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Vol 1, Issue 9
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Research Articles
- Dislocation-accommodated grain boundary sliding as the major deformation mechanism of olivine in the Earth’s upper mantle
Grain size–sensitive creep controls the flow in the middle and deep upper mantle.
- Self-propelled particles that transport cargo through flowing blood and halt hemorrhage
Simple, water-reactive particles can carry enzymes upstream through aqueous solutions and into wounds to halt severe bleeding.
- Catenary optics for achromatic generation of perfect optical angular momentum
The nanoscale structures inspired by the natural catenaries can achromatically spin light wave.
- A shortage of males causes female reproductive failure in yellow ground squirrels
Female yellow ground squirrels have fewer chances to breed when and where males are less abundant, independent of other factors.
- Co-potentiation of antigen recognition: A mechanism to boost weak T cell responses and provide immunotherapy in vivo
Fab binding to CD3 couples with weak antigen recognition to enhance T cell responses and immunotherapy.
- Hazard potential of volcanic flank collapses raised by new megatsunami evidence
Giant tsunami triggered by catastrophic flank collapse of Fogo volcano.
- Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) optimize foraging efficiency by balancing oxygen use and energy gain as a function of prey density
The world’s largest predators, blue whales, switch strategies to maximize foraging efficiency as a function of prey density and depth.
- Effects of ocean acidification on marine dissolved organic matter are not detectable over the succession of phytoplankton blooms
Simulations show that ocean acidification has little effect on marine dissolved organic matter concentration.
- Pinning down the superfluid and measuring masses using pulsar glitches
Erratic pulsar behavior hints at new way of measuring the mass of stars.
- Memristive phase switching in two-dimensional 1T-TaS2 crystals
Electrical switching to multiple novel metastable states in a correlated two-dimensional crystal.
- Wafer-scale growth of large arrays of perovskite microplate crystals for functional electronics and optoelectronics
Scalable growth of regular arrays of perovskite microplates opens a new platform for electronic and optoelectronic device arrays.
- Mixing unmixables: Unexpected formation of Li-Cs alloys at low pressure
Unexpected Li-Cs alloy with unusual Cs to Li charge transfer characterized from valence charge topology has been synthesized under 10 GPa.
- Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa
Paleoclimate data suggest that the Horn of Africa will become drier under global warming, in contrast to model projections.
- On the decadal scale correlation between African dust and Sahel rainfall: The role of Saharan heat low–forced winds
Interannual variability in rainfall and surface wind speeds over the Sahara are the result of changes in tropospheric air temperature.
- Contractility parameters of human β-cardiac myosin with the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation R403Q show loss of motor function
Force parameters of human β-cardiac myosin with the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation R403Q show loss of molecular motor function.
- Optogenetic pacing in Drosophila melanogaster
Heart rhythm of fruit flies at different developmental stages can be noninvasively controlled by light using optogenetics.
- Global prevalence and distribution of genes and microorganisms involved in mercury methylation
A global metagenome assessment reveals a low risk of methylmercury production in humans and a high potential in Arctic permafrost.
- MED12 methylation by CARM1 sensitizes human breast cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs
MED12 is methylated by CARM1, and methylated MED12 serves as a sensor for anticancer drug response in human breast cancer.
- Accretion-induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes
Astrophysical accretion is a universal process in objects from proto-stars to supermassive black holes.
- Copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidative coupling: From ketone and diamine to pyrazine
A new copper-catalyzed reaction toward the synthesis of pyrazine compounds is demonstrated.
- Gold tetrahedra coil up: Kekulé-like and double helical superstructures
Structures of gold clusters resemble the benzene and DNA molecules and reveal a “supermolecule” origin of the magic-sized clusters.
- Persistent optical gating of a topological insulator
A flexible, bidirectional optical effect in SrTiO3 allows us to write and erase tiny p-n junctions in a topological insulator.
- Native proteins trap high-energy transit conformations
Highly accurate protein structures reveal how large bond angle distortions enable “disallowed” protein folding transitions.
- Evidence for orbital order and its relation to superconductivity in FeSe0.4Te0.6
Electronic states in an iron-chalcogenide superconductor are found to have a lower symmetry than the crystal structure.
