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Metasurface-based architectures enhance light-matter interactions between a terahertz photonic mode and glucose vibrational resonance. This platform allows new physical and chemical properties of hybrid light-matter states to be exploited.
Microbial migration profoundly impacts ecosystems. Here, the authors introduce a statistical approach to explore microbial dispersion following fecal microbiota transplant, uncovering dependencies between colonizing taxa, with insights into community dynamics.
The structure of crystalline materials plays a central role in materials science, but the disordered structure of metallic glass is difficult to characterize and describe. Here, the authors use diffusion maps on atomistic data to obtain general structural descriptors tied to atomic positions.
Histone H2AX has a known role in DNA damage repair but interestingly, its loss is associated with resistance to poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibition in BRCA-deficient tumours. Here, the authors identify a role of γH2AX in the degradation of replication forks and demonstrate that H2AX loss drives PARP inhibitor resistance via increased stressed fork stability in BRCA-deficient tumours.
Iron and phosphorus exist at low concentrations in surface waters and may be co-limiting resources for phytoplankton growth. Here, the authors show that phosphorus deficiency increases the growth of iron-limited cyanobacteria through a PhoB-mediated regulatory network.
Designing photocatalysts to enhance the efficiency of non-oxidative coupling of methane is a challenging task. Here, the authors report that the anatase TiO2 with exposed {101} facets and Pd co-catalyst enables efficient and selective methane coupling to ethane via a heterogeneous-homogeneous hybrid reaction pathway.
The canonical metal-organic framework ZIF-8 does not melt and form a glass. Here, authors incorporated two additional organic linkers into ZIF-8 to generate meltable derivatives which can be transformed into highly porous glasses by melt-quenching.
The authors report an inorganic tellurium-selenium-oxygen (TeSeO) alloyed semiconductor for high-mobility p-channel transistors and broadband photodetectors, through the scalable thermal evaporation method combined with post-oxygen implantation.
People learn by observing others and from personal experience, but which strategy they favor varies. Here, the authors show that while some people dynamically arbitrate and switch to the strategy that is most reliable, others preferentially use one or a fixed mixture of strategies.
Authors find that freestanding single crystalline antiferroelectric PbZrO3 membranes exhibit remarkable flexibility that can endure a maximum bending strain of 3.5%, with the assistance of mechanical-induced antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition.
In this work, authors synthesize transparent radiative cooling cover windows for flexible and foldable electronic devices. Besides demonstrated enhanced mechanical and moisture-impermeable properties, these mitigate temperature rise of devices under solar irradiation and improve overall thermal management.
Striatal hyperactivity has been linked to compulsive behavior, but cell-type and pathway specific mechanisms are unclear. Here, the authors show excessive grooming in Sapap3-KO mice is associated with indirect pathway hyperactivity and suppression of hyperactivity normalizes grooming.
The Light Harvesting Complex Stress-Related Protein (LHCSR) can protect algae from severe photodamage via energy-dependent quenching (qE). Here, the authors find that a photoproduct of carotenoid S1 state is populated in qE and depopulated in 7.5 ps.
It is difficult to detect low abundance RNAs in sequencing experiments, and biochemical methods to enrich or deplete specific RNAs are time-consuming, costly and can damage RNA. Here, authors develop a biochemical-free technology to enrich or deplete RNA classes in real-time during direct RNA sequencing.
In the phase 2 study LCCC1520 (NCT02690558), clinical activity of pembrolizumab in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer has been reported. Here the authors present molecular and immune cellular features associated with response to neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy.
Organic room temperature phosphorescent materials have useful properties, but development can be limited by processing and stability challenges. Here, the authors report a derivatisation strategy for the preparation of room temperature phosphorescent materials responsive to an electrostatic field.
Toggle switching refers to the switching of magnetization induced by a train of ultrashort laser pulses. The high speed make such switching in extremely promising for devices, however, the underlying toggle switching mechanism in metals is due to heating, and thus has a downside of dissipation. Here, Zalewski et al demonstrate ultrafast ‘cold’ toggle switching, with a mechanism that does not rely on heating in dielectric Cobalt doped Yittrium Iron Garnet.
The breakdown of pyrophyllite, a hydrous clay mineral in the oceanic sediment, into further hydrated minerals during cold subduction may account for some 22% of water delivered to the lower mantle.
Social behavior and habitat specialization are often linked through density-dependence and their effects on fitness. Here, the authors show that in caribou, these traits are density-dependent, but only habitat specialization has an effect on fitness.
Electron transfer in solids is a fundamental process in many functional nanomaterials. Here, the authors directly observe this process via x-ray crystallography for incorporating of electron-donor guest molecules in macrocyclic nanotube crystals.