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Metasurface-based architectures enhance light-matter interactions between a terahertz photonic mode and glucose vibrational resonance. This platform allows new physical and chemical properties of hybrid light-matter states to be exploited.

SLE is a heterogeneous disorder that is characterized by different immune endotypes. Faliti et al. follow the immune memory responses upon mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations in a large cohort of patients with SLE. They note that skewed immune responses, such as lower seroconversion and neutralization, might be due to extrafollicular B and T cell biases in SLE endotypes.

Central nervous system lesions are reduced following focused ultrasound treatment in a mouse model.

Protoissues have received a lot of attention for studying cell interaction and for biomedical engineering. Here, the authors demonstrate a high-throughput, bottom-up approach to assemble spatial programmable prototissues based on the magnetic Archimedes affect and demonstrate biomedical application for producing NO for vasodilation.

Ligand detection is an essential component of pre-clinical drug development. Here, the authors develop an assay directly coupling protein ligand binding to the luminescence intensity of NanoLuc luciferase; enabling a compound discovery strategy for a broad spectrum of potential drug targets.

Studies on the essentiality of Ku in human cells reveal that Ku interacts with diverse double-stranded RNA molecules, including antisense Alu, and enables tolerance of Alu sequence expansion in primates.

Integration of color centers in wide-band semiconductors with electronic and photonic devices is required for their applications in quantum technologies. Here the authors report electronic, optical and spin control of a single vacancy center in a 4H-SiC Schottky diode integrated with optical microstructures.

Cherenkov radiation is generated from fast electrons and its optical analogue plays an important role in many nonlinear optical effects. Here, Skryabin et al. demonstrate backward-propagating photonic Cherenkov radiation generated from solitons in a semiconductor exciton-polariton system.

Enhancing the efficiency of quantum emitters is essential for exploring new functionalities. Here the authors show Si cuboids that sustain bound states in the continuum enable the injection of dense electron-hole plasma and provide high quantum efficiency.

Detailed infrared images of the region around the supermassive black hole of NGC 1068 from the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer reveal a dense disk, dusty outflow and emissions linked to radio jets, suggesting that active galactic nucleus torus models should include jet interactions.

James Webb Space Telescope early release observations used to search for intrinsically red galaxies from the first 750 million years of cosmic history find six candidate massive galaxies, possibly including one of roughly 10¹¹ solar masses.

Piracetam improves wide-bandgap perovskite crystallinity and uniformity, enabling monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells with efficiencies of 28.71% (0.07 cm²) and 28.20% (1.02 cm²), ensuring minimal efficiency loss during scale-up.

Mass outflow is a common process in astrophysical objects. Here the authors investigate in which conditions an astrophysically-scaled laser-produced plasma flow can be collimated and evolves in the presence of a misaligned external magnetic field.

High-resolution X-ray imaging requires a high radiation dose. Here, the authors achieve low-dose 3D imaging by increasing the XEPL intensity using a double-shell nanostructure with two heterogeneous interfaces.

Magneto-ionics are a promising approach for controlling magnetism via electric fields, but most studies have been limited to thin films, rather than the nanostructures that would form the basis of a magneto-ionic memory unit. Here, Spasojevic et al demonstrate magneto-ionic control over transitions among paramagnetic, single domain, and vortex states in an array of nanodots.

Using human airway organoids and mouse models, Choi et al. show that an IL-1β–Notch–Fosl2 signalling axis regulates the conversion of secretory cells into alveolar type 2 cells after injury.

Many single cells rely on beating cilia and flagella to move. Now it is shown that the core of these appendages twists to generate the torsion waves responsible for three-dimensional motion.

Our experience of pain can be affected by our expectations about how much pain we will feel. Here, the authors show that both social information-driven expectations, and those based on personal experience, are both able to modulate pain, but by different neural pathways.

The authors report observations of recently formed dust and molecular gas in the atmosphere of IRC+10°216 and interpret HCN, SiS and SiC₂ lines as large convective cells in the photosphere, as seen in Betelgeuse.

