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Electrocatalytic reductive deuteration of arenes and heteroarenes, reductive alkyl-alkyl coupling from isolable nickel-alkyl complexes.
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Uncertain competition coefficients undermine inferences about coexistence
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- Jonathan M. Levine
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Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
Satellite carbon monoxide observations show that carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian forest fires are comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions of large nations.
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Long-lived isospin excitations in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
A combination of exciton sensing and optical pump–probe spectroscopy is used to investigate the dynamics of isospin orders in MATBG with WSe 2 substrate across the entire flat band, achieving sub-picosecond resolution.
- Chenhao Jin
Signatures of hybridization of multiple Majorana zero modes in a vortex
We observe signatures of the existence and hybridization of multiple Majorana zero modes in a single vortex.
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Cellular communities reveal trajectories of brain ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
A comprehensive cell atlas of the aged prefrontal cortex identifies two distinct cellular trajectories of ageing driven by specific glial and neuronal subpopulations, some of which are associated with clinicopathologic traits that define Alzheimer’s disease.
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Mating proximity blinds threat perception
A state-dependent dopamine filter system in the male Drosophila brain balances threat perception against the drive to mate.
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Earth’s ambipolar electrostatic field and its role in ion escape to space
The ambipolar field of Earth controls the structure of the polar ionosphere and boosts its scale height by 271%, physically driving the polar wind and acting as the source of the magnetospheric cold H + ion population.
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A population code for spatial representation in the zebrafish telencephalon
Using a tracking microscope for freely moving animals, the authors discover a population of place cells in the zebrafish brain and demonstrate that a non-amniote brain is capable of integrating allothetic and idiothetic information to create a neural map of space.
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- Jennifer M. Li
Fate induction in CD8 CAR T cells through asymmetric cell division
We show that target-induced proximity labelling enables isolation of first-division CD8 chimeric antigen receptor T cells that asymmetrically distribute their surface proteome and transcriptome, resulting in distinct phenotypic, metabolic and functional profiles in proximal and distal daughter cells.
- Casey S. Lee
- Christoph T. Ellebrecht
Spatially clustered type I interferon responses at injury borderzones
Cardiomyocytes are the dominant initiators of a type I interferon response in the infarct borderzone.
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Embryonic genome instability upon DNA replication timing program emergence
A single-cell genome-wide DNA replication atlas of pre-implantation mouse embryos reveals an abrupt replication program switch accompanied by a transient period of genomic instability.
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Superconductivity under pressure in a chromium-based kagome metal
The emergence of superconductivity under pressure is reported in a chromium-based kagome metal, CsCr 3 Sb 5 , which has strong electron correlations, frustrated magnetism and characteristic flat bands close to the Fermi level.
- Guang-Han Cao
Probing plant signal processing optogenetically by two channelrhodopsins
Using new optogenetic tools to induce distinct ion fluxes, a study shows that these discrete signals trigger different metabolic and transcriptional pathways that allow plants to respond to specific types of stress.
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Photoredox phase engineering of transition metal dichalcogenides
Chemical lithiation of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides can be accelerated by up to six orders of magnitude using low-power illumination and a variety of phase transition agents.
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Cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism for sensory prediction errors
Experiments in mice show that a cortico-thalamic circuit generates prediction-error signals in primary visual cortex that amplify visual input that deviates from animals’ expectations.
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