Global pandemic treaty: what we must learn from climate-change errors p.195

The WHO’s draft agreement proposes a COP-like process. That’s unlikely to improve on the world’s disastrous COVID response.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00339-z

Indoor air pollution kills and science needs to step up p.196

Researchers and policymakers are only now waking up to the effects of dirty indoor air. As ever, low-income and marginalized communities are most exposed.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00338-0

When will COVID stop being a global emergency? p.201

The World Health Organization has decided the crisis isn’t over yet — but it’s at a transition point.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00294-9

The surprising chemicals used to embalm Egyptian mummies p.202

Resins used to prepare bodies for the afterlife are found in vessels in an ancient workshop.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04400-1

The Milky Way in spellbinding detail and more — January’s best science images p.203

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00215-w

CRISPR voles can’t detect ‘love hormone’ oxytocin — but still mate for life p.204

Prairie voles lacking oxytocin receptors bonded with mates and cared for pups.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00197-9

Flu, MERS and Ebola — the disease outbreaks most frequently reported p.205

The World Health Organization’s disease reports reflect public-health priorities and surveillance capabilities.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00196-w

Weird supernova remnant blows scientists’ minds p.206

Fireworks display from rare dying star is unlike anything astronomers have seen.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00202-1

Stricter US guidelines for ‘gain-of-function’ research are on the way — maybe p.206

A biosecurity panel met, expecting to approve recommendations, but myriad concerns complicated the proceedings.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00257-0

Will an AI be the first to discover alien life? p.208

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00258-z

How India is battling deadly rain storms as climate change bites p.210

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00341-5

What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science p.214

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00340-6

Recipes and ingredients for ancient Egyptian mummification p.229

What ingredients and processes underlay mummification in ancient Egypt? The molecular analysis of labelled pots excavated from an embalming workshop provides some answers to this question.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00094-1

Light-activated catalysts point the way to sustainable chemistry p.230

A light-activated ‘plasmonic’ catalyst, made from abundant elements, produces as much hydrogen from ammonia as do the most-used heat-activated catalysts based on a rarer element, suggesting a strategy for sustainable chemical production.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00239-2

A planetary ring in a surprising place p.232

An object in the distant Solar System has been shown to have a ring that is unusually far from its host — prompting speculation about how the ring material has avoided clumping together to form moons.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00270-3

The extent and drivers of global wetland loss p.234

An impressive combination of modelling and data analysis has enabled a new estimate of the extent of wetland losses over the past few centuries — and reveals that an area about the size of India has been lost since 1700.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00268-x

Silence, escape and survival drive the persistence of HIV p.236

Sophisticated experimental approaches reveal cellular and immune-system mechanisms that enable rare HIV-infected cells to persist for decades in people who are taking antiretroviral drugs.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04492-9

Protein structure terminates doubt about how transcription stops p.237

High-resolution structures of the bacterial Rho protein in complex with an RNA polymerase enzyme and partner proteins provide support for the long-held model of how Rho helps to terminate gene transcription.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00121-1

A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche Limit p.239

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05629-6

Pattern of global spin alignment of φ and K^*0 mesons in heavy-ion collisions p.244

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05557-5

Spin-polarized spatially indirect excitons in a topological insulator p.249

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05567-3

Coherent correlation imaging for resolving fluctuating states of matter p.256

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05537-9

Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO₂ electroreduction p.262

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05540-0

Water splitting with silicon p–i–n superlattices suspended in solution p.270

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05549-5

Electrophotocatalytic oxygenation of multiple adjacent C–H bonds p.275

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05608-x

Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries p.281

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05572-6

Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming p.287

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05663-4

Mesolimbic dopamine adapts the rate of learning from action p.294

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05614-z

Stigma receptors control intraspecies and interspecies barriers in Brassicaceae p.303

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05640-x

Phenotypic signatures of immune selection in HIV-1 reservoir cells p.309

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05538-8

HIV silencing and cell survival signatures in infected T cell reservoirs p.318

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05556-6

Identification of astrocyte regulators by nucleic acid cytometry p.326

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05613-0

Tissue CD14⁺CD8⁺ T cells reprogrammed by myeloid cells and modulated by LPS p.334

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05645-6

A Prox1 enhancer represses haematopoiesis in the lymphatic vasculature p.343

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05650-9

Slow TCA flux and ATP production in primary solid tumours but not metastases p.349

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05661-6

mRNA ageing shapes the Cap2 methylome in mammalian mRNA p.358

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05668-z

Structural basis of Rho-dependent transcription termination p.367

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05658-1