Neighbouring plants affect the performance both of their own species and that of other species. How these interactions vary with rainfall might explain patterns of plant diversity and predict responses to global environmental change.

In current stretchable electronic devices, connection points between modules are made using commercially available pastes and break easily under mechanical deformation. An innovative connection interface has been developed to enable robust stretchable devices to be reliably assembled in a Lego‑like manner by simply pressing the interfaces of two modules together without pastes.

The rise in species diversity towards the tropics is a striking and unexplained global phenomenon. Ocean microfossil evidence suggests that this pattern arose as a result of ancient climate cooling and polar-climate dynamics.

The sodium–chloride cotransporter (NCC) is a protein dimer central to sodium handling by the kidney and is the target of an important class of drug for high blood pressure called thiazide diuretics. Structures of human NCC with and without a bound thiazide diuretic provide insights into NCC transport function and drug inhibition.