-
How Iranian students can master integration into German academia Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Ata Makarem, Karel Douglas Klika
Thousands of Iranians study at German universities every year, but many struggle with the German academic system. Here, we offer some advice.
-
Experience under the spotlight Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jenann Ismael
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser & Evan ThompsonMIT PRESS: 2024. 328 pp. $29.95 How does a conception of existence beyond what is present in experience emerge? Imagine a creature crawling out of a primordial pond and for whom all of reality is solely what its consciousness perceives: light, colour, hunger, effort, pain, pleasure. Then, something
-
Active hole formation in epithelioid tissues Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jian-Qing Lv, Peng-Cheng Chen, Yun-Ping Chen, Hao-Yu Liu, Shi-Da Wang, Jianbo Bai, Cheng-Lin Lv, Yue Li, Yue Shao, Xi-Qiao Feng, Bo Li
-
Quantum spherical codes Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Shubham P. Jain, Joseph T. Iosue, Alexander Barg, Victor V. Albert
-
I’m worried I’ve been contacted by a predatory publisher — how do I find out? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Researchers frequently receive invitations to publish in journals that they might not have heard of. Nature asked two scientists how they would check whether a publication is legitimate.
-
Forestry social science is failing the needs of the people who need it most Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Rich nations’ fixation on forests as climate offsets has resulted in the needs of those who live in or make a living from these resources being ignored. A broader view and more collaboration between disciplines is required.
-
Explaining novel scientific concepts to people whose technical acumen does not extend to turning it off, then turning it on again Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Guided by the light.
-
Neglecting sex and gender in research is a public-health risk Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Sue Haupt, Cheryl Carcel, Robyn Norton
The data are clear: taking sex and gender into account in research and using that knowledge to change health care could benefit billions of people.
-
How to kill the ‘zombie’ cells that make you age Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Researchers are using new molecules, engineered immune cells and gene therapy to kill senescent cells and treat age-related diseases.
-
2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jan Esper, Max Torbenson, Ulf Büntgen
Including an exceptionally warm Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer1,2, 2023 has been reported as the hottest year on record3-5. Contextualizing recent anthropogenic warming against past natural variability is nontrivial, however, because the sparse 19th century meteorological records tend to be too warm6. Here, we combine observed and reconstructed June-August (JJA) surface air temperatures to show that
-
Africa’s lush tropical forests face a surprising threat: fire Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Climate change and deforestation have increased the frequency of blazes in the humid forests of West and Central Africa.
-
AI & robotics briefing: Why AI needs to see the ‘ugly’ side of science Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The absence of negative results in the scientific literature is affecting AI tools trained on published data. Plus, why animals still outrun robots and AlphaFold gets major upgrade.
-
Daily briefing: Amazing auroras are just a warm-up — more solar storms are coming Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The upcoming solar maximum means more and bigger solar storms to come. Plus, how to decarbonise the workhorse of fossil fuel production: oil refineries.
-
Acoustic manipulation of multi-body structures and dynamics Rep. Prog. Phys. (IF 18.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Melody X Lim, Bryan VanSaders and Heinrich M Jaeger
Sound can exert forces on objects of any material and shape. This has made the contactless manipulation of objects by intense ultrasound a fascinating area of research with wide-ranging applications. While much is understood for acoustic forcing of individual objects, sound-mediated interactions among multiple objects at close range gives rise to a rich set of structures and dynamics that are less
-
Jamming Memory into Acoustically Trained Dense Suspensions under Shear Phys. Rev. X (IF 12.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Edward Y. X. Ong, Anna R. Barth, Navneet Singh, Meera Ramaswamy, Abhishek Shetty, Bulbul Chakraborty, James P. Sethna, Itai Cohen
-
Higher-Form Symmetries under Weak Measurement Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kaixiang Su, Nayan Myerson-Jain, Chong Wang, Chao-Ming Jian, Cenke Xu
-
Experimental Quantum Homomorphic Encryption Using a Quantum Photonic Chip Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yuan Li, Lin Cao, Wei Luo, Hui Zhang, Hong Cai, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Feng Gao, Joseph Fitzsimons, Qinghua Song, Ai-Qun Liu
-
Emergent Noninvertible Symmetries in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Orr Sela