Nitrate electroreduction to ammonia offers a sustainable route, but designing efficient catalysts remains challenging. Here, the authors develop a pulsed discharge strategy to synthesize dual atom catalysts with asymmetric active sites, achieving high ammonia production efficiency and stability.

Here the authors present a non-FRET DNA-templated silver nanocluster probe that exhibits a distinct colour switch from green to red upon nuclease digestion, visible under UV excitation, offering a low-cost, effective alternative to fluorescent reporters for detecting nuclease activities.

Improved understanding of the spatial dynamics in graphite electrodes is needed to improve fast-charging protocols for Li-ion batteries. Here, authors highlight that lithiation heterogeneity leads to early lithium plating onset and find distinct relaxation behaviors at various states of charge.

Research on superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene reveals unconventional behaviour, an anisotropic gap and a significant role of quantum geometry, using combined d.c. transport and microwave measurements, suggesting new insights into superconductivity mechanisms.

Chiral interactions in magnetic systems enable topologically nontrivial magnetic textures, most notably topological solitons such as skyrmions. Here Volkov et al study the magneto-chiral interactions in a small asymmetric magnetic cap, and show how the geometric asymmetry influence the chiral spin- textures.

Organic color centers in single-walled carbon nanotubes can act as single-photon sources in the telecom range. Here the authors report the functionalization of air-suspended nanotubes through a vapor-phase photochemical reaction, demonstrating a further tailoring of quantum emitter materials.

The influence of spin–orbit coupling on itinerant electrons underlies the formation of spin–orbit Mott states. Here, the authors demonstrate a temperature-hysteretic cascade between charge-ordered phases stabilized by localized 5dspin–orbit Mott dimer states in metallic iridium ditelluride.

Two-dimensional topological insulators support edge conduction electrons but its realization in real materials is rare. Here, Peng et al. report the direct observation of topological states at the step edge of WTe₂.

JWST and Keck II spectral observations of Saturn’s moon Titan reveal methyl (CH₃) as well as non-local thermodynamic equilibrium emission bands of CO and CO₂. Imaging shows clouds in Titan’s northern hemisphere at several epochs, with some appearing to evolve in altitude.

The propagation of light in photonic crystals with a honeycomb structure mirrors the behaviour of charges in graphene, therefore allowing for the investigation of electronic properties that cannot otherwise be accessed in graphene itself. This approach is now used to predict unexpected edge states that localize in the bearded edges of hexagonal lattices.

Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) allow visualisation of fast action potentials in neurons but most are bright at rest and dimmer during an action potential. Here, the authors engineer electrochromic FRET GEVIs with fast, bright and positive-going fluorescence signals for in vivo imaging.

Computational and spectroscopic studies of molecular lanthanide complexes have implicated 4f orbitals in metal–ligand bonding interactions. Now, a comparative study of isostructural d-block, actinide and lanthanide complexes has shown that 4f-orbital covalency enables ring-opening isomerization in a Ce(IV)–cyclopropenyl complex in the solid state, a reaction not observed for the other complexes studied.

A pulsar is a rotating neutron star that beams out electromagnetic waves. The absence of isolated X-ray pulsars with periods longer than 12 s could be a clue to the structural composition of a neutron star’s crust, as simulations show that an amorphous layer would prevent a pulsar from spinning down.

A rapidly growing black hole in a very active phase has been observed with JWST ~1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Bright in X-rays, it is accreting at a rate 4,000% in excess of the Eddington limit, offering insights into early black hole growth.

The accretion geometry of X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 is determined here from IXPE observations. X-ray polarization reveals a narrow funnel with reflecting walls, which focuses emission, making Cyg X-3 appear as an ultraluminous X-ray source.

Thermal stress near the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere remove weaker meteoroids, explaining the rarity of carbon-rich meteorites despite abundant carbon-rich asteroids, thus resolving a long-standing mismatch in Earth’s meteorite record.

Most chiral molecules and structures in living organisms exist as single enantiomers, but why? Here, the authors investigated surface-mediated homochirality on the single-molecule level and show that it can be triggered by the chirality unbalance of two adsorption configuration monomers.