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This study achieves precise atomic-scale control over ferroelectric polymer chains through facet modulation, significantly enhancing ferroelectric phase stability, thereby enabling efficient and tunable multiband electromagnetic attenuation.

Metal–ligand synergistic catalysis remains underexplored in single-atom systems. Here, inspired by homogeneous pincer complexes, the authors construct Pd(II)–N₄ sites on carbon nitride, enabling highly selective photocatalytic semi-hydrogenation of alkynes.

Wearable silent speech systems hold potential for restoring communication in patients suffering from speech impairments. Tang et al. report an AI-driven silent speech system for dysarthria patients, which enables zero-time-delay expression and context-aware emotion decoding-based sentence expansion.

Van der Waals materials of the MB₂T₄ family (M = transition metal or rare-earth metal, B = Bi or Sb, T = Te, Se, or S) have attracted interest for their magnetic and topological properties, but their direct synthesis into 2D form remains challenging. Here the authors report a flux-assisted, phase-controlled growth strategy to directly grow six magnetic 2D MB₂T₄ crystals.

Heart failure affects millions worldwide with limited treatment options. Here, the authors develop a biodegradable, self-powered vagus nerve stimulator that attenuates cardiac damage at different disease stages without requiring battery replacement or surgical removal.

Electrical stimulation is known to aid bone repair, but ROS and hypoxia-induced oxidative stress can still impair repair. Here, the authors report on a piezoelectric semiconductor, developed to eliminate ROS, allow oxygen self-supply, and provide electrical stimulation to aid in stimulated bone repair.

Acoustic communication is important for the reproductive behaviour of frogs. Using acoustic playback experiments, Shenet al. show that calls from male concave-eared frogs (Odorrana tormota) evoke vocal responses and phonotaxis from females, but the females show no ultrasonic sensitivity.

The CMS Collaboration reports the measurement of the spin, parity, and charge conjugation properties of all-charm tetraquarks, exotic fleeting particles formed in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

Monitoring the early-stage healing of severe traumatic nerve injuries is essential to gather pathological information for timely interventions. Here, the authors introduce a biodegradable and restorative neural interface for wireless real-time tracking.

To overcome the transverse wrinkles and voids between MXene nanosheets, the authors fabricated MXene fibers via a combination of static filling and dynamic thermal drawing, achieving optimized mechanical and electrical performance.

This study identifies a distinct Wnt5a high expression fibroblast population in the mouse sclera that protects against myopia progression by maintaining extracellular matrix homeostasis via Sparc pathway, offering potential therapeutic targets.

Wang et al. propose a 3D meta-holographic zoom micro-projector, integrating a high-resolution metasurface with a tailored liquid lens, resulting in a 3D zoom micro-projector of only 0.18 cm³, small enough to fit on a fingertip.

This study shows that tensile strain continuously tunes lone-pair expression in BiCuSeO, increases lattice disorder and phonon scattering, and lowers thermal conductivity, offering an effective approach to control heat transport in materials.

Chiral antiferromagnets, such as Mn3Pt, host a variety of transport phenomena arising due to the chiral arrangement of the spins. Herein, the authors find two contributions to the anomalous hall effect in Mn3Pt, and through comparison with other chiral antiferromagnets develop a universal scaling law for the anomalous hall effect in chiral antiferromagnets.

The use of Li or Na as electrodes in Li-Na alloy–O₂ batteries creates formidable challenges for both safety and stability because of their oxidative corrosion and the growth of dendrites and cracks on their surface. Now, an aprotic bimetal Li-Na alloy–O₂ battery with high cycling stability has been developed using a Li-Na eutectic alloy anode and an electrolyte additive.

Silent speech interfaces rely on a wide range of sensing technologies to decode articulatory and neural signals without sound. This Review compares off-, on- and in-body modalities and outlines emerging sensor–AI integration trends for scalable silent speech interfaces.

The quark structure of the f₀(980) hadron is still unknown after 50 years of its discovery. Here, the CMS Collaboration reports a measurement of the elliptic flow of the f₀(980) state in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV, providing strong evidence that the state is an ordinary meson.

Federated learning (FL) algorithms have emerged as a promising solution to train models for healthcare imaging across institutions while preserving privacy. Here, the authors describe the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) challenge for the decentralised benchmarking of FL algorithms and evaluation of Healthcare AI algorithm generalizability in real-world cancer imaging datasets.

A nanofluidic intracellular delivery (NanoFLUID) patch provides a versatile, biocompatible and efficient method for the targeted delivery of payloads to internal organs for therapeutic purposes and for biomolecular investigations.

By using light-responsive molybdate-based ionic hydrogel droplets for photo energy harvesting, can generate a voltage output of ~250 mV.

Commercial lithium-ion batteries still have the issue of the uncontrollable dendritic Li under extreme conditions. Here, authors demonstrate a MXene-configured graphite, enabling homogeneous growth of Li, achieving high-capacity retentions in Ah-level pouch cell at −20 °C and high rates.

The magnetic flux rope is a crucial structure in astrophysical and space plasmas. Here, the authors show how this structure rapidly contracts/expands and consequently how it accelerates/decelerates electrons, by using an advanced analysis technique.

The semileptonic decay channels of the Λc baryon can give important insights into weak interaction, but decay into a neutron, positron and electron neutrino has not been reported so far, due to difficulties in the final products’ identification. Here, the BESIII Collaboration reports its observation in e+e- collision data, exploiting machine-learning-based identification techniques.

