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Snf7 is the major component of the ESCRTIII membrane deformation system. Here, the authors used high-speed AFM to study Snf7 on nano-patterned and soft supports and show that loaded Snf7 spiral springs are curvature sensitive and deform membranes.

Excitonic single-photon superradiance is reported in individual perovskite quantum dots with a sub-100 ps radiative decay time, almost as short as the reported exciton coherence time.

Silicon carbide surfaces offer many interesting properties induced by surface strain relief. Soukiassian et al.report hydrogen-induced self-organized nano-voids below a silicon carbide surface, and suggest the resultant nanotunnel may be used as a template to capture atoms or molecules.

Septins are GTP-binding proteins involved in diverse cellular processes including division, polarity maintenance and membrane remodeling. Here authors use high-speed atomic force microscopy to show that assembly of septin filaments is a diffusion-driven process, while septin assembly into higher-order involves septin self-templating

The identity of active species in supported gold catalysts for low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation remains an open question. Here, the authors look at the catalytic behaviours of supported catalysts prepared under different conditions and correlate the populations of various species with activity.

Manipulating quantum information encoded in a bosonic mode requires sizeable and controllable nonlinearities, but superconducting devices’ strong nonlinearities are normally static. Here, the authors use a SNAIL to suppress static nonlinearities and use drive-dependent ones to reach universal control of a bosonic mode.

Dissipative optomechanics, once limited to low frequencies, now operates in a sideband-resolved regime, reshaping optical and mechanical spectra and paving the way for the individual addressing of different mechanical modes in a single device.

The integration of epitaxial complex oxides on semiconductor and flexible substrates is required but challenging. Here, the authors report the highly heterogeneous epitaxy of transferrable BaTiO_3-δ membrane with enhanced flexoelectricity on Ge (011).

Syntax is a key feature distinguishing human language from other animal communication systems. Here, Leroux et al. show that chimpanzees produce a compositional syntactic-like structure, suggesting syntax might be evolutionary ancient and potentially already present in our last common ancestor with chimpanzees.

Operating macroscopic mechanical resonators in the quantum regime has recently attracted significant interest. Here, the authors demonstrate ground-state cooling of a nanostring mechanical resonator via measurement-based feedback, reaching 0.76 average phonon occupation starting from liquid helium temperature, and 3.5 when starting from liquid nitrogen.

It is shown that clusters of tree canopies within Kalahari landscape in southern Africa lack characteristic size, with the size distributions following power laws. Model results indicate that this apparent self-organized behaviour can be explained by positive feedbacks that operate in this water-limited ecosystem as a result of preferential environments formed within the vicinity of existing trees.

Across 46 proglacial landscapes worldwide, environmental properties and biodiversity have shown complex patterns of change since glaciers retreated.

Developing portable, disposable and cost-effective electronics for multifunctional sensing is desirable. Here, the authors present origami-based hierarchical electronics with time-space-resolved high-discriminative pattern recognition (TSR-HDPR) features for multifunctional detection of complex physical and chemical stimuli.

Cavity polaritons whose matter component is composed of highly excited Rydberg atoms are shown to act as a zero-dimensional quantum dot. Trapping 150 polaritons led to the observation of blockaded photon transport.

There has been a significant increase in the demand for face masks, but achieving a balance of breathability and effective filtration is challenging. Here, the authors report a face mask of modified cotton for the capture of bioaerosols.

Scalable quantum information processing requires controllable high-coherence qubits. Here, the authors present superconducting flux qubits with broad frequency tunability, strong anharmonicity and high reproducibility, identifying photon shot noise as the main source of dephasing for further improvements.

China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality in 2060. Here the authors find a promising option to abate 1.0 Gt CO₂-eq yr⁻¹ of carbon emissions at a marginal cost of $69 (t CO₂-eq)⁻¹ by retrofitting 222 GW of coal power plants to co-fire with biomass and upgrading to CCS operation across 2836 counties in China.

Mapping seagrass extent along the western European and north African Atlantic coastline reveals that timings of peak extent vary by up to 5 months along a latitude range of 23 degrees, according to analyses of high-spatial and temporal resolution satellite data obtained from the Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument.

Single-atom catalysts are receiving much attention, but insights into their active sites or the differences in reactivity with conventional nanoparticles are still controversial. Now, operando studies on CO oxidation with Ir/MgAl₂O₄ accompanied by computational investigations reveal important features of this class of catalyst.

By mapping the superconducting gap, the critical field, and temperature in the metallic H-TMD family of superconductors, the authors find a universal relationship that holds over two orders of magnitude of the critical temperature across materials.

Relaxor ferroelectrics possess potential microwave frequency applications due to characteristic dielectric relaxation properties however the underlying mechanism is debated. Here, the authors use first-principles-based molecular dynamic simulations to understand such behaviour in Ba(Zr_0.5Ti_0.5)O₃.