- Drosophila Dicer-2 has an RNA interference–independent function that modulates Toll immune signaling
Fly Dicer-2 exhibits a non–RNA interference function in the posttranscriptional modulation of Toll protein expression and Toll signaling.
- Response thresholds in bacterial chemotaxis
The absence of responses to shallow temporal ramps of chemicals does not appear to be accounted for by motor remodeling.
- Hierarchical wrinkling in a confined permeable biogel
The dance of a yoghurt and its whey, ruled by viscosity and porosity, creates concentric wrinkles that mimic morphogenesis.
- Gold(III)-CO and gold(III)-CO2 complexes and their role in the water-gas shift reaction
The first isolable gold(III)-CO complex reveals unexpected differences in CO bonding to gold and platinum catalysts.
- Cascading elastic perturbation in Japan due to the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake
Seismic waves from the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake trigger changes in elastic properties and the stress field in Japan.
- pNaKtide inhibits Na/K-ATPase reactive oxygen species amplification and attenuates adipogenesis
The Na/K-ATPase amplifies oxidant signaling, and its attenuation with pNaKtide antagonizes adipogenesis.
- Below-ground plant–fungus network topology is not congruent with above-ground plant–animal network topology
DNA sequencing uncovers the entire architecture of below-ground plant–fungus networks.
- Kinetics of small molecule interactions with membrane proteins in single cells measured with mechanical amplification
Small-molecule interactions with membrane proteins in single cells are measured with a mechanical amplification method.
- Equilibrium shape of 4He crystal under zero gravity below 200 mK
Equilibrium crystal shape is determined for 4He quantum crystals in a superfluid under zero gravity at ultralow temperatures.
- Nearly free electrons in a 5d delafossite oxide metal
Transport and ARPES reveal extremely good metallicity arising from almost free-electron behavior in single-crystal PtCoO2.
- Dielectric capacitors with three-dimensional nanoscale interdigital electrodes for energy storage
Three-dimensional nanoarchitectural design of electrodes to simultaneously boost capacitance and breakdown voltage of dielectric capacitors.
- Ethyl alcohol and sugar in comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
First detections of ethyl alcohol and glycolaldehyde in a comet provide new constraints on solar system chemical complexity.
- A quantum annealing architecture with all-to-all connectivity from local interactions
An architecture for adiabatic quantum computing devices, which is programmed by local fields and features all-to-all connectivity.
- Pharmacologic inhibition of JAK-STAT signaling promotes hair growth
Topical treatment of mouse and human skin with small-molecule inhibitors of the JAK-STAT pathway results in hair growth.
- Three-dimensional printing of complex biological structures by freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels
Freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels enables three-dimensional printing of soft extracellular matrix biopolymers in biomimetic structures.
- Spectrometer-free vibrational imaging by retrieving stimulated Raman signal from highly scattered photons
Vibrational imaging reveals vitamin E distribution on mouse skin in vivo and captures human breast cancer tissues in situ.
- Individualistic sensitivities and exposure to climate change explain variation in species’ distribution and abundance changes
Analysis of butterfly and moth species shows that responses to climate change may be more predictable than previously recognized.
- Epidermal devices for noninvasive, precise, and continuous mapping of macrovascular and microvascular blood flow
Advances in ultrathin, skin-like electronics lead to wearable devices for continuous, noninvasive blood flow monitoring.
- Fingertip skin–inspired microstructured ferroelectric skins discriminate static/dynamic pressure and temperature stimuli
Fingertip skin-mimicking ferroelectric skins sensitively detect and discriminate static/dynamic pressure and temperature.
- A surface code quantum computer in silicon
A scalable shared-control architecture for silicon-based quantum computing using topological quantum error correction.
- Carbyne with finite length: The one-dimensional sp carbon
Carbyne with one-dimensional sp-hybridized carbon atoms is synthesized under ambient conditions in the laboratory.
- Lunar impact basins revealed by Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory measurements
New gravity measurements greatly improve the Moon’s preserved impact basin inventory.
