A closer look at how cells sense dietary nutrients Summary Cells must detect the presence or absence of nutrients to adjust metabolism and growth. This research-briefing summarises new structural work…
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 Summary The paper reconstructs how rumours propagated across rural France during the Great Fear of 1789 by combining historical…
Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics Summary This paper introduces attosecond chiroptical spectroscopy: the first application of circularly polarised attosecond extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses to chiral molecules, combined with…
Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation Key Points • A genome-wide screen shows sulfur-cycling capacity is widespread across bacteria and archaea, including many uncultured lineages. • The authors…
Topological prethermal strong zero modes on superconducting processors Summary This Nature paper reports the experimental observation of long-lived topological edge modes (prethermal strong zero modes) at finite — even infinite…
One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft Summary BindCraft is an automated pipeline that designs de novo protein binders by backpropagating through AlphaFold2 (AF2) multimer weights to ‘hallucinate’ binder…
Neural networks of the mouse visceromotor cortex Summary The study provides a comprehensive, brain-wide mapping and functional characterisation of a previously poorly defined medial prefrontal area in mice—the dorsal peduncular…
Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma Summary This Nature paper shows that mechanical confinement from the tumour microenvironment can force melanoma cells to switch from a proliferative, melanocytic state…
Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device Summary This paper reports the first demonstration of electrically driven lasing from a vertically integrated dual-cavity perovskite device. The design stacks a…
Maternal stress triggers early-life eczema through foetal mast cell programming Summary This Nature study reports that prenatal psychological stress in mice programmes foetal skin mast cells via maternal glucocorticoids, producing…
