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The authors demonstrate dual-probe multi-messenger imaging of high-energy-density plasmas based on laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons. This enables spatiotemporally resolved simultaneous probing of plasma hydrodynamics and electromagnetic field evolution with both x-ray and electron beams.

Yunhui Xie and colleagues report a method that treats a coherent beam combining system as a phased array. They show it can approximate phase-delaying optics to steer, shape and rotate the focus without moving optics, increasing system flexibility.

Most atom-based quantum networks emit photons at non-telecom wavelengths, requiring lossy conversion for long-distance links. A scalable approach for generating direct entanglement between atoms and telecom-band photons has now been demonstrated.

Taveneau et al. leverage artificial-intelligence-driven protein design to create inhibitors that control RNA-targeting enzymes in cells, revealing a strategy to rapidly design off-switches for RNA-editing systems.

Superconducting transmon qubits are limited by a tradeoff between anharmonicity and charge-noise sensitivity. Here, the authors show how highly transparent Josephson junctions in hybrid superconducting-semiconducting heterostructures can remove this tradeoff and achieve both benefits.

Diamonds provide a window into deep Earth processes and can be used to understand the deep carbon cycle. Here, Jacob et al. show that diamond precipitation can be triggered by the oxidation of pyrrhotite to magnetite at the base of a cratonic lithosphere, providing insight into diamond formation.

Water-vapor interfaces have been studied with many techniques, yet open questions persist about their electronic and molecular structure. Here, the authors demonstrate the application of soft x-ray second harmonic generation to study the water surface by leveraging attosecond pulses at the LCLS and a flat liquid sheet microjet, providing insights on the H-bond structure.

The authors present an integrated acousto-optic modulator fabricated in a wafer-scale process that realizes efficient, high-speed modulation of visible light with high optical power handling.

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices provide a versatile tool to investigate fundamental properties of quantum many-body systems. This paper demonstrates control at the most fundamental level, using a laser beam and microwave field to flip the spin of individual atoms at specific sites of an optical lattice. The technique should enable studies of entropy transport and the quantum dynamics of spin impurities, the implementation of novel cooling schemes, engineering of quantum many-body phases and various quantum information processing applications.

Traditional TIRF illumination is hampered by lack of precise quantification of single-molecule intensities. Here the authors combine flat-field illumination by using a standard πShaper with multi-angular TIR illumination by incorporating a spatial light modulator compatible with fast super-resolution structured illumination microscopy.

Manipulating nitrogen vacancies in nitrogen-doped diamond is important for quantum information processing. Here the authors use a two-colour excitation to redistribute the localized trapping charges in type-1b diamonds.

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

Hierarchical phase-contrast tomography (HiP-CT) enables multiscale imaging of any region within an intact human organ down to cellular resolution. HiP-CT of five organ types revealed 3D morphological features in healthy and diseased tissue.

Pan-expansion microscopy of tissue combines staining of proteins and lipids with immunolabeling.

Moiré superlattices offer a tunable platform for studying charge and spin phenomena in correlated solid-state systems. Here, the authors explore spin transport in twisted WSe₂/WS₂ superlattices and find signatures of spin–charge transport decoupling.

High entanglement fidelity between neutral atoms is achieved using highly excited Rydberg states. The unique electron structure provided by alkaline-earth atoms makes it a promising platform for various quantum-technology-based applications.

An optically addressable fluorescent-protein spin qubit is realized using enhanced yellow fluorescent protein; the qubit can be coherently controlled at liquid-nitrogen temperatures and the spin detected at room temperature in cells.

Here, the authors demonstrate that a secondary electron electron-beam-induced current imaging technique in a scanning transmission electron microscope can be applied to spatially resolve the atomic scale electron density in an encapsulated WSe₂ monolayer.

During membrane fusion, lipid bilayers come into direct contact but rearrangements of lipid domains during fusion have not been thoroughly examined. Here the authors observe and correlate membrane morphology, interaction forces and domain rearrangements during hemifusion of two model membranes.

Gold samples can be heated to more than 14 times their melting point while retaining their crystalline structure, far surpassing the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold and suggesting a substantially higher or potentially no limit for superheating.

