Contents
October 2016
Vol 2, Issue 10
Vol 2, Issue 10
Contents
Research Articles
- Empirical observations of the spawning migration of European eels: The long and dangerous road to the Sargasso Sea
Fresh data on the timing and speed of the oceanic spawning migration of European eels suggest a new paradigm for spawning ecology.
- Time scale bias in erosion rates of glaciated landscapes
Averaging time scale bias may produce an apparent acceleration of measured erosion rates in glaciated landscapes.
- The social costs of nitrogen
Nitrogen negatively affects health, climate, and water quality with costs that vary across space.
- Combinatorial microfluidic droplet engineering for biomimetic material synthesis
Combinatorial chemical evolution is used to select oil-water droplet interfaces that drive inorganic nanoparticle synthesis.
- Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest
Higher temperatures will make megadroughts more likely in the American Southwest, but cutting emissions reduces risk.
- Maintenance of leukemic cell identity by the activity of the Polycomb complex PRC1 in mice
The Polycomb complex PRC1 is a gatekeeper of leukemic cell identity in the presence of distinct oncogenic signals.
- Scalable solution-phase epitaxial growth of symmetry-mismatched heterostructures on two-dimensional crystal soft template
Lin et al. report 2D layered materials as a soft template for symmetry-mismatched epitaxial growth of PbSe/Bi2Se3 heterostructures.
- Infrared vibrational nanocrystallography and nanoimaging
Nanoscale spectroscopy and imaging of organic materials reveal heterogeneity in molecular orientation in crystalline domains.
- Tunable and label-free virus enrichment for ultrasensitive virus detection using carbon nanotube arrays
Aligned carbon nanotube–integrated device can effectively trap and enrich viruses from field samples without using antibodies.
- Sulfur deficiency–induced repressor proteins optimize glucosinolate biosynthesis in plants
Researchers report how sulfur deficiency affects glucosinolate biosynthesis in plants.
- Quantum optical rotatory dispersion
A technique for multiwavelength phase measurements with quantum light is proposed and applied to the study of optical activity.
- The DNA cytosine deaminase APOBEC3B promotes tamoxifen resistance in ER-positive breast cancer
An antiviral enzyme promotes drug resistance in breast cancer.
- Quasi-particle interference of heavy fermions in resonant x-ray scattering
Probing the quasi-particle interference of heavy fermions by resonant x-ray scattering and scanning tunneling spectroscopy.
- Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor
Viruses cause the mortality of a large fraction of deep-sea benthic archaea, thereby influencing overall ecosystem functions.
- Sustained drag reduction in a turbulent flow using a low-temperature Leidenfrost surface
Establishing a vapor film on a low-temperature Leidenfrost surface leads to 80 to 90% drag reduction in a turbulent flow.
- Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth
Comparative morphology in living and extinct platypuses revealed that there was a shift in feeding behavior and sensory efficiency.
- Promiscuous targeting of bromodomains by bromosporine identifies BET proteins as master regulators of primary transcription response in leukemia
BET bromodomains are unique targeting modules that mediate primary transcription response.
- Metadisorder for designer light in random systems
We propose the concept of metadisorder for globally collective and small-world–like waves in randomly coupled systems.
- The fate of carbon dioxide in water-rich fluids under extreme conditions
Quantum mechanical simulations predict the fate of CO2 dissolved in water under the conditions of Earth’s upper mantle.
- Superradiance on the millihertz linewidth strontium clock transition
Researchers demonstrate superradiant emission from the 150-s lifetime strontium clock transition.
- Determination of functional collective motions in a protein at atomic resolution using coherent neutron scattering
Coherent neutron scattering determines the forms, time scales, and amplitudes of protein functional collective modes.
- In silico discovery of metal-organic frameworks for precombustion CO2 capture using a genetic algorithm
A genetic algorithm was used to accelerate the computational discovery of new nanoporous materials for capturing CO2.
- Monolignol ferulate conjugates are naturally incorporated into plant lignins
Plants have convergently evolved to use monolignol ferulate conjugates to produce lignins containing chemically labile backbone esters.
- Empty forest or empty rivers? A century of commercial hunting in Amazonia
Trend analysis of the massive international hide trade in Amazonia reveals differential resilience to hunting for aquatic and terrestrial wildlife.
