India’s Moon landing is a stellar achievement — and a win for science p.921

When Chandrayaan-3 touched down, India pulled off a huge win for its own space programme and for international efforts to understand the Moon.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02685-4

The science is clear: sustainable development and climate action are inseparable p.921

Sustainability cannot be achieved without climate action, and vice versa. What’s needed is a fight on both fronts.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02686-3

India lands on the Moon! Scientists celebrate as Chandrayaan-3 touches down p.927

The craft has performed a technically challenging descent at the lunar south pole.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02690-7

What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change p.928

Lab-grown structures with the potential to develop into fetuses should be defined — and regulated — as embryos, some researchers say.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02641-2

Brain-reading devices allow paralysed people to talk using their thoughts p.930

Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help people with facial paralysis to communicate.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02682-7

Scientists who don’t speak fluent English get little help from journals, study finds p.931

An analysis of hundreds of publications finds limited efforts to accommodate scientists who are not native English speakers.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02529-1

These veteran female activists are fighting a pivotal climate case with science p.932

Research on the effects of climate change on health will be key in high-profile lawsuits being heard by Europe’s human-rights court.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02633-2

What powers the Sun’s mysterious wind? A daring spacecraft has some answers p.933

Analysis shows that mini jets of gas help to generate the solar wind, a discovery that also illuminates how our star’s activity damages satellites.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02668-5

Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert p.934

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02656-9

Controversial dwarfism drugs spur growth — but do they improve health? p.936

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02647-w

A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? p.940

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02648-9

Corals have algal friends for dinner p.951

Biologists have long sought to understand the factors that enable coral reefs to thrive. A careful analysis of nutrient cycling now points to an unexpected food source that helps to sustain corals during food scarcity.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02593-7

Drone-racing champions outpaced by AI p.952

An autonomous drone has competed against human drone-racing champions — and won. The victory can be attributed to savvy engineering and a type of artificial intelligence that learns mostly through trial and error.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02506-8

Brain implants that enable speech pass performance milestones p.954

Two brain–computer interfaces have been developed that bring unprecedented capabilities for translating brain signals into sentences — at speeds close to that of normal speech, and with vocabularies exceeding 1,000 words.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02546-0

Sleeping embryonic genomes are awoken by OBOX proteins p.956

Activation of gene transcription is precisely regulated in early embryos. The identification of key transcription factors now shows how the transcription machinery is guided to the right place at the right time in mice.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-01618-5

Heaviest oxygen isotope is found to be unbound p.958

The isotope oxygen-28 is expected to be ‘doubly magic’, with strongly bound neutrons and protons in its nucleus. Experiments now reveal that it exists in an unbound state — casting doubt on its magic status.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02485-w

A binary pulsar in a 53-minute orbit p.961

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06308-w

First observation of ²⁸O p.965

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06352-6

Frustration- and doping-induced magnetism in a Fermi–Hubbard simulator p.971

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06280-5

Indistinguishable telecom band photons from a single Er ion in the solid state p.977

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06281-4

Champion-level drone racing using deep reinforcement learning p.982

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06419-4

Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der Waals antiferromagnet p.988

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06279-y

All-perovskite tandem solar cells with 3D/3D bilayer perovskite heterojunction p.994

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06278-z

A microscale soft ionic power source modulates neuronal network activity p.1001

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06295-y

Functional-group translocation of cyano groups by reversible C–H sampling p.1007

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06347-3

Agricultural pesticide land budget and river discharge to oceans p.1013

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06296-x

Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts p.1018

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06442-5

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load p.1025

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06370-4

A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis p.1031

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06377-x

A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control p.1037

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06443-4

OBOX regulates mouse zygotic genome activation and early development p.1047

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06428-3

A viral ADP-ribosyltransferase attaches RNA chains to host proteins p.1054

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06429-2

Interferon-ε is a tumour suppressor and restricts ovarian cancer p.1063

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06421-w

Platelet factors attenuate inflammation and rescue cognition in ageing p.1071

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06436-3

Non-cell-autonomous cancer progression from chromosomal instability p.1080

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06464-z

De novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusion p.1089

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06415-8

Structural mechanism of mitochondrial membrane remodelling by human OPA1 p.1101

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06441-6

OPA1 helical structures give perspective to mitochondrial dysfunction p.1109

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06462-1

Direct observation of the conformational states of PIEZO1 p.1117

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06427-4