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Nature Podcast |
Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade
Deepmind’s protein-structure predictor adds other molecules to the mix, and a big step towards a ‘nuclear clock’.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Nick Petrić Howe
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Article |
Elastic films of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks
- Yonghang Yang
- , Baokun Liang
- & Zhikun Zheng
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News & Views |
Vibration isolation could boost performance of near-infrared organic LEDs
The development of high-performance organic LEDs and other devices that emit near-infrared light has been hindered by seemingly fundamental features of the light-emitting molecules. A potential solution has been identified.
- Margherita Maiuri
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Research Briefing |
Quantum tunnelling of electrons brings ultrafast optical microscopy to the atomic scale
The oscillating electromagnetic fields that carry light can cause electrons to tunnel back and forth through a potential energy barrier. Remarkably, this alternating current can coherently emit measurable light waves — an unexpected process that can be exploited to build an optical microscope that undercuts existing spatial and temporal limitations.
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Editorial |
Reinvent oil refineries for a net-zero future
From petrol to plastics, oil-derived products define modern life. A bold plan to change that comes with huge costs — but researchers and policymakers should take it seriously.
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Perspective |
The refinery of the future
Efforts to find renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that might enable a carbon-neutral society by 2050 are described, as well as outlining a possible roadmap towards a refinery of the future and evaluating its requirements.
- Eelco T. C. Vogt
- & Bert M. Weckhuysen
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Article
| Open AccessDecoupling excitons from high-frequency vibrations in organic molecules
A molecular design strategy for reducing the vibration-induced non-radiative losses in emissive organic semiconductors is realized by decoupling excitons from high-frequency vibrations.
- Pratyush Ghosh
- , Antonios M. Alvertis
- & Akshay Rao
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News |
This Earth-like exoplanet is the first confirmed to have an atmosphere
55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s formation.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Article |
All-optical subcycle microscopy on atomic length scales
All-optical subcycle microscopy is achieved on atomic length scales, with picometric spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution.
- T. Siday
- , J. Hayes
- & R. Huber
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Article |
An atomic boson sampler
Boson sampling using ultracold atoms in a two-dimensional, tunnel-coupled optical lattice is enabled by high-fidelity programmable control with optical tweezers of a large number of atoms trapped in an optical lattice.
- Aaron W. Young
- , Shawn Geller
- & Adam M. Kaufman
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Article |
Self-oscillating polymeric refrigerator with high energy efficiency
We report on a near-zero-power flexible heat pump that uses both electrocaloric and electrostrictive properties of a tailored polymer to create a chip-scale refrigerator device.
- Donglin Han
- , Yingjing Zhang
- & Xiaoshi Qian
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Article |
Label-free detection and profiling of individual solution-phase molecules
Enhanced light–molecule interactions in high-finesse fibre-based Fabry–Pérot microcavities are used to detect and profile individual unlabelled solution-phase biomolecules, leading to potential applications in the life and chemical sciences.
- Lisa-Maria Needham
- , Carlos Saavedra
- & Randall H. Goldsmith
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Article |
Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator
Emergence of Nagaoka polarons and kinetic magnetism is observed in a Hubbard system realized with strongly interacting fermions trapped in a triangular optical lattice.
- Martin Lebrat
- , Muqing Xu
- & Markus Greiner
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Article |
Chemical short-range disorder in lithium oxide cathodes
The introduction of chemical short-range disorder substantially affects the crystal structure of layered lithium oxide cathodes, leading to improved charge transfer and structural stability.
- Qidi Wang
- , Zhenpeng Yao
- & Chenglong Zhao
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Article
| Open AccessLithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing
Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits based on lithium tantalate perform as well as current state-of-the-art ones using lithium niobate but the material has the advantage of existing commercial uses in consumer electronics, easing the problem of scalability.
