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Water can be extracted from the atmosphere via adsorption-evaporation or dewing, but these methods require prohibitively high energy use. Here, the authors report a forty-five-fold increase in energy efficiency via ultrasonic extraction, making atmospheric water harvesting technology economically feasible for large-scale adoption.

The Seebeck effect causes an electrical potential across a temperature gradient in a material, and is therefore useful for generating useful current from waste heat. Here, the authors show that the Seebeck effect can arise due to charge-carrier relaxation in addition to the conventional mechanism.

A materials platform using tantalum as a base layer and silicon as the substrate to construct superconducting qubits enables device performance improvements such as millisecond lifetimes and coherence times, as well as high time-averaged quality factors.

The author demonstrates that laser-driven ultracold Fermi gases can exhibit color-orbit-like coupling with SU(3) symmetry. This leads to color-like oscillations and other quantum-chromodyamics-like phenomena in an atomic physics laboratory.

Kaplan et al. characterize the physiological properties of cells in the primate ventral pallidum. They employ a reinforcement learning model to demonstrate that the different neuronal populations play distinct roles in the basal ganglia network.

Extreme magnetoresistance is characterized by a large and non-saturating magnetoresistance. Typically, it is observed in materials with compensated bandstructures, however, here, Christensen et al demonstrate a large and non-saturating magnetoresistance in a γAl2O3/SrTiO3 heterostructure, which is related to disorder, rather than the materials bandstructure.

Despite extensive structural studies elucidating how antigens are anchored to antigen-presenting molecules and presented to T cells, little is known about the display mechanism of the lipid-antigen-presenting molecule CD1c. Here, by combining structural immunology, lipidomics, and biophysical analysis, the authors reveal that the CD1c binding cleft accommodates two different lipids, one of them with a bulky headgroup positioned sideways for display to T cells, rather than upwards, different from the conventional upright antigen-presentation mode

Jupiter’s magnetodisk mediates mass, momentum, and energy exchange between Jupiter’s atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and moon tori. Here, the authors show that pressure anisotropy-driven instabilities regulate its nonequilibrium dynamics.

Neel domain walls are typically stabilized by an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, with a chirality that is fixed by the sample materials. Here, Song, Huang and coauthors demonstrate the existence of two bistable Néel domain wall states with opposite chiralities, and the switching between these via magnetic field pulses

In this study, Yang et al. compile a global dataset to uncover the degree to which plants coordinate root and seed traits. They report a global positive correlation between root diameter and seed size, driven by dual roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake and pathogen defence.

The glassy materials show a few layers of molecules at the outmost surface which are in a mobile state while the molecules in the glass interior remain frozen, but manipulation of this outer layer remains challenging. Here, the authors provided a strategy to tune the mobility of the surface layer by devising polymer surfaces occupied by chain loops of various penetration depths.

The role of mosquito saliva proteins in viral infection remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors show that sialokinin facilitates viral dissemination while suppressing immune response and inflammation in chikungunya virus-infected mice.

A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as potential biosignatures.

Perturbations to strongly lensed galaxy light in very long baseline interferometric imaging reveal a dark and unusually low-mass object at redshift z ≈ 0.9.

Triacetic acid lactone (TAL) is a platform chemical with a wide range of applications. Here, the authors report the discovery of a polyketoacyl-CoA thiolase from Burkholderia sp. RF2-non_BP3, termed as BktBbr, which has unusually high in vivo and in vitro activity for production of TAL.

STAARpipeline is a comprehensive framework for flexible and scalable rare-variant association analysis using whole-genome sequencing data and annotation information.

High-throughput screening identifies opioid compounds and prodynorphin-derived peptide agonists of the G-protein-coupled receptor MRGPRX2 and informs a homology model that is used for in silico screening to find a small-molecule probe that provokes degranulation in mast cells, which express this receptor.

Electrically conductive hydrogels based on conducting polymers often rely on covalent and therefore irreversible crosslinking mechanisms. Here, the authors report a thermo-responsive conducting polymer that undergoes a fully reversible non-covalent crosslinking at 35 °C within less than a minute to form conductive hydrogels.

The development of moderate magnetic hyperthermia (MH) for tumor ablation while concurrently restoring bone homeostasis shows potential for osteosarcoma (OS) therapy. Here this group combines magnetothermal nanoparticles with MH temperature-controlled borosilicate bioactive glass achieving OS cell impair while activating TNF signaling pathway for therapeutic purpose.

Observations of a luminous quasar from the high-resolution spectrometer Resolve aboard XRISM revealed highly inhomogeneous wind structure outflowing from a supermassive black hole, which probably consists of up to a million clumps.

