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The authors develop an approach for photonic terahertz phased array without requiring true time delays or integrated electrodes using optically controlled nonlinear metasurface. Programmable 1D and 2D beamforming are realized across 0.8 ~ 1.4 THz.

We report both spin- and orbital-sourced Berry curvature in LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interfaces grown along the [111] direction.

This study identified structural variants in grapevine populations, including wild progenitors, using a de novo assembly and comparative genomics approach, and examined their evolutionary genomics and roles in domestication and phenotypic evolution.

The authors introduce a machine-learning framework that predicts how materials respond to electric fields with quantum-level accuracy, capturing vibrational, dielectric, and ferroelectric behaviors up to the million-atom scale.

Topological order for sound remains largely unexplored. Here, Khanikaevet al. introduce the concept of topological order in classical acoustics, realizing robust topological protection and one-way edge propagation of sound in a suitably designed resonator lattice, thus expanding the ability to tailor acoustic waves.

Ovonic threshold switching between high-resistive and conductive states in chalcogenide alloys is crucial for phase change memories and selector elements, yet its voltage dependence on field polarity remains underexplored. Here, the authors elucidate this phenomenon using electrical measurements, numerical simulations based on Technology Computer Aided Design, and DFT calculations, proposing a Graded Band Gap model that enhances memory design by predicting programming window characteristics.

Identifying jets originating from heavy quarks plays a fundamental role in hadronic collider experiments. In this work, the ATLAS Collaboration describes and tests a transformer-based neural network architecture for jet flavour tagging based on low-level input and physics-inspired constraints.

Over the last 15 years, the content of Nature Physics has covered an enormous breadth of subjects at the forefront of physics. The journal’s past and present editors recount their favourite papers and what made chaperoning them to publication special.

A transient topological response in graphene is driven by a short pulse of light. When the Fermi energy is in the predicted band gap the Hall conductance is around two conductance quanta. An ultrafast detection technique enables the measurement.

Switching of magnetic behaviour is one of the main ideas that drives spintronics. Now, magnetic switching via spin-orbit torque is shown in a moiré bilayer, introducing a platform for spintronic applications.

One-way sound propagation has been recently proposed in the context of topological acoustics, but is challenged by introducing uniform media motion. Here, Fleury et al.present a practical scheme to achieve topological propagation by modulating in time the acoustic properties of a lattice of resonators, resembling Floquet topological insulators in condensed matter.

The CMS Collaboration reports the measurement of the spin, parity, and charge conjugation properties of all-charm tetraquarks, exotic fleeting particles formed in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

Rhombohedral tetralayer graphene aligned to a hexagonal boron nitride substrate hosts gate-tunable superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall states, and thermodynamic compressibility measurements further show a fractional Chern insulator at zero magnetic field, paving the way for new hybrid interfaces between superconductors and topological edge states.

A 30-year monitoring study of brown bears in Sweden documents the demographic impact of regulated hunting, which includes pronounced life history changes despite sustainable management.

Helicity of photons is exploited for preferential emission direction and sorting of valley-polarized excitons is achieved at room temperature.

Topological states that are created from strong electron–electron interactions at half-integer superlattice fillings are observed at zero magnetic field.

In this work light and matter have been coupled in a strong interaction between exciton resonances and topological photonic bands. The authors herein demonstrate a Z2 spin-Hall topological polaritonic phase enabling new coupling schemes in valleytronics and spintronics.

The authors find that TDP-43 loss of function—the pathology defining the neurodegenerative conditions ALS and FTD—induces novel mRNA polyadenylation events, which have different effects, including an increase in RNA stability, leading to higher protein levels.

The observation of oscillations in the conductance characteristics of narrow graphene p–n-junctions confirms their ability to collimate ballistic carriers. Moreover, the phase of these oscillations at low magnetic field suggests the occurrence of the perfect transmission of carriers normal to the junction as a direct result of the Klein effect.

Itinerant magnetism in rhombohedral multilayer graphene shows a large excess entropy from magnetic fluctuations above its critical temperature—typically only associated with local moments—which implies the decoupling of charge and isospin degrees of freedom, and results in the isospin Pomeranchuk effect.

