Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02469-9

India’s doctors and its government are at loggerheads over much-needed changes to medical education. Differences must be settled and cool heads must prevail.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02506-7

Banana-killing fungus, 80,000 science scholarships at risk in Brazil and the world’s most extreme self-citers.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02461-3

Researchers say that Irina Artemieva’s dismissal from the University of Copenhagen runs counter to international academic standards.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02453-3

How Nature reported early experiments on magnetic data storage in 1969, and an alternative stuffing for lifebelts in 1919.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02475-x

Lisa Feldman Barrett ponders Joseph LeDoux’s study on how conscious brains evolved.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02466-y

Promising thermal-insulator materials are tens of thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02474-y

Better regulation, flight control, batteries and software would improve the range of craft and data quality, argue Nicholas C. Coops, Tristan R. H. Goodbody and Lin Cao.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02495-7

New minister aims to boost Greek research

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02493-9

Tie institutions’ reputations to their anti-bullying record

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02494-8

Green banks: a critical boost to clean energy transition

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02492-w

Peer reviewers need a code of conduct too

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02467-x

Death rates from cardiovascular disease were falling in many wealthy nations but are now plateauing.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02463-1

Skulls found in an ancient settlement in the Andes Mountains were altered for display.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02484-w

If the country’s main science-funding agency doesn’t get more cash soon, young researchers will stop getting paid.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02489-5

The region produces most of the world’s banana exports — and the fungus affects the most popular commercial variety.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02499-3

The newborn Universe, the first-ever ring of pure carbon and why we must eat less meat to save the world.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02482-y

Alkaline compound helps the tuberculosis bacterium to ward off an acid attack from host cells.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1497-4

Phase curve measurements for the small (1.3 Earth radii) terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b show absence of a thick atmosphere, in agreement with theoretical predictions.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02477-9

Combining the data-analysis tool Starfish with technologies to pinpoint RNA’s cellular locations can add spatial detail to in situ transcriptomics.

Nature, Published online: 19 August 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02479-7

Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.