- Structure and mechanism of human PrimPol, a DNA polymerase with primase activity
Analysis of crystal structure elucidates the mechanism by which a human enzyme acts as both a primase and a DNA polymerase.
- Verifying Heisenberg’s error-disturbance relation using a single trapped ion
A newly formulated uncertainty relation has been verified experimentally by a single ultracold ion.
- Brain stimulation reveals crucial role of overcoming self-centeredness in self-control
Self-control in intertemporal choice requires overcoming self-centeredness, a function typically associated with social decisions.
- Entropy-driven structural transition and kinetic trapping in formamidinium lead iodide perovskite
In a photovoltaic perovskite, entropy-driven structural transition enables kinetic trapping of a desired photovoltaic phase.
- “Uphill” cation transport: A bioinspired photo-driven ion pump
Driven by light energy, a bioinspired ion pump can realize the “uphill” ion transport process analogous to the biological system.
- Inferring propagation paths for sparsely observed perturbations on complex networks
Tackling the challenge of reconstructing the state of a perturbed system from a single sparse observation.
- Nonradiating and radiating modes excited by quantum emitters in open epsilon-near-zero cavities
Quantum emitters embedded in arbitrarily shaped epsilon-near-zero cavities can selectively excite both nonradiating and radiating modes.
- An aqueous preoxidation method for monolithic perovskite electrocatalysts with enhanced water oxidation performance
Aqueous preoxidation strategy for in situ hybridization of oxidative perovskite and reductive conductive frameworks.
- Robotic QM/MM-driven maturation of antibody combining sites
Robotic QM/MM maturation in silico markedly improved targeted Ig reactivity.
- Stabilizers as a design tool for new forms of the Lechner-Hauke-Zoller annealer
A new formalism to understand a novel class of quantum annealing devices and new designs obtained using the formalism.
- Social transfer of pain in mice
Bystander mice living in the same room as mice with inflammatory- or withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia develop an abnormal pain state.
- Missing link between the Hayward and Rodgers Creek faults
A direct link between the Hayward and Rodgers Creek faults would enable simultaneous rupture.
- Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities
A field-based climate warming experiment reveals a loss of dynamical community stability due to altered species interactions.
- Control of sexuality by the sk1-encoded UDP-glycosyltransferase of maize
The maize silkless 1 gene encodes a UDP-glycosyltransferase that protects pistils from elimination by jasmonic acid signaling.
- Self-powered textile for wearable electronics by hybridizing fiber-shaped nanogenerators, solar cells, and supercapacitors
A hybridized self-powered textile for simultaneously collecting solar energy and random body motion energy was demonstrated.
- Constructing 3D heterogeneous hydrogels from electrically manipulated prepolymer droplets and crosslinked microgels
Multiphase and cross-scale manipulations of objects with diverse properties for 3D hydrogel construction.
- The hijacking of a receptor kinase–driven pathway by a wheat fungal pathogen leads to disease
Activation of a wheat gene product by a fungal protein leads to cell death in the plant, allowing the pathogen to cause disease.
- Ultrahigh-efficiency solution-processed simplified small-molecule organic light-emitting diodes using universal host materials
Researchers achieved ultrahigh efficiency of solution-processed simplified small-molecule OLEDs that use novel universal host materials.
- Serine one-carbon catabolism with formate overflow
Serine catabolism results in formate efflux that exceeds anabolic demands for purine synthesis.
- Long-term data storage in diamond
Optical control of trapped charge in diamond makes it possible to store and retrieve arbitrary data sets in three dimensions.
- Discovery of pan-VEGF inhibitory peptides directed to the extracellular ligand-binding domains of the VEGF receptors
Extracellular ligand-binding inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinases (eTKIs) in angiogenesis.
- Origin of unusual bandgap shift and dual emission in organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites
Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have unusual, temperature-dependent emission characteristics.
- Functional droplets that recognize, collect, and transport debris on surfaces
New, smart droplets can pick up nanoparticles from substrates.
- Pollen tube contents initiate ovule enlargement and enhance seed coat development without fertilization
A new plant ovule enlargement triggered by pollen tube contents, accompanied by seed coat initiation without fertilization.