Polaritons are confined hybrid light-matter excitations holding potential for optoelectronic and sensing applications, but their characterization is usually limited to optical spectroscopy. Here, the authors report the electrical spectroscopy of mid-infrared plasmon-phonon polaritons in Au/hBN/graphene nanoresonators, showing high lateral confinement and quality factors.

Electrolytes play a critical role in designing next generation battery systems. Here, the authors developed a differentiable geometric deep-learning model for chemical mixtures and applied it in guiding a robot to design fast-charging battery electrolytes.

Releasing prodrugs through nitroreduction is a promising strategy in cancer treatment. In this study, the authors present a 4,4‘-bipyridine-mediated bioorthogonal aromatic nitro reduction for activation of nitro prodrugs.

Fast bond exchange reactions is critical for the design of vitrimer and vitrimer-like materials but are not sufficiently explored. Here, the authors use fast bond exchange between α-(acyloxymethyl)acrylate and carboxylic acid resulting in rapid stress relaxation and excellent processability owing to the highly efficient network rearrangement.

Realizing complex functions in artificial visual systems is challenging. Here, the authors report a human visual pathway-replicated hardware with a split floating gate crossbar arrays and related peripheral circuits, achieving colour-blindness processing, shape recognition, and self-driven motion tracking.

The tropical Indo-Pacific convection has impacts on the Arctic Archipelago’s surface air temperature through an induced poleward-propagating Rossby wave train, which is strongly modulated by sea surface temperature anomalies in the Russian Arctic.

The study shows that India’s agricultural subsidies have driven significant groundwater depletion by incentivizing overproduction of water-intensive crops like rice and wheat. This impact is evident in both Punjab’s alluvial aquifers and Madhya Pradesh’s hard rock aquifers.

The dynamic intertides, located between marine and terrestrial ecosystems, serve as a favorable habitat for exploring virus-host relationships. Here, the authors recover 20,102 viral OTUs from twelve intertidal zones along the Chinese coasts, with further analyses expanding our understanding of intertidal viromes within an ecological framework.

The palaeoenvironmental context for early hominins in northern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene transition is poorly documented. Here, the authors present multiproxy palaeoecological evidence for heterogeneous open grasslands, forested areas, wetlands, and seasonal aridity from Guefaït-4.2 in Morocco.

Mass extinctions have repeatedly restructured communities through geological time, but biotic interactions are rarely considered in investigations of extinction dynamics and ecosystem recovery. Here the authors present evidence that secondary extinction cascades were important during a Jurassic hyperthermal extinction event and that it took over 7 million years for community structure to fully recover.

In cerebral cavernous malformations, mutant cells recruit healthy endothelial cells to form mosaic lesions. Here, the authors show that mutant cells can hijack and reprogram neighboring wildtype cells by mechanically pulling on them.

T cell activation is a process that requires extra nutrients, which could be difficult to source from the tumor microenvironment in competition with tumor cells. Here authors increase the metabolic fitness of CAR-T cells by stable overexpression of the glucose transporter GLUT1, which allows them to increase their glucose intake and enhances their antitumour function.

Ribo-seq and peptidomics have the potential to advance archaeal genomic annotations. Here, the authors exploit these techniques to explore the small proteome of Methanosarcina mazei.

The specific cell types affected in neurodevelopmental disorders remain elusive. Here, authors show a selective weakness of certain hypothalamic neurons in a mouse model of social dysfunction and explore its potential therapeutic intervention.

An ongoing effort aims to transform the clonally propagated tetraploid potato to a seed-propagated diploid crop, but our understanding of it disomic inheritance is limited. Here, the authors report genetic basis of heterosis in the elite hybrid potato and identify a male fertility-related PME gene with dominance heterotic effect.

Racial and ethnic minorities bear a disproportionate burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its complications, with social determinants of health (SDoH) recognized as key drivers of these disparities. Here, the authors developed an individualized polysocial risk score (iPsRS) to screen for unmet social needs essential to hospitalization risk in patients with Type 2 Diabetes, incorporating fairness optimization and explainable AI.

As part of a large placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial of iron or micronutrient powders given to 923 children in rural Bangladesh for 3 months, the authors evaluated changes to the gut microbiome and identified no changes in diversity or composition. However, potentially pathogenic changes were seen in unadjusted analysis.

The mechanism driving inflammatory-to-proliferative state transition during wound healing remains unclear. Here, the authors discover that SNHG26 interacts with ILF2, redirecting it from inflammatory genomic loci to the LAMB3 locus, thereby promoting wound healing.

Cancer immunotherapy leans on the effective activation on immune response within tumors and surrounding immunosuppressive microenvironment. Here, the authors report a triblock copolymeric nanocarrier encapsulating Resiquimod for B16F10 cell-targeting, which enables in situ tumor vaccination and tumor-associated macrophages polarization.

Malnutrition is a key risk factor affecting children’s health and development. Here, the authors report long-term protection against malnutrition-induced enteropathy by a neonatal S100a8/a9 nutritional supply in mice.

The study shows that India’s agricultural subsidies have driven significant groundwater depletion by incentivizing overproduction of water-intensive crops like rice and wheat. This impact is evident in both Punjab’s alluvial aquifers and Madhya Pradesh’s hard rock aquifers.

In this work, authors present an integral MCNP model of the ITER facility for radiation transport, addressing limitations of separate models for the Tokamak and Tokamak Complex. This model streamlines safety simulations, enhancing the robustness and simplicity of radiation safety analysis.

The study examines how land property rights impact land use efficiency (LUE) globally, based on the SDG 11.3.1 indicator. Secure rights improve LUE, with common law countries outperforming civil law countries, supporting sustainable land management.

Why people like and share content on social media is poorly understood. Here, the authors investigate social media engagement with posts mentioning identity and expressing ingroup solidarity and outgroup hostility before and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Memories of our past experiences enable us to reconstruct (in the present) our past better than our future. Here, the authors show that we are also able to better reconstruct the pasts (versus futures) in other people’s lives.