Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03535-x

Collaborators are locked in a high-stakes dispute over which researchers should be named as inventors on a key vaccine patent application.

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04248-x

An autoimmune stem-like CD8 T cell population drives type 1 diabetes

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04257-w

Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03513-3

Nature’s pages feature a look at early postal services and consider changes in mathematical thought over time.

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03543-x

Two former NIH directors call for a cabinet-level department to formulate long-range science policy and oversee technology development.

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04176-w

Author Correction: Targeting LIF-mediated paracrine interaction for pancreatic cancer therapy and monitoring

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03540-0

Climate researchers: consider standing for office — I did

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03539-7

Animal experiments: EU is pushing to find substitutes fast

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03541-z

Collaborate equitably in ancient DNA research and beyond

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03542-y

Ancient-DNA researchers write their own rules

Nature, Published online: 30 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03554-8

Data collected by the Tianwen-1 mission and Zhurong Mars rover are offering insights into a previously unexplored region of Mars’s northern hemisphere.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03590-4

In China, the first children with germline-edited genomes are growing up — but their futures hold many questions. Plus, ‘patience is crucial’ when it comes to the Omicron coronavirus variant and hopeful hints of a stem-cell cure for type 1 diabetes.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04185-9

Author Correction: Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03534-y

Radiocarbon dating suggests 41,500-year-old carved tusk fragment could be the region’s earliest known example of jewellery decorated by humans.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03501-7

A host of private companies are promising commercial fusion reactors in the next decade.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03573-5

Tom Cameron works with local oyster growers to restore native oysters to their natural habitat in the United Kingdom.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03043-y

Employers need to do more to improve workplace diversity, equity and inclusion, a Nature survey finds.

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03571-7

What sort of system nurtures a decades-long programme of deliberately infecting children and prisoners with a dangerous disease?

Nature, Published online: 29 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03569-1

Anthony Fauci on four decades of progress against HIV, and what’s needed for the future.

Nature, Published online: 26 November 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03564-6

What we know about a worrying new variant of SARS-CoV-2. Plus, the ‘shadow pandemic’ in the global south and how to give great hugs.