🔬Miniaturization just took a massive leap. Scientists scaled antiferroelectric hafnia down to the 2D limit. This breakthrough unlocks ultra-dense, low-power memory storage, paving the way for next-gen energy-efficient microelectronics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Antiferroelectric hafnia down to the 2D limit

Antiferroelectricity is a material property characterized by alternating electric dipoles spontaneously ordered in antiparallel directions. Antiferroelectrics are promising for energy storage, solid-s...

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New in JLR press| The monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 inhibitor VB-85387 reduces MASLD. Learn more: www.jlr.org/article/... #JLipidRes

An urban evolved invasive plant tolerates experimental climate change 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Flory et al. Societal Impact Statement also available in ES, HR and ZH #PlantScience

⚛️ Universal quantum control requires flawless quantum gate operations. Simultaneous frequency and amplitude modulation suppresses noise, drastically boosting qubit coherence. This exact tuning bridges quantum physics with reliable, scalable quantum computing 🌐 journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

Frequency- and Amplitude-Modulated Gates for Universal Quantum Control

A new theoretical framework based on Floquet analysis enables quantum gate optimization using frequency and amplitude modulations, finding high fidelity and fast gates in superconducting circuits.

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🔬 Landmark discovery in genome biology! Cryo-EM structural data shows how DNA polymerase ζ acts as a reverse transcriptase to repair double-strand breaks. By shaping RNA:DNA into a B-like form, it stabilizes vital genes, shielding cellular integrity 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breakthrough in deep-SWIR (Deep shortwave infrared) sensing! Integrating selenium into quinoidal semiconductors expands absorption to 1.5 μm. 📈 This optimizes film morphology and charge dynamics, enabling ultra-sensitive flexible imagers and advanced optical tech www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠How do living cells navigate complex environments? New research reveals that when active particle models include internal state dynamics, environmental memory spontaneously emerges. This breakthrough bridges cell activity with large-scale intelligent motion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the cardiovascular system influence outcomes in ARDS? This review from @apspublications.bsky.social examines the links between pulmonary vascular dysfunction, right ventricular impairment, & ARDS, alongside emerging opportunities for targeted treatment approaches. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4h6PwwD

🌌Unlocking the cosmic history of Phobos!🚀 Scientists detected a 3.37 μm spectral absorption on Phobos' blue unit, revealing organic molecules matching carbonaceous meteorites. This confirms an exogenous impact delivered primitive material to the Martian moon www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

🫀Breakthrough in cardiac care! Stanford scientists found 3 adenosine receptors converge on an unconventional G-beta-gamma pathway to drive heart scarring. Blocking them simultaneously offers a powerful new strategy against fibrosis and heart failure www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🔬Cancer cells activate the YAP1 pathway promoting cell growth and migration. Researchers found that a high-fat diet triggers this pathway by producing ceramides Drugs inhibiting two enzymes in ceramide production DEGS1 and DEGS2 could help prevent colon cancer metastasis news.mit.edu/2026/biologi...

Biologists identify a cellular pathway that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize

MIT biologists found that a high-fat diet drives colon cancer cells to switch on YAP1, a regenerative program required for the cancer to spread to the liver. Drugs blocking ceramide production could h...

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🔬A major leap in cardiac sarcoidosis diagnostics! Scientists found that sarcoidosis granulomas express high MRC1 protein levels. Targeting this with the imaging agent tilmanocept enables a safer, highly precise way to diagnose life-threatening heart disease medschool.duke.edu/news/duke-co...

Duke collaboration moves sarcoidosis discovery from lab to patients

A discovery that began in a Duke laboratory is now being tested in Duke patients, offering a potential new approach to diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis, which can be life-threatening and difficult to di...

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🌐 Scaling quantum networks requires overcoming noisy links. New research introduces heterogeneous-distance lattice surgery. By selectively enlarging only the central ancilla, this method suppresses hook errors and reduces physical qubit overhead arxiv.org/abs/2609.26784

Error Suppression in Distributed Quantum Computing with Heterogeneous-Distance Lattice Surgery

Distributed quantum computing requires fault-tolerant operations across inter-QPU links that can be substantially noisier than local gates. Uniformly increasing code distance provides additional prote...

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⚛️Quantum AI breakthrough! By using photon delays in a channel, past data returns to a nonlinear node exactly when a task needs it. This physical layout perfectly bridges fundamental physics with high-tier, real-world temporal analytics arxiv.org/html/2609.27...

🌌A cosmological milestone: JWST reveals early galaxies seeded the universe with carbon and oxygen 500M years after the Big Bang. This rapid enrichment bridges cosmic dawn to the evolution of stars and planetary systems🔭 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

Contrary to conventional wisdom holding that early galaxies were composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, new observations suggest that galaxies were seeding the cosmos with heavy elements just 50...

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💪Unlocking the secrets of muscle biology.New research reveals how RyR1 calcium channels physically touch to coordinate synchronized opening, like cogs in a clock. ⚙️ This native membrane insight is key to targeting leaky channels in specific muscle diseases www.mdc-berlin.de/news/press/h...

How calcium channels in muscle cells open together

Using cryo-electron microscopy, the Kudryashev lab has revealed how muscle cell calcium channels open synchronously. The findings, published in “Nature Communications,” may explain a mechanism behind ...

