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These parrots go on killing sprees over real-estate shortages Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Scientists recorded green-rumped parrotlets pecking others’ chicks to death, probably to claim the nest space.
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Diana Wall obituary: ecologist who foresaw the importance of soil biodiversity Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Environmental scientist who revealed the crucial role of underground animals in sustainability.
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A jawless-fish genome untangles the history of vertebrate genome multiplications Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Hagfish genetics shed light on how early vertebrates evolved.
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CRISPR therapy restores some vision to people with blindness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
People with an inherited condition that causes vision loss in childhood had vision improvements after treatment to replace a mutated gene.
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The US Congress is taking on AI —this computer scientist is helping Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Kiri Wagstaff, who temporarily shelved her academic career to provide advice on federal AI legislation, talks about life inside the halls of power.
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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.
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US TikTok ban: how the looming restriction is affecting scientists on the app Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Nature talks to researchers about what is at stake if users in the country lose access.
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How the cauliflower got its curlicues Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
More than 2,000 years of domestication have given the popular vegetable its short stem and clumpy ‘curds’.
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Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Max L. Prichard, Benjamin M. Spar, Ivan Morera, Eugene Demler, Zoe Z. Yan, Waseem S. Bakr
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Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Bernhard Tschitschko, Mertcan Esti, Miriam Philippi, Abiel T. Kidane, Sten Littmann, Katharina Kitzinger, Daan R. Speth, Shengjie Li, Alexandra Kraberg, Daniela Tienken, Hannah K. Marchant, Boran Kartal, Jana Milucka, Wiebke Mohr, Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Nitrogen (N2) fixation in oligotrophic surface waters is the main source of new nitrogen (N) to the ocean1 and plays a key role in fueling the biological carbon pump2. Oceanic N2 fixation is almost exclusively attributed to cyanobacteria, even though genes encoding nitrogenase, the enzyme fixing N2 into ammonia, are widespread among marine bacteria and archaea3-5. Little is known about these non-cyanobacterial
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How ignorance and gender inequality thwart treatment of a widespread illness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09
Tens of millions of people have female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that few physicians have even heard of. Efforts are under way to move it out of obscurity and empower women and girls to access sexual and reproductive health care.
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Structural mechanism of angiogenin activation by the ribosome Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Anna B. Loveland, Cha San Koh, Robin Ganesan, Allan Jacobson, Andrei A. Korostelev
Angiogenin, an RNase A-family protein, promotes angiogenesis and has been implicated in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and epigenetic inheritance 1-10. Upon activation during cellular stress, angiogenin cleaves tRNAs at the anticodon loop, resulting in translation repression 11-15. The catalytic activity of isolated angiogenin, however, is very low, and the mechanisms of the enzyme activation
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A secondary atmosphere on the rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Renyu Hu, Aaron Bello-Arufe, Michael Zhang, Kimberly Paragas, Mantas Zilinskas, Christiaan van Buchem, Michael Bess, Jayshil Patel, Yuichi Ito, Mario Damiano, Markus Scheucher, Apurva V. Oza, Heather A. Knutson, Yamila Miguel, Diana Dragomir, Alexis Brandeker, Brice-Olivier Demory
Characterizing rocky exoplanets is a central endeavor of astronomy, and yet the search for atmospheres on rocky exoplanets has hitherto resulted in either tight upper limits on the atmospheric mass1–3 or inconclusive results4–6. The 1.95-REarth and 8.8-MEarth planet 55 Cnc e, with a predominantly rocky composition and an equilibrium temperature of ~2000 K, may have a volatile envelope (containing molecules
