Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence Summary This News & Views piece by Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda discusses an experimental study reported in Nature (Park et al.)…
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection Summary This paper reports a laboratory demonstration that kinetic-scale turbulence — driven by fast electron beams — can trigger three-dimensional magnetic…
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals Summary This study introduces a scalable multistep method to infer parental origin (PofO) of alleles across large biobanks and applies…
EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells Summary This Nature study used humanised mouse models, single-cell RNA sequencing, spatial imaging (ChipCytometry, light-sheet) and functional assays to…
A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows Summary This Nature paper introduces GHI_topo, a global humidity index that adds lateral hydrologic subsidy (Qlat) from surface and groundwater to conventional…
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease Summary This Nature study reports that reduced endogenous lithium (Li) in the prefrontal cortex is associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and…
Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces Summary This paper demonstrates ultrafast, optical control of the radiative loss (γ_rad) of resonances in dielectric metasurfaces by temporally breaking photonic symmetry.…
Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels Summary This Nature paper reports an end-to-end, data-driven framework that combines data mining (DM) of adhesive protein sequences, scalable polymer synthesis and machine…
Summary This Nature paper reports a broad survey of the microbiome living inside the wood of 16 tree species. Using amplicon sequencing, qPCR and extensive sampling, the authors show that…
Summary This Nature study shows that excised signal circles (ESCs) — circular DNA by-products of V(D)J recombination — replicate and persist in normal B cells and in B cell precursor…
