Contents
Vol 1, Issue 10
Contents
Research Articles
- Origami-inspired active graphene-based paper for programmable instant self-folding walking devices
Origami-inspired self-folding graphene papers show remote control grasping, manipulation, and walking behaviors.
- Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.
- A new generation of alloyed/multimetal chalcogenide nanowires by chemical transformation
A general chemical transformation process for synthesis of more than 45 kinds of one-dimensional metal chalcogenide nanostructure.
- Visualization of superparamagnetic dynamics in magnetic topological insulators
The ferromagnetic state of topological insulators showing quantum anomalous Hall effect is surprisingly superparamagnetic.
- Uniform metal nanostructures with long-range order via three-step hierarchical self-assembly
Bottom-up routine enables precise metal nanopatterning on large areas, overcoming the limits of top-down fabrication methods.
- Tuning bad metal and non-Fermi liquid behavior in a Mott material: Rare-earth nickelate thin films
This work elucidates unconventional metallic behavior and metal-insulator transitions in a strongly correlated materials system.
- Neuropilin-1 and heparan sulfate proteoglycans cooperate in cellular uptake of nanoparticles functionalized by cationic cell-penetrating peptides
Two cell entry mechanisms cooperate in peptide-mediated intracellular delivery.
- The PTEN pathway in Tregs is a critical driver of the suppressive tumor microenvironment
Tumors depend on a specialized pathway of regulatory T cell activation to create their immunosuppressive microenvironment, which can be blocked by inhibiting PTEN phosphatase.
- Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP
Photoemission established tantalum phosphide as a Weyl semimetal, which hosts exotic Weyl fermion quasiparticles and Fermi arcs.
- Systemic trade risk of critical resources
Price volatility of critical resources can largely be understood through the topology of their trade networks.
- Climate change and glacier retreat drive shifts in an Antarctic benthic ecosystem
Climatic change in the Antarctic Peninsula has driven profound shifts in the seabed.
- Does the mismatch negativity operate on a consciously accessible memory trace?
A change-related component of the auditory evoked response long thought to be preattentive and preconscious may actually require consciousness.
- Superresolution microscopy reveals a dynamic picture of cell polarity maintenance during directional growth
Transient assembly of polarity sites explains how cell polarity is stably maintained during highly active directional growth.
- Three-dimensional graphene/Pt nanoparticle composites as freestanding anode for enhancing performance of microbial fuel cells
A microbial fuel cell constructed with 3D freestanding graphene aerogel/platinum nanoparticles shows unprecedented performance.
- Selective targeting of the BRG/PB1 bromodomains impairs embryonic and trophoblast stem cell maintenance
PFI-3, a novel inhibitor targeting the bromodomains of essential components of the BAF/PBAF complex, affects the differentiation of ESC and TSC.
- Multiferroicity and skyrmions carrying electric polarization in GaV4S8
A zoo of multiferroic phases shows up in the lacunar spinel GaV4S8, including skyrmions carrying ferroelectric polarization.
- Structural-functional connectivity deficits of neocortical circuits in the Fmr1−/y mouse model of autism
Structural and functional connectivity phenotype in the neocortex of Fmr1−/y mice supports a prominent hypothesis of autism.
- Coherent driving and freezing of bosonic matter wave in an optical Lieb lattice
Matter-wave dynamics reveals a flat energy band engineered in a novel optical lattice.
- Electronic plants
Integrated organic electronic analog and digital circuits can be formed within plant parts and live plants.
- Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants
A new phylogenomic approach reveals that conifer genomes are duplicated despite rare polyploidy among extant species.
- Transient episodes of mild environmental oxygenation and oxidative continental weathering during the late Archean
Osmium isotope data from black shales show that oxidative continental weathering likely occurred episodically in the late Archean.
- Quantum entanglement at ambient conditions in a macroscopic solid-state spin ensemble
On-demand generation of many maximally entangled Bell states in a room-temperature semiconductor at low magnetic field.
- Mechanism of strength reduction along the graphenization pathway
Stable single-bond cracks retard failure in low-temperature polycrystalline graphenes with respect to heat-treated samples.
- Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Analyses of forest loss and protected areas suggest that 36 to 57% of Amazonian tree flora may qualify as “globally threatened.”
- The burrowing origin of modern snakes
Modern snakes originated from burrowing ancestors, predicted from the evolution of their inner ear.
- Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems
Computational fluid dynamics demonstrates that the Precambrian organism Tribrachidium was likely a passive suspension feeder.
- Recurrent DNA virus domestication leading to different parasite virulence strategies
Virus domestication is a recurrent and beneficial process in the evolution of parasitic wasps.
- Blue reflectance in tarantulas is evolutionarily conserved despite nanostructural diversity
Natural selection on structural color in tarantulas resulted in convergence on color through diverse structural mechanisms.
- Cellular defense against latent colonization foiled by human cytomegalovirus UL138 protein
Cells have a defense against latent human cytomegalovirus, but the viral UL138 protein inactivates it to allow lifelong persistence.
- Frost for the trees: Did climate increase erosion in unglaciated landscapes during the late Pleistocene?
Frost processes more than doubled erosion rates in unglaciated terrain during the Last Glacial Maximum.
- Energy-level alignment at organic heterointerfaces
Quantitative modeling demystifies the complex and diverse energetics observed at interfaces between organic semiconductors.
- High–energy density nonaqueous all redox flow lithium battery enabled with a polymeric membrane
An all redox flow lithium battery with strikingly high energy density is successfully demonstrated.
