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Future global offshore wind energy under climate change and advanced wind turbine technology Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Christopher Jung, Leon Sander, Dirk Schindler
Offshore wind energy provides a promising option for substituting conventional energies due to its low greenhouse gas emissions, cost-effectiveness, and abundant wind resources at seas. The installed capacity, available area, technological advancements, and wind resource development under climate change drive the offshore wind potential. Thus, the goal is to develop 28 techno-climatic wind energy expansion
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Toward sustainability of Waste-to-Energy: An overview Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Hsin-Wei Hsu, Emmanuel Binyet, Rusdan Aditya Aji Nugroho, Wei-Cheng Wang, Penjit Srinophakun, Rei-Yu Chein, Rex Demafelis, Nutchapon Chiarasumran, Herman Saputro, Akhmad Faruq Alhikami, Netipon Sakulshah, Tunyaboon Laemthong
The rapid increase in urban populations has led to a significant rise in municipal solid waste, necessitating innovative waste management solutions within a circular economy. This review examines the potential of waste-to-energy technologies to transform waste into a sustainable energy source, addressing both waste management and energy production challenges. Analyzing over 100 studies, the review
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Techno-economic analysis of the direct solar conversion of carbon dioxide into renewable fuels Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Abdul Ahad Mamun, Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder
Direct conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) using sunlight into commercially viable renewable fuels will be one key solution for decarbonization and storing renewable solar energy. However, the direct conversion of CO2 using sunlight faces uphill challenges, especially the techno-economic viability (TEV), as the produced fuels must compete with fossil fuels or at least with fossil fuel alternatives,
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Trends and advances in sustainable bioethanol production technologies from first to fourth generation: A critical review Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Muhammad Abdul Kareem Joyia, Muhammad Ahmad, Yang-Fang Chen, Mujahid Mustaqeem, Ansar Ali, Aumber Abbas, Mohammed Ashraf Gondal
By the end of 2050, the world population is anticipated to reach 10 billion, which will change the perception of energy utilization. In recent years, the reliance on fossil fuels has shifted towards alternative energy sources. Over the past few years, there has been a profound emphasis on converting biomass into ethanol fuel, recognized as the most environmentally friendly liquid fuel as an alternative
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Optimising novel methanol/diesel blends as sustainable fuel alternatives: Performance evaluation and predictive modelling Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Tanmay J. Deka, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Ahmed I. Osman, Rehab Ali Ibrahim, Debendra C. Baruah, David W. Rooney
The pursuit of reducing diesel consumption while progressing towards a sustainable energy future necessitates critical decisions regarding fuel modifications or engine adaptations to ensure smooth transitions in transportation. This study explores the potential of methanol/diesel blends as a sustainable fuel solution for the transport sector. We address a significant gap by examining the impact of
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COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
The finding comes from a reanalysis of genomic data.
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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20
The concepts were judged by reviewers and were not told who or what had created them.
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Daily briefing: Thick, sticky ‘brain goo’ might drive obesity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
‘Brain goo’ that stops neurons processing insulin signals might drive obesity. Plus, China has almost reached peak greenhouse-gas emissions — what does that mean for climate change?
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Is bird flu spreading among people? Data gaps leave researchers in the dark Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human transmission.
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Rules of river avulsion change downstream Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 James H. Gearon, Harrison K. Martin, Clarke DeLisle, Eric A. Barefoot, David Mohrig, Chris Paola, Douglas A. Edmonds
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Author Correction: Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern. Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Masahiro Watanabe,Sarah M Kang,Matthew Collins,Yen-Ting Hwang,Shayne McGregor,Malte F Stuecker
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Harassed? Intimidated? Guidebook offers help to scientists under attack. Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Jeff Tollefson
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Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature. Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Philip Ball
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A novel heating system of solar-assisted enhanced jet enthalpy air source heat pump for cold regions Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Guodong Qiu, Shirui Su, Yanfeng Chen, Weihua Cai
