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Wang et al. report a self-powered solar-blind photodetector based on Ga₂O₃/AlN/AlGaN:Si heterostructure. This design creates potential wells that trap photogenerated holes, achieving both high sensitivity and fast response for single-pixel imaging of both static and moving objects.

The study shows that lunar ilmenite preserves less solar wind-generated water than silicate minerals, likely due to faster water escape. This finding suggests that ilmenite may critically influence surface water variations within the lunar Procellarum KREEP Terrane.

KLHL23 and RhoGDI compete for CDC42’s switch II region in a GTP- or GDP-dependent manner, driving spatiotemporal inactivation through degradation or sequestration. This dynamic control maintains membrane homeostasis and is impaired in Takenouchi–Kosaki Syndrome.

Small islands provide early warning signals of climate- and disaster-driven impacts, while serving as real-world testbeds in which to develop adaptation strategies for continental water-supply infrastructure. This island-based approach could also be applicable to other critical infrastructure sectors on the mainland.

The apelin receptor regulates heart and metabolic health via G-protein and β-arrestin signaling pathways. Here, authors present receptor-β-arrestin complex structures with distinct stoichiometries that provide insight into biased signaling, guiding targeted drug design.

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The skin has a remarkable ability to grow under stretch, though the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, the authors show that the mechanosensor Piezo1 coordinates metabolic and immune responses to drive tension-induced skin growth.

High-pressure minerals in meteorites reflect the conditions prevailing when they were excavated and launched from their parent bodies. Tissint—a recent Martian meteorite—contains an unusual number of large high-pressure minerals, suggesting excavation from an impact of larger magnitude than for previous Martian samples.

How metabolic signals are sensed by the cell cycle machinery remains unclear. Here, the authors demonstrate that the glycolytic enzyme PFKM acts as a citrate sensor to promote mitosis, coupling metabolic activity to cell cycle regulation.

The authors synthesize intrinsic room-temperature ferroelectric CuVP₂S₆ via spatially confined chemical vapor deposition method, uncovering the ferroelectric mechanism, which originates from the movement of Cu ions.

Dong and Sun et al. show that adipogenesis regulatory cells in murine white adipose tissue inhibit adipogenesis through RSPO2, which regulates maturation of early progenitor cells via Lgr4.

Rising global military spending significantly increases CO₂ emission intensity, potentially jeopardizing the 1.5 °C and 2 °C climate targets if military expenditure ratio exceeds critical thresholds.

A new type of Fe/N–C catalyst composed of numerous nanoprotrusions dispersed on two-dimensional carbon layers with inner-embedded single Fe-atom sites has been developed that delivers a high-performance platinum group metal-free proton-exchange membrane fuel cell.

Assembly and analysis of a giant genome of 52.7 Gb, with the largest chromosome so far, and a smaller genome of 3.55 Gb, sheds light on the expansion, maintenance and higher-order chromatin structure of giant genome.

Episodic sediment erosion occurred in partially silted Sanmenxia and Xiaolangdi reservoirs during the 2019 flooding and regulation-induced drawdown conditions in the Yellow River, China, according to quantitative assessments of episodic reservoir erosion effects on fluvial sediments.

The immunomodulatory functions of mast cells (MCs) within the tumor microenvironment are elusive. Here, the authors present a transcriptomic characterization of LUAD-infiltrating MCs and identify a proinflammatory subset that contributes to the activation of cytotoxic MAIT cells by secreting IL-18 via NRLP3 activation and pyroptosis, ultimately boosting anti-tumor immunity.

Immunotherapy holds great potential, although strategies for durable responses against solid tumors are still needed. Here, the authors combine oncolytic virus (OV) engineering and reprogramming of the IL-18 pathway, showing that armed OVs expressing a decoy-resistant IL-18 elicit anti-tumor immunity and long-term immunological memory against multiple refractory tumors in mice.

A fundamental objective of genomics is to track variations in gene expression program. Here, authors developed Dyan-vivo-seq, which offers unprecedented insights into temporal RNA dynamics within intricate and dynamic biological systems at single-cell resolution.

In this multicenter phase 1 trial, treatment with IBI343, a CLDN18.2-targeting antibody–drug conjugate, was safe and showed encouraging clinical responses in patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

A genome-wide association meta-analysis study of blood lipid levels in roughly 1.6 million individuals demonstrates the gain of power attained when diverse ancestries are included to improve fine-mapping and polygenic score generation, with gains in locus discovery related to sample size.

The development of n-type conductive polymer inks is critical for the development of next-generation opto-electronic devices that rely on efficient hole and electron transport. Here, the authors report an alcohol-based, high performance and stable n-type conductive ink for printed electronics.

The authors develop a miniaturized Mg3Bi2-based thermoelectric cooler, achieving a high cooling power density of 5.7 W cm-2 and a cooling speed of 65 K s-1, demonstrating great promise for localized thermal management in electronics.