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Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3 Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Josh Abramson, Jonas Adler, Jack Dunger, Richard Evans, Tim Green, Alexander Pritzel, Olaf Ronneberger, Lindsay Willmore, Andrew J. Ballard, Joshua Bambrick, Sebastian W. Bodenstein, David A. Evans, Chia-Chun Hung, Michael O’Neill, David Reiman, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, Zachary Wu, Akvilė Žemgulytė, Eirini Arvaniti, Charles Beattie, Ottavia Bertolli, Alex Bridgland, Alexey Cherepanov, Miles Congreve
The introduction of AlphaFold 21 has spurred a revolution in modelling the structure of proteins and their interactions, enabling a huge range of applications in protein modelling and design2–6. In this paper, we describe our AlphaFold 3 model with a substantially updated diffusion-based architecture, which is capable of joint structure prediction of complexes including proteins, nucleic acids, small
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Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Yonghang Yang, Baokun Liang, Jakob Kreie, Mike Hambsch, Zihao Liang, Cheng Wang, Senhe Huang, Xin Dong, Li Gong, Chaolun Liang, Dongyang Lou, Zhipeng Zhou, Jiaxing Lu, Yang Yang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Haoyuan Qi, Ute Kaiser, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Wei Liu, Armin Gölzhäuser, Zhikun Zheng
The properties of polycrystalline materials are often dominated by defects, and two-dimensional (2D) crystals can even be divided and disrupted by a line defect1-3. In contrast, 2D crystals are often required to be processed into films, which are inevitably polycrystalline and contain numerous grain boundaries, and therefore are brittle and fragile, hindering application in flexible electronics, optoelectronics
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Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
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Mapping genotypes to chromatin accessibility profiles in single cells Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Franco Izzo, Robert M. Myers, Saravanan Ganesan, Levan Mekerishvili, Sanjay Kottapalli, Tamara Prieto, Elliot O. Eton, Theo Botella, Andrew J. Dunbar, Robert L. Bowman, Jesus Sotelo, Catherine Potenski, Eleni P. Mimitou, Maximilian Stahl, Sebastian El Ghaity-Beckley, JoAnn Arandela, Ramya Raviram, Daniel C. Choi, Ronald Hoffman, Ronan Chaligné, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Peter Smibert, Irene M. Ghobrial, Joseph
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Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Martin Lebrat, Muqing Xu, Lev Haldar Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Pranav Seetharaman, Ivan Morera, Ehsan Khatami, Eugene Demler, Markus Greiner
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Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Manu Gopakumar, Gun-Yeal Lee, Suyeon Choi, Brian Chao, Yifan Peng, Jonghyun Kim, Gordon Wetzstein
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The refinery of the future Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Eelco T. C. Vogt, Bert M. Weckhuysen
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All-optical subcycle microscopy on atomic length scales Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 T. Siday, J. Hayes, F. Schiegl, F. Sandner, P. Menden, V. Bergbauer, M. Zizlsperger, S. Nerreter, S. Lingl, J. Repp, J. Wilhelm, M. A. Huber, Y. A. Gerasimenko, R. Huber
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The intrinsic substrate specificity of the human tyrosine kinome Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Tomer M. Yaron-Barir, Brian A. Joughin, Emily M. Huntsman, Alexander Kerelsky, Daniel M. Cizin, Benjamin M. Cohen, Amit Regev, Junho Song, Neil Vasan, Ting-Yu Lin, Jose M. Orozco, Christina Schoenherr, Cari Sagum, Mark T. Bedford, R. Max Wynn, Shih-Chia Tso, David T. Chuang, Lei Li, Shawn S.-C. Li, Pau Creixell, Konstantin Krismer, Mina Takegami, Harin Lee, Bin Zhang, Jingyi Lu, Ian Cossentino, Sean
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Chemical short-range disorder in lithium oxide cathodes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Qidi Wang, Zhenpeng Yao, Jianlin Wang, Hao Guo, Chao Li, Dong Zhou, Xuedong Bai, Hong Li, Baohua Li, Marnix Wagemaker, Chenglong Zhao
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Boron catalysis in a designer enzyme Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Lars Longwitz, Reuben B. Leveson-Gower, Henriëtte J. Rozeboom, Andy-Mark W. H. Thunnissen, Gerard Roelfes
