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Chronic care manages long-term, progressive conditions, while acute care handles short-term ones. Here, authors show chronic conditions account for most of the global health burden, with 68% of DALYs and 93% of YLDs attributed to chronic care needs.

The magnetoresistance suggests an exotic topological phase in LaBi, but the evidence is still missing. Here, Nayaket al. report the existence of surface states of LaBi through the observation of three Dirac cones, confirming it a topological semimetal.

Materials which simultaneously exhibit superconductivity and topologically non-trivial electronic band structure possess potential applications in quantum computing but have yet to be found. Here, the authors find superconductivity in MoTe₂, a material predicted to be topologically non-trivial.

Magnetic Weyl semimetals in the 2D limit may behave like 2D Chern insulators and host the quantum anomalous Hall effect at high temperatures. Here, the authors report the observation of linearly dispersing topological states confined to the edges of the kagome Co₃Sn terraces in the magnetic Weyl system Co₃Sn₂S₂.

Topological quasiparticle with higher Chern number is promising to realize large-quantized photogalvanic effect. Here, the authors observe splitting of both topological surface and bulk states in a chiral crystal PtGa, suggesting multifold fermions with a maximal Chern number of ±4.

Topological states of matter with unique transport properties hold the potential to realize unexpected phenomena. Here, Aggarwalet al. report the coexistence of a superconducting phase and a high transport spin polarization at metallic point contacts on Weyl semimetal TaAs.

But some researchers say new rules don’t go far enough

Phase-separating peptide (PSP) coacervate microdroplets (CMs) have emerged as promising intracellular delivery vectors, but the molecular grammar governing intracellular uptake and release kinetics of CMs is elusive. Here, the authors systematically manipulate the sequence of PSPs to establish molecular guidelines for designing and optimizing PSP CM-based intracellular delivery systems.

Magnetoresistance of topological semimetal shows unusual electron transport behaviour. Here, Arnold et al. demonstrate detailed Fermi surface topology of Weyl semimetal TaP and show that negative longitudinal magnetoresistance shows up without well-defined Weyl fermions.

Condensate droplets coalescing on superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit unique roaming behaviour, distinct from gravity-driven removal, offering potential for enhanced heat transfer in condensation processes critical to energy and water applications. Authors report that this phenomenon arises from stochastic nucleation-induced adhesion asymmetries, which drive droplet motion, improve surface renewal, and outperform jumping droplets in heat transfer efficiency.

Periodic laser light can modify the electronic properties of solids and offers a path to create new material phases. In a topological antiferromagnet, periodic driving with opposite light helicities is now shown to produce distinct Dirac mass gaps.

But some researchers say new rules don’t go far enough.

Kagome-lattice systems host a variety of condensed matter phenomena. Here, the authors use NMR spectroscopy to probe the orbital-selective modulations of the local density of states in the charge density wave phase of ScV₆Sn₆.

Chiral topological materials have been predicted to host orbital angular momentum monopoles, which can be useful for orbitronics applications. Now such monopoles have been imaged in chiral materials.

But more policies are needed to transition the city to renewable energy, say researchers.

Topological boundary modes within charge-ordered states have not yet been observed experimentally. Now an in-gap boundary mode, stemming solely from the charge order, is visualized in the topological material Ta₂Se₈I.

Although novel topological quasiparticles have recently been evidenced, their electrical transport properties remain elusive. Here, the authors report ultra-low resistivity down to 6 nΩcm at 2 K in MoP with a large mean free path, which hints on the exotic properties of triple point fermions.

Spin-momentum locking is a fundamental property of condensed matter systems. Here, the authors evidence parallel Weyl spin-momentum locking of multifold fermions in the chiral topological semimetal PtGa.

An approach to design compensated ferrimagnetic Heusler alloys is established. A small lack of compensation produces giant exchange bias and large coercivity. This effect is observed for alloys that have the magnetic transition above room temperature.

Weyl semimetals are predicted to exhibit a host of unusual transport properties. NbP, a system predicted to share characteristics of both normal and Weyl semimetals, is now shown to have a very large, non-saturating magnetoresistance.

HGF/c-MET upregulation is frequent in bladder cancer. Here, the authors show that HGF induces EMT and invasion by stabilising TGFβ receptor through inhibition of the SMURF2 ligase, and the combined blockade of MAPK and TGFβ pathways suppresses HGF-mediated bladder cancer progression.

Strong correlations between electrons in topological surface states drive the formation of surface van Hove singularities. These may be linked to charge density waves in the surface states.

The concept of quasi-symmetry—a perturbatively small deviation from exact symmetry—is introduced and leads to topological materials with strong resilience to perturbations.

In the Bloch or Neel domain walls in ferromagnets, the magnetization rotates smoothly from up to down, preserving its magnitude. Here, Lee et al show that Co3Sn2S2 exhibits a phase transition within its domain walls to a state in which the magnetization passes through zero rather than rotating as the wall is traversed.

A study combining spectroscopy and mathematical topology  reports the observation of linked node loops in a quantum magnet, with properties suggesting a Seifert bulk–boundary correspondence.

A versatile methodology to detect topological quasiparticles by transport measurements remains an open problem. Here, the authors propose and experimentally observe the temperature dependence of the quantum oscillation frequency as a signature of non-trivial band topology.

By considering the topology of chiral crystals, a new type of massless fermion, connected with giant arc-like surface states, are predicted. Such Kramers–Weyl fermions should manifest themselves in a wide variety of chiral materials.

Semiconducting metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can be of interest for optoelectronics, but charge transport property is rarely elucidated. Here, a π–d conjugated 2D MOF shows band-like charge transport, with room-temperature mobility of 220 cm² V^–1 s^–1.

Electrical transport measurements reveal that Co₃Sn₂S₂ is probably a magnetic Weyl semimetal, and hosts the highest simultaneous anomalous Hall conductivity and anomalous Hall angle. This is driven by the strong Berry curvature near the Weyl points.

Semimetals with the band structure exhibiting Dirac and Weyl crossings can show special electronic and magnetic properties. Here the authors explore the electronic properties of the type-II Weyl semimetals, MoP₂ and WP₂ with robust Weyl points which display very high magnetoresistance and conductivity.

This Perspective article discusses Singapore’s efforts to implement a National Precision Medicine Strategy through the integration of genomic, clinical and lifestyle data of up to one million Singaporean individuals.

A large-scale comparison of transcriptome datasets from ten evolutionarily representative species identifies general patterns on the genomic evolution of various plant organs. Among various insights, the authors find that the origin of organ-specific gene families predate the origin of the organs themselves.

A positive magneto-thermoelectric conductance is observed in the Weyl semimetal niobium phosphide, suggesting the presence of the elusive mixed axial–gravitational anomaly.