Our efforts to diversify Nature’s journalism are progressing, but work remains p.389

Two years ago, this journal pledged to report on the diversity of sources in our journalistic content. The first results are now in.

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UK, please drop the rhetoric and fight for collaboration with Europe p.390

Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU–UK science collaboration.

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How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know p.395

Vaccination, infection with SARS-CoV-2 and a combination of both provide varying degrees of protection.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00124-y

Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons p.396

The 'amorphous' solid is denser and could be water ‘frozen in time’.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00293-w

Antibiotic use in farming set to soar despite drug-resistance fears p.397

Analysis finds antimicrobial drug use in agriculture is much higher than reported.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00284-x

Turkey–Syria earthquake: what scientists know p.398

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COVID drug drives viral mutations — and now some want to halt its use p.399

Analysis reveals the signature of the antiviral drug molnupiravir in SARS-CoV-2 sequences riddled with mutations.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00347-z

Underdog technologies gain ground in quantum-computing race p.400

Individual atoms trapped by optical ‘tweezers’ are emerging as a promising computational platform.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00278-9

Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways p.401

Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones — which weren’t thought to exist in bacterial cells.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00334-4

What it would take to bring back the dodo p.402

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How a pioneering diabetes drug offers hope for preventing autoimmune disorders p.404

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Self-burying robot morphs wood to sow seeds p.415

A natural seed has inspired the design of a robot that can bury itself in soil when exposed to rainfall. The mechanism relies on the shape-changing properties of wood — a simple and elegant example of sustainable innovation.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00396-4

For optimal antibody effectiveness, sometimes less is more p.416

Antibodies that activate stimulatory or inhibitory receptors are of great therapeutic interest for the treatment of cancer or autoimmune diseases. It emerges that such antibodies work better if they don’t bind to receptors too tightly.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00244-5

How rare mutations contribute to complex traits p.418

An analysis of rare genetic variants reveals that they influence human traits through similar biological pathways to common ones. The work deepens our understanding of how this type of variant affects complex traits.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00272-1

Quantum avalanches wipe out the effects of disorder in interacting systems p.419

Experiments on ultracold atoms reveal that disorder doesn’t stop a quantum system of interacting particles from reaching thermal equilibrium. Instead, small thermalized regions ripple like an avalanche through the whole system.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00143-9

High variability reveals complexity under Thwaites Glacier p.420

Fixed moorings and underwater vehicles have uncovered varied patterns of melting and morphology under a West Antarctic glacier, offering insight into the potential for its collapse and highlighting key challenges for modelling.

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Fish fossil unfolds clues to vertebrate brain evolution p.422

A 319-million-year-old fossil provides the oldest known evidence of preserved vertebrate brain tissue. This specimen offers insights into the brain evolution of ray-finned fishes, the most diverse group of living vertebrates.

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Revisiting the Holocene global temperature conundrum p.425

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Spherical symmetry in the kilonova AT2017gfo/GW170817 p.436

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Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry p.440

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Realization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots p.445

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Electronic metadevices for terahertz applications p.451

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A universal interface for plug-and-play assembly of stretchable devices p.456

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Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding p.463

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Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line p.471

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05691-0

Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone p.479

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Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain p.486

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05666-1

Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 394,783 exomes p.492

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05684-z

Reconstruction and deconstruction of human somitogenesis in vitro p.500

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05655-4

Reconstituting human somitogenesis in vitro p.509

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Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution p.521

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05644-7

Neonatal imprinting of alveolar macrophages via neutrophil-derived 12-HETE p.530

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Reducing affinity as a strategy to boost immunomodulatory antibody agonism p.539

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05673-2

Single-cell spatial landscapes of the lung tumour immune microenvironment p.548

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Single-cell spatial immune landscapes of primary and metastatic brain tumours p.555

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Aberrant phase separation and nucleolar dysfunction in rare genetic diseases p.564

doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05682-1

Structure of the lysosomal mTORC1–TFEB–Rag–Ragulator megacomplex p.572

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