Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine is wrong and must stop p.201

Nature stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian research community — and continues to support the global exchange of scholarly knowledge.

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Landmark treaty on plastic pollution must put scientific evidence front and centre p.202

United Nations resolution on greening plastics is a positive step. As negotiations begin, they must be evidence-based.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00648-9

Global research community condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine p.209

Rebuke against Russian science grows as the deadly conflict enters its sixth day.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00601-w

‘I thought I had forgotten this horror’: Ukrainian scientists stand in defiance p.210

Researchers tell Nature about their experiences of the Russian invasion.

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The next variant: three key questions about what’s after Omicron p.212

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How to protect the first ‘CRISPR babies’ prompts ethical debate p.213

Fears of excessive interference cloud proposal for protecting children whose genomes were edited, as He Jiankui’s release from jail looks imminent.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00512-w

The controversial China Initiative is ending — researchers are relieved p.214

The US Department of Justice has announced major changes to the espionage-detection programme. But scientists hope for further acknowledgement of the damage done.

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Could drugs prevent Alzheimer’s? These trials aim to find out p.216

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Self-assembly of molecules triggered by electricity p.229

The options for controlling molecular self-assembly processes have been limited. A fresh approach uses electrons to facilitate self-assembly, and thereby provides precise external control over the process.

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Epstein–Barr virus sparks brain autoimmunity in multiple sclerosis p.230

Understanding factors that lead to the development of multiple sclerosis might aid efforts to develop new therapies. Clinical data now implicate a viral culprit and immune-system dysfunction as underlying factors in this condition.

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Light arrays measure up on a chip the size of a fingertip p.232

An optical device enables high-speed, high-resolution distance measurements to be made over a large field of view. Clever switching gives the integrated design a tiny footprint and keeps its power consumption low.

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Letters and cards telling people about local police reduce crime p.233

A combination of Internet-based and field experiments suggests that being given personal information about a stranger leads people to believe that they themselves are known to that person — and to change their behaviour accordingly.

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AI minds the gap and fills in missing Greek inscriptions p.235

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many areas of research. A new AI tool helps to fill in missing text and estimate the timeframe and geographical origin of ancient inscriptions.

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AGN as potential factories for eccentric black hole mergers p.237

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Ultra-narrow optical linewidths in rare-earth molecular crystals p.241

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Structure of the moiré exciton captured by imaging its electron and hole p.247

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A large-scale microelectromechanical-systems-based silicon photonics LiDAR p.253

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Vertical MoS2 transistors with sub-1-nm gate lengths p.259

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Electron-catalysed molecular recognition p.265

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Au–Pd separation enhances bimetallic catalysis of alcohol oxidation p.271

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Weak cubic CaSiO3 perovskite in the Earth’s mantle p.276

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Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks p.280

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Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago p.284

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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers p.290

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Knowledge about others reduces one’s own sense of anonymity p.297

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Differential mechanisms underlie trace and delay conditioning in Drosophila p.302

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Molecular hallmarks of heterochronic parabiosis at single-cell resolution p.309

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The bacterial toxin colibactin triggers prophage induction p.315

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Clonally expanded B cells in multiple sclerosis bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM p.321

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A trispecific antibody targeting HER2 and T cells inhibits breast cancer growth via CD4 cells p.328

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Silent mutations reveal therapeutic vulnerability in RAS Q61 cancers p.335

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Structural basis for mismatch surveillance by CRISPR–Cas9 p.343

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