- Chengli Wang
- , Zihan Li
- & Tobias J. Kippenberg
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News |
Physicists move closer to an ultra-precise ‘nuclear’ clock
Timekeepers based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei could transform fundamental-physics research.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Article
| Open AccessFull-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides
We develop a method for providing high-quality, holographic, three-dimensional augmented-reality images in a small form factor suitable for incorporation in eyeglass-scale wearables, using high-refraction-index glass waveguides with nanoscale metasurfaces, and incorporating artificial intelligence.
- Manu Gopakumar
- , Gun-Yeal Lee
- & Gordon Wetzstein
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Article |
Boron catalysis in a designer enzyme
A completely genetically encoded boronic-acid-containing designer enzyme was created and characterized using X-ray crystallography, high-resolution mass spectrometry and 11B NMR spectroscopy, allowing chemistry that is unknown in nature and currently not possible with small-molecule catalysts.
- Lars Longwitz
- , Reuben B. Leveson-Gower
- & Gerard Roelfes
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Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system
A triangular-lattice Hubbard system realized with ultracold atoms is used to directly image spin polarons, revealing ferromagnetic correlations around a charge dopant, a manifestation of the Nagaoka effect.
- Max L. Prichard
- , Benjamin M. Spar
- & Waseem S. Bakr
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Article |
Long-range order enabled stability in quantum dot light-emitting diodes
Improving the long-range order of the quantum dots in perovskite LEDs can markedly enhance their operational stability.
- Ya-Kun Wang
- , Haoyue Wan
- & Liang-Sheng Liao
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| Open AccessMeasurement of the superfluid fraction of a supersolid by Josephson effect
A new method based on the Josephson effect is described, allowing to measure the superfluid fraction of a supersolid, which captures the effect of spatially periodic modulation leading to reduction in the stiffness of superfluids.
- G. Biagioni
- , N. Antolini
- & G. Modugno
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| Open AccessFusion of deterministically generated photonic graph states
Using an optical resonator containing two individually addressable atoms in a single cavity, fusion of deterministically generated photonic graph states to create ring and tree graph states with up to eight qubits is demonstrated.
- Philip Thomas
- , Leonardo Ruscio
- & Gerhard Rempe
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| Open AccessComplete biosynthesis of QS-21 in engineered yeast
QS-21—an FDA-approved vaccine adjuvant—and several structural analogues of QS-21 can be synthesized in engineered yeast strains, and this process is much less laborious compared with the conventional mode of extraction from the Chilean soapbark tree.
- Yuzhong Liu
- , Xixi Zhao
- & Jay D. Keasling
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Correspondence |
Beware of graphene’s huge and hidden environmental costs
- Shijie Guo
- , Zihan Cai
- & Qingyuan Ding
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News & Views |
The dream of electronic newspapers becomes a reality — in 1974
Efforts to develop an electronic newspaper providing information at the touch of a button took a step forward 50 years ago, and airborne bacteria in the London Underground come under scrutiny, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Research Highlight |
Old electric-vehicle batteries can find new purpose — on the grid
An algorithm can monitor the health of retired vehicle batteries used to store surplus power fed into the electrical grid.
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How artificial intelligence is helping Ghana plan for a renewable energy future
The technology is helping the West African nation to invest wisely in infrastructure, prioritising energy and food security, but also human health.
- Dom Byrne
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News |
Argentina’s pioneering nuclear research threatened by huge budget cuts
President Javier Milei is making moves to partially privatize the sector, but in the meantime, projects have paused.
- Martín De Ambrosio
- & Fermín Koop
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China’s Chang’e-6 launched successfully — what happens next?
Scientists have high hopes for the first mission to collect rocks from the far side of the Moon.
- Ling Xin
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News & Views |
Microbubble ultrasound maps hidden signs of heart disease
Cardiovascular disease claims more lives each year than do the two next-deadliest diseases combined. An ultrasound technique that tracks tiny gas-filled bubbles could pave the way towards improved early detection.
- Elisa E. Konofagou
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Quantum control of a cat qubit with bit-flip times exceeding ten seconds
A type of qubit that has inherent resistance to bit-flip errors has been manipulated with a bit-flip time of more than 10 s without losing that error protection.
