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This study reports the design of heterogated nanoprobes for interval-based pH imaging in biological systems, including cellular endocytic organelles and tumours. The modular design allows for fine-tuning of pH transition point and fluorescent emission.

Developing highly active and robust catalysts remains a challenge for the implementation of nitrate reduction. The authors introduce a screw dislocation-mediated 3D printing strategy to fabricate curvature-controlled electrodes with 3D lattice strain, enhancing nitrate reduction performance.

In this work, authors elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which neonatal meningitis Escherichia coli facilitates bacterial invasion through inducing multiple programmed cell death pathways in brain microvascular endothelial cells.

Poly(A)-Binding Protein Cytoplasmic 1 (PABPC1) is a crucial component of stress granules. Here, the authors show that PABPC1 undergoes SUMOylation in response to cellular stress, enhancing the stability of mitophagy-related gene transcripts to promote cancer cell survival.

The synthesis of drug-like saturated cycloalkanes is more complex than their two-dimensional aromatic analogues. A formidable challenge lies in synthesizing all isomers of multi-substituted cycloalkanes. Now a cobalt-catalysed system enables diastereodivergent hydroalkylation of substituted methylenecyclohexanes with exceptional versatility. Strategic manipulation of ligands provides access to all isomers of disubstituted cyclohexanes, piperidines and multi-substituted cyclohexanes.

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.

Slope inspection is crucial for preventing landslide hazards. In this work, authors develop a LiDAR-based quadrotor with assisted obstacle avoidance, achieving efficient slope inspection under dense vegetation.

Replacing animal feathers and wool with synthetic materials can ameliorate the ethical and environmental issues associated with the production of clothing designed to retain warmth. Here the authors present synthetic nanofibre textiles that combine wearability, comfort, lightness and thermal insulation.

Lewis acid additive semicarbazide hydrochloride improves the formation of α-phase FAPbI₃-based films and promotes a homogeneous vertical distribution of A-site cations through a deprotonation–reprotonation process. The upgraded device performance reaches up to 26.12% with high stability, and mini-module perovskite solar cells achieving 21.47% (area, 11.52 cm²) demonstrate great scalability.

The role of cellular stress responses in ovarian aging remains incompletely understood. In this study, the authors identify NCOA7 as a facilitator of autophagic clearance of stress granules in granulosa cells, conveying protection against ovarian aging. Loss of NCOA7 promotes ovarian aging, whereas its expression via mRNA delivery delays aging.

While one-to-one scaffold hopping strategies are thriving and evolving, one-to-multiple strategies remain challenging to design. Here, the authors report a scaffold hopping strategy for the skeletal editing of pyrimidines into a wide range of heteroarenes through the addition of nucleophiles, ring-opening, fragmentation, and ring-closing processes.

Here, the authors report a transfer printing method of wafer-scale dielectric layers and metallic electrodes pre-deposited on mica substrates without the need of sacrifice buffer layers, enabling the fabrication of high-performance 2D MoS₂ transistors and encapsulated devices based on air-sensitive black phosphorus with one-month stability.

This study reveals that α-lipoic acid (ALA) is reduced in aged mouse and human intestine and ALA supplementation reduces aging hallmarks. Paneth cells play a role in the effects of ALA.

A high-peak-power low-duty-cycle pulsed fibre laser enables stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy with pixel dwell times as low as 0.2 ms and spatial resolution as low as 500 nm and 2 μm in the lateral and axial directions, respectively.

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold promise for a range of medical applications. Here, the authors use MLLMs for 3D brain CT radiology report generation, demonstrating that combining anatomy-aware model fine-tuning with robust evaluation metrics establishes a comprehensive and effective framework.

A meta-prediction framework integrating polygenic risk scores spanning multiple conditions and nongenetic factors, such as laboratory tests and baseline diagnoses, had superior performance in predicting the 10-year risk of coronary artery disease compared with standard clinical scores and previously developed polygenic risk scores.

The ability of anti-cancer therapies such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy to induce ferroptosis has been linked to their efficacy. Here, the authors demonstrate that SOX13 promotes ferroptosis-resistance via transactivation of SCAF1, identifying SOX13 as a targeted therapeutic vulnerability in gastric cancer.

