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A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and cns.

  • Menglan Xiang
  • Eugene C. Butcher

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Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers

Superconducting transmon qubits have been fabricated in a 300 mm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) pilot line using industrial fabrication methods, achieving relaxation and coherence times exceeding 100 μs.

  • J. Van Damme
  • K. De Greve

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Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice

Opto-twistronic Hall effect driven by structural chirality and coherence length is observed in a three-dimensional self-assembled twisted spiral superlattice of WS 2 .

  • Yuzhou Zhao
  • Ritesh Agarwal

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Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control

Transplants of consortia with limited numbers of strains of commensal bacteria derived from healthy human stool samples are able to suppress intestinal Enterobacteriaceae by regulating gluconate availability, suggesting potential therapies for infectious and inflammatory diseases.

  • Munehiro Furuichi
  • Takaaki Kawaguchi
  • Kenya Honda

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One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys

A one-step hydrogen-based redox process turns oxides directly into green alloys in bulk forms, with application-worthy properties.

  • Shaolou Wei
  • Dierk Raabe

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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development

Temporally dynamic extraembryonic and embryonic BMP4 signalling shapes mouse embryo lineage choices.

  • Hernan Rubinstein
  • Yonatan Stelzer

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Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway

In male mouse germline development, the precise DNA methylation of young, active transposons requires a two-step process in which SPIN1 and SPOCD1 mark young LINE1 elements before the piRNA pathway triggers DNA methylation.

  • Madeleine Dias Mirandela
  • Ansgar Zoch
  • Dónal O’Carroll

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Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization

Frontal polymerization spin mode dynamics is used to autonomously fabricate patterned crystalline domains in poly(cyclooctadiene) with multiscale organization.

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  • Nancy R. Sottos

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Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector

Entanglement was observed in top–antitop quark events by the ATLAS experiment produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN using a proton–proton collision dataset with a centre-of-mass energy of √ s   = 13 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 140 fb −1 .

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Mars’s induced magnetosphere can degenerate

When the cone angle between the solar wind velocity and the solar wind magnetic field is small at Mars, the induced magnetosphere degenerates.

  • Stas Barabash
  • Hans Nilsson

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Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web

Radio images reveal distant black hole jets of cosmological length, suggesting that the environmental impact of supermassive black holes extends further in space and time than previously thought.

  • Martijn S. S. L. Oei
  • Martin J. Hardcastle
  • S. G. Djorgovski

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Three-dimensional wave breaking

We conduct experiments in a wave tank and show that waves with realistic three-dimensional spreading can become two times steeper than two-dimensional waves before breaking, with three breaking regimes identified.

  • M. L. McAllister
  • S. Draycott
  • T. S. van den Bremer

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Rules of river avulsion change downstream

A novel theoretical framework reveals how topography surrounding rivers causes dramatic changes in their courses, with implications for natural hazard prediction, particularly in the Global South.

  • James H. Gearon
  • Harrison K. Martin
  • Douglas A. Edmonds

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Micronuclear battery based on a coalescent energy transducer

A micronuclear battery is built based on an autoluminescent americium–terbium compound that couples radioisotopes with energy transducers at the molecular level, resulting in an 8,000-fold enhancement in energy conversion efficiency.

  • Congchong Yan

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Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation

Paracrine κ-opioid signalling among cells surrounding the spinal cord central canal modulates scar formation after injury.

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  • Kouki K. Touhara
  • David Julius

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Targeted protein relocalization via protein transport coupling

Targeted protein relocalization using shuttle proteins with potent ligands amenable to incorporation into targeted relocalization activating molecules could be used to regulate cellular physiology and correct disease states in neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and genetic disorders.

  • Christine S. C. Ng
  • Steven M. Banik

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Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions

The emergent electrodynamics induced by skyrmion lattice motion in Gd 2 PdSi 3 is facilitated by its giant topological Hall effect dynamic transition, and implies the emergent Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions.

  • Max T. Birch
  • Ilya Belopolski
  • Yoshinori Tokura

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Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells

A newly identified emergent constraint applied to a key drought metric reduces uncertainty in future predictions of the longest annual dry spells, revealing that their increase due to climate change will be 40–50% greater than climate models project at present.

  • Irina Y. Petrova
  • Diego G. Miralles
  • Margot Bador

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Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease

Experiments in mice show that the perineural net has a key role in metabolic disease by controlling insulin access to neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus.

  • Cait A. Beddows
  • Garron T. Dodd

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Space radiation measurements during the Artemis I lunar mission

Measurements from the heavily shielded Orion spacecraft during the uncrewed Artemis I mission show dose-rate reductions due to shielding and orientation for Van Allen belt crossings and quantify the interplanetary cosmic-ray radiation in a human-rated spacecraft.

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  • Ramona Gaza
  • Thomas Berger

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