Leukaemia development has been reported as an associated risk of haematopoietic stem cell gene therapy (HSPC-GT) using retroviral vectors in different diseases. Here, the authors show a case of T-cell acute lymphoid leukaemia in a patient with Adenosine Deaminase-deficient Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID) treated with retroviral gene therapy.

A nanoscale superconducting sensor used to map the magnetic fringe fields in twisted bilayers of MoTe₂ shows the formation of fractional Chern insulator states at zero magnetic field.

Two monolayers of bismuth-containing cuprate will form a high-temperature topological superconductor when stacked with an approximately 45° rotation between the layers.

The quark structure of the f₀(980) hadron is still unknown after 50 years of its discovery. Here, the CMS Collaboration reports a measurement of the elliptic flow of the f₀(980) state in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV, providing strong evidence that the state is an ordinary meson.

This Review discusses the latest theoretical progress related to exceptional points in non-Hermitian physics and the associated implications for emerging technologies in nanophotonics.

A room temperature single-phase multiferroic with large and strongly coupled polarization and magnetization is a long-sought goal in multiferroics research. Here, the authors predict a promising candidate, layered-perovskite metal Bi₅Mn₅O₁₇, which is a ferromagnet, ferroelectric, and ferrotoroid.

The physics of a second-order topological insulator, such as two-dimensional polarization, one-dimensional edge states and zero-dimensional corner states, are demonstrated experimentally in an acoustic breathing kagome lattice.

Moiré systems formed by 2D atomic layers have widely tunable electrical and optical properties and host exotic, strongly correlated and topological phenomena, including superconductivity, correlated insulator states and orbital magnetism. In this Viewpoint, researchers studying different aspects of moiré materials discuss the most exciting directions in this rapidly expanding field.

Here, the authors present and characterise a collection of human gut bacteria including novel taxa associated with health conditions and a large diversity of plasmids. All isolates, their genomes and metadata are publicly available, facilitating research by others (www.hibc.rwth-aachen.de).

A study shows that rhombohedral graphene is an ideal platform for well-controlled tests of many-body theory and reveals that magnetism in moiré materials is fundamentally itinerant in nature.

In an ongoing phase 1 trial, the combination of two new immunotherapies targeting CTLA-4 and PD-1 was overall well tolerated and elicited encouraging clinical responses in patients with relapsed/refractory microsatellite stable colorectal cancer, a tumor type typically unresponsive to immune checkpoint blockade.

A new approach called liquid biopsy integration site sequencing enables monitoring of genetically modified cells in solid tissues of patients receiving gene therapy.

Using well-calibrated statistical methods the authors jointly analyze Undiagnosed Diseases Network genomes, identifying known and novel disease genes. Software is publicly available to support future cross-cohort rare disease discovery efforts.

Nonreciprocal acoustic and elastic wave propagation may enable the creation of devices such as acoustic one-way mirrors, isolators and topological insulators. This Review presents advances in the creation of materials that break reciprocity and realize robust, unidirectional acoustic and elastic wave steering.

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.

Here the authors demonstrate a path to design metasurfaces that perform broadband, high-NA, high-efficiency and dual-polarization edge detection without using bulky 4 f systems. This work introduces new approaches towards passive, ultra-compact optical computing and image processing.

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has high thermogenic potential and is considered a promising target to counteract obesity. Here de Jong et al. demonstrate that human BAT is more similar to classical brown than to beige adipose tissue from mice kept at thermoneutrality and challenged with a high-fat diet.

A pangenome of the Cannabis genus including 193 genomes demonstrates high variability in most of the genome but low diversity in cannabinoid synthesis genes and provides a resource for future genetic studies and crop optimization.

This overview of the ENCODE project outlines the data accumulated so far, revealing that 80% of the human genome now has at least one biochemical function assigned to it; the newly identified functional elements should aid the interpretation of results of genome-wide association studies, as many correspond to sites of association with human disease.

A solid-state laser that generates 10 × 10 vortex laser arrays is demonstrated. The topologies are actively tunable.