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Genome organization around nuclear speckles drives mRNA splicing efficiency Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Prashant Bhat, Amy Chow, Benjamin Emert, Olivia Ettlin, Sofia A. Quinodoz, Mackenzie Strehle, Yodai Takei, Alex Burr, Isabel N. Goronzy, Allen W. Chen, Wesley Huang, Jose Lorenzo M. Ferrer, Elizabeth Soehalim, Say-Tar Goh, Tara Chari, Delaney K. Sullivan, Mario R. Blanco, Mitchell Guttman
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Ligand cross-feeding resolves bacterial vitamin B12 auxotrophies Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Gerrit Wienhausen, Cristina Moraru, Stefan Bruns, Den Quoc Tran, Sabiha Sultana, Heinz Wilkes, Leon Dlugosch, Farooq Azam, Meinhard Simon
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Structural pharmacology and therapeutic potential of 5-methoxytryptamines Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Audrey L. Warren, David Lankri, Michael J. Cunningham, Inis C. Serrano, Lyonna F. Parise, Andrew C. Kruegel, Priscilla Duggan, Gregory Zilberg, Michael J. Capper, Vaclav Havel, Scott J. Russo, Dalibor Sames, Daniel Wacker
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An atomic boson sampler Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Aaron W. Young, Shawn Geller, William J. Eckner, Nathan Schine, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Adam M. Kaufman
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Self-oscillating polymeric refrigerator with high energy efficiency Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Donglin Han, Yingjing Zhang, Cenling Huang, Shanyu Zheng, Dongyuan Wu, Qiang Li, Feihong Du, Hongxiao Duan, Weilin Chen, Junye Shi, Jiangping Chen, Gang Liu, Xin Chen, Xiaoshi Qian
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Targetable leukaemia dependency on noncanonical PI3Kγ signalling Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Qingyu Luo, Evangeline G. Raulston, Miguel A. Prado, Xiaowei Wu, Kira Gritsman, Karley S. Whalen, Kezhi Yan, Christopher A. G. Booth, Ran Xu, Peter van Galen, John G. Doench, Shai Shimony, Henry W. Long, Donna S. Neuberg, Joao A. Paulo, Andrew A. Lane
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Dozens of Brazilian universities hit by strikes over academic wages Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Some professors and staff members have been on strike for as long as four weeks as they seek better conditions at their institutions.
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Quantum tunnelling of electrons brings ultrafast optical microscopy to the atomic scale Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
A signal from tunnelling electrons enables the development of an optical microscope that works on extremely short spatio-temporal scales.
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Physicists move closer to an ultra-precise ‘nuclear’ clock Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Timekeepers based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei could transform fundamental-physics research.
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Did atmospheric weathering help Earth’s earliest continents to survive? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Claire E. Bucholz
How the atmosphere might have helped to stabilize continental cores.
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‘Milestone’ discovery as JWST confirms atmosphere on an Earth-like exoplanet Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation.
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Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
New data repositories and alternative journals and workshops offer routes for sharing negative results — which could help to solve the reproducibility crisis and give machine learning a boost.
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Daily briefing: Rejuvenating the immune system could slow ageing Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Studies in mice raise the tantalising prospect of treating immune ageing to control age-related diseases. Plus, concerns grow over cows becoming a permanent reservoir for the bird flu virus and a major AlphaFold upgrade offers a boost for drug discovery.
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Reinvent oil refineries for a net-zero future Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
From petrol to plastics, oil-derived products define modern life. A bold plan to change that comes with huge costs — but researchers and policymakers should take it seriously.
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Daily briefing: Grad students are going hungry on campus Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07
Food insecurity is ‘off the scales’ in universities, say researchers. Plus, the mission to grab rocks from the far side of the Moon has launched and the letter that jump-started Alzheimer’s research.
