This paper reports the intralayer ferroelectric-to-antiferroelectric and ferroelectric-toparaelectric phase transitions in layered NbOCl₂ and NbOI₂ under a small pressure, respectively, along with the strong manipulations of nonlinear optics.

Understanding liquid behavior is a challenge due to their disorder nature and rapid molecular rearrangements. Here, the authors show how weak interactions between OH groups and aromatic rings can participate in cooperative mechanisms that give rise to highly structured molecular arrangements in the liquid state.

Nanomotor chassis constructed from biological precursors and powered by biocatalytic transformations can offer important applications in the future. Here, the authors prepare short-peptide-based cross β amyloid nanomotors which can host dedicated enzymes with orthogonal substrates for motility and navigation.

The development of highly ordered intermetallic catalyst for oxygen reduction reactions suffers from large diffusion barrier for atom ordering. Here, the authors use a low melting-point metal doping strategy to synthesize a series of highly ordered metal-doped platinum–cobalt alloy fuel cell catalysts.

3D ionic covalent organic frameworks (iCOF) are used in the fabrication of membranes breaking the trade-off between ion conductivity and ion selectivity is challenging. Here, the authors report the fabrication of a 3D sulfonic acid-functionalized iCOF membrane for efficient and selective ion transport, using dual acid-mediated interfacial polymerization

Connecting river basins using canals and reservoirs can improve water security but can also perturb land-atmosphere feedbacks. This paper analyzes India’s river-interlinking projects and finds that such projects can affect the monsoon rainfall.

The Indian and East Asian summer monsoons are found to be synchronized at the subseasonal timescale via a Rossby wave triggered by the Indian summer monsoon heating. The impact on East Asian precipitation varies with the subtropical jet structure.

Mangroves provide ecosystem services but are threatened by anthropogenic activities. This study identifies priority areas that maximise the protection of mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors show that biodiversity can be protected whilst maximising ecosystem benefits, with little or no increase in the protected area required.

Temporal causation models perform poorly in causal inference for variables with limited temporal variations. This paper establishes a causal inference model, which can reveal the nonlinear complex casual associations based on cross-sectional Earth System data.

Here the authors find economic damage from El Niño far greater than benefits from La Niña on the global economy, leading to an increased economic loss as ENSO variability intensifies under greenhouse warming.

Conducting epigenomic studies on FFPE samples is traditionally challenging due to chromatin damage caused due to exposure to formaldehyde. Here, the authors show that an optimisation of their previous CUTAC method allows the production of high-resolution maps of regulatory elements from FFPE samples.

Genetic bases of grain shape differentiation between the two subspecies of Asian cultivated rice have not been fully elucidated. Here, the authors report GSE9, a de novo gene evolved from a non-coding region of wild rice through acquisition of start codon, contributes to the grain shape difference between the two subspecies.

Here, the authors demonstrate that BRCA1-associated protein 1 (Bap1) regulates osteoclast’s capacity to degrade bone. Reprogramming of epigenetic-metabolic axis upon Bap1 loss inhibits bone degradation, preserving bone mass, making it a potential therapeutic target for osteoporosis.

Deciphering interactions between subunits in protein complexes is an important problem. By combining cryo-EM imaging and statistical modeling, Han and colleagues reveal a significant cooperativity between subunits in the clock protein hexamer KaiC.

Small cell lung cancers (SCLC) have often inactivating mutations in RB1. In this study, the authors demonstrate that RB1 loss mediates low expression of YAP1 in SCLC tumors ultimately promoting metastasis and they propose to use benzamide family HDAC inhibitors to induce YAP1 expression for prevention of metastases.

Candida glabrata bloodstream infections are thought to be mostly caused by a single strain. Here, the authors describe genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Candida glabrata in ten individual blood cultures, and find diversity in drug susceptibility and virulence within patients.

The NIBIT-M4 trial was designed to assess the safety, biological and clinical activity of anti-CTLA4 ipilimumab with the DNA hypomethylating agent guadecitabine in advanced melanoma patients. Here the authors report the five-year follow-up results of the trial and an integrated multi-omics analysis of pre- and on-treatment tumor biopsies.

Here, the authors perform an association study on 72,469 exomes to identify significant associations between male-pattern hair loss and rare genetic variants in EDA2R, WNT10A, HEPH, CEPT1, and EIF3F, finding an enrichment of implicated genes in monogenic trichosis genes.

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells represent an emerging form of immune therapy but success, especially in solid tumors, is limited by the scarcity of suitable target epitopes. Here authors show that a distinct epitope motif on the transmembrane protein B7-H3, recognized by a camel nanobody, triggers robust activation and anti-tumor function in cognate CAR-T cells.

The mechanistic functions of neutrophils in skin inflammation are not fully understood. Here the authors use human psoriasis samples and a mouse model of skin inflammation to study neutrophils and find a CXCR4^hi population of NET-forming, phagocytic neutrophils whose induction depends on the transcription factor CREB1.

Temporal causation models perform poorly in causal inference for variables with limited temporal variations. This paper establishes a causal inference model, which can reveal the nonlinear complex casual associations based on cross-sectional Earth System data.

Here the authors find economic damage from El Niño far greater than benefits from La Niña on the global economy, leading to an increased economic loss as ENSO variability intensifies under greenhouse warming.

U.S. federal climate policies can reduce air pollutant emissions and associated health impacts from fine particulate matter. However, near-term CO₂ reductions alone are insufficient to address racial/ethnic disparities in pollution exposure.

Nations are connected in many ways, yet cross-national analyses often assume they are independent. Here, the authors show that previous studies may not have sufficiently accounted for this non-independence of nations.

The PhenoSphere is a unique plant cultivation facility in which field-like environments can be simulated. Here, the authors find that a single season simulation is superior to an averaged season and to a climatized glasshouse cultivation to elicit field-like phenotypes evaluated in 11 maize lines.