One of the simplest examples of noninvertible symmetries in higher dimensions appears in 4D Maxwell theory, where its SL(2,Z) duality group can be combined with gauging subgroups of its electric and magnetic 1-form symmetries to yield such defects at many different values of the coupling. Even though N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory also has an SL(2,Z) duality group, it only seems to share
-
Bound Isoscalar Axial-Vector bcu¯d¯ Tetraquark Tbc from Lattice QCD Using Two-Meson and Diquark-Antidiquark Variational Basis Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 M. Padmanath, Archana Radhakrishnan, Nilmani Mathur
-
Baryon Electric Charge Correlation as a Magnetometer of QCD Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 H.-T. Ding, J.-B. Gu, A. Kumar, S.-T. Li, J.-H. Liu
-
Anisotropic Photodetachment of Positronium Negative Ions with Linearly Polarized Light Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Koji Michishio, Luca Chiari, Fumi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Nagashima
-
Autonomous Stabilization of Fock States in an Oscillator against Multiphoton Losses Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Sai Li, Zhongchu Ni, Libo Zhang, Yanyan Cai, Jiasheng Mai, Shengcheng Wen, Pan Zheng, Xiaowei Deng, Song Liu, Yuan Xu, Dapeng Yu
-
Hyperbolic Non-Abelian Semimetal Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Tarun Tummuru, Anffany Chen, Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Titus Neupert, Joseph Maciejko, Tomáš Bzdušek
-
Strong-Field Bloch Electron Interferometry for Band-Structure Retrieval Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Tobias Weitz, Christian Heide, Peter Hommelhoff
-
Anomalous Long-Distance Coherence in Critically Driven Cavity Magnonics Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ying Yang, Jiguang Yao, Yang Xiao, Pak-Tik Fong, Hoi-Kwan Lau, C.-M. Hu
-
Thermodynamic Geometry of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Cyclically Driven Transport Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Zi Wang (王子), Jie Ren (任捷)
-
Competition between Self-Assembly and Phase Separation Governs High-Temperature Condensation of a DNA Liquid Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Omkar Hegde, Tianhao Li, Anjali Sharma, Marco Borja, William M. Jacobs, W. Benjamin Rogers
-
Erratum: Entanglement-Optimal Trajectories of Many-Body Quantum Markov Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243601 (2022)] Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Tatiana Vovk, Hannes Pichler
-
Giant optical nonlinearity of Fermi polarons in atomically thin semiconductors Nat. Photon. (IF 35.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Liuxin Gu, Lifu Zhang, Ruihao Ni, Ming Xie, Dominik S. Wild, Suji Park, Houk Jang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mohammad Hafezi, You Zhou
-
High gradient terahertz-driven ultrafast photogun Nat. Photon. (IF 35.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jianwei Ying, Xie He, Dace Su, Lingbin Zheng, Tobias Kroh, Timm Rowher, Moein Fakhari, Günther H. Kassier, Jingui Ma, Peng Yuan, Nicholas H. Matlis, Franz X. Kärtner, Dongfang Zhang
-
Real-world plastic-waste success stories can help to boost global treaty Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
-
Interpersonal therapy can be an effective tool against the devastating effects of loneliness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
-
Inequality is bad — but that doesn’t mean the rich are Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
-
Balls of lightning and flames from the sky: can science explain? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Snippets from Nature’s past.
-
Standardized metadata for biological samples could unlock the potential of collections Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
-
Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones.
-
How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.
-
The phenomenon of genomic imprinting was discovered 40 years ago Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Marisa S. Bartolomei
Landmark 1984 experiments gave rise to a new epigenetics concept.
-
How men evolved to care for babies — before society got in the way Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
An exploration of the evolution of male nurturing shows why, unlike fathers among other great apes, human dads are biologically wired to be hands-on parents.
-
A DARPA-like agency could boost EU innovation — but cannot come at the expense of existing schemes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
If Europe wants to create a high-risk, high-reward research body, it needs grass-roots backing.
-
Mega study charts how genetic variants affect metabolism Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The discovery of hundreds of genomic regions linked with metabolism promises to improve our understanding of metabolic diseases.
-
Plasmid targeting and destruction by the DdmDE bacterial defence system Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jack P. K. Bravo, Delisa A. Ramos, Rodrigo Fregoso Ocampo, Caiden Ingram, David W. Taylor
While eukaryotic Argonautes play a pivotal role in post-transcriptional gene regulation through nucleic acid cleavage, some short prokaryotic Argonaute variants (pAgos) rely on auxiliary nuclease factors for efficient foreign DNA degradation (1). Here, we elucidate the activation pathway of the DNA Defense Module DdmDE system, which rapidly eliminates small, multicopy plasmids from Vibrio cholerae
-
Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next months and beyond as the Sun hits its 'maximum'.
