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A single adaptive neuromorphic vision device is reported to emulate four high-order visual neuronal dynamics, enabling a highly efficient and compact artificial general vision intelligence system towards dynamic scenarios.

Time-resolved measurements show that current-induced magnetization switching in ferrimagnetic devices is faster and more energy-efficient than in ferromagnet devices.

The Dark sectioning algorithm removes the background and provides single-frame optical sectioning in fluorescence microscopy. It offers improved quantitative analysis and deep-tissue segmentation accuracy and is compatible to diverse modalities.

The online food delivery and takeaway market is growing in China, serving 406 million customers with 10.0 billion orders in 2018. Here, data from an online food delivery platform, life-cycle environmental impacts of packaging and tableware waste generated across 353 cities in China, and scenarios for paper alternatives and tableware sharing are presented.

The Weyl semimetal WTe₂ possesses strong spin–orbit coupling and time-reversal-protected spin polarization in surface and bulk states. In a WTe₂/permalloy heterostructure, WTe₂ can act as a spin current source that enables magnetization switching at low current densities.

A large-scale single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the non-human primate Macaca fascicularis encompasses over 1 million cells from 45 adult tissues.

A fully integrated semiconductor microlaser that exploits spin–orbit coupling of light emits in a four-dimensional Hilbert space, with flexible control of up to six degrees of freedom.

CDC25 phosphatases are important cell cycle regulators. Here, the authors show that the LIM domain-containing proteins (for example, FHL1) induce inhibitory CDC25 phosphorylation resulting in radioresistance and that a specific peptide can increase tumour radiosensitivity by increasing CDC25 activity.

A Stereo-seq and scRNA-seq atlas of mouse liver in homeostasis and regeneration after partial hepatectomy identifies zonated genes, pathways, cell–cell interactions and gene regulatory networks. Functional validation finds that cooperation between TBL1XR1 and β-catenin activates hepatocyte proliferation.

Phosphorus cycling pathways and their ability to withstand disturbances are crucial to sustainable and sufficient food production. Ecological network analysis applied to a multi-node cycling network in China reveals the sensitivities and entry points for closing the phosphorus cycle.

The genome of the scallop Patinopecten yessoensis is sequenced. This bivalve mollusc has a slow-evolving genome with features such as karyotype and Hox gene expression that may be close to that of the ancestral bilaterian.

Studying the genetic progression of many cancers is difficult as longitudinal samples are rarely available. Here, the authors analyse a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia over a 29 year period and track the clonal evolution of the patient’s disease and response to therapy.

How functional connectivity gradients in the cortex arise and vary dynamically is not fully understood. Here the authors show that gradients are determined by structural wiring but may be modulated by arousal levels.

Mapping brain connections is critical for decoding brain functions. Here, the authors present an integrated resource of awake resting-state fMRI and neuronal tracing data of marmosets to understand structural-functional relationships of brain connections.

Mechanisms of sleep remain elusive. Here, authors developed mouse sleep fMRI based on simultaneous electrophysiology and mapped global and sequential state transition patterns, together with global patterns triggered by SWRs in NREM and awake states.

Membranes with high permselectivity in high salinity conditions are desirable for efficient energy conversion. Here, the authors address the challenge by modifying the distribution of electrostatic potentials in the linkages of covalent organic framework membranes and apply the material to the conversion of low-grade waste heat into electrical energy.

Balancing high resolution and broad genome coverage in single-cell Hi-C approaches remains challenging. Here, the authors describe a computational method for the reconstruction of a large 3D-ensemble of single-cell chromatin conformations from population Hi-C measurements and apply this model to study embryogenesis in Drosophila.

Topological semimetals can host coexisting higher-order topological nodes that may enable unique physical properties. Here, based on these topological principles, authors design and experimentally realise simultaneous massive and massless chiral quasiparticles in a photonic microring lattice.

Combination of fMRI and deep brain stimulation (DBS) allows for large-scale mapping of brain responses to DBS. Here the authors develop highly MRI compatible graphene fiber electrodes for full brain activation pattern mapping under DBS in Parkinsonian rats.

Evolutionary analysis of transcriptomes across Metazoa supports a scenario of ancestral adult stages and a single intercalation event at the origin of larvae.

The partial effects of saving rate changes on CO₂ emissions remain unclear. Here the authors found that the increase in saving rates of China has led to increments of global industrial CO₂ emissions by 189 million tonnes (Mt) during 2007-2012, while global CO₂ emissions would be reduced by 186 Mt if the saving rates of China decreased by 15 percentage points.

Using single-cell transcriptomics, the authors generate a brain cell atlas for the pharaoh ant including individuals of different sexes and castes and show changes in cell composition underlying division of labour and reproductive specialization.

To achieve sustainable food production in China in 2030, strategies such as optimizing fertilizer application, improving production efficiency, reducing food loss and waste and shifting dietary patterns must be combined inter-regionally, and food production reallocated from northern to southern China. Levers and barriers to strategy implementation are discussed here.

It is a general consensus that the structural defects are the plasticity carriers in amorphous solids, but its microscopic view remains largely unknown. Cao et a. show that highly distorted coplanar tetrahedra act as defects in granular packings, which flip under shear to carry local plasticity.

Mercury (Hg) is a global neurotoxic pollutant and has a long chain from economic activities to human health risks. Here the authors presented a map of Hg-related health risks in China and found significant impacts of interprovincial trade on health risks, such as the prevention of deaths from fatal heart attacks by the trade induced by final consumption.

A new transplantation site in the abdomen, the subanterior rectus sheath, is shown to allow for functional maturation of stem-cell-derived islet cells and improved glycemic control in a proof-of-principle study involving four nonhuman primates.

Groundwater N pollution in China displayed an overall decline since 2016, while persistent pollution has lingered owing to long-term legacy N, insighting from dual nitrate isotopes, machine learning and decision tree-heatmap analysis.

Ferrimagnets present advantages over their anitferromagnetic and ferromagnetic counterparts for applications in ultrafast spintronics but the dynamics of the non-uniform spin textures are not as well understood. Here, the authors investigate the inhomogeneous oscillation dynamics in the ferrimagnetic system via a multi-spin model.

Thermoelectric materials can generate electricity from waste heat but can also use electricity for cooling. This Perspective discusses coefficients of performance for these systems and the state-of-the-art for materials, and suggests strategies for the discovery of improved thermoelectric materials.

FeTi alloys are efficient hydrogen storage mediums but their synthesis using high-purity metals poses considerable environmental sustainability concerns. Here, industrial scraps of iron and titanium are used to synthesise FeTi with high hydrogen storage capacities and tunable thermodynamic properties.