Ferromagnetic systems rarely display a large or non-saturating magnetoresistance, due to the low Fermi velocity of the predominant charge carrier. Here, the authors show that MnBi, a ferromagnet, bucks this trend, showing both large and non-saturating magnetoresistance, and high charge carrier motilities.

Nonlinear transport effects arising from the quantum metric have been reported in topological magnets at low temperatures. Here, the authors demonstrate a second-harmonic transport response in TbMn₆Sn₆ at room temperature, attributed to the quantum metric and controllable via an applied magnetic field.

Light in deep tissue can be spatially mapped via magnetic resonance imaging by leveraging liposomal nanoparticles incorporating photosensitive lipids and enclosing paramagnetic molecules.

The formation of defects in numerous systems is believed to follow universal scaling laws arising from the Kibble–Zurek mechanism. Ulm et al.measure this scaling law for defects created in ion Coulomb crystals, confirming the predicted behaviour for a system of 16 ions.

Controlling supercurrent pathways in a Josephson junction can lead to new functionalities. Here, Lahabi et al. demonstrate the tailoring of two distinct supercurrent channels in a ferromagnetic disk containing a magnetic vortex.

Extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light sources enable the exploration of diverse fields of physics, but such sources are rare and limited in their intensity and structure. This work demonstrates that photon acceleration of an optical vector vortex pulse in an electron beam-driven plasma wave can produce a relativistically intense XUV pulse while preserving the vector vortex structure.

Actinide compounds possess complex electronic structures. Here the authors introduce the satellite peak in actinide M₄-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to probe the number of localized 5 f electrons and assesses bond covalency in actinide compounds.

Vectorial optoelectronic metasurfaces are described, showing that light pulses can be used to drive and direct local charge flows around symmetry-broken plasmonic nanostructures, leading to tunable responses in terahertz emission.

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) promote the degradation of targets by ensuring the proximity of the E3-ligase and the target, and understanding the structure of PROTACs at the atomic level is key to developing more efficient degraders. Here the authors determine the complete atomic-level structure of an amorphous Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)-based SMARCA2 PROTAC (PROTAC 2).

Transient absorption with N prescribed excitation intensities allows isolation of N increasingly nonlinear responses, enabling separation of single- and multiple-exciton dynamics.

Velocimetry diagnostics such as photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV) are essential to the field of shock and high energy density physics. Here, the authors demonstrate a system that dramatically extends the velocity dynamic range of PDV into the regime of fusion experiments by harnessing a time lens.

Iron nitride (Fe₄N) is detected on magnetite particles within the Ryugu sample returned by Hayabusa2. It is probably the product of impacts of nitrogen-rich dust from the outer Solar System on the surface of Ryugu, indicative of a flux of N-rich dust in the inner Solar System.

The integration of single-photon detectors, as superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, in photonic-integrated circuits is a goal of quantum information science. Here, Najafi et al.introduce a micrometer-scale flip-chip process enabling such a integration in a scalable way.

Contrary to current expectation, eavesdropping on terahertz wireless data links is shown to be easier than expected, by placing an object in the path of the signal that scatters part of it to a receiver located elsewhere.

Optical chiral induction and spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order are realized in the transition-metal chalcogenide 1T-TiSe₂ by using illumination with mid-infrared circularly polarized light and simultaneous cooling below the critical temperature.

Hierarchical structural materials combine organic and inorganic components to withstand mechanical impact but the nanomechanics that govern the superior properties are not well investigated. Here, the authors observe nanoscale recovery of heavily deformed nacre that restores its mechanical strength using high-resolution electron microscopy.

Josephson junctions are used for SQUIDs, voltage standards, and superconducting qubits. These applications are located at one corner of the device parameter space. Here, the authors shed light on the other corner and show the quantized current of Josephson junctions — dual to the quantized voltage.

In mouse brain, neurotensin released into the basolateral amygdala by neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus assigns positive or negative valence during associative learning.

The emergence of two dimensional ferromagnetism suffers from an inherent fragility to thermal fluctuations, which typically restricts the Curie temperature to below room temperature. Here, Zhang et al present CrTe₂ thin films grown via molecular beam epitaxy with a Curie temperature exceeding 300 K.