A biodegradable electronic bandage that applies pulsed and d.c. electrostimulation can accelerate the healing of intestinal wounds in mice via transfection of cells and stimulation-induced secretion of healing factor from those cells.

A hybrid cathode interfacial layer (AZnO-F3N) is developed, delivering 21.0% efficiency along with excellent stability, mechanical robustness and broad versatility, highlighting its potential to advance organic solar cells.

Ion transport in nanochannels is governed by distinct regions, including the ‘real first interface’ (RFI), whose role remains unclear. Here, the authors design a diblock DNA probe to isolate and reveal the charge-driven contribution of the RFI to ionic current regulation.

The interplay between electronic topology and superconductivity is of great current interest in condensed matter physics. Here, the authors unveil an unconventional two-dimensional superconducting state accompanied by a van Hove singularity in the recently discovered Dirac nodal line semimetal ZrAs₂, which is exclusively confined to the top and bottom surfaces.

The commercialization of organic solar cells has been hindered by the limited device stability. Here, authors show that the connectivity of electron transport network is a key factor determining electron transport and device stability, with polymeric acceptors likely to establish such a network.

Here, the authors develop an antiferromagnet/topological insulator heterostructure, MnSe/(Bi,Sb)₂Te₃, to obtain laser-induced transient magnetic moment and optically controllable circularly polarized ultrafast terahertz pulse generation, under zero external magnetic field.

Spin-waves have a variety of advantages for information processing, and here, Chen, Xu and coauthors demonstrate the deterministic switching of antiferromagnetic spin textures using non-linear spin-waves. The switching process is progressive, mirroring weighted sum operations in neuromorphic computing.

Controlling the propagation of spin currents with opposite polarities in antiferromagnets has remained challenging. Now the frequency of coherently excited spin waves in a haematite-based device is shown to control the sign of the spin current.

Here, the authors report chemical vapor deposition growth of metallic 1T-CrTe₂ ultrathin crystals with controlled thickness and long-range ferromagnetic ordering, and observe a monotonic increase of the Curie temperature with decreasing thickness.

Extreme weather events will require resilient and adaptive critical infrastructure. This study models adaptive transitions in collective travel behaviour during flood events across different cities to quantify recovery and adaptive learning from failures and reveal adaptation drivers.

While Bell inequalities have been violated several times—mostly in photonic systems—their violations within particle physics experiments are less explored. Here, the BESIII Collaboration showcases Bell-violating nonlocal correlations between entangled hyperon pairs.

The mechanisms linking neuropsychiatric and metabolic disorders remain unclear. The authors show a pancreas–hippocampus feedback loop whereby metabolic and circadian factors drive behavioral fluctuations, with potential relevance for bipolar disorder.

Sn doping enables a breakthrough in p-type AgSbTe₂ for thermoelectric applications, achieving a zT of 2.5 and 12.1% device efficiency. The authors reveal an impurity band mechanism, offering a strategy for AgSbTe₂ optimization.

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with high metal loading are highly desired to improve catalytic performance. Here, the authors report a dual protection strategy by nanocasting SiO₂ into metal–organic frameworks to prepare high-loading SACs with excellent catalytic performance toward oxygen reduction.

Fast-moving superconducting vortices generate monochromatic magnons at short wavelengths down to 36 nm in a ferromagnet–superconductor hybrid device.

Mobility impairment reduces autonomy and social participation. Here, the authors discuss how wearable technologies are transforming assisted mobility towards more adaptive, intuitive, and user-centered solutions.

Scattering in the archetypal oxide SrRuO₃ is shown to enhance orbital currents. This counter-intuitive effect establishes a transformative paradigm for energy-efficient spintronic devices.

Topochemical polymerization (TCP) emerges as a leading approach for synthesizing single crystalline polymers, but the untapped potential of performing TCP in a liquid medium with solid-state structural fidelity presents unsolved challenges. Here, the authors reveal details of single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation during the TCP of chiral azaquinodimethane monomers through in situ crystallographic analysis while spotlighting a rare metastable crystalline phase.

Continuous neuromonitoring is vital for guiding neurocritical care, yet artefacts frequently obscure cerebral physiological signals and hinder clinical decisions. In this Review, sources of artefacts and their clinical impact are examined, alongside emerging strategies — both knowledge-based and data-driven — for artefact mitigation, sensor design and artificial intelligence-enabled real-time monitoring in precision neurocare.

The CMS Collaboration reports evidence for off-shell Higgs boson contributions in the production of Z boson pairs, and measures the width of the Higgs boson, which is inversely related to its lifetime.

The CMS Collaboration reports the study of three simultaneous hard interactions between quarks and gluons in proton–proton collisions. This manifests through the concurrent production of three J/ψ mesons, which consist of a charm-quark–antiquark pair.

Metallic bone scaffolds can’t be soft and strong. Here, the authors design a two-stage metamaterial scaffold with decoupled strength and modulus. By inducing greater tissue strain, it enhances osteogenesis and angiogenesis in ulnar defects model.

The authors engineer chiral magnon modes in a strongly correlated oxide using lattice strain. The resulting long and tunable propagation of these modes is an exciting development in the field of magnetic materials.

The authors realize generation of out-of-plane polarized spin current in perovskite oxide CaRuO₃ with reduced crystal symmetry by engineering the oxygen octahedra, which can drive efficient field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization.

Sun, Tao, Han et al. identify the Rabs involved in unconventional protein secretion mediated by TMED10 and in ER–Golgi intermediate compartment organization.