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Indian Ocean temperature anomalies predict long-term global dengue trends Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yuyang Chen, Yiting Xu, Lin Wang, Yilin Liang, Naizhe Li, José Lourenço, Yun Yang, Qiushi Lin, Ligui Wang, He Zhao, Bernard Cazelles, Hongbin Song, Ziyan Liu, Zengmiao Wang, Oliver J. Brady, Simon Cauchemez, Huaiyu Tian
Despite identifying El Niño events as a factor in dengue dynamics, predicting the oscillation of global dengue epidemics remains challenging. Here, we investigate climate indicators and worldwide dengue incidence from 1990 to 2019 using climate-driven mechanistic models. We identify a distinct indicator, the Indian Ocean basin-wide (IOBW) index, as representing the regional average of sea surface temperature
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A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Alexander Shapson-Coe, Michał Januszewski, Daniel R. Berger, Art Pope, Yuelong Wu, Tim Blakely, Richard L. Schalek, Peter H. Li, Shuohong Wang, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Neha Karlupia, Sven Dorkenwald, Evelina Sjostedt, Laramie Leavitt, Dongil Lee, Jakob Troidl, Forrest Collman, Luke Bailey, Angerica Fitzmaurice, Rohin Kar, Benjamin Field, Hank Wu, Julian Wagner-Carena, David Aley, Joanna Lau, Zudi Lin
To fully understand how the human brain works, knowledge of its structure at high resolution is needed. Presented here is a computationally intensive reconstruction of the ultrastructure of a cubic millimeter of human temporal cortex that was surgically removed to gain access to an underlying epileptic focus. It contains about 57,000 cells, about 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and about 150 million
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Spike timing–based coding in neuromimetic tactile system enables dynamic object classification Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Libo Chen, Sanja Karilanova, Soumi Chaki, Chenyu Wen, Lisha Wang, Bengt Winblad, Shi-Li Zhang, Ayça Özçelikkale, Zhi-Bin Zhang
Rapid processing of tactile information is essential to human haptic exploration and dexterous object manipulation. Conventional electronic skins generate frames of tactile signals upon interaction with objects. Unfortunately, they are generally ill-suited for efficient coding of temporal information and rapid feature extraction. In this work, we report a neuromorphic tactile system that uses spike
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Catalog of topological phonon materials Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yuanfeng Xu, M. G. Vergniory, Da-Shuai Ma, Juan L. Mañes, Zhi-Da Song, B. Andrei Bernevig, Nicolas Regnault, Luis Elcoro
Phonons play a crucial role in many properties of solid-state systems, and it is expected that topological phonons may lead to rich and unconventional physics. On the basis of the existing phonon materials databases, we have compiled a catalog of topological phonon bands for more than 10,000 three-dimensional crystalline materials. Using topological quantum chemistry, we calculated the band representations
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The odd-number cyclo[13]carbon and its dimer, cyclo[26]carbon Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Florian Albrecht, Igor Rončević, Yueze Gao, Fabian Paschke, Alberto Baiardi, Ivano Tavernelli, Shantanu Mishra, Harry L. Anderson, Leo Gross
Molecular rings of N carbon atoms (cyclo[ N ]carbons, or C N ) are excellent benchmarking systems for testing quantum chemical theoretical methods and valuable precursors to other carbon-rich materials. Odd- N cyclocarbons, which have been elusive to date, are predicted to be even less stable than even- N cyclocarbons. We report the on-surface synthesis of cyclo[13]carbon, C 13 , by manipulation of
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Atomically dispersed hexavalent iridium oxide from MnO 2 reduction for oxygen evolution catalysis Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Ailong Li, Shuang Kong, Kiyohiro Adachi, Hideshi Ooka, Kazuna Fushimi, Qike Jiang, Hironori Ofuchi, Satoru Hamamoto, Masaki Oura, Kotaro Higashi, Takuma Kaneko, Tomoya Uruga, Naomi Kawamura, Daisuke Hashizume, Ryuhei Nakamura
Hexavalent iridium (Ir VI ) oxide is predicted to be more active and stable than any other iridium oxide for the oxygen evolution reaction in acid; however, its experimental realization remains challenging. In this work, we report the synthesis, characterization, and application of atomically dispersed Ir VI oxide (Ir VI - ado ) for proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis. The Ir VI - ado
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Scalable decarboxylative trifluoromethylation by ion-shielding heterogeneous photoelectrocatalysis Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yixin Chen, Yuchen He, Yong Gao, Jiakun Xue, Wei Qu, Jun Xuan, Yiming Mo
Electrochemistry offers a sustainable synthesis route to value-added fine chemicals but is often constrained by competing electron transfer between the electrode and redox-sensitive functionalities distinct from the target site. Here, we describe an ion-shielding heterogeneous photoelectrocatalysis strategy to impose mass-transfer limitations that invert the thermodynamically determined order of electron
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Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yujiao Zhao, Ye Ding, Vick Lau, Christopher Man, Shi Su, Linfang Xiao, Alex T. L. Leong, Ed X. Wu
Despite a half-century of advancements, global magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accessibility remains limited and uneven, hindering its full potential in health care. Initially, MRI development focused on low fields around 0.05 Tesla, but progress halted after the introduction of the 1.5 Tesla whole-body superconducting scanner in 1983. Using a permanent 0.05 Tesla magnet and deep learning for electromagnetic