Extracting high-purity salt from saline water through conventional processes is complex and environmentally unsustainable. A diffusion-driven selective crystallization strategy that uses a precisely designed floating porous membrane to suppress non-ion-selective transfer enables simple and precise ion separation and high-purity salt production from mixed source solutions such as Na⁺/K⁺, Ba²⁺/K⁺ and Mg²⁺/Li⁺.

The diagnosis and prognosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) relies on invasive renal biopsies, which can be clinically constrained. Here, the authors develop a non-invasive model using retinal images that can be used to screen for CKD and identify five common pathological types of CKD.

This manuscript presents a non-contact ultrasonic system for large-scale additive manufacturing, where the low-intensity ultrasound without cavitation refines grains via dendrite fragmentation through acoustic streaming and Marangoni-driven melt flow.

A mechanism is uncovered that results in fetal hepatocytes having a paracrine role in providing genome protection to haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.

The authors analyze rare coding variants in 1990 individuals with congenital kidney anomalies, finding diagnostic variants in 14.1% of cases. They identify two new causal genes, ARID3A and NR6A1, along with 38 candidate genes, providing evidence for shared genetics with other developmental disorders.

Epstein-Barr virus-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH) is a life-threatening condition different from self-limiting nature of Epstein-Barr virus-induced infectious mononucleosis (IM). Here the authors identify IDO1⁺ monocytes and L-kynurenine as biomarkers for HLH by comparing single cell sequencing data of HLH patients with IM and healthy volunteers as the controls.

An NNMT inhibitor reduces tumour burden and metastasis in multiple mouse cancer models and restores immune checkpoint blockade efficacy by decreasing cancer-associated-fibroblast-mediated recruitment of myeloid-derived suppressor cells and reinvigorating CD8⁺ T cell activation.

Observations of SN 2021yfj reveal that its progenitor is a massive star stripped down to its O/Si/S core, which remarkably continued to expel vast quantities of silicon-, sulfur-, and argon-rich material before the explosion, informing us that current theories for how stars evolve are too narrow.

Totani, Matsumura et al. characterize a subpopulation of aged hematopoietic stem cells with high mitochondrial mass and GPR183 expression that retain high regenerative potential, gain a selective survival advantage and maintain self-renewal capacity, emphasizing their adaptive importance.

Cholecystectomy is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, and the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, the authors show that cholecystectomy-related microbiome and bile acid alterations disrupts the FXR/β-catenin interaction, and ultimately exacerbates colorectal tumorigenesis.

NICER is a broad-spectrum nanovaccine based on a nanovesicle system that can induce an effective immune response via epigenetic regulation to target both cancer stem-like cells and bulk tumour cells to prevent tumour recurrence.

Germline DDX41 mutations are linked to myeloid neoplasms, but their roles in the disease is unclear. Here, the authors show that DDX41 resolves G-quadruplex structures to maintain erythroid genome stability and prevent cGAS-mediated cell death. These functions are lost in disease-associated variants.

Direct CO₂ conversion into high-value organic products faces significant selectivity challenges. This work presents a FeCo carbide-based tandem catalyst enabling high-efficiency, stable production of C2+ alcohols.

Organic electrode materials offer a versatile and sustainable route for lithium-ion batteries, but their application is hindered by low working voltages and poor cycling stability. Now, it has been shown that dissolving halide electrolytes into organic electrodes effectively tunes the working voltage and enhances the electrochemical performance of all-solid-state batteries.

An endohedral metallofullerene–polymer layer, which features ultrafast electron extraction and in situ encapsulation, improves the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells.

Here, the authors show that Lactobacillus acidophilus supplementation enhances oncolytic virus VSVΔ51 effect through restoring gut barrier integrity and microbiota homeostasis in mice.

The evolutionary emergence of a nested fibrillar centre–dense fibrillar component may have optimized pre-rRNA processing.

This Perspective sets out an approach to electron transport in nanoscale devices based on statistical fields — specifically the spatial and temporal variations in temperature and chemical potential that drive energy and particle flow — and highlights the importance of identifying the transport regime, which might be diffusive, ballistic or viscous.

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.

Artificial gauge fields unlock additional degrees of freedom to manipulating light in structured photonic systems. This Review strives to unify topological, non-Abelian and non-Hermitian photonics using the concept of gauge fields.

A large genome-wide association study of more than 5 million individuals reveals that 12,111 single-nucleotide polymorphisms account for nearly all the heritability of height attributable to common genetic variants.

Authors propose an entropy engineering strategy to realize the carrier-phonon decoupling in SrTiO₃-based perovskite thermoelectrics, reducing the lattice thermal conductivity nearly to the amorphous limit and improving the weighted mobility.