Superconducting quantum processors need to balance intentional disorder (to protect qubits) and nonlinear resonator coupling (to manipulate qubits), while avoiding chaotic instabilities. Berke et al. use the techniques of many-body localization theory to study the stability of current platforms against quantum chaos.

Here Duanet al. demonstrate dynamic plasmonic colour displays using catalytic magnesium metasurfaces. Controlled hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of the constituent nanoparticles, which serve as dynamic pixels, allow plasmonic colour printing, tuning, erasing, restoration of colour and encoding of information.

Jiang et al. trace two embryonic fibroblast lineages in the mouse, one that does not express engrailed and mediates early dermal development and one that expresses engrailed and mediates scar tissue formation.

A supramolecular three-shell matryoshka-like complex di rects the functionalization of the C₆₀ inner shell to the selective formation of a single trans-3 fullerene bis-adduct. The selectivity with this matryoshka-like approach could be useful for applications where regioisomerically pure C₆₀ bis-adducts have been shown to have superior properties compared with isomer mixtures.

Substitution of framework silicon for aluminium in zeolites affects Brønsted acidity and subsequently catalytic activity. Here, the authors use atom probe tomography to obtain quantitative insights into the spatial distribution of individual aluminium atoms, including their distribution and segregation.

Angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements of a strange-metal phase of a hole-doped cuprate show a well defined Fermi surface and an isotropic linear-in-temperature scattering rate that saturates at the Planckian limit.

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.

Although heavy fermion and cuprate superconductors are both unconventional superconductors, their composition and structure differ markedly. Yet, microwave spectra collected by Truncik et al. reveal a similarity in the charge dynamics of the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5 and the cuprates.

Dynamic reconfiguration of photonic topological interfaces enables ultrafast routing at telecommunications wavelengths by leveraging nonlinear exciton–polariton interactions.

Polymeric nitrogen has yet to be recovered to ambient conditions, precluding its practical application as high-energy density material. Here, the authors highlight a possible route to the formation of a tetragonal polymeric nitrogen via helium-nitrogen compounds at high pressures.

Antihydrogen has been created, trapped and stored for 1,000 s. The improved holding time means that we now have access to the ground state of antimatter—long enough to test whether matter and antimatter obey the same physical laws.

To overcome mass transport limitations in zeolite-catalysed reactions, scientists must often resort to hierarchical or nanosized zeolites; however, the synthesis of such materials remains challenging. Here the authors disclose a one-pot method for the preparation of Si-zoned MFI-type catalysts with improved diffusion properties for the methanol-to hydrocarbon reaction.

This study uses EEG in humans to isolate and track an evolving, domain-general decision signal, which varies with accumulated evidence, but is independent of overt actions.

There are limitations with current protein sensing methods. Here the authors report DigitISA, a digital immunosensor assay based on microchip electrophoretic separation and single-molecule detection that enables quantitation of protein biomarkers in a single, solution-phase step.

Nowhere is biomass burning more abundant than on the African continent, but the biogeochemical impacts on forests are poorly understood. Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy complexity.

Kathy Sivils and colleagues report results of a large-scale association study of Sjögren's syndrome, a common autoimmune disease. They confirm strong associations with the HLA region and establish genome-wide significant associations at several non-HLA loci implicated in both innate and adaptive immunity.

Glacier albedo declined significantly over the past two decades, contributing to 31% and 41% of increased melt rates in Western North America and the Canadian Arctic respectively, according to a surface energy balance model forced by decadal reanalysis data and satellite albedo averages across 25 major glaciated regions.

The nature of the active species over Cu/ZnO catalysts for methanol synthesis remains elusive. Here, the authors shed light on the evolution of the nanoparticle/support interface and correlate its structural and chemical transformations with changes in the catalytic performance.

Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) has been studied extensively in slices but whether such pairings can induce plasticity in vivo is not known. Here the authors report an experimental paradigm that achieves bidirectional corticostriatal STDP in vivo through modulation by behaviourally relevant reinforcement signals, mediated by dopamine and adenosine signaling.

Designing reliable, scalable and energy efficient data storage systems that can operate in extreme temperatures, remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate a nanoelectromechanical relay that does not exhibit pull-in instability for reliable reprogrammable non-volatile memory operation.

Benchmarking of tumor subclonal reconstruction algorithms finds that interalgorithm variability overwhelms intertumor variability and identifies key quality metrics.

Achieving coherent quantum control over massive mechanical resonators via coupling to electrons or photons is a current research goal. Here, unambiguous evidence for strong coupling of cavity photons to a mechanical resonator is reported, paving the way for full quantum optical control of nano- and micromechanical devices.

Characterization of nanoparticles is a complex and important problem for the vast number of applications that require them. Here, the authors present a method to uncover the two-dimensional distribution of length and diameter of anisotropic nanoparticles like gold nanorods with a single measurement by combining spectroscopic and sedimentation data.