Solar energy and air source heat pumps are common heat sources for clean heating, but at lower ambient temperatures, the performance of solar energy and air source heat pumps will decline significantly, which can be ameliorated by integrating the two heat sources. However, the range of solar radiation and ambient temperature variation is very wide, and the existing integration methods cannot guarantee
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Comparative study on thermodynamic performance of liquid hydrogen storage insulation system incorporating vapor-cooled shield with para–ortho hydrogen conversion by one-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional model Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Yakun Leng, Shengqi Zhang, Xinyang Wang, Liang Pu, Peng Xu
As the pivotal technology for large-scale utilization of hydrogen, hydrogen storage is bracing itself to significant challenges related to heat leakage. To enhance the insulation performance of liquid hydrogen storage insulation system (LHSIS), spray-on foam insulation (SOFI), variable density multilayer insulation (VDMLI) and vapor-cooled shield (VCS) are commonly employed. This study established
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Life cycle and techno-economic analyses of biofuels production via anaerobic digestion and amine scrubbing CO2 capture Energy Convers. Manag. (IF 9.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Towhid Gholizadeh, Hamed Ghiasirad, Anna Skorek-Osikowska
The global energy landscape highlights the importance of the hydrogen economy, emphasizing its critical role in worldwide energy policies. This study explores a system designed for producing biomethanol and biomethane by integrating anaerobic digestion, biogas upgrading, and high-temperature electrolysis. The system builds on real-scale industrial data from an existing anaerobic digestion plant, which
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Integer partitions detect the primes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 William Craig, Jan-Willem van Ittersum, Ken Ono
We show that integer partitions, the fundamental building blocks in additive number theory, detect prime numbers in an unexpected way. Answering a question of Schneider, we show that the primes are the solutions to special equations in partition functions. For example, an integer n ≥ 2 is prime if and only if ( 3 n 3 − 13 n 2 + 18 n − 8 ) M 1 ( n ) + ( 12 n 2 − 120 n + 212 ) M 2 ( n ) − 960 M 3 ( n
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The battle of the sexes in humans is highly polygenic Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Jared M. Cole, Carly B. Scott, Mackenzie M. Johnson, Peter R. Golightly, Jedidiah Carlson, Matthew J. Ming, Arbel Harpak, Mark Kirkpatrick
Sex-differential selection (SDS), which occurs when the fitness effects of alleles differ between males and females, can have profound impacts on the maintenance of genetic variation, disease risk, and other key aspects of natural populations. Because the sexes mix their autosomal genomes each generation, quantifying SDS is not possible using conventional population genetic approaches. Here, we introduce
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Alternating access of a bacterial homolog of neurotransmitter: sodium symporters determined from AlphaFold2 ensembles and DEER spectroscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Alexandra C Schwartz,Richard A Stein,Eva Gil-Iturbe,Matthias Quick,Hassane S Mchaourab
Neurotransmitter:sodium symporters (NSSs) play critical roles in neural signaling by regulating neurotransmitter uptake into cells powered by sodium electrochemical gradients. Bacterial NSSs orthologs, including MhsT from Bacillus halodurans, have emerged as model systems to understand the structural motifs of alternating access in NSSs and the extent of conservation of these motifs across the family
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QnAs with Scott E. Heatwole and Robert F. Pfaff. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Matthew Hardcastle
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Current usage of sounding rockets to study the upper atmosphere. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Scott E Heatwole
Sounding rockets have played and continue to play a key role in the modeling of the upper atmosphere and predicting weather. Goddard's insight into the usefulness of rockets for this application came at a time when measurements had not been made above the troposphere. Present-day developments in sounding rockets have allowed more elaborate experiments to make measurements with multiple rockets and
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Beyond Neyman–Pearson: E-values enable hypothesis testing with a data-driven alpha Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Peter D. Grünwald
A standard practice in statistical hypothesis testing is to mention the P -value alongside the accept/reject decision. We show the advantages of mentioning an e-value instead. With P -values, it is not clear how to use an extreme observation (e.g. P ≪ α ) for getting better frequentist decisions. With e-values it is straightforward, since they provide Type-I risk control in a generalized Neyman–Pearson
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Enhanced effects of species richness on resistance and resilience of global tree growth to prolonged drought Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Yun-Hao Bai, Zhiyao Tang
The increasing duration of drought induced by global climate change has reduced forest productivity. Biodiversity is believed to mitigate the effects of drought, thereby enhancing the stability of tree growth. However, the effects of species richness on tree growth stability under droughts with different durations remain uncertain. Here, we used tree ring data from 4,072 sites globally, combined with
