Signatures of excitonic insulators can be challenging to identify. Here, the authors use photocurrent spectroscopy to show signatures of an excitonic insulator and its superfluidity in few layer black phosphorus.

Conventional methods for thioglycoside activation often rely on precious and toxic platinum group metals. Here, the authors report a catalytic glycosylation strategy employing diazo-thioglycoside donors activated by earth-abundant iron or photosensitizer-free blue light conditions.

Here the authors immobilize quaternary ammonium cations on the surface of Cu catalyst to suppress the carbonate precipitation, achieving a Faradaic efficiency of 50% for ethylene product at 200 mA/cm² from CO₂ electroreduction.

This article addresses the challenge of training AI models in personalized Internet of Things systems while ensuring data security and privacy. Authors combine federated and meta-learning to improve model training performance, adaptation speed, cost-efficiency, and security against attacks.

It is challenging to achieve scar-free repair of chronic wounds as they often feature the occurrence of multiple healing phases in an unpredictable and nonlinear manner. Here, the authors report a healing phase-adaptive regulating hydrogel that exhibits hierarchically delivering performance for programmed modulation of chronic infected wounds.

Regular oscillations in early Triassic ocean chemistry are explored in a box model. Periodic fluctuations in C and U isotopes are attributed to internal feedbacks in the coupled carbon-phosphorus-oxygen system after the end Permian mass extinction.

Cities serve as climate change laboratories for phenology studies. Here, the authors show that results of such studies should be interpreted with caution, as urban-rural phenology gaps are primarily driven by species composition differences rather than temperature differences.

Water as a precursor is induced by recyclable organic magnetic nanoparticles to construct hydrogen-bonded nanocages. Sustainable CO₂ capture can be achieved by these reversible hydrogen-bonded water cages with zero resource depletion.

In the northern Arabian Sea, excess evaporation sustains Arabian Sea High Salinity Water formation (ASHSW). This study shows that extreme precipitation events disrupt ASHSW by increasing freshwater input, enhancing stratification, and weakening winter convective mixing.

This study shows that global warming has led to both earlier and later snowmelt floods in different regions over the past 70 years, challenging the prevailing idea that warming always advances floods and highlighting the complex nature of snowmelt flood timing shifts.

Bioproduction of steroids involves NADPH-dependent enzymes that mediate electron transfer reactions. Here, the author reveal the electron transfer mechanisms of NADPH-dependent enzymes and demonstrate the complete biosynthesis of steroids through electron transfer engineering.

Applications of nanopore direct RNA sequencing (dRNA) are limited by the lack of accurate and cost-effective sample multiplexing. Here, the authors report an ultra-fast and high accurate adapter-barcoding and demultiplexing approach for dRNA and demonstrate its application in SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

The aging immune system is characterized by changes in immune cell frequencies and functionality. Here the authors report dynamics of age-related divergence of circulating immune responses in patients with solid tumors treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

Tracing cellular changes in complex biological systems is challenging. Here, authors present a flexible framework that integrates multi-sample data with in-house algorithms to infer comparative and spatiotemporal cell-gene patterns, advancing understanding of cellular dynamics.

The mechanisms underlying bacterial chromosome configuration are not fully understood. Here, Spahn et al. show that the Escherichia coli nucleoid adopts a condensed, membrane-proximal configuration during rapid growth, with transcription and translation acting as main drivers of nucleoid organization.

Breast and cervical cancers are important causes of disability and premature death in Africa. The authors use an education policy in Lesotho as a natural experiment to show that girls’ schooling increases awareness of breast cancer, awareness of Pap smear, and screening with Pap smear.

While SNAP25 is critical for neural electrical communication, its cardiac role is unknown. Here the authors show that it governs atrial electrical stability by directing Kv1.5 channel trafficking, with therapeutic implications for atrial fibrillation.

Tools for diversifying genomic DNA in mammalian cells have long relied on base editors making C to T or A to G substitutions. Here, authors use RNA-guided DNA polymerases (EvolvR) to evolve mammalian cells using all twelve substitutions and show that nickase fidelity affects EvolvR’s mutation rates.

Xenotransplantation is a promising option when allogeneic donors are unavailable but hampered by a more stringent immunological barrier. Here authors show that hypoimmune cells engineered to overcome xenogeneic cytotoxicity of polymorphonuclear cells in addition to averting responses by other immune cell types might improve pig-to-human xenotransplantation.

Identifying therapeutic targets is challenging, especially for orphan diseases. Here, the authors integrate GWAS and TWAS with machine learning methods to predict therapeutic targets for various diseases and demonstrate the usefulness in practice.

People routinely choose between multi-attribute options, such as which movie to watch. Here, the authors show people often have accurate insight into their choices, challenging the notion that people lack self-knowledge about their decision processes.

Breast and cervical cancers are important causes of disability and premature death in Africa. The authors use an education policy in Lesotho as a natural experiment to show that girls’ schooling increases awareness of breast cancer, awareness of Pap smear, and screening with Pap smear.

This study reveals that rising temperatures and decreased precipitation levels increase walking time for fetching drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rural areas are most affected, but community electricity access mitigates the walk time burden.

Transitions to sustainable food systems require shifts in food production and availability, particularly the replacement of animal-based protein with plant-based protein. Here, the authors show that the optimal balance of plant vs animal protein and fat in national food supplies varies with age, suggesting age-specific redistributions to balance health and environmental benefits.

Teaching and leadership are under-studied in connection with the opaque norms that underpin cooperation. The authors show that among egalitarian foragers, influential individuals often pass on these norms, hinting at a possible relationship between leadership and cooperative teaching.