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Opacities are considered to be the source of the disagreement between theoretical solar models and helioseismic data. Here, the authors show solar opacity profiles derived from seismic inferences, which differs from theoretical values used in the solar models.

The spin of an electron bound to a single phosphorus atom in silicon is of interest for spin-based electronics such as quantum computing. Here, Büch et al. show these spin properties are retained even for clusters of a few phosphorus atoms, providing an additional means for quantum bit addressability.

The Antarctic winter phytoplankton production is experiencing an underestimated acceleration based on the spaceborne LiDAR. This trend is linked to the declining sea ice, highlighting the Southern Ocean’s escalating role in the global carbon cycle.

This study projects the private costs and monetized climate and health damages of electrifying long-haul heavy-duty diesel trucks. Battery electric trucks yield net positive societal benefits by 2035, contingent on policies that accelerate adoption.

The authors show that a bacterial histone, HLp from Leptospira perolatii, forms tetramers that wrap and compact DNA, revealing an unexpected mechanism by which bacteria organize their genetic material.

The magnetoelastic coupling at a ferroelectric-ferromagnetic interface is shown to be dominated by shear-strain effects. Using polarised x-ray microscopy to simultaneously image the ferroic domain structures, the authors demonstrate an anomalous coupling in the ultrathin film limit.

Allogenic mesenchymal stem cells are engineered with three mRNAs to bind to multiple myeloma B cells while activating T cells for cancer therapy.

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders.

Insecticide resistance can limit the effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention, but other factors such as access and durability also contribute. Here, the authors quantify impacts of this ‘cascade’ of factors using a mathematical model.

Construction of chiral nanostructures is impeded by the entropic barrier of dissymmetric blocks. Here, the authors report a dynamic assembly/disassembly strategy to yield single-unit organometallic helices for enantioselective amyloid inhibition.

The interplay between chirality, light and spin is an emerging frontier with broad impact. This study reveals chirality-induced spin polarization and ultrafast dynamic chirality in semiconductors, unlocking new pathways for coherent spin manipulation.

The feasibility of using second-harmonic generation to measure the broken time-reversal symmetry and valley polarization in monolayer WSe₂ is presented, simplifying the process of probing valleys on ultrafast timescales without perturbing the system.

Atomic clocks are increasingly important for many applications in scientific research and technology. Here, Nicholson et al. present a series of developments allowing them to achieve a new record in atomic clock performance, with a systematic uncertainty of just 2.1 × 10⁻¹⁸ for their ⁸⁷Sr atomic clock.

High-energy interlayer excitons in van der Waals semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides lie far above the bandgap and emit in the ultraviolet range.

Condensates of excitons have been observed in the quantum Hall regime, but evidence for their existence at low magnetic fields remains controversial. Now evidence of coherence between optically pumped interlayer excitons in MoS₂ marks a step towards confirming exciton condensation at low magnetic fields.

Li-metal batteries suffer from sluggish kinetics at low temperatures. Here, authors propose a guideline for rational electrolyte solvent screening and design a class of asymmetric ethers, which bestows the Li metal pouch cell with a high specific energy of 345.3 Wh kg⁻¹ over 40 cycles at −40 °C.

Fast inactivation is characteristic of voltage-gated sodium channels. In this work, the authors show that this process occurs in two distinct, consecutive steps and propose a lock and key model for fast inactivation.

Here they identify a short-lived vascular endothelial progenitor pool that predominantly vascularizes the mouse liver during postnatal growth and contributes to liver size control.

Cancer immunotherapy benefits from antibody-lectin chimeras that block glyco-immune checkpoints.

Electrochemical hydrogenation drives a reversible conductor–insulator transition in graphene. Authors show that it is 10⁶× faster than other methods and tunable by isotope effects and lattice corrugations, enabling ionic control of 2D electronics.

Commercially available bionic hands can replicate many movements, but controlling a multiarticulate bionic hand is not an intuitive task. Here, the authors describe the integration of proximity and pressure sensors into a commercial prosthesis to enable autonomous grasping

A family of 2D hybrid perovskites engineered with bulky organic ligands in a copper halide lattice is synthesized, demonstrating mixed tetrahedral–octahedral connectivity. These materials undergo strain-driven reversible transformation into Ruddlesden–Popper phases and exhibit structural asymmetry, leading to the coexistence of ferroelectricity and intralayer antiferromagnetism in one compound.

This work investigates changes in regularity of crop failure, heatwave and wildfire exposure for different future climate scenarios. Major shifts in dominant periods are observed when moving from pre-industrial to current climate conditions.

Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species identity and abundance declines, and are mitigated by high plant diversity and low land-use intensity.