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Genome of Halimeda opuntia reveals differentiation of subgenomes and molecular bases of multinucleation and calcification in algae Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Hao Zhang, Xin Wang, Meng Qu, Haiyan Yu, Jianping Yin, Xiaochuan Liu, Yuhong Liu, Bo Zhang, Yanhong Zhang, Zhangliang Wei, Fangfang Yang, Jingtian Wang, Chengcheng Shi, Guangyi Fan, Jun Sun, Lijuan Long, David A. Hutchins, Chris Bowler, Senjie Lin, Dazhi Wang, Qiang Lin
Algae mostly occur either as unicellular (microalgae) or multicellular (macroalgae) species, both being uninucleate. There are important exceptions, however, as some unicellular algae are multinucleate and macroscopic, some of which inhabit tropical seas and contribute to biocalcification and coral reef robustness. The evolutionary mechanisms and ecological significance of multinucleation and associated
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Genetic variation drives cancer cell adaptation to ECM stiffness Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Ting-Ching Wang, Suchitaa Sawhney, Daylin Morgan, Richard L. Bennett, Richa Rashmi, Marcos R. Estecio, Amy Brock, Irtisha Singh, Charles F. Baer, Jonathan D. Licht, Tanmay P. Lele
The progression of many solid tumors is accompanied by temporal and spatial changes in the stiffness of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Cancer cells adapt to soft and stiff ECM through mechanisms that are not fully understood. It is well known that there is significant genetic heterogeneity from cell to cell in tumors, but how ECM stiffness as a parameter might interact with that genetic variation
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Humans flexibly integrate social information despite interindividual differences in reward Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Alexandra Witt, Wataru Toyokawa, Kevin N. Lala, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Charley M. Wu
There has been much progress in understanding human social learning, including recent studies integrating social information into the reinforcement learning framework. Yet previous studies often assume identical payoffs between observer and demonstrator, overlooking the diversity of social information in real-world interactions. We address this gap by introducing a socially correlated bandit task that
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Physical extraction of antigen and information Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Hongda Jiang, Shenshen Wang
To respond and adapt, cells use surface receptors to sense environmental cues. While biochemical signal processing inside the cell is studied in depth, less is known about how physical processes during cell–cell contact impact signal acquisition. New experiments found that fast-evolving immune B cells in germinal centers (GCs) apply force to acquire antigen clusters prior to internalization, suggesting
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How studying octopus nurseries can shape the future of our oceans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining.
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Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?
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What does peak emissions mean for China — and the world? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come.
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Tackling the reality of noma Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19
The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to unravel the mystery of what causes it.
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A lymphocyte chemoaffinity axis for lung, non-intestinal mucosae and CNS Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Borja Ocón, Menglan Xiang, Yuhan Bi, Serena Tan, Kevin Brulois, Aiman Ayesha, Manali Kunte, Catherine Zhou, Melissa LaJevic, Nicole Lazarus, Francesca Mengoni, Tanya Sharma, Stephen Montgomery, Jody E. Hooper, Mian Huang, Tracy Handel, John R. D. Dawson, Irina Kufareva, Brian A. Zabel, Junliang Pan, Eugene C. Butcher
Tissue-selective chemoattractants direct lymphocytes to epithelial surfaces to establish local immune environments, regulate immune responses to food antigens and commensal organisms, and protect from pathogens. Homeostatic chemoattractants for small intestines, colon, and skin are known1 2, but chemotropic mechanisms selective for respiratory tract and other non-intestinal mucosal tissues (NIMT) remain
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Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 September 2024
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Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 J. Van Damme, S. Massar, R. Acharya, Ts. Ivanov, D. Perez Lozano, Y. Canvel, M. Demarets, D. Vangoidsenhoven, Y. Hermans, J. G. Lai, A. M. Vadiraj, M. Mongillo, D. Wan, J. De Boeck, A. Potočnik, K. De Greve
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Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Zhurun Ji, Yuzhou Zhao, Yicong Chen, Ziyan Zhu, Yuhui Wang, Wenjing Liu, Gaurav Modi, Eugene J. Mele, Song Jin, Ritesh Agarwal
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Commensal consortia decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via ecological control Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Munehiro Furuichi, Takaaki Kawaguchi, Marie-Madlen Pust, Keiko Yasuma-Mitobe, Damian R. Plichta, Naomi Hasegawa, Takashi Ohya, Shakti K. Bhattarai, Satoshi Sasajima, Yoshimasa Aoto, Timur Tuganbaev, Mizuki Yaginuma, Masahiro Ueda, Nobuyuki Okahashi, Kimiko Amafuji, Yuko Kiridoshi, Kayoko Sugita, Martin Stražar, Julian Avila-Pacheco, Kerry Pierce, Clary B. Clish, Ashwin N. Skelly, Masahira Hattori,
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One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Shaolou Wei, Yan Ma, Dierk Raabe
