Vaccine incentives do not backfire — policymakers take note p.215

Rigorously designed studies can dispel suspicions that offering cash for vaccines erodes trust, and help health-care providers to design effective immunization campaigns.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00018-z

Don’t wait for COP: the end of the fossil-fuel age must start now p.216

UN climate conferences are too beholden to oil and gas interests. Like-minded nations must come together to keep climate hopes alive.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00039-8

Are quantum computers about to break online privacy? p.221

A new algorithm is probably not efficient enough to crack current encryption keys — but that’s no reason for complacency, researchers say.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00017-0

Coronavirus variant XBB.1.5 rises in the United States — is it a global threat? p.222

Prevalence of a new subvariant of Omicron is increasing, but whether it will cause a big surge in infections or hospitalizations isn’t clear.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00014-3

COVID drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer. What happened? p.224

Insufficient investment and fears about rebound and side effects are driving down use of a lifesaving antiviral.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04576-6

‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why p.225

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04577-5

China’s Thousand Talents Plan to entice researchers home boosted their output p.226

Analysis of Young Thousand Talents Plan comes amid mounting competition and suspicion between the United States and China.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00012-5

FDA approves Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab amid safety concerns p.227

Reports of deaths potentially linked to the treatment have cast a shadow on what many hail as a landmark approval.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00030-3

Climate-change content shrinks in US university textbooks p.228

Sections on climate change have become shorter and moved farther back in biology textbooks since the 2000s.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04487-6

How India’s caste system limits diversity in science — in six charts p.230

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00015-2

Colonoscopies save lives. Why did a trial suggest they might not? p.235

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00020-5

Colliding neutron stars ring in a clue to puzzle of extreme matter p.245

The pitch of oscillations detected in the γ-rays that are emitted when neutron stars collide could provide insight into the hottest and densest matter in the Universe — revealing physics that cannot be studied with terrestrial experiments.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04580-w

Mysterious Asgard archaea microbes reveal their inner secrets p.246

A microorganism that is a proposed relative of our cellular ancestors has been grown successfully in the laboratory. Its internal architecture offers clues to the early evolution of eukaryotic cells.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04450-5

Nuclear reaction rules out sterile-neutrino hypothesis p.248

An anomalous measurement from a nuclear reactor triggered a three-year campaign to find an elusive particle called the sterile neutrino. The search shows definitively that sterile neutrinos don’t exist — but the anomaly persists.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04581-9

A mechanism for inheriting radiation-induced DNA damage p.249

Radiation-damaged paternal DNA has been found to cause embryos of the second generation of nematode worms, but not the first, to die. The proposed mechanisms help to explain the observed lack of such an effect in humans.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04449-y

25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs p.251

Our understanding of the origin of birds took a major step forward in 1998, thanks to the reported discovery of a remarkable fossil that unveiled the existence of feathered dinosaurs. Fossil publications that year caused a sensation.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04586-4

Kilohertz quasiperiodic oscillations in short gamma-ray bursts p.253

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05497-0

STEREO neutrino spectrum of ²³⁵U fission rejects sterile neutrino hypothesis p.257

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05568-2

Unitary p-wave interactions between fermions in an optical lattice p.262

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05405-6

Enhanced superconductivity in spin–orbit proximitized bilayer graphene p.268

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05446-x

Approaching the quantum limit in two-dimensional semiconductor contacts p.274

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05431-4

An electric molecular motor p.280

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05421-6

A ligand insertion mechanism for cooperative NH₃ capture in metal–organic frameworks p.287

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05409-2

Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene p.292

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05411-8

Grain shape effects in bed load sediment transport p.298

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05564-6

Periclase deforms more slowly than bridgmanite under mantle conditions p.303

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05410-9

The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis across mammals p.308

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05547-7

Locus coeruleus activity improves cochlear implant performance p.317

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05554-8

Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating p.324

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05561-9

Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon p.332

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05550-y

Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology p.340

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05506-2

Integrated intracellular organization and its variations in human iPS cells p.345

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05563-7

A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types p.355

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05580-6

Inheritance of paternal DNA damage by histone-mediated repair restriction p.365

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05544-w

Structural basis of broad-spectrum β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus p.375

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05583-3

Structures and mechanisms of tRNA methylation by METTL1–WDR4 p.383

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05565-5

Structural basis of regulated m⁷G tRNA modification by METTL1–WDR4 p.391

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05566-4