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O3-type sodium anion-redox cathodes show promise but are hard to synthesize due to unclear mechanisms. Here, authors elucidate the role of oxygen conditions, enabling O3-Na[Li_1/3Mn_2/3]O₂ synthesis and developing Ti-substituted with capacities >190 mAh·g^-1.

This online study with 3,371 participants from 13 societies found that perceived societal honour norms predicted both greater competition and greater cooperation at both societal and individual levels.

Nitrogen promotes wheat’s recovery after drought stress through the TaSnRK2.10-TaNLP7 module. This breakthrough connects drought-stress signalling with nitrate response pathways, providing a genetic framework for developing climate-resilient crops.

Hyaluronan is a naturally occurring linear polysaccharide that together with collagens, enzymes, and glycoproteins forms the extracellular matrix. Here the authors show that adipose tissue overproduction of Hyaluronan reduces fat accumulation in mice fed high-fat diet and improves systemic glucose homeostasis.

Screening by a graphite gate placed at 1 nm proximity to graphene produces transformative improvement in its electronic quality, reducing charge inhomogeneity by two orders of magnitude.

Hua et al., identify transcription factors and a short, conserved DNA element that drive gene expression in bundle sheath cells of rice and Arabidopsis, offering a new tool for engineering photosynthesis in crops.

By modeling the brain communication as an optimal transport problem, CLRIA integrates structural and molecular data, and reveals the bias for hybrid strategy, asymmetric hierarchical signaling, and molecular perspective for state transitions.

Parity-time (PT) symmetric systems with balanced gain and loss can exhibit nonreciprocal transmission, but its high insertion loss in the broken phase poses a challenge. This work demonstrates electrically tunable nonreciprocal transmission in PT-symmetric silicon micromechanical resonators operating in the exact phase, achieving non-reciprocity with low insertion loss.

A Dirac plasma in high-mobility graphene shows anomalous magnetotransport and giant magnetoresistance that reaches more than 100 per cent in a low magnetic field at room temperature.

The non-Hermitian skin effect, or localization of eigenstates at the boundary of a non-Hermitian system, has been intensively studied. Chu et al. observe a large and wide edge supercurrent in the Dirac semimetal Cd₃As₂-based Josephson junctions, which is consistent with the non-Hermitian skin effect.

Single-particle band theory is facing limitations in describing the physics of ultrathin topological insulator films. Here, the authors investigate the coupling between top and bottom surfaces of a topological insulator and analyse their interaction in the framework of screened Coulomb interactions.

Missing modality challenges longitudinal omics studies. Here, the authors introduce LEOPARD, a pioneering neural network that uses style transfer to re-entangle omics data, enabling robust imputation and unlocking fresh insights into predictive healthcare and biological temporal dynamics.

The ASAP4 family of genetically encoded voltage indicators allows recording of action potentials and subthreshold activity with either one- or two-photon microscopy over extended periods of time.

Optimisation of nucleic acid probes and blocker strands can be laborious. Here the authors construct a theoretical model of competitive DNA hybridisation to design DNA probes for optimisation-free mutation detection.

A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C₃ plant) and sorghum (a C₄ plant) provide insight into how C₄ photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing that the acquisition of ancestral cis-elements was key.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is associated with hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, the authors show that HBV promotes HCC formation only in response to environmental carcinogens, involving increased IL-33 signaling and regulatory T cells.

A scalable approach is provided for preparing and verifying intermediate-scale genuine entanglement on a 66-qubit superconducting quantum processor.

We present a DNA self-assembly based molecular data writing strategy to enable parallel movable-type printing for scalable DNA storage.

The frequency scaling exponent of low-frequency vibrational excitations in glasses remains controversial in the literature. Here, Schirmacher et al. show that the exponent depends on the statistics of the small values of the local stresses, which is governed by the detail of interaction potential.

Artificial ion channels are in demand for ionotronic devices. Here, the authors use layered MXene membranes modified with plasmonic gold nanostars and cellulose nanofibers to convert a thermal gradient into an ion current for photosensitive ion channeling.

The strong scattering of biological tissue causes challenges when monitoring temperature changes at the microscale. Here, the authors propose a nanothermometer based on lanthanide luminescence, enabling minimally invasive imaging of the cerebrovascular system of mice at nearly 200 μm resolution.

Volumetric fluorescence microscopy is often limited by anisotropic spatial resolution. Here, the authors present an unsupervised deep-learning approach that enhances axial resolution by learning from high-resolution lateral images, and demonstrate isotropic resolution and restoration of suppressed visual details.

Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is key in immunity and cellular regulation. Here, using the PISA workflow, the authors find 218 proteins with altered solubility upon dsRNA binding. ZNF385A knockout activates interferon-β transcription and increases endogenous dsRNA levels, enhancing the bioactivity of 5-Aza-2’-deoxycytidine and NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity.

Confining plasma and managing disruptions in tokamak devices is a challenge. Here the authors demonstrate a method predicting and possibly preventing disruptions and macroscopic instabilities in tokamak plasma using data from JET.

Fishing has had a profound impact on global reef shark populations, and the absence or presence of sharks is strongly correlated with national socio-economic conditions and reef governance.

Computational modelling and functional imaging of awake, active mice show that behaviour directly changes neuronal tuning in the visual cortex through pupil dilation.

The suitability of non-invasive surrogate samples for detecting breast cancer remains to be systematically explored. Here, the authors compare non-invasive, non-tumour DNA methylation profiles from cervical, buccal, and blood samples and develop classifiers for breast cancer detection for each sample type.

Ultrafast demagnetization refers to the process where an intense optical drive can destroy the magnetic order in a magnetic material on a femto-second timescale. Here, Wu et al resolve a three-stage ultrafast demagnetization process in a monolayer of Fe3GeTe2.

Graphene has shown incredible promise as ideal material for numerous fields; however its use in spintronics has been hampered by the lack of intrinsic magnetism. Here, Hu et al succeed in embedding Cobalt in the graphene lattice, creating robust room-temperature ferromagnetism.

The authors collate literature on the responses of bird assemblages to forest loss and show that locations with a more variable natural environment and a longer history of agricultural land use have bird assemblages that are more tolerant to forest loss.

Melting and squeezing pure metals between two sapphires covered in molybdenum disulfide produces diverse two-dimensional metals at the ångström thickness limit.

The application of quantum computing to computational chemistry faces various experimental and theoretical challenges. Now, a quantum simulation on a noisy quantum device has achieved chemical accuracy for small H₂ and LiH molecules.

This study analyses radio observations of the jet in galaxy M87, from which the existence of a spinning black hole that induces Lense–Thirring precession of a misaligned accretion disk is inferred.

The impact on inadequate water quality on water scarcity is unclear. Here the authors quantify China’s present-day water scarcity and show that inadequate water quality exacerbates China’s water scarcity, which is unevenly distributed across the country.