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One of the many exotic characteristics of systems that exhibit the fractional quantum Hall effect is the presence of chiral edge modes that carry energy but no net charge. Gurman et al.demonstrate the use of quantum dots to transform this energy into a measurable current, enabling them to better probe these modes.

A hidden Markov model that uses probabilistic retrospective inference allows for up to one month of unsupervised recalibration in an online cursor-based intracortical brain–machine interface.

The evolution of networks with structure changing in time is dependent on their past states and relevant to diffusion and spreading processes. The authors show that temporal network’s memory is described by multidimensional patterns at a microscopic scale, and cannot be reduced to a scalar quantity.

Polydienes are essential in industry but rely on a complex synthesis involving catalysts and solvents. Now it is shown that photo-melt-bulk polymerization enables the solvent- and catalyst-free synthesis of controlled high-molecular-weight polydienes by combining chain growth and the coupling of stable biradicals, advancing sustainable materials development.

The authors measure the nucleon axial vector form factor, which encodes information on the distribution of the nucleon weak charge, through antineutrino–proton scattering.

While the electronic quality of graphene has significantly improved during the last two decades, charged defects inside encapsulating crystals still limit its performance. Here, the authors overcome this limitation and report the enhanced electronic quality of graphene enabled by tuneable Coulomb screening inside large-angle twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene devices, showing Landau quantization at magnetic fields down to ~5 mT.

The authors present a theoretical treatment demonstrating that NMR experiments on chiral molecules can reveal enantioselective nuclear J-couplings due to bond polarization and spin-orbit interaction. This also aids in understanding chirality-induced phenomena more generally and their applications.

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

Developing robot hands for unstructured human environments is a major challenge. A robotic hand that combines grasping and wrist-like rotation in one mechanism for more efficient and versatile object manipulation is presented.

Laser cooling of atoms is now routine, but cooling molecules is more difficult due to the larger number of transition frequencies involved. Here, the authors show that a broadband laser can be used to provide cooling of a molecule into its ground rotational-vibrational state.

Experimental measurements of high-order out-of-time-order correlators on a superconducting quantum processor show that these correlators remain highly sensitive to the quantum many-body dynamics in quantum computers at long timescales.

A brain–computer interface enables rapid communication through neural decoding of attempted handwriting movements in a person with paralysis.

Interaction between Cooper pairs and other collective excitations may reveal important information about the pairing mechanism. Here, the authors observe a universal jump in the phase of the driven Higgs oscillations in cuprate thin films, indicating the presence of a coupled collective mode, as well as a nonvanishing Higgs-like response at high temperatures, suggesting a potential nonzero pairing amplitude above Tc.

The CUORE experiment finds no evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay after operating a large cryogenic TeO₂ calorimeter stably for several years in an extreme low-radiation environment at a temperature of 10 millikelvin.

Not all conferences offer childcare, but when they do, these scientists, who are also mothers, rejoice. The toys are pretty good, too.

The rich transmission spectrum of exoplanet WASP-189 b reveals its dynamical atmosphere with a three-dimensional thermochemical stratification, requiring the unification of dynamical, thermal and chemical models for its study.

Prior expectations shape neural processing in the brain and violations of these expectations can have a profound influence on learning. Here the authors demonstrate that such predictive coding mechanisms are already functional in the brains of 12-month-old infants.

Understanding dynamics of fermionic bound states is important for their potential application in quantum devices. Here the authors study zero temperature dynamics and dissipation of fermions bound on a moving goal-post shaped wire in superfluid ³He-B.

Whether mice can perceptually discriminate between texture images, and if so how these stimuli are processed by their visual system, remains an open question. Here, the authors show that mice can visually discriminate between textures and found evidence for ‘efficient coding’, highlighting a correlative link between image statistics, perceptual behavior, and geometrical aspects of neural representations.

At the Large Hadron Collider, the MoEDAL experiment shows no evidence for magnetic monopoles generated via the Schwinger mechanism at integer Dirac charges below 3, and suggests a lower mass limit of 75 GeV/c².

