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The CMS experiment at CERN reports one of the highest-precision measurements of the W boson mass, finding it in line with standard model predictions and at odds with recent anomalous measurements.

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 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.

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.

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.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias identifies new loci and enables generation of a new genetic risk score associated with the risk of future Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

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Monocytes participate in plaque formation, and adapt to metabolic changes to alter their functions. Here the authors show, using genetic mouse models and functional analyses, that Glut1-mediated glucose metabolism is important for regulating monocyte homeostasis and migration, but curiously has no impact on atherosclerotic plaque formation.

Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots are in protected areas.

Symbiotic fungi control network-level structure and flows to meet trade demands.

A consensus cell type atlas for the fly brain provides both an intellectual framework and open-source toolchains for brain-scale comparative connectomics.

Utilizing single-cell RNA sequencing, the authors here find that IL1B gene expression in peripheral blood monocytes associates with smaller HIV-1 reservoir size in people treated during acute infection, suggesting IL1B may be a natural latency reversing factor decreasing the reservoir via NF-κB activation.

Here, the authors present the structure of the HIV envelope (Env) protein from a transmitted founder virus and show that, while the overall structure of the Env trimer is similar to other closed trimers, the fusion peptide is buried in the hydrophobic core of the trimer, which is similar to open state trimers.

Screening for chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes should encompass not only testing for albuminuria, but also the subsequent diagnostic procedures and interventions. Otherwise, what is the purpose of testing? The authors of this Viewpoint highlight the inadequacies of current screening practices, and argue that detection of increased urinary albumin excretion in a patient with diabetes should be a call to action.

Murcy et al. show that increasing the plasma glutamine-to-glutamate ratio in atherosclerosis can distally reprogram transcriptional and post-transcriptional remodeling of the aorta by GLS2-dependent hepatic glutaminolysis.

The authors find the electric-field-driven motion of domain walls in the improper ferroelectric ErMnO₃, showing that they readily return to their initial position after having travelled distances exceeding 250 nm.

Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a critical One Health challenge, despite research and policy progress. Building on the past decade of research, this Perspective provides an integrative roadmap for addressing antimicrobial resistance by leveraging the complexities of human and environment interactions.

One in five patients with diabetic kidney dysfunction is anemic. Low hemoglobin levels in this population are associated with an increased risk of progression to end-stage renal disease, increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, hypertension, retinopathy, neuropathy and foot ulcers. Here, Merlin Thomas from the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne explores the pathophysiology of anemia in diabetic kidney disease, and the clinical utility of its correction.

Signatures of phyllosilicate-like hydrated minerals are widespread on Bennu’s surface, indicating significant aqueous alteration. The lack of spatial variations in the spectra down to the scale of ~100 m indicates both a relatively uniform particle size distribution and a lack of compositional segregation, possibly due to surficial redistribution processes.

The most up-to-date combination of results on the properties of the Higgs boson is reported, which indicate that its properties are consistent with the standard model predictions, within the precision achieved to date.

FlyWire presents a neuronal wiring diagram of the whole fly brain with annotations for cell types, classes, nerves, hemilineages and predicted neurotransmitters, with data products and an open ecosystem to facilitate exploration and browsing.

The CMS Collaboration reports evidence for off-shell Higgs boson contributions in the production of Z boson pairs, and measures the width of the Higgs boson, which is inversely related to its lifetime.

The CMS Collaboration reports the study of three simultaneous hard interactions between quarks and gluons in proton–proton collisions. This manifests through the concurrent production of three J/ψ mesons, which consist of a charm-quark–antiquark pair.

Dense calcium imaging combined with co-registered high-resolution electron microscopy reconstruction of the brain of the same mouse provide a functional connectomics map of tens of thousands of neurons of a region of the primary cortex and higher visual areas.

Adipose tissue is composed of a number of adipocytes and a number of other cells including immune cells. Here the authors use single-cell sequencing of murine brown adipose tissue immune cells and describe multiple macrophage and monocyte subsets and show that monocytes contribute to brown adipose tissue expansion.

The DaXi single-objective light-sheet microscope achieves fast, high-quality imaging of large volumes. DaXi’s design allows increased scanning range without sacrificing imaging speed or quality, multiview imaging and versatile sample mounting.

CS2 promises easy access to degradable sulfur-rich polymers, but ring-opening copolymerisation using CS2 is challenging due to low linkage selectivity and small-molecule by-products. Here, the authors report a cooperative Cr(III)/K catalyst which selectively delivers poly(dithiocarbonates) from CS₂ and oxetanes.

FlyWire is an online community and a platform for proofreading electron microscopy-based connectome data of the Drosophila brain.

Soft acoustic metamaterials that consist of a concentrated suspension of macroporous microbeads and that show a broadband negative acoustic refractive index are now demonstrated.

Here, using longitudinal pre- and post-infection samples from the RV217 Early Capture HIV Cohort Study, the authors show that mucosa-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells become activated and expand during the early acute phase of HIV infection, with subsequent reprogramming towards innate-like functionality.

Morgane Rolland and colleagues report that in HIV infection, a higher diversity of infecting founder viruses is associated with markers of poorer clinical outcome.

Complex oxide devices provide a platform for studying and making use of strongly correlated electronic behavior. Here the authors present a LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ quantum dot and show that its transport behavior is consistent with the presence of attractive electron interactions and the charge Kondo effect.

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 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.

Bennu’s surface presents evidence of a variety of particle sizes, from fine regolith to metre-sized boulders. Its moderate thermal inertia suggests that the boulders are very porous or blanketed by thin dust. Bennu’s boulders exhibit high albedo variations, indicating different origins and/or ages.

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.

Recent clinical studies with bardoxolone methyl have demonstrated improvements in the glomerular filtration rate of diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although its mechanism of action is uncertain, the persisting effects of bardoxolone methyl in this challenging group of patients are a source of optimism for the management of CKD.

Accurate stratification of renal risk is important for the effective management of patients with type 2 diabetes. In a new study, Elley et al. report and validate a 5-year prediction model for the development of end-stage renal disease in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care.

Vicinity of small bodies might be dangerous to the spacecrafts and to their instrumentation. Here the authors show the operational environment of asteroid Bennu, validate its photometric phase function and demonstrate the accelerating rotational rate due to YORP effect using the data acquired during the approach phase of OSIRIS-REx mission.

Bennu’s surface has experienced continuous changes, mostly induced by its accelerating spin rate, which could have resulted in a collapse of its interior in the past. This scenario is also supported by the heterogeneity of Bennu’s internal mass distribution.

Antibiotic resistance constitutes a threat to human and animal health worldwide. Here, Manaia and colleagues report the main findings of the European COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action DARE (Detecting Evolutionary Hotspots of Antibiotic Resistance in Europe) and discuss the need for improved sampling of the environment and more comprehensive databases, as well as the policy and management options that should be considered as priorities to tackle antibiotic resistance in the environment.

Near-Earth rubble-pile asteroid Bennu has an unexpectedly old surface, with numerous candidate impact craters and morphologically diverse boulders, according to early observations by the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a top-like shape with longitudinal ridges, macroporosity, prominent boulders and surface mass wasting, suggesting that it is a stiff rubble pile, according to early observations by the OSIRIS-REx mission.

A selected group of intermediate-redshift galaxies appear similar to primeval galaxies. Analysing spectra of these nearer analogues for chemical abundances and ionization levels gives an improved understanding of galaxies that are too faint to study well.