Control methane to slow global warming — fast p.461

Carbon dioxide reductions are key, but the IPCC’s latest report highlights the benefits of making cuts to other greenhouse gases, too.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02287-y

African languages to get more bespoke scientific terms p.469

Many words common to science have never been written in African languages. Now, researchers from across Africa are changing that.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02218-x

Decades-old SARS virus infection triggers potent response to COVID vaccines p.471

Dramatic antibody production in people infected during the 2002–04 outbreak furthers hopes of a vaccine against many coronaviruses.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02260-9

The mutation that helps Delta spread like wildfire p.472

A key amino-acid change might underlie the coronavirus variant’s ferocious infectivity.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02275-2

Brazilian road proposal threatens famed biodiversity hotspot p.473

Scientists and environmentalists say the road, slated to pass through Iguaçu National Park, could harm research projects and precious ecosystems.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02199-x

Iran hopes to defeat COVID with home-grown crop of vaccines p.475

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02216-z

Can artificially altered clouds save the Great Barrier Reef? p.476

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02290-3

COVID vaccines and blood clots: what researchers know so far p.479

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02291-2

Protein-structure prediction revolutionized p.487

The full might of a world-leading artificial-intelligence laboratory has been brought to bear on protein-structure prediction. The resulting method, AlphaFold2, promises to transform our understanding of proteins.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02265-4

African tropical montane forests store more carbon than was thought p.488

The inaccessibility of African montane forests has hindered efforts to quantify the carbon stored by these ecosystems. A remarkable survey fills this knowledge gap, and highlights the need to preserve such forests.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02266-3

Single proton cooled by distant ions p.490

Laser-cooled ions have been used to substantially lower the temperature of a proton located several centimetres away. This technique could be useful in ultraprecise measurements of the properties of antimatter particles.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02267-2

A persistent look at how tumours evade therapy p.491

Understanding how resistance to chemotherapy occurs could lead to better anticancer treatments. Persister cells in tumours can contribute to this resistance. A method to characterize these cells in detail sheds light on their origins.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02117-1

A bridge across the democracy–expertise divide p.493

An innovative algorithm provides a way of fairly selecting representative individuals for citizens’ assemblies to learn about and deliberate on certain topics. Such groups hold promise for closing the gap between democracy and expertise.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-02006-7

After the pandemic: perspectives on the future trajectory of COVID-19 p.495

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03792-w

Chromatic periodic activity down to 120 megahertz in a fast radio burst p.505

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03724-8

Universal pair polaritons in a strongly interacting Fermi gas p.509

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03731-9

Sympathetic cooling of a trapped proton mediated by an LC circuit p.514

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03784-w

Single-crystal, large-area, fold-free monolayer graphene p.519

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03753-3

Rechargeable Na/Cl₂ and Li/Cl₂ batteries p.525

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03757-z

Direct observation of ultrafast hydrogen bond strengthening in liquid water p.531

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03793-9

High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests p.536

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03728-4

Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea p.543

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03823-6

Fair algorithms for selecting citizens’ assemblies p.548

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03788-6

Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behavior p.553

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03814-7

Cotranslational prolyl hydroxylation is essential for flavivirus biogenesis p.558

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03851-2

Antibody epitopes in vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopaenia p.565

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03744-4

Tonic prime-boost of STING signalling mediates Niemann–Pick disease type C p.570

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03762-2

Cycling cancer persister cells arise from lineages with distinct programs p.576

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03796-6

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold p.583

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2

Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome p.590

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1

Molecular basis for DarT ADP-ribosylation of a DNA base p.597

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03825-4

Cryo-EM structures of full-length Tetrahymena ribozyme at 3.1 Å resolution p.603

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03803-w