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A photodiode with bio-plausible event sensing, filtering and adaptation behaviours to replicate the retinal nanostructure and visual pathway is presented, enabling consistent and high-performance machine vision under extreme lighting.

By utilizing an AI-accelerated silicon photonic slow-light technology, researchers demonstrate a record 400 Gbps/λ PAM-4 transmission based on pure silicon modulators, paving the way for next-generation optical interconnects in computing centers.

Cervical cancer remains a significant public health problem in many regions. Here, the authors perform a proteogenomic analysis of cervical cancer in Chinese patients; they reveal proteomic subgroups associated with clinical and biological features, and a potential biomarker of response to radiotherapy.

Prediction of Unseen Proteins’ Subcellular localization (PUPS) combines a protein language model and an image inpainting model to utilize both protein sequence and cellular images for predicting protein localization on unseen proteins in a way that captures single-cell variability and cell-type specificity.

Mass cytometry can be used to scale up multiplexed serology testing, as shown for the simultaneous detection of antibody levels against multiple SARS-CoV-2 proteins in hundreds of serum samples.

It is difficult to control the geometric phase of particles as they undergo quantum tunnelling. Now tuning of the geometric phase of electron spin is demonstrated in tunnelling in a multilayer van der Waals antiferromagnet.

The interaction between the host immune response and the component organisms forming the microbiota is critical during homeostatic but all pathological contexts. Here the authors use a multi-omics spatial approach to dissect and characterise host and microbiome in a murine model of intestinal inflammation.

The unconventional hexagonal phase CuCo PBA with open structure, large pore size, and high specific surface area is synthesized, and it delivers much better small molecular gas adsorption performance than the traditional cubic counterpart.

Exciton diffusion length and graded vertical phase separation of the active layer play a critical role in the realization of high-performance thick-film organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, authors demonstrated OSCs with an efficiency of 17.31%, with an active layer thickness of around 300 nm.

In most ferroelectric materials, the domain walls are of neutral type due to the high electrostatic energy cost for charged domain walls. Here, the authors observe abundant charged 180° domain walls in elemental ferroelectric Bi monolayer.

Many technological materials are intentionally 'doped' with foreign elements to impart new and desirable properties, a classic example being the doping of semiconductors to tune their electronic behaviour. Here lanthanide doping is used to control the growth of nanocrystals, allowing for simultaneous tuning of the size, crystallographic phase and optical properties of the hybrid material.

How age-accumulated mtDNA mutations in the small intestine modulate intestinal homeostasis is unclear. Here, the authors show that increased mtDNA mutation burden triggers an ATF5 dependent UPRmt by NAD⁺ depletion, and thus regulates intestinal aging through impaired Wnt/β-catenin signaling.

High-entropy hybrid perovskites exhibit improved materials properties compared with their individual components. When employed in solar cells, champion devices achieve a certified power conversion efficiency of 25.5% and an extrapolated T₉₀ lifetime of over 5,000 h under continuous light soaking.

Here, the authors observe room-temperature ferroelectricity in van der Waals layered GaSe down to monolayer with mirror symmetric structures and attribute it to the intralayer sliding of the Se atomic sublayers.

Across 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sharing and how wisdom of crowds can identify false claims cross-culturally.

Two-dimensional electronic systems in few-layer black arsenic show gate-tunable Rashba bands with unique spin–valley flavours and unconventional quantum Hall states due to synergetic spin–orbit coupling and the Stark effect.

Two-dimensional multiferroics with effective magnetoelectric coupling has not been realized. Here, the authors find a magnetoelectric coupling mechanism in two-dimensional CuCrP₂S₆ interlocked with heterogeneous ferrielectric state.

Secondary ion beam mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a method to obtain a chemical snapshot of biological tissue, but the spatial resolution is low. Here, the authors develop a computational and technology pipeline to localise a chemical signal in SIMS in 3D and sub-25 nm accuracy, called Ion Beam Tomography

Knowledge of the electronic structure of group-IV monochalcogenides is essential for their application in high-performance thermoelectric energy harvesting. Here, using photoemission spectroscopy, the authors reveal the impact of doping, and the anisotropic nature of the band structure of SnSe.

A single-element ferroelectric state is observed in a black phosphorus-like bismuth layer, in which the ordered charge transfer and the regular atom distortion between sublattices happen simultaneously and ferroelectric switching is further visualized experimentally.

Developing low-temperature solution epitaxy and elucidating its underlying mechanisms is highly desired for low-cost fabrication of single-crystal ferroelectric films. Here, the authors show that a polarization screening between ferroelectrics and substrates can tailor the interface energy and drive the solution epitaxy of polarization-gradient ferroelectric oxide films, demonstrating a remarkable photovoltaic effect.

To realize efficient optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) organic crystals, optimizing the photoelectrical response and growth of these materials at the 2D limit is vital. Here, the authors report enhanced internal photoresponse in large-area 2D crystals using a novel growth method.

Plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) is an industrially compatible microelectronics technology. Here, the authors use PECVD to obtain low-temperature, catalyst-free growth of poly-crystalline two-dimensional hexagonal-boron nitride, thus enabling superior thermal dissipation in WSe₂ field-effect transistors with mobility up to 121 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹.

A new surface-directed crystallization mechanism enabled by the chemical and structural inhomogeneity of the glass substrate through self-limited nanocrystallization of glassy phase was proposed and demonstrated. Benefiting from the intricate interplays between nanoscale force and heterogeneous surface, the strategy offers new opportunities in the large-scale development of various metastable crystallization products and also serves practical purpose.