How to educate the world: prioritize funding and data p.435

Data gaps are hindering progress on the Sustainable Development Goal for education and lifelong learning. Modest funding will help to fill them.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02327-9

The global fight for critical minerals is costly and damaging p.436

Elements such as rare-earth metals are crucial for the clean-energy transition. Sustainability, equity and security are all at risk in the rush to break China’s dominance over their production.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02330-0

This quiet lake could mark the start of a new Anthropocene epoch p.441

The dawn of a new geological epoch is recorded in the contaminated sediment at the bottom of Crawford Lake in Canada.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02234-z

The CDC is in crisis — can its new leader save it? p.442

Physician and public-health specialist Mandy Cohen faces a daunting to-do list as she takes the lead of the tarnished public-health agency.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02266-5

Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch — but is it any good? p.443

By designing an autonomous system that fed prompts to the chatbot, researchers produced a paper that was fluent and insightful. Yet they still have concerns.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02218-z

US congressional hearing produces heat but no light on COVID-origins debate p.444

A showdown over an influential early publication has done little to prepare the country for the next pandemic, observers say.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02261-w

Gene linked to long COVID found in analysis of thousands of patients p.445

The first genome-wide search for long-COVID risk factors could pave the way for larger studies.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02269-2

Oldest genetic data from a human relative found in 2-million-year-old teeth p.446

Ancient protein sequences identify the sex of Paranthropus robustus fossils and hint at evolutionary relationships.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02242-z

Striking images show plastic litter in the world’s most remote coral reefs p.447

Fishing nets, packaging and other debris threaten wildlife in some of the ocean’s deepest reef ecosystems.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02271-8

Developing human embryos imaged at highest-ever resolution p.448

Non-invasive imaging approach could lead to innovations in embryo screening.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02222-3

Colombia’s ecological treasure trove p.450

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02300-6

Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? p.454

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02299-w

Cell-level reference maps for the human body take shape p.467

The HuBMAP consortium has generated spatially resolved cell atlases for the human intestine, kidney and placenta, which enable analysis of tissue organization in unprecedented detail.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-01817-0

The particle-physics breakthrough that paved the way for the Higgs boson p.468

The discovery of ‘weak neutral currents’ at Europe’s particle-physics research centre CERN 50 years ago was a decisive step towards establishing the standard model of particle physics — a journey that continues to this day.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02296-z

Regulatory T cells aid stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease p.470

Inflammation caused by surgical trauma limits the survival of transplanted stem-cell-derived neurons in rodent models of Parkinson’s disease. Co-transplanting immune cells called regulatory T cells improves the therapy’s efficacy.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02177-5

Slow-beating radio waves from a long-lived source p.472

Astronomers have uncovered a source of radio waves that pulsate more slowly than expected. Meticulous records reveal that the emission has been detected for decades, highlighting the remarkable foresight of scientists in bygone years.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02295-0

The outlook for AI weather prediction p.473

Two models demonstrate the enormous potential that artificial intelligence holds for weather prediction. But the risks involved demand that meteorologists learn to design, evaluate and interpret such systems.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02084-9

The complementarity of DDR, nucleic acids and anti-tumour immunity p.475

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06069-6

A long-period radio transient active for three decades p.487

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06202-5

Vanadium oxide and a sharp onset of cold-trapping on a giant exoplanet p.491

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06134-0

Realization of a fractional quantum Hall state with ultracold atoms p.495

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06122-4

Hydration solids p.500

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06144-y

Photocatalytic phosphine-mediated water activation for radical hydrogenation p.506

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06141-1

Regioselective aliphatic C–H functionalization using frustrated radical pairs p.514

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06131-3

A well-oxygenated eastern tropical Pacific during the warm Miocene p.521

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06104-6

Skilful nowcasting of extreme precipitation with NowcastNet p.526

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06184-4

Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks p.533

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06185-3

Silicon isotope constraints on terrestrial planet accretion p.539

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06135-z

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora p.545

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06305-z

Global climate-change trends detected in indicators of ocean ecology p.551

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06321-z

Continuous synthesis of E. coli genome sections and Mb-scale human DNA assembly p.555

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06268-1

A rise-to-threshold process for a relative-value decision p.563

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06271-6

Organization of the human intestine at single-cell resolution p.572

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05915-x

An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney p.585

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05769-3

A spatially resolved timeline of the human maternal–fetal interface p.595

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06298-9

Co-transplantation of autologous T_reg cells in a cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease p.606

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06300-4

Reprogramming tumour-associated macrophages to outcompete cancer cells p.616

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06256-5

Y chromosome loss in cancer drives growth by evasion of adaptive immunity p.624

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06234-x

Histone demethylase KDM5D upregulation drives sex differences in colon cancer p.632

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06254-7

Structural insights into BCDX2 complex function in homologous recombination p.640

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06219-w

Structure and function of the RAD51B–RAD51C–RAD51D–XRCC2 tumour suppressor p.650

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06179-1