-
Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts.
-
Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.
-
Daily briefing: Internet use seems to boost well-being Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
A survey of people in 168 countries finds that Internet use might boost life satisfaction and sense of purpose. Plus, what a Neanderthal’s Mona-Lisa smile tells us about ourselves and how the cauliflower got its whorls.
-
Daily briefing: A millimetre of brain in spectacular detail Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Google scientists have modelled a tiny fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution. Plus, a bold proposal to limit extreme wealth.
-
Entanglement Assisted Probe of the Non-Markovian to Markovian Transition in Open Quantum System Dynamics Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chandrashekhar Gaikwad, Daria Kowsari, Carson Brame, Xingrui Song, Haimeng Zhang, Martina Esposito, Arpit Ranadive, Giulio Cappelli, Nicolas Roch, Eli M. Levenson-Falk, Kater W. Murch
-
Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Pion Electromagnetic Form Factors Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Long-Bin Chen, Wen Chen, Feng Feng, Yu Jia
-
Measurement of Small Photon Numbers in Circuit QED Resonators Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Juan Atalaya, Alex Opremcak, Ani Nersisyan, Kenny Lee, Alexander N. Korotkov
-
Experimental Demonstration of a Large Transverse Emittance Ratio 11∶1 in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for the Electron-Ion Collider Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Y. Luo, D. Xu, M. Blaskiewicz, C. Montag
-
Breakdown of Quasilinear Theory in the Tokamak Edge Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Arash Ashourvan, J. Candy
-
Superior optical gain in zinc selenide colloidal nanocrystals induced by Coulomb-correlated electron–hole plasma Appl. Phys. Rev. (IF 15.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Zhigao Huang, Hanchen Shen, Yiming Wu, Yuting Wu, Weigao Xu, Xie Zhang, Yue Wang
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been recognized as promising solution-processable gain media; however, the lasers with state-of-the-art performance exclusively originate from the cadmium- and lead-based NCs. Herein, we for the first time unravel that high-quality heavy-metal-free ZnSe/ZnS NCs show superior optical gain and lasing performance when the sizes exceed the quantum confinement
-
-
Bacteria spiral into control Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Guram Gogia, David R. Johnson
-
Elastic response reveals the pairing symmetry Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Bohm-Jung Yang
-
Structural anisotropy results in mechano-directional transport of proteins across nuclear pores Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Fani Panagaki, Rafael Tapia-Rojo, Tong Zhu, Natalie Milmoe, Patricia Paracuellos, Stephanie Board, Marc Mora, Jane Walker, Elena Rostkova, Andrew Stannard, Elvira Infante, Sergi Garcia-Manyes
-
Laser-driven high-energy proton beams from cascaded acceleration regimes Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Tim Ziegler, Ilja Göthel, Stefan Assenbaum, Constantin Bernert, Florian-Emanuel Brack, Thomas E. Cowan, Nicholas P. Dover, Lennart Gaus, Thomas Kluge, Stephan Kraft, Florian Kroll, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Mamiko Nishiuchi, Irene Prencipe, Thomas Püschel, Martin Rehwald, Marvin Reimold, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Marvin E. P. Umlandt, Milenko Vescovi, Ulrich Schramm, Karl Zeil
-
Polarity-driven three-dimensional spontaneous rotation of a cell doublet Nat. Phys. (IF 19.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Linjie Lu, Tristan Guyomar, Quentin Vagne, Rémi Berthoz, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Michèle Lieb, Cecilie Martin-Lemaitre, Kobus van Unen, Alf Honigmann, Olivier Pertz, Daniel Riveline, Guillaume Salbreux
-
Terawatt-scale attosecond X-ray pulses from a cascaded superradiant free-electron laser Nat. Photon. (IF 35.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Paris Franz, Siqi Li, Taran Driver, River R. Robles, David Cesar, Erik Isele, Zhaoheng Guo, Jun Wang, Joseph P. Duris, Kirk Larsen, James M. Glownia, Xinxin Cheng, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Xiang Li, Ming-Fu Lin, Andrei Kamalov, Razib Obaid, Adam Summers, Nick Sudar, Emily Thierstein, Zhen Zhang, Matthias F. Kling, Zhirong Huang, James P. Cryan, Agostino Marinelli