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The authors from the ALICE collaboration identify multiple species of mesons and baryons and measure the anisotropic flow with non-flow removal techniques in pp and p-Pb collisions at the LHC, identifying the hallmark of quark flow associated with an expanding quark-gluon plasma.

The concept of distance in graphs and hypergraphs faces challenges when extended to weighted hypergraphs due to potential inconsistencies. The authors propose a well-defined distance measure for weighted hypergraphs and demonstrate its applicability on real-world datasets, showing that the use of the measure may help to avoid the information loss typically arising when standard approaches are used.

A novel in vivo screening strategy identifies new modifiers of somatic CAG repeat expansion that contribute to age of onset in Huntington’s disease.

The ALICE Collaboration provides details on the microscopic mechanism that ends up creating antideuteron in high-energy proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

Somatic instability plays a role in Huntington’s disease. Here, the authors show that lowering HTT levels by transcriptional repression suppresses somatic instability. This can also be done without affecting HTT levels by direct CAG repeat binding.

Strong interaction is blind to quark flavor, so collisions of nuclei with the same number of protons and neutrons should generate the same number of charged and neutral kaons. Here, instead, the authors show a significant excess of charged over neutral kaon production in Ar+Sc nuclei collisions, compatibly with earlier measurements which however suffered from larger uncertainties, and show that known effects cannot explain the result.

Measurements of the inelastic cross section of anti-³He allow the estimation of the transparency of the Milky Way to the propagation of these light antinuclei produced in either cosmic-ray collisions or annihilation of dark-matter particles.

The use of oncolytic viruses as a therapy for cancer is limited by mechanisms inhibiting viral replication in the tumor. Here, the authors show that a chemical derivative of itaconate, 4-octyl itaconate, increases oncolytic virus VSVΔ51 efficacy in various cancer models, through decreasing antiviral immunity.

The direct measurement of the QCD dead cone in charm quark fragmentation is reported, using iterative declustering of jets tagged with a fully reconstructed charmed hadron.

A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

Optically stimulated vibrational control for materials has the potential to improve the performance of optoelectronic devices. The vibrational control of FAPbBr₃ perovskite solar cells has been demonstrated, where the fast dynamics of coupling between cations and inorganic sublattice may suppress non-radiative recombinations in perovskites, leading to reduced voltage losses.

Correlations in momentum space between hadrons created by ultrarelativistic proton–proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider provide insights into the strong interaction, particularly the short-range dynamics of hyperons—baryons that contain strange quarks.

The translational control of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is underexplored. Here, the authors study translational dynamics during sporulation, revealing two translation silencing events as well as potential regulatory roles of the ribosomes.

By comparing CsSrBr3 and CsPbBr3 with close structural similarity but the latter lacking lone-pair electrons on the octahedral metal, the authors reveal the similar vibrational anharmonicities in the two perovskites, which disentangles the electronic properties and vibrational anharmonicities.

There is economic impetus to achieve low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation. Here, the authors use time-resolved diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to show that platinum carbonates formed reversibly from platinum/aluminium oxide can oxidize carbon monoxide at room temperature.

Nuclear spins in solid-state systems present a promising platform for quantum information applications. Here the authors report evidence of the long-predicted entangled dark nuclear spin state via optical polarization of localized hole spins coupled to the nuclear bath in a lead halide perovskite semiconductor.

The Landé factors govern all the spin-related basic phenomena and are the key parameters which guide spintronics applications. Here, Kirstein et al. demonstrate a universal dependence of the Landé factors on the bandgap energy of several perovskite materials.

Despite remarkable optical properties in lead halide perovskites, spin control in these materials is largely unexplored. Herein Belykh et al. study the coherent spin dynamics of electrons and holes in cesium lead bromide perovskites, and evidence interaction of electron and lattice nuclear spins.

Larionova et al. identify a mechanism by which acidification of the tumour microenvironment within the glioblastoma core induces the generation of an alternative splice isoform of ribosomal protein RPL22L1, which regulates cell stemness and increases tumour heterogeneity.

We show perovskite X-ray detection at zero-voltage bias with operational device stability exceeding one year. Detection efficiency of 88% and noise-equivalent dose of 90 pGyair are obtained with 18 keV X-rays, allowing single-photon-sensitive, low-dose and energy-resolved X-ray imaging.

Time-resolved measurements show that coupling between electrons and phonons in lead halide perovskites can mediate attractive interactions between excitons, although the interaction strength depends on the specific material.

Near-infrared imaging with solution-processed organic–inorganic hybrid photodiodes is demonstrated for the first time. The hybrid bulk-heterojunction photodiodes contain PbS nanocrystalline quantum dots as sensitizers for the detection of light of up to 1.8 µm in wavelength, have a minimum lifetime of one year, and external quantum efficiencies of up to 51%.

Somatic expansion of a CAG repeat in HTT drives onset of Huntington’s disease. Using a human cell line model and splice modulators, here the authors show that PMS1 is an enhancer of CAG repeat expansion, making it a target for therapeutic intervention.

Low-dimensional tin-halide perovskites exhibit strong temperature dependence of luminescence decay time that translates into high sensitivity over a wide range of temperatures and as such can be used in high-resolution remote thermography.

Designing effective covert security features is highly regarded to deter counterfeit of goods and currency in the global markets. Here, the authors present an electrohydrodynamically printed unicolour multifluorescent-lifetime security tag system based on perovskite to provide an alternative yet affordable solution.

Evaluation of a nanopore-sequencing-based workflow for detection of antimalarial resistance in Ghana demonstrates feasibility where molecular surveillance is needed.

The biological properties of dendrimers are thought to be largely dependent on the chemical nature of their surface. Here, the authors show that the internal scaffold of dendritic nanodrugs strongly influences their bioactivity, based on convergent information from biology and computation results.

Higher-order networks including many-body interactions among nodes are ubiquitous in complex systems. The authors propose several growing mechanisms which are able to generate synthetic simplicial complexes displaying desired and customized statistical properties fitting those observed in the real world.

Epitaxial crystal growth is widely used in electronics for the rational design of efficient devices. Here, Rupich et al. find a universal law for island size scaling, which outlines similarities and differences between self-assembly of nanocrystals and atomic epitaxial growth.

Quark–gluon plasma is an exotic state of matter that can emerge in heavy nuclei high-energy collisions. The ALICE collaboration reports the first observation of strangeness enhancement in proton–proton collisions, a possible signature of this state.

The optical and electronic performance of inorganic nanocrystal assemblies stabilized by organic ligands has been extensively investigated, whereas less attention has been paid to their thermal transport properties. It is now shown that the thermal conductivity of these composite systems is determined by the vibrational states of both inorganic and ligand regions, as well as by their relative volumes.