Many premalignant colorectal polyps in familial adenomatous polyposis arise polyclonally rather than from a single mutated cell, showing diverse early evolutionary trajectories that frequently occur without clonal APC or KRAS driver events.

Polyamide-12 is the main polymer employed to produce 3D objects by laser sintering constraining the functionality of the items produced. Here, the authors report a clean and scalable approach for the functionalization of polyamide-12 particles, yielding materials that can be printed using commercial apparatus.

Researchers demonstrate the on-chip synthesis of ultrasound acoustic vortices. With tunable topological properties, these GHz vibrations can interact with light beams, advancing the technology for optical structured beam generation and modulation.

Neutrinos are known to have mass, in contradiction to the predictions of the standard model, and one explanation of this mass is that they are Majorana fermions; this conjecture could be proved by observation of the neutrinoless double-β decay process, but new experiments with ¹³⁶Xe find no statistically significant evidence for this process.

A chromatin accessibility atlas of 240,919 cells in the adult and developing Drosophila brain reveals 95,000 enhancers, which are integrated in cell-type specific enhancer gene regulatory networks and decoded into combinations of functional transcription factor binding sites using deep learning.

Observations of teraelectronvolt-energy γ-rays starting about one minute after the γ-ray burst GRB 190114C reveal a distinct component of the afterglow emission with power comparable to the synchrotron emission.

Compared to other sequences, extra-long tandem repeats, such as centromeres and immunoglobulin loci, are more difficult to align. This study presents UniAligner, a computational method for efficiently and accurately aligning extra-long tandem repeats, facilitating analysis of their variation and evolution.

A very high-energy muon observed by the KM3NeT experiment in the Mediterranean Sea is evidence for the interaction of an exceptionally high-energy neutrino of cosmic origin.  

The observation of Majorana modes is one of the great challenges in the field of cold atomic gases. Here Bühler et al. propose an experimentally realistic setup for the realization of p-wave superfluids supporting Majorana fermions at lattice dislocations.

While Bell inequalities have been violated several times—mostly in photonic systems—their violations within particle physics experiments are less explored. Here, the BESIII Collaboration showcases Bell-violating nonlocal correlations between entangled hyperon pairs.

Heterostructures of ferromagnets and superconductors may host exotic superconducting states. Now a circuit quantum electrodynamics technique is demonstrated that provides evidence for triplet p-wave pairing in such a heterostructure.

Event generators are used to simulate and describe hadronic collisions in accelerator experiments, but often struggle to describe data from astroparticle experiments that probe hadronic collisions at extreme energies. This Review highlights the complementarity between accelerator and astroparticle experiments that can be exploited, to gain new insights into the nature of hadronic collisions and increase model accuracy across both domains.

The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect is a well-known demonstration of quantum interference phenomena between pairs of indistinguishable bosons, yet it has only been seen with massless photons. Here, the authors propose an approach to realize this effect for matter waves using two colliding Bose–Einstein condensates.

Direct detection of gas phase water from the disk of V883 Ori indicates that disks directly inherit water from the star-forming cloud that becomes incorporated into large icy bodies without notable chemical alteration.

Absorption lines of iron in the dayside atmosphere of an ultrahot giant exoplanet disappear after travelling across the nightside, showing that the iron has condensed during its travel.

Understanding cycloaddition mechanisms is beneficial for the creation of extended carbon nanostructures, yet traditional models often overlook symmetry-based mechanistic effects. Here, the authors employ topological classifiers to identify symmetry-forbidden pathways in polycyclic aromatic azomethine ylide cycloadditions, revealing that topologically-allowed endothermic reactions can guide nanographene engineering.

The convoluted challenges that stifle equity in academia can be understood in terms of dynamical systems descriptions of conflict developed in the social sciences, explaining the persistence of exclusive cultures and the inadequacy of simple fixes.