COP27: Rich countries must stop stalling talks on climate loss and damage compensation p.203

The issue of loss and damage needs to be discussed honestly, but it must not derail progress at the crucial climate summit.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03596-6

Sounds of the stars: how scientists are listening in on space p.204

In astronomy, the use of sound instead of light is breaking down barriers to participation and providing insight into the Universe.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03597-5

AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins p.211

Microbial molecules from soil, seawater and human bodies are among the planet’s least understood.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03539-1

Brazil election: Scientists cheer Lula victory over Bolsonaro p.212

Many hope that the new president will restore research funding and environmental protections.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03523-9

COVID ‘variant soup’ is making winter surges hard to predict p.213

Descendants of Omicron are proliferating worldwide — and the same mutations are coming up again and again.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03445-6

US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions p.215

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03470-5

The Middle East is going green — while supplying oil to others p.216

Arab governments are ramping up their green ambitions ahead of the COP27 climate summit, but show few signs of reining in fossil-fuel exports.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03346-8

She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free? p.218

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03577-9

Rebooting GDP: new ways to measure economic growth gain momentum p.224

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03576-w

Ancient DNA reveals rapid natural selection during the Black Death p.237

Human DNA from the Middle Ages reveals that natural selection occurred at pace in survivors of a bubonic plague pandemic, perhaps leaving their descendants at increased risk of autoimmune diseases.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03160-2

Superfluid system hosts early-Universe dynamics p.238

A fluid of ultracold atoms has exhibited quantum dynamics similar to those thought to have existed moments after the Big Bang — ushering in a new era of laboratory exploration of the early Universe.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03557-z

Shedding light on declines in diversity of grassland plants p.240

A field experiment provides a new way to investigate the mechanisms by which grazing, fertilizer use and light availability can affect the biodiversity of a grassland plant community.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03458-1

Catching actin proteins in action p.241

Two groups have visualized actin — the protein polymer that gives cells their shape — at high resolution. The structures provide in-depth views of the polymer as it adopts fleeting states and undergoes conformational changes.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03343-x

A molecular flip-flop for separating heavy water p.243

Molecules of heavy water contain the deuterium isotope of hydrogen and have been impossible to separate from ordinary water. Nanoporous materials with flexible apertures in their structures point the way to a solution.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-03558-y

Origin of life-forming volatile elements in the inner Solar System p.245

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05276-x

Shock cooling of a red-supergiant supernova at redshift 3 in lensed images p.256

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05252-5

Quantum field simulator for dynamics in curved spacetime p.260

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05313-9

Measured proton electromagnetic structure deviates from theoretical predictions p.265

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05248-1

A solution-processed n-type conducting polymer with ultrahigh conductivity p.271

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05295-8

Surface reaction for efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells p.278

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05268-x

Functional CeO_x nanoglues for robust atomically dispersed catalysts p.284

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05251-6

Separating water isotopologues using diffusion-regulatory porous materials p.289

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05310-y

Two annual cycles of the Pacific cold tongue under orbital precession p.295

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05240-9

Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity p.301

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05383-9

Environmental signal in the evolutionary diversification of bird skeletons p.306

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05372-y

Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death p.312

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05349-x

Fast resupply of synaptic vesicles requires synaptotagmin-3 p.320

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05337-1

Viruses inhibit TIR gcADPR signalling to overcome bacterial defence p.326

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05375-9

A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat p.332

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05398-2

Common human genetic variants of APOE impact murine COVID-19 mortality p.346

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05344-2

Functional antibodies exhibit light chain coherence p.352

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05371-z

Blocking PD-L1–PD-1 improves senescence surveillance and ageing phenotypes p.358

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05388-4

Extracellular fluid viscosity enhances cell migration and cancer dissemination p.365

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05394-6

Structural basis of actin filament assembly and aging p.374

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05241-8

Bending forces and nucleotide state jointly regulate F-actin structure p.380

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05366-w

Subtype-specific 3D genome alteration in acute myeloid leukaemia p.387

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05365-x

Cryo-EM structure of the SEA complex p.399

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05370-0

Nociceptor neurons affect cancer immunosurveillance p.405

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05374-w