic cell–cell communication regulates glandular stem cell multipotency p.608

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2632-y

Clinical targeting of HIV capsid protein with a long-acting small molecule p.614

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2443-1

FLT3 stop mutation increases FLT3 ligand level and risk of autoimmune thyroid disease p.619

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2436-0

cDC1 prime and are licensed by CD4⁺ T cells to induce anti-tumour immunity p.624

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2611-3

An intramembrane chaperone complex facilitates membrane protein biogenesis p.630

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2624-y

SPOCD1 is an essential executor of piRNA-directed de novo DNA methylation p.635

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2557-5

Cryo-EM of elongating ribosome with EF-Tu•GTP elucidates tRNA proofreading p.640

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2447-x

Structures of human pannexin 1 reveal ion pathways and mechanism of gating p.646

doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2357-y