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Coexistence of superconductivity with partially filled stripes in the Hubbard model Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Hao Xu, Chia-Min Chung, Mingpu Qin, Ulrich Schollwöck, Steven R. White, Shiwei Zhang
The Hubbard model is an iconic model in quantum many-body physics and has been intensely studied, especially since the discovery of high-temperature cuprate superconductors. Combining the complementary capabilities of two computational methods, we found superconductivity in both the electron- and hole-doped regimes of the two-dimensional Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping. In the electron-doped
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A nasal chemosensation–dependent critical window for somatosensory development Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Linbi Cai, Ali Özgür Argunşah, Angeliki Damilou, Theofanis Karayannis
Nasal chemosensation is considered the evolutionarily oldest mammalian sense and, together with somatosensation, is crucial for neonatal well-being before auditory and visual pathways start engaging the brain. Using anatomical and functional approaches in mice, we reveal that odor-driven activity propagates to a large part of the cortex during the first postnatal week and enhances whisker-evoked activation
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Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mark W. Smith, Thomas Willis, Elizabeth Mroz, William H. M. James, Megan J. Klaar, Simon N. Gosling, Christopher J. Thomas
Changes in climate shift the geographic locations that are suitable for malaria transmission because of the thermal constraints on vector Anopheles mosquitos and Plasmodium spp. malaria parasites and the lack of availability of surface water for vector breeding. Previous Africa-wide assessments have tended to solely represent surface water using precipitation, ignoring many important hydrological processes
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A diminished North Atlantic nutrient stream during Younger Dryas climate reversal Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Tyler D. Vollmer, Shannon G. Valley, Eric Blackmon, Sifan Gu, Thomas M. Marchitto
The high rate of biological productivity in the North Atlantic is stimulated by the advective supply of nutrients into the region via the Gulf Stream (nutrient stream). It has been proposed that the projected future decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will cause a reduction in nutrient supply and resulting productivity. In this work, we examine how the nutrient stream
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Large quantum anomalous Hall effect in spin-orbit proximitized rhombohedral graphene Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Yuxuan Yao, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Chiho Yoon, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Fan Zhang, Long Ju
The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a robust topological phenomenon that features quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the QAHE in a rhombohedral pentalayer graphene-monolayer tungsten disulfide (WS 2 ) heterostructure. Distinct from other experimentally confirmed QAHE systems, this system has neither magnetic element nor moiré superlattice effect. The QAH states emerge
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Mr. Thorp goes to Washington Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 H. Holden Thorp
On 2 April, I received an email that changed the course of the next 2 weeks. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, chaired by United States Congressman Brad Wenstrup, invited me to testify along with my counterparts at Nature and The Lancet . The purpose of the public hearing (Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review)
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Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Agnes Holstad, Kjetil L. Voje, Øystein H. Opedal, Geir H. Bolstad, Salomé Bourg, Thomas F. Hansen, Christophe Pélabon
Heritable variation is a prerequisite for evolutionary change, but the relevance of genetic constraints on macroevolutionary timescales is debated. By using two datasets on fossil and contemporary taxa, we show that evolutionary divergence among populations, and to a lesser extent among species, increases with microevolutionary evolvability. We evaluate and reject several hypotheses to explain this
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Momentum-exchange interactions in a Bragg atom interferometer suppress Doppler dephasing Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Chengyi Luo, Haoqing Zhang, Vanessa P. W. Koh, John D. Wilson, Anjun Chu, Murray J. Holland, Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson
Large ensembles of laser-cooled atoms interacting through infinite-range photon-mediated interactions are powerful platforms for quantum simulation and sensing. Here we realize momentum-exchange interactions in which pairs of atoms exchange their momentum states by collective emission and absorption of photons from a common cavity mode, a process equivalent to a spin-exchange or XX collective Heisenberg
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Bird flu in US cows: where will it end? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would aid its spread in people.
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How I fled bombed Aleppo to continue my career in science Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Aref Kyyaly’s quest to find a safe place, away from Syria, to do research taught him perseverance. Don’t give up, is his advice.
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Powerful ‘nanopore’ DNA sequencing method tackles proteins too Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Latest methods bring the speed, portability, and long read lengths of nanopore sequencing to proteomics.
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Old electric-vehicle batteries can find new purpose — on the grid Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07
An algorithm can monitor the health of retired vehicle batteries used to store surplus power fed into the electrical grid.