Physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China lifted six-layer NbSe2's transition temperature by up to 5.4% inside a terahertz dark cavity. The Nature paper suggests a superconductor can be tuned through its surroundings alone, so far shown in one ultrathin compound.
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KAIST-led chemists filmed azobenzene's first picoseconds with ultrafast X-rays, finding a nitrogen-centred twist behind a switch debated for nearly 50 years. Designers of light-driven materials and molecular machines now have a measured mechanism to work from.
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Murray Barrett's group at Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies spent more than a decade on an element no other timekeeping lab uses, and now reports one part in 10^19 for a single lutetium ion clock. A redefinition of the second is expected in or after 2030.
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AMNH and Oxford researchers report in Nature that 345-million-year-old Westlothiana had gills and a primitive skull. That takes away a fossil researchers have long used to date the origin of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Google DeepMind's SynthIDBio hides a watermark in AI-designed proteins that a detector reads near-perfectly without weakening how they bind. The authors call it a proof of concept, and a determined user can still scrub the mark by rerunning a design through another tool.
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Exeter and Essex researchers report in Nature that butterfly wing patterns in flight create motion illusions, widespread across about 400 European species. The finding is presented as helping explain why so few predators hunt butterflies on the wing, though the tests used bird-vision models and human volunteers.
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Physicists including Singapore's Murray Barrett report in Nature a lutetium-176 clock accurate to the 19th digit, 41% better than the prior record. The team pitches lutetium as cesium's successor in defining the second, where its tolerance of heat may count as much as the record.
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Max Planck chemists made metal carbenes from bench-stable thianthrenium salts and ran cyclopropanations at decagram scale with no diazo reagents. Labs wary of toxic, potentially explosive diazoalkanes now have a carbene source they can isolate and store.
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Caltech physicists measured energy ladders two conformal field theories have predicted for about 40 years, using a line of laser-trapped strontium atoms. It is the known-answer test a simulator must pass before it is trusted on unsolved systems.
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Vijay Sankaran's team pooled genetic data from more than 28,000 people and found a BACH2-NRF2 axis that switches on fetal hemoglobin without going through BCL11A. Blocking it in cells raised fetal hemoglobin, pointing drug programs at a target beyond Casgevy's gene edit.
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University of Vienna researchers filmed two Asgard archaea strains crawling on protrusions, a motion previously known only in eukaryotic cells. The team argues that such motility may predate complex cells, a timing claim that so far rests on two lab strains.
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Ataraxos, an AI from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, NYU and Stanford researchers, beat top-ranked human Stratego players by a large margin, MIT reports. The team says it was far cheaper to train than rival systems and also beat top players at other strategy games.
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FinnGen's atlas of 10 million blood cells from 1,108 Finns finds full-cascade variants colocalize with disease at twice the chromatin-only rate. The result gives labs a way to rank which non-coding disease hits to test first, at least in circulating immune cells.
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Deleting the histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 abolished every AID-driven mutation in B cells, a Nature study reports. The same reader-marked regions are where AID's off-target mutations help drive B cell lymphoma.
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Mice given a parasite infection weeks before a lethal flu dose all survived, while every untreated control died by day five or six, a Nature study reports. Because viral load did not change, the finding points to disease tolerance as a treatment target separate from antivirals.
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Alkylthianthrenium salts act as safe carbene donors that let both the olefin and the carbene partner vary in cyclopropane synthesis. The authors report it removes the explosive reagents chemists have long accepted, and scales even as ball-milled solids.
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Researchers reporting in Nature traced heightened stress sensitivity in previously stressed mice to a long-overlooked hypothalamic nucleus. Inhibiting the nucleus blunted stress responses while exciting it amplified them.
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Researchers in Nature predicted mangrove presence or absence with 78.2% accuracy across 400 open-coast sites from 20 years of wave data. Their model counts the calm spells seedlings need to anchor, so wave climate joins sea level as a factor in where mangroves can survive.
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Bat1K researchers' Nature study of 103 genomes and 44 fossils puts the most likely origin of bats in Europe, 65 to 60 million years ago. The same model places powered flight and echolocation near the root of the tree, before modern bat groups began to split.
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Nature warns that resistance is already emerging to the WHO's six-month, bedaquiline-based TB regimen, in a disease that killed 1.23 million people in 2024. Nobody can yet say how common that resistance is, because the surveillance data needed to count it are scarce.
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