Cognitive neuroscience at the crossroads p.647

Researchers shouldn’t fear papers that test and find flaws in methods. Such work contributes to better experimental designs and better science.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02283-w

How the world should oppose the Taliban’s war on women and girls p.648

Twelve months after their takeover, Afghanistan’s rulers have slammed the door on educational opportunities and leadership roles for girls and women. But is isolating the country the right response?

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02284-9

How does monkeypox spread? What scientists know p.655

Prolonged contact, especially with a person’s skin lesions, is emerging as the top transmission route.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02178-w

New ‘Langya’ virus identified in China: what scientists know so far p.656

The henipavirus can cause respiratory symptoms and is related to Nipah and Hendra viruses, but cannot spread easily in people.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02175-z

Will a freeze in US–China climate talks threaten global action? p.657

Researchers worry that a protracted stand-off could slow progress on tackling global warming and hamper research collaborations.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02169-x

How a scandal in spider biology upended researchers’ lives p.658

Although Jonathan Pruitt, the researcher at the centre of a retractions scandal, has resigned, former lab members and collaborators continue dealing with the fallout.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02156-2

Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider p.660

The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02122-y

Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine p.661

A pall of smoke from burning cities would engulf Earth, causing worldwide crop failures, models show.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02219-4

Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms? p.662

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02286-7

A new phase for the universal growth of interfaces p.669

Precise optical experiments reveal that quantum excitations in semiconductors share similarities with a host of growing interfaces. The parallels inspire a fresh approach to studying the dynamics of diverse systems in a controllable way.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02117-9

35 years of channelling potassium ions p.670

In 1987, two independent groups cloned a gene that encoded the potassium-ion-channel protein Shaker, enabling functional and structural studies that have transformed ion-channel research.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02163-3

Suspended pores boost gas solubility in water p.672

Porous solids have been dispersed in water to produce suspensions that can carry much more oxygen than blood can. Such ‘porous water’ opens the way to water-based formulations for biomedical use.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02224-7

Long-sought mediator of vitamin K recycling discovered p.673

The identity of the enzyme that enables vitamin K to combat the adverse side effects of a drug called warfarin has been long sought. Analysis of a type of cell death called ferroptosis has now unexpectedly solved the mystery.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-02001-6

Persister cells that survive chemotherapy are pinpointed p.675

A close look at the cells that drive cancer growth after chemotherapy, and thereby contribute to fatal tumour progression, provides new insights into the identity of the cells that manage to survive treatment.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-01866-x

Efficient generation of entangled multiphoton graph states from a single atom p.677

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04987-5

Quantum error correction with silicon spin qubits p.682

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04986-6

Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality in a one-dimensional polariton condensate p.687

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05001-8

Scalable single-mode surface-emitting laser via open-Dirac singularities p.692

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05021-4

Mechanical integrated circuit materials p.699

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05004-5

Fast-charging aluminium–chalcogen batteries resistant to dendritic shorting p.704

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04983-9

Microporous water with high gas solubilities p.712

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05029-w

Integrated ozone depletion as a metric for ozone recovery p.719

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04968-8

Diverse mutational landscapes in human lymphocytes p.724

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05072-7

Live-seq enables temporal transcriptomic recording of single cells p.733

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05046-9

Transformations of neural representations in a social behaviour network p.741

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05057-6

Pyramidal neuron subtype diversity governs microglia states in the neocortex p.750

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05056-7

The retroelement Lx9 puts a brake on the immune response to virus infection p.757

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05054-9

Spatial multi-omic map of human myocardial infarction p.766

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05060-x

A non-canonical vitamin K cycle is a potent ferroptosis suppressor p.778

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05022-3

Cell–matrix interface regulates dormancy in human colon cancer stem cells p.784

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05043-y

Ordered and deterministic cancer genome evolution after p53 loss p.795

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05082-5

Cryo-EM structure of an active bacterial TIR–STING filament complex p.803

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04999-1

Cyclic nucleotide-induced helical structure activates a TIR immune effector p.808

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05070-9

Structure of Tetrahymena telomerase-bound CST with polymerase α-primase p.813

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04931-7

Reconstitution of a telomeric replicon organized by CST p.819

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04930-8

Structures of the human CST-Polα–primase complex bound to telomere templates p.826

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05040-1