Google and IBM Believe First Workable Quantum Computer is in Sight Summary Big-tech researchers at IBM and Google say the first industrial-scale, “workable” quantum computer — on the order of…
ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket Summary The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully completed the Vulcan Centaur’s first national security mission from Space Launch Complex 41…
Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence Summary Experiments reported by Park et al. and discussed by Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda show that the merging of large magnetic…
Highly efficient deep-blue LED devices made using hybrid copper–iodide compound Summary A team has designed a non-toxic, robust and solution-processable hybrid copper–iodide semiconductor that emits deep-blue light with nearly 100%…
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals Key points • The authors developed a scalable, multistep method to infer parental origin (PofO) of alleles across large biobanks…
Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces Summary This paper demonstrates ultrafast, all-optical control of radiative coupling in dielectric metasurfaces by temporarily breaking photonic symmetry within each unit cell.…
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease Summary This Nature study combines human post-mortem metallomics, high-resolution imaging and multiple mouse models to show that endogenous lithium (Li) is reduced…
A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows Summary The authors extend the conventional global humidity (aridity) index, GHI = P/PET, by adding lateral hydrologic subsidy (Qlat) from surface and…
Excised DNA circles from V(D)J recombination promote relapsed leukaemia Key Points • Excised signal circles (ESCs) — extrachromosomal circular DNAs created by V(D)J recombination — replicate and persist through many…
Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels Summary This Nature paper presents an end-to-end, data-driven framework that combines data mining (DM) of adhesive proteins, scalable polymer synthesis and machine learning…