The alga Aureococcus anophagefferens can form dense brown-tide blooms partly because it adapts well to light changes. This study reveals two glutamate residues in its light-harvesting proteins as critical for dissipating excess light energy, supporting its survival and bloom formation.

With rich, multi-layered baseline data and long-term follow-up through linkage, the HELIOS Study provides a resource to investigate the behavioural, environmental, genomic, and molecular factors impacting health in Asian populations.

Ising anyons are a promising platform for topological quantum computation, but braiding alone is not universal. Here, authors show that extending to non-semi simple TQFTs introduces new anyon types that enable universal quantum computation with Ising anyons.

The annual flood of Tonle Sap Lake supports over 20 million people’s livelihoods. Riverbed lowering due to sand mining and sediment diversion has substantially reduced the annual flood pulse and is projected to worsen if business continues as usual.

Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy enables high resolution imaging of biological samples. Here the authors use reflective coverslips to obtain multiple sample views simultaneously, improving the speed of acquisition and resolution compared to dual-view selective plane illumination microscopy.

Patin and colleagues present a mineable Resource database for identifying demographic and genetic factors that impact antiviral antibody repertoires in humans.

The structure-function relationships of a β-helix, a folding motif formed by parallel β-strands arranged in a helical repetitive pattern, remain poorly understood and underexploited. Here, the authors reconstitute a protein β-helix by design from an elementary sequence of 18 amino acids, which self-assembles into a self-contained multifunctional motif exhibiting a range of biological functions.

All-solid-state batteries offer high energy density and safety but face interfacial and mechanical challenges. Here, authors present a dispersed defect toughening strategy for halide electrolytes, improving mechanical robustness without sacrificing conductivity, advancing practical use of all-solid-state batteries.

Phased Array Transducers (PATs) are used to shape ultrasound. They require complex electronics and are hard to scale, which limits their ability to form sophisticated patterns. Here, we introduce an analog platform that uses light to shift the electrical phase of the transducers and demonstrate versatile ultrasonic functions in a scalable device.

High sugar intake is a potential risk factor for heart failure, but there is insufficient evidence for the benefit of restricting sugar intake during pregnancy or early life. Using the end of UK sugar rationing as a natural experiment, this study shows that lower sugar intake early in life is linked to lower risk of heart failure and later disease onset.

Observations of flying snakes inform the development of a dynamical model of gliding taking undulation into account. This work suggests that aerial undulation has a different function in snakes than in other animals.

Using a spatial reasoning task in mice, the authors show that retrosplenial cortex encodes spatial hypotheses with well-behaved recurrent dynamics, which can combine these hypotheses with incoming information to resolve ambiguities.

Experimental systems in which non-trivial topology is driven by spontaneous symmetry breaking are rare. Now, topological gaps resulting from two excitonic condensates have been demonstrated in a three-dimensional material.

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.

Soft-elasticity in monodomain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) is promising for impact-absorbing applications but due to the lack of synthetic procedures which give monodomain devices of sufficient size, impact studies on LCEs have not been performed. Here the authors use direct-ink writing to fabricate bulk monodomain LCE devices and study their compressive soft-elasticity.

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.

In this work, authors show that retro-inversion of host-defense peptides markedly improves their antitubercular potency and selectivity, highlighting the potential of this simple chemical modification to advance the design of novel antimycobacterial biotherapeutics.

Here, using pre-HIV-infection and non-HIV samples in a multi-modal study of microbiomes and metabolomes, the authors develop a taxon-specific measure of DISruption in COrrelations (DISCO) revealing system-wide dysbiosis preceding HIV-1 infection in men who have sex with men.

A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species richness within the machine’s tracks and community-level effects in both the tracks and an area impacted by sediment plumes.

A radio-loud magnetar, XTE J1810–197, has been observed to precess shortly after an X-ray outburst. The precession decayed over the subsequent few months, which probably rules out freely precessing magnetars as the source of the fast radio bursts.

In this work, the authors show that the essential Mycoplasma pneumoniae protein P116 enables cholesterol acquisition from lipoproteins and various cell types. An antibody against its C-terminal domain inhibits lipid acquisition, growth, and plaque binding, linking M. pneumoniae to atherosclerotic lipid-rich tissue.

Transition metal nitride coatings exhibit high hardness, but typically lack ductility and are therefore prone to failure. Here, the effect of bilayer thickness on the mechanical properties of MoN-TaN superlattices is investigated, leading to coatings with high fracture toughness.