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🧬Computational design advances immunotherapy! Algorithms engineered T cell receptors with 18 mutations to optimize stability and pairing. This structurally enhanced variant yields superior tumor control, bridging rational design and potency www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Computational design of optimized and preferentially paired human TCR constant regions for improved T cell function

T cell receptor (TCR) gene transfer is a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy, but its efficacy is limited by mispairing of TCR chains, which reduces surface expression and may generate off-tar...

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⚛️Quantum computing relies on generating complex states. By probing quantum fluctuations, researchers resolved 3- & 4-photon scattering from a single atom. This genuine energy-time entanglement successfully powered a quantum secret-sharing protocol www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Observation of multiphoton entanglement in resonance fluorescence - Nature Photonics

Multiphoton scattering process is extracted from the resonance fluorescence of a single 87Rb atom. Tripartite entanglement between the photons is verified by a violation of Svetlichny’s inequality. A ...

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🦴Novel insights into arthritis! Scientists found NLRX1 a mitochondrial sensor acts as a neutrophil checkpoint. By modulating ferroptosis & stopping NETosis, this mitochondrial receptor limits joint damage, offering a new therapeutic pathway to preserve bone integrity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NLRX1 is a critical neutrophil checkpoint modulating ferroptosis and suppressing NETosis to attenuate joint damage in arthritis - Cell Death & Differentiation

Cell Death & Differentiation - NLRX1 is a critical neutrophil checkpoint modulating ferroptosis and suppressing NETosis to attenuate joint damage in arthritis

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🧠A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is linked to higher long-term dementia risk. Over 7 years, 1 in 5 TIA patients develop dementia—three times the rate of subsequent strokes. This underscores the vital need for post-TIA care to prioritize brain health www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🪐Groundbreaking space discovery! Asteroid Bennu formed near the water-ice line due to Jupiter's early growth. Acting as a planetary barrier, the gas giant blocked coarse material while blending cosmic dust, creating a rare window into our Solar System's origins ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Mystery surrounding the formation of asteroid Bennu solved

New sample analyses by researchers at ETH Zurich point to a surprising origin for the asteroid Bennu: rather than forming far out in the Solar System, Bennu's parent body probably emerged in a special...

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🌎Earth's climate changes aren't random! A UNM-led study shows Earth cycled through 5 major climate states over 539M years. Crucially, mass extinctions occurred during transitions between these regimes, a vital history for understanding modern ecosystem vulnerabilities news.unm.edu/news/unm-res...

UNM researcher helps uncover recurring climate regimes linked to elevated extinction risk

Earth’s climate has undergone dramatic changes throughout its history, but new research suggests those changes may not have been as random as previously thought. A study led by an international team o...

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🔬Breaking biological paradigms: A new study reveals how epithelial cells maintain tissue homeostasis. Moving beyond Hertwig's geometric rule, cell division is driven by the principal axis of mechanical stress, 📐linking biophysics to tissue remodeling www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬How do human actions alter outbreak risks? This groundbreaking science shows we can't use one-size-fits-all fixes Protecting mosaic landscapes and upgrading rural healthcare infrastructure are vital to stopping local spillovers before they turn into global pandemics 🌎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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🤖 AI is reshaping the drug discovery pipeline. Advanced computational models accurately map complex genomic networks and predict molecular affinities, bridging data science directly into scalable precision therapeutics. 🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔬Vascular health breakthrough!A new single-cell proteomics workflow (SCP-MS) tracks precise protein changes in Marfan syndrome. By uncovering endothelial-mesenchymal transitions, this science bridges hidden cellular shifts with actual disease progression www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

New proteomics method reveals hidden changes in Marfan syndrome

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai develop a high-throughput single-cell proteomics workflow that reveals disease-associated protein changes in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome.

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⚛️Advancing quantum geometry! Researchers broke symmetry in thick semiconductors using ferroelectric polarization. ⚡ Layering WSe2/LiNbO3 generates Berry curvature dipoles, unlocking nonreciprocal spin photocurrents for next optoelectronic devices www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚛️A leap in quantum simulation! Trapped ions are powerful, but interaction buildup is slow. Exciting ions to Rydberg states in a 2D Penning trap boosts coupling to the MHz scale. This directly bridges core physics and modern material science journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

Quantum Simulation with Rydberg Ions in a Penning Trap

Theoretical work tames the complicated dynamics of Rydberg ions in the high magnetic field of a Penning trap, showing large dipole-dipole interactions, which will enable quantum simulations in new reg...

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🌌How does cosmic dust move in starburst galaxies? New JWST MIRI spectroscopy reveals the complex kinematics of PAHs in M82 and NGC 253. Tracing this mid-infrared dust emission bridges vital gaps in interstellar physics to show exactly how galactic winds launch 🌌 arxiv.org/html/2609.26...

⚛️Breakthrough in quantum physics: Scientists simulated string-breaking dynamics on a trapped-ion platform. By controlling 13 ions with lasers, this experiment closely mimics how matter formation occurred after the Big Bang, unlocking secrets of the universe💥 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Quantum device simulates matter popping into existence

A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first in the quantum...

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