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The ability to resist compaction has widespread implications for reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology. Here the authors present a class of thin-film crosslinked composite reverse osmosis membranes that resist physical compaction at ultrahigh pressures.

Realizing >5 V batteries is hindered by the instability of electrolytes. Here, a fluoride shielding layer, LiCl-4Li₂TiF₆, enables high-voltage, high-capacity all-solid-state batteries because of its combined oxidative stability and Li⁺ conductivity.

Topological insulators are materials with an insulating interior and a metallic surface. In this study the authors demonstrate that the topological state can coexist with a two-dimensional electron gas state, a feature important in semiconductors used for electronic applications.

Materials that can separate and capture carbon dioxide from power plant flue gases could help to stabilize atmospheric levels of the gas. Mohantyet al. develop inexpensive porous organonitridic frameworks with high selectivity and sorption capacities for carbon dioxide and methane.

Here authors demonstrate how a 2D hybrid perovskite melts and forms glass, uncovering atomic-scale structural and dynamic evolution across the crystal–liquid–glass transition. Local structural motifs are retained, advancing understanding of amorphous hybrid materials.

Deep mutational scanning of a recent human H3N2 influenza haemagglutinin identifies how epistasis and pleiotropy differentially constrain mutations that affect viral cell entry, acid stability and neutralization.

Superlattices, with a length scale and structure that differs from the parent lattice of the host material, are well-known to allow for remarkable new electronic and magnetic properties. Here, Xie et al. synthesize Cr_1/4TaS₂, and find that it exhibits an unusual anomalous Hall effect below the Néel temperature even in stoichiometric high-quality crystals.

Live-cell fluorescence microscopy and polymer simulations in human HCT116 cells show similar cohesin density, residence times and extrusion speed across multiple genomic regions.

Proving sustainable chemical plastic recycling must rely on realistic feedstocks and sustainability-driven catalyst design. Here, the authors report titania-supported Ru–Ni alloy nanoparticles achieving up to 55% liquid (C6 to C45) products for low-carbon and profitable polyethylene hydrogenolysis and determine a metric for sustainable product distributions.

Modern neutrino experiments require precise tuning of energy response parameters, a task complicated by the parameters’ nonlinear behavior and strong correlations. The authors present neural density estimators using normalizing flows and transformers integrating them with Bayesian nested sampling to achieve near-zero systematic biases and uncertainties limited only by statistics, offering a flexible framework for particle physics applications

Morkovin’s hypothesis establishes a comparison between incompressible and compressible flows and is essential for understanding supersonic and hypersonic turbulence. In this work, the authors present the measurements of wall-normal fluctuations that support the hypothesis proposed in 1962.

The formation of magnetic vortices such as skyrmions is hampered by the stochastic nature of thermal fluctuations. Here, the authors demonstrate that ultrafast dynamics in the initial stages of vortex formation can dominate the stochastic behaviour observed in the steady state.

Honeycomb lattices with interacting spins can host rich magnetic behaviour; however, typically features are complicated by additional interactions. Here, the authors perform neutron scattering on YbCl₃, which exhibits near perfect two-dimensional magnetism, providing a benchmark for other materials.

Achieving high selectivity in CO₂-to-methanol conversion remains challenging. This study uses defect-engineered In₂O₃/ZrO₂ catalysts featuring abundant oxygen vacancies, significantly boosting methanol productivity and selectivity.

As presented at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting: in cohort 3 of the phase 2 TUXEDO-3 trial, patients with leptomeningeal metastatic disease from any solid tumor were treated with the HER3-targeting antibody–drug conjugate patritumab deruxtecan and showed encouraging 3-month overall survival rates.

Exploratory post hoc analysis of molecular residual disease from the ADAURA trial of adjuvant osimertinib in patients with resected EGFR-mutated stage IB–IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer shows that molecular residual disease detection predicts disease recurrence with long-term adjuvant osimertinib treatment.