Zero-dimensional metal halides exhibit intriguing photophysical properties; however, developing their general design principles remains challenging. Now it has been shown that two-dimensional perovskites can be converted into zero-dimensional octahedral metal halides through solvent incorporation. The resulting materials feature near-unity photoluminescence quantum yields. Structural rigidity and the choice of metal cation are key parameters to tune the exciton recombination dynamics.

Here, the authors report tunable luminescence from a single lanthanide ion upon changing excitation conditions through co-doping an energy-modulator ion, thus adjusting the photon transition process of the lanthanide activator ion. Optical encryption has also been demonstrated as an application of this universal strategy.

Fast charging of high-energy batteries is limited by electrolyte instability under rising overpotential. A self-adaptive electrolyte overcomes this by dynamically expanding its stability window during charging, enabling efficient zinc- and lithium-metal battery operation.

Cellular exhaustion can limit the ability of immune cells to control tumors. Here the authors show that expression of the transcription factor Irf4 marks NK cell percursors that will go on to become exhausted mature NK cells and identify targets to interfere with this trajectory to enhance control over melanoma metastasis.

Here the authors unveil the essential role of MCL-1 for adult hair follicle regeneration and inhibition of proliferation stress-induced apoptosis in mice. They also identify a P53/MCL-1/BAK axis balancing proliferation and death of activated hair follicle stem cells to ensure proper hair growth.

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.

The H9N2 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) remain dominant in live poultry markets in China, and H9N2 AIVs with HA-Q226L, PB2-V/K627 and NP-N52 mutations can be transmitted between guinea pigs and between ferrets via direct contact and respiratory droplet.

The authors present nuclear magnetic resonance data on lanthanum superhydrides (LaHx) under high pressure. They find that the hydrogen is in a highly diffusive state which results in a dynamic de-hydrogenation of the sample on a time scale of weeks.

Mechanical forces play a critical role in regulating cancer cell behavior. Here, Li et al. report a 3D hydrogel platform embedded with near-infrared responsive macromolecular actuators for precise mechanical stimulation of specific integrin subtypes in ovarian cancer cells to investigate how different force parameters affect cell migration and invasion.

The authors utilize the pulsed electric stimulus near the critical electric field to perform the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition engineering, realizing enhancement and quick stabilization of capacitance in antiferroelectrics.

A pore-modulated pyrolysis reactor that enables catalyst-free and energy-efficient upcycling of plastic waste is demonstrated. The graded-pore structure imposes molecular-weight-dependent transport barriers, establishing a gating effect that enhances product selectivity and yields aviation fuel precursor (C₈–C₁₈) with high efficiency.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have improved our understanding of the genetic basis of lung adenocarcinoma but known susceptibility variants explain only a small fraction of the familial risk. Here, the authors perform a two-stage GWAS and report 12 novel genetic loci associated with lung adenocarcinoma in East Asians.

Worldwide, the number of only-child families is increasing. This research examines how growing up without siblings affects adult brain structure, function and connectivity, cognition, personality and mental health.

Yu and colleagues present a single-cell transcriptomic landscape of olfactory neuroblastoma, characterizing different tumor subtypes and cancer cell responses to drug treatments.

The red fluorescent protein mScarlet3-H is bright, photostable and very robust to high temperature, chaotropic conditions and oxidative environments. mScarlet3-H works well in correlative light and electron microscopy, tissue clearing and time-lapse super-resolution microscopy.

Epstein-Barr virus is associated with increased cancer risk. Here, the authors analysed two population-based prospective cohorts in Southern China to examine the association between increased seropositivity and the risk of multiple cancer types.

Ultrafast electron sources are essential for time-resolved electron microscopy techniques, but they usually suffer from limited stability and short lifetimes. Here, the authors report the fabrication of ultrafast hot-electron sources consisting of graphene films integrated on a single-mode optical fibre, showing enhanced stability and longevity.

Targeted multielement substitution of a lead-free relaxor ferroelectric perovskite distorts the lattice structure and induces strong polar disorder, leading to high-polar-entropy ferroelectric oxides with a high electrocaloric effect and long lifetime.

The crystal structure of iron under the extreme pressures and temperatures of Earth’s core is debated. Numerical simulations suggest that the body-centred cubic structure of iron is stable under inner-core conditions.

Detecting the localized nature of 4f orbitals in lanthanide ion is a major challenge. Here, the authors resolve the spatially dependent f-π exchange interaction within a single-molecule magnet TbPc₂ and show their spin states can be electrically controlled in a reversible manner.