Contents
Vol 2, Issue 5
Contents
Research Articles
- Pan–ice-sheet glacier terminus change in East Antarctica reveals sensitivity of Wilkes Land to sea-ice changes
Recent retreat of outlet glaciers in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, is driven by changes in sea ice.
- Octopamine connects nutrient cues to lipid metabolism upon nutrient deprivation
Octopamine acts as a metabolic sensor that links environmental nutrient signals to energy homeostasis in C. elegans.
- Monitoring southwest Greenland’s ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise
Researchers monitor southwest Greenland’s ice sheet mass changes by measuring seismic velocity variations in Greenland’s crust.
- North Atlantic salinity as a predictor of Sahel rainfall
Springtime North Atlantic sea surface salinity provides significant predictive utility for summer rainfall in the African Sahel.
- Dehydration of chlorite explains anomalously high electrical conductivity in the mantle wedges
Development of interconnected magnetite during chlorite dehydration explains anomalous high conductivity at shallow mantle wedges.
- The earliest herbivorous marine reptile and its remarkable jaw apparatus
The earliest known herbivorous marine reptile is described from the Middle Triassic of southern China.
- A global quantification of “normal” sleep schedules using smartphone data
Using data collected through smartphones, we assess the effects of age, sex, lighting, and home country on sleep.
- Arrays of microscopic organic LEDs for high-resolution optogenetics
A novel optogenetics platform based on microscopic arrays of organic LEDs is used to control cells with light.
- Rapid identification of health care–associated infections with an integrated fluorescence anisotropy system
A portable system for rapid bacterial profiling aims to rapidly diagnose health care–associated infections.
- Tumor-homing peptides as tools for targeted delivery of payloads to the placenta
Tumor-homing peptides have been exploited to create nanocarriers for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to the placenta.
- Chemical vapor deposition synthesis of near-zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes with stable tube-catalyst interface
Enriching near-zigzag single-walled carbons, which have a small tube-catalyst interface, by a “tandem plate” CVD method.
- Measurement of a vacuum-induced geometric phase
A Berry phase is induced on an artificial atom coupled to a quantum field in the vacuum state by slowly varying their coupling.
- Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago
Continuous multiple sulfur isotope profiles from South African rocks pinpoint the Great Oxygenation Event in the geologic record.
- Genetic markers for antioxidant capacity in a reef-building coral
We identify the first quantitative trait loci for antioxidant capacity in corals, providing possible new avenues for management and restoration approaches.
- Multiple hot-carrier collection in photo-excited graphene Moiré superlattices
Morié-engineered graphene devices can collect multiple electrons per absorbed photon, promising efficient optoelectronics.
- Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics
Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.
- Broadband and chiral binary dielectric meta-holograms
This is a study of basic holographic principles in designing new nanostructured devices that enable broadband and chiral imaging.
- Proton conductivity in ampullae of Lorenzini jelly
Researchers find the proton conductivity of jelly found in the Ampullae of Lorenzini of sharks and skates to be unusually high.
- Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas
Page-Ladson, Florida, provides evidence of the oldest human occupation in the North American Gulf Coastal Plain at 14,550 B.P.
- Remarkable enhancement of charge carrier mobility of conjugated polymer field-effect transistors upon incorporating an ionic additive
Incorporation of tetramethylammonium iodide into conjugated D-A polymer thin film leads to remarkable enhancement of charge mobility.
- Biomimetic gyroid nanostructures exceeding their natural origins
Researchers demonstrate the replication of 3D natural gyroid nanostructures with superior optical performance and properties.
- Experimental evidence supports mantle partial melting in the asthenosphere
Based on sound velocity measurements, upper mantle seismic anomalies could be explained by a melt fraction as low as 0.2%.
- Experimental river delta size set by multiple floods and backwater hydrodynamics
Experimental delta lobe size is controlled by bed adjustment to transient floods within the backwater zone.
- Topological nature of nonlinear optical effects in solids
Study of nonlinear optical responses reveals their quantum topological nature.
- Representing higher-order dependencies in networks
A general method to discover and embed variable orders of dependencies in a network representation.
- Far-field super-resolution imaging of resonant multiples
Seismic resonant multiples, which can yield resolutions more than twice the classical resolution limit, are used for far-field super-resolution imaging.
- Exopolysaccharide biosynthetic glycoside hydrolases can be utilized to disrupt and prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Therapeutic enzyme treatment disrupts Pseudomonas biofilms, potentiating antibiotics and ameliorating the innate immune system.
- Anticyclonic eddies are more productive than cyclonic eddies in subtropical gyres because of winter mixing
In subtropical ocean gyres, anticyclonic eddies increase surface nutrient injection and primary production during winter.
- On-demand transfer of trapped photons on a chip
Researchers experimentally demonstrate on-demand transfer of trapped photons on a photonic crystal chip for the first time.
- Laser vaporization of cirrus-like ice particles with secondary ice multiplication
Intense laser illumination of cirrus-like ice particles increases the amount of condensed water and modifies the particles’ albedo.
- Mutation at a distance caused by homopolymeric guanine repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Short guanine repeats cause a REV1-dependent 4- to 18-fold increase in the substitution rate of the surrounding DNA sequence.
- Hydrogen atoms can be located accurately and precisely by x-ray crystallography
Hydrogen atoms cannot hide from x-rays anymore but can instead be detected very reliably in routine measurements.
- Structural basis of Dscam1 homodimerization: Insights into context constraint for protein recognition
Comparison of Dscam1 structures reveals the detailed mechanism of Dscam1 isoform-specific recognition.
- Ricci curvature: An economic indicator for market fragility and systemic risk
Researchers introduce the geometric concept of curvature toward the application of uncovering systemic risk and market fragility.
- Encapsulation-free controlled release: Electrostatic adsorption eliminates the need for protein encapsulation in PLGA nanoparticles
Researchers demonstrate that encapsulation is not necessary to achieve controlled, long-term protein release.
- Oxyhalides: A new class of high-TC multiferroic materials
Researchers discover a new class of magnetoelectric multiferroics with high critical temperature.
- Prebiotic chemicals—amino acid and phosphorus—in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
The detection of glycine and phosphorus in the coma of 67P shows that comets contain all ingredients to help spark life on Earth.
- Synchronization of optical photons for quantum information processing
We observe the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference via homodyne tomography on two photons extracted from two quantum memories.
- Structural basis for regulation of human calcium-sensing receptor by magnesium ions and an unexpected tryptophan derivative co-agonist
Structural and functional characterization of the extracellular domain of the human CaSR with bound Mg2+ and a tryptophan derivative.
Reviews
- Fundamentals of cancer metabolism
Researchers provide a conceptual framework to understand current knowledge of the fundamentals of cancer metabolism.
- Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries
Variable life histories, species interactions, and historical contingency underlie why some predators recover and others do not.
