Hypocrisy is threatening the future of the world’s oceans p.7

A few powerful nations are undermining progress towards global ocean sustainability. Scientists can help hold them to account.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02746-8

Gender equality: the route to a better world p.8

Health outcomes, ending poverty and greening the environment are boosted when power is shared between the genders.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02745-9

Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures p.13

The group that helped to revolutionize medical practice has lost key funding and is reorganizing — moves that concern some researchers.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02741-z

Strike at outbreak-alert service ProMED to end — but tensions remain p.15

Most of the striking ProMED staff members are prepared to return to work, although many still have concerns.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02750-y

Maui fires could taint the island’s waters — scientists are investigating p.16

Researchers in Hawaii are studying the deadly blazes’ effects on drinking-water quality and how they might affect local marine ecosystems.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02707-1

Rare oxygen isotope detected at last — and it defies expectations p.17

Oxygen-28 might prompt physicists to revamp theories of how atomic nuclei are structured.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02713-3

University mourns nanoscientist killed on UNC campus p.18

Zijie Yan led a laboratory at the University of North Carolina that studied light–matter interactions on the nanometre scale.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02724-0

How would room-temperature superconductors change science? p.18

The prized materials could be transformative for research — but only if they have other essential qualities.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02681-8

From the lab to the World Cup: meet footballer–scientist Michelle Alozie p.20

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02723-1

These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance p.22

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02732-0

Why a blockbuster superconductivity claim met a wall of scepticism p.26

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02733-z

Cardiac cycle inspires optimized pipe flow p.43

Pulsatile driving of pipe flow that imitates waveforms measured in the human aorta has been shown to suppress turbulence and increase the energy efficiency of the transport of fluids in pipes.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02739-7

A drowned future for coastal ecosystems p.44

Tidal marshes, mangroves and coral reefs support the livelihoods of millions of people. Most of these ecosystems will be vulnerable to submergence owing to rapid sea-level rise if global warming exceeds 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02595-5

Dynamic ion channel defies dogma p.46

It is well established that proteins in the TRP family of ion channels assemble from four subunits. But do they always do this? A five-subunit structure has now been observed, and might be involved in channel regulation.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02486-9

Previously unknown pathway for lipid biosynthesis discovered p.47

The pathway used by mammalian cells to make triglyceride lipids when supplies of fat molecules are high has long been known. A route that works when fat supplies are low has now been discovered.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02502-y

Surface interaction propels molecule forwards p.49

The interaction of a molecule with a specific surface has been shown to produce consistent unidirectional motion driven by voltage pulses. The mechanism can even facilitate the transport of molecular cargo.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-02565-x

Detection of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at redshifts above 6 p.51

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06345-5

Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a protoplanetary disk p.56

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06307-x

Proximity superconductivity in atom-by-atom crafted quantum dots p.60

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06312-0

Pines’ demon observed as a 3D acoustic plasmon in Sr₂RuO₄ p.66

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06318-8

Turbulence suppression by cardiac-cycle-inspired driving of pipe flow p.71

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06399-5

Visualizing interfacial collective reaction behaviour of Li–S batteries p.75

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06326-8

Adsorbate motors for unidirectional translation and transport p.82

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06384-y

A catalytically active oscillator made from small organic molecules p.87

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06310-2

The global wildland–urban interface p.94

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06320-0

Earth’s evolving geodynamic regime recorded by titanium isotopes p.100

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06304-0

Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds p.105

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06391-z

Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C p.112

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06448-z

Dissecting human population variation in single-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 p.120

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06422-9

Long-molecule scars of backup DNA repair in BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient cancers p.129

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06461-2

Xiphoid nucleus of the midline thalamus controls cold-induced food seeking p.138

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06430-9

LTP induction by structural rather than enzymatic functions of CaMKII p.146

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06465-y

Oligomerization-mediated activation of a short prokaryotic Argonaute p.154

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06456-z

Mapping the T cell repertoire to a complex gut bacterial community p.162

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06431-8

Identification of an alternative triglyceride biosynthesis pathway p.171

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06497-4

Metabolic programs of T cell tissue residency empower tumour immunity p.179

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06483-w

CRISPR screens decode cancer cell pathways that trigger γδ T cell detection p.188

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06482-x

Increased hyaluronan by naked mole-rat Has2 improves healthspan in mice p.196

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06463-0

A pentameric TRPV3 channel with a dilated pore p.206

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06470-1