The origin of high-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials remains a challenging task to solve, but the concept of orbital differentiation of the charge carriers may be a crucial ingredient to the answer. Here, the authors identify an orbital-selective metal–insulator transition and the opening of a gap in the material Rb_1−xFe_2−ySe₂.

The magnetic excitation spectra of all cuprate superconductors exhibits an hour-glass shape that is widely believed to be caused by either charge stripe or band structure effects. Drees et al.observe the same spectral shape in a cobalt oxide that supports neither effect, suggesting a different origin entirely.

TopoVelo infers cell differentiation stages and rate parameters of gene expression using spatially coupled differential equations.

Imaging through complex media is challenging because scattering results in image blurring. By introducing a fingerprint operator and applying it to the measured reflection matrix, information on a target within a complex medium becomes accessible.

Clonal or isogenic model organisms allow for controlled replication, but their isolation from natural systems compromises their relevance for ecology and evolution research. However, a substantial number of vertebrate species reproduce clonally in nature and are an underused resource.

This study shows that the brain’s intrinsic functional organization mirrors its cellular and molecular architecture, linking cell types, neurotransmitters, and mitochondria to large-scale brain organization and cognition.

Low carrier mobility and degradation over time are key challenges to address in metal-halide perovskite photodetectors. Here, ultrasensitive photodetectors are reported based on inkjet-printed nanocrystalline films of a mixed-phase raisin bread halide perovskite, integrated on a graphene platform.

Electrostatically defined quantum dots in graphene constitute a testbed to study atomic and molecular physics in the ultrarelativistic regime—when the particle speed is close to the speed of light. Magnetic-field-dependent tunnelling spectroscopy experiments now reveal giant orbital magnetic moments and paramagnetic shifts in single and double quantum dots due to their relativistic nature.

In the randomized phase 1b/2 Morpheus-Melanoma trial evaluating various neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor regimens in patients with resectable stage III melanoma, tobemstomig, an anti-PD-1/anti-LAG-3 bispecific antibody, showed the highest pathologic response rate with a better safety profile than the standard treatment approach of ipilimumab plus nivolumab.

Measuring the electron affinity, a fundamental chemical property, has been challenging for rare elements due to sensitivity limitations. Here, the authors present a novel ion-trap technique capable of performing high-precision affinity measurements with orders of magnitude fewer samples.

The authors demonstrate deeply subwavelength light confinement in the terahertz spectral range by exploiting the strong light–matter coupling and hyperbolicity of phonon polaritons in hafnium-based dichalcogenides.

The alloy bismuth-palladium is a candidate material for observing topological superconductivity. Here, the authors study the interplay of spin–orbit interactions and superconductivity in this noncentrosymmetric compound using scanning tunnelling spectroscopy and relativistic first-principles calculations.

A structure of monolayer and bilayer graphene with a small twist between them shows correlated insulating states that can be tuned by changing the twist angle or applying an electric field.

Weak antilocalization is a signifier of electrical transport via topologically non-trivial surface states of a topological insulator, but it is often masked by dopant-induced scattering. Kim et al.overcome such difficulties to identify coherent transport via the topological surface states of bismuth selenide.

Many of the fundamental effects in condensed matter physics can be described in the framework of quasiparticles. Here, the authors observe quasiparticles related to the antiferromagnetic state in quasi-two-dimensional Sr₂IrO₄, showing close resemblances to elusive quasiparticles in cuprate superconductors.

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskite films exhibit picosecond-scale quantum transients (~2 ps), with their nanoscale superlattices defining energy levels that yield narrow emission lines and reveal the structure–emission relationship.

Hot carriers in perovskites experience slow cooling.

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neural mode.

Many studies on the properties of the recently discovered ferropnictide superconductors report seemingly contradictory results. A theoretical study suggests that these contradictions might be resolved by considering such materials as having a strongly magnetic ground state whose domain boundaries fluctuate, preventing their experimental detection.