- U. Réglade
- , A. Bocquet
- & Z. Leghtas
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Venus water loss is dominated by HCO+ dissociative recombination
Water loss to space late in Venus history is shown to be more active than previously thought, with unmeasured HCO+ dissociative recombination dominating present-day H loss.
- M. S. Chaffin
- , E. M. Cangi
- & H. Gröller
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Research Briefing |
A quantum solid made of electrons: observing the elusive Wigner crystal
In ordinary materials, electrons move too quickly for their negative electric charges to affect their interactions. But at low temperatures and densities, they can be made to crystallize into an exotic type of electron solid — a phenomenon predicted by Eugene Wigner 90 years ago and only now directly observed.
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News Feature |
Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe has evolved and what its future will be.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Article |
A deconstruction-reconstruction strategy for pyrimidine diversification
- Benjamin J. H. Uhlenbruck
- , Celena M. Josephitis
- & Andrew McNally
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Research Highlight |
Never mind little green men: life on other planets might be purple
Bacteria that make food using a compound other than chlorophyll could paint other planets in a wide range of colours.
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Research Highlight |
A magnetic liquid makes for an injectable sensor in living tissue
Fluid studded with microscopic magnetic particles can be inserted into the body and later retrieved.
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Obituary |
Allen J. Bard obituary: electrochemist whose techniques underpin clinical diagnostics, materials discovery and more
Innovator who pioneered scanning electrochemical microscopy, bioassays and solar fuels.
- Michael Rose
- & Henry S. White
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News & Views |
Intel brings quantum-computing microchips a step closer
By adapting methods for fabricating and testing conventional computer chips, researchers have brought silicon-based quantum computers closer to reality — and to accessing the immense benefits of a mature chipmaking industry.
- Ruoyu Li
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Nature Podcast |
Dad’s microbiome can affect offspring’s health — in mice
Disrupting gut microbes increases risk of growth issues in the next generation, and understanding geographic variations in cancer rates.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Nick Petrić Howe
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Article
| Open AccessProbing single electrons across 300-mm spin qubit wafers
Using a cryogenic 300-mm wafer prober, a new approach for the testing of hundreds of industry-manufactured spin qubit devices at 1.6 K provides high-volume data on performance, allowing optimization of the complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible fabrication process.
- Samuel Neyens
- , Otto K. Zietz
- & James S. Clarke
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Bevel-edge epitaxy of ferroelectric rhombohedral boron nitride single crystal
Centimetre-sized single-crystal rhombohedral boron nitride layers are achieved through bevel-edge epitaxy, and the resulting material exhibits robust, homogeneous and switchable ferroelectricity with a high Curie temperature.
- Li Wang
- , Jiajie Qi
- & Xuedong Bai
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Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by photobiocatalytic oxidative coupling
We report on the oxidative cross-coupling of organoboron reagents and amino acids via pyridoxal biocatalysis to produce non-canonical amino acids, uncovering stereoselective, intermolecular free-radical transformations.
- Tian-Ci Wang
- , Binh Khanh Mai
- & Yang Yang
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3D genomic mapping reveals multifocality of human pancreatic precancers
Quantitative multimodal 3D reconstruction of human pancreatic tissue at single-cell resolution reveals a high burden of multifocal, genetically heterogeneous pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias in the normal adult pancreas.
- Alicia M. Braxton
- , Ashley L. Kiemen
- & Laura D. Wood
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Correspondence |
Corrosion is a global menace to crucial infrastructure — act to stop the rot now
- Weichen Xu
- , Ruiyong Zhang
- & Donald Terry Greenfield
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News Q&A |
The science of 3 Body Problem: what’s fact and what’s fiction?
Nature spoke to the sci-fi programme’s adviser and two other researchers about the portrayal of PhD scientists and their technologies.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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News |
What China’s mission to collect rocks from the Moon’s far side could reveal
The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, where it will collect rocks to bring back to Earth.
- Ling Xin
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Superconductivity hunt gets boost from China’s $220 million physics ‘playground’
From extreme cold to strong magnets and high pressures, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) provides conditions for researching potential wonder materials.
- Gemma Conroy