Laser-induced tuning of pairs of lifetime-limited organic emitters allows the controlled creation of superradiant and subradiant entangled states.

PFAS are “forever chemicals” that build up in living things and can move through food webs. This study shows their levels roughly double with each step up the food chain, highlighting widespread chemical magnification in nature.

The North American southwest was dustier during interglacial climates, in contrast with global trends. Long-term regional dust emissions depend on the erosion of hillslope and tributary sediments into alluvial, river, and playa dust sources downstream.

Charge noise and spin noise lead to decoherence of the state of a quantum dot. A fast spectroscopic technique based on resonance fluorescence can distinguish between these two deleterious effects, enabling a better understanding of how to minimize their influence.

The study shows that DNA double-strand break repair follows a circadian rhythm: homologous recombination peaks in the morning and declines by evening. CRY1 regulates CCAR2 to modulate this cycle, linking daily timing to genomic stability and cancer therapy response.

Here, the authors break the symmetry of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides using a tunable uniaxial strain, and demonstrate pseudospin analogs of spintronic phenomena such as the Zeeman effect and Larmor precession.

Mass-wasting deposits that accumulated against mid-ocean ridge faults have high porosity in which calcium carbonate precipitated, storing seawater carbon dioxide, as revealed by cores of a 61-million-year-old seafloor talus deposit.

Here authors demonstrate how opposing trajectories of dopamine transmission underlie changes in drug seeking and taking over chronic drug use. Increased dopamine to drug cues elevates craving, whereas decreased dopamine produces escalation of drug consumption.

Rare-earth doped crystals are a promising platform for developing quantum devices. Here, Sinclair et al. propose and demonstrate a concept for non-destructive detection of photonic qubits using solid-state waveguides, which could help reduce signal losses in quantum information processing.

Crystal growth is visualized inside non-transparent liquid metals, while preserving their original state, using X-ray micro-computed tomography to reveal how liquid metal solvent composition and cooling conditions influence crystal formation.

Here, the authors discover the ground and excited state interlayer excitons in bi- and tri-layer 2H-MoSe₂ crystals which exhibit electric-field-driven hybridisation with the intralayer A excitons, showing distinct spin, layer and valley characteristics.

Coherent control of quantum states of a system is important for quantum applications. Here the authors demonstrate manipulation of the degree of superposition of coherently coupled solid-state quantum emitters by using Stark shifts of their optical resonances.

Integration of color centers in wide-band semiconductors with electronic and photonic devices is required for their applications in quantum technologies. Here the authors report electronic, optical and spin control of a single vacancy center in a 4H-SiC Schottky diode integrated with optical microstructures.

Exploiting the interactions between bright excitons and free carriers in an atomically thin semiconductor of trilayer tungsten diselenide WSe₂ results in Fermi polarons that exhibit unusually large nonlinearity.

Large-scale sequencing and population genomic analyses reveal frequent transmission, a highly admixed global population structure and evidence of pervasive negative selection in Haemophilus influenzae.

Observations compiled from several Mars observation missions suggest a significant but short-lived dust storm during the Northern hemisphere summer of Mars Year 37 drove substantial vertical transport of water vapor into the upper atmosphere.

The authors use atomistic calculations with machine-learned interatomic potentials to show that dislocation motion in metals like iron and tungsten involves a nearly constant activation entropy, challenging prior models and improving strength predictions.

LEVA is a label-free immobilization method for studying surface-bound extracellular vesicles.

The ability to imprint phase shifts on light lie at the basis of several classical and quantum light-based information processing primitives. Here, the authors demonstrate the phase shift of an optical field by a single quantum emitter in a waveguide, at the single photon level.

Researchers use a chimeric approach to reveal the first near-atomic resolution structures the yellow fever virion, showing key differences between vaccine and virulent strains that affect how antibodies recognise and neutralise the virus.

An all-optical method involving third-harmonic Faraday rotation is used to probe the breaking of time-reversal symmetry in mono- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide WS₂.

Protist microbiomes are poorly understood. Here, the authors analysed single protist cells to profile their microbiomes and viromes showing that these tiny eukaryotes serve as environmental hubs for hidden bacterial symbionts and diverse giant viruses.

The spatial phase and direction of extreme-ultraviolet light are controlled by an all-optical modulator based on argon gas. It works by using an infrared pulse to control the spatial and spectral phase of the free induction decay in the gas system.

A quantum simulator can follow the evolution of a prescribed model, whose behaviour may be difficult to determine. Here, the emergence of magnetism is simulated by implementing a quantum Ising model, providing a benchmark for simulations in larger systems.