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Temporal BMP4 effects on mouse embryonic and extraembryonic development Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Ron Hadas, Hernan Rubinstein, Markus Mittnenzweig, Yoav Mayshar, Raz Ben-Yair, Saifeng Cheng, Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Netta Reines, Ayelet-Hashahar Orenbuch, Aviezer Lifshitz, Dong-Yuan Chen, Michael B. Elowitz, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Jacob H. Hanna, Amos Tanay, Yonatan Stelzer
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Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Madeleine Dias Mirandela, Ansgar Zoch, Jessica Leismann, Shaun Webb, Rebecca V. Berrens, Devisree Valsakumar, Yuka Kabayama, Tania Auchynnikava, Martina Schito, Tamoghna Chowdhury, David MacLeod, Xinyu Xiang, Juan Zou, Juri Rappsilber, Robin C. Allshire, Philipp Voigt, Atlanta G. Cook, Joan Barau, Dónal O’Carroll
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Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Justine E. Paul, Yuan Gao, Yoo Kyung Go, Luis E. Rodriguez Koett, Anisha Sharma, Manxin Chen, Jacob J. Lessard, Tolga Topkaya, Cecilia Leal, Jeffrey S. Moore, Philippe H. Geubelle, Nancy R. Sottos
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Observation of quantum entanglement with top quarks at the ATLAS detector Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
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Mars’s induced magnetosphere can degenerate Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Qi Zhang, Stas Barabash, Mats Holmstrom, Xiao-dong Wang, Yoshifumi Futaana, Christopher M. Fowler, Robin Ramstad, Hans Nilsson
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Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martijn S. S. L. Oei, Martin J. Hardcastle, Roland Timmerman, Aivin R. D. J. G. I. B. Gast, Andrea Botteon, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Gabriela Calistro Rivera, Reinout J. van Weeren, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Huib T. Intema, Francesco de Gasperin, S. G. Djorgovski
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Three-dimensional wave breaking Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, R. Calvert, T. Davey, F. Dias, T. S. van den Bremer
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Micronuclear battery based on a coalescent energy transducer Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Kai Li, Congchong Yan, Junren Wang, Kun Zhu, Junjun Guo, Yugang Zhang, Guozheng Shi, Yuchen Yin, Liwei Cheng, Liang Sun, Yumin Wang, Hailong Zhang, Ying Sun, Jianyu Yuan, Wanli Ma, Guoxun Ji, Zhifang Chai, Yaxing Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang, Shuao Wang
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Endogenous opioid signalling regulates spinal ependymal cell proliferation Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Wendy W. S. Yue, Kouki K. Touhara, Kenichi Toma, Xin Duan, David Julius
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Targeted protein relocalization via protein transport coupling Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Christine S. C. Ng, Aofei Liu, Bianxiao Cui, Steven M. Banik
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Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current-driven skyrmions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Max T. Birch, Ilya Belopolski, Yukako Fujishiro, Minoru Kawamura, Akiko Kikkawa, Yasujiro Taguchi, Max Hirschberger, Naoto Nagaosa, Yoshinori Tokura
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Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Irina Y. Petrova, Diego G. Miralles, Florent Brient, Markus G. Donat, Seung-Ki Min, Yeon-Hee Kim, Margot Bador
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Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Cait A. Beddows, Feiyue Shi, Anna L. Horton, Sagar Dalal, Ping Zhang, Chang-Chun Ling, V. Wee Yong, Kim Loh, Ellie Cho, Chris Karagiannis, Adam J. Rose, Magdalene K. Montgomery, Paul Gregorevic, Matthew J. Watt, Nicolle H. Packer, Benjamin L. Parker, Robyn M. Brown, Edward S. X. Moh, Garron T. Dodd
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Space radiation measurements during the Artemis I lunar mission Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Stuart P. George, Ramona Gaza, Daniel Matthiä, Diego Laramore, Jussi Lehti, Thomas Campbell-Ricketts, Martin Kroupa, Nicholas Stoffle, Karel Marsalek, Bartos Przybyla, Mena Abdelmelek, Joachim Aeckerlein, Amir A. Bahadori, Janet Barzilla, Matthias Dieckmann, Michael Ecord, Ricky Egeland, Timo Eronen, Dan Fry, Bailey H. Jones, Christine E. Hellweg, Jordan Houri, Robert Hirsh, Mika Hirvonen, Scott Hovland
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Quarks show that quantum entanglement holds at high energies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Martin Hentschinski
Proton–proton collisions confirm quantum principle in top-quark pairs.
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Daily briefing: Crustaceans can ‘smell’ their way back to their home cave Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Tiny crustaceans can detect their home waters using ‘smell’. Plus, the challenges that accompany the cure for sickle-cell disease.
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Small molecules help misplaced proteins hitchhike around cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Robert Yvon, Christina M. Woo
Proteins induced to shuttle between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
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Magnetic whirlpools creep and flow in response to emergent electrodynamics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Yingying Wu
Dynamic behaviours in a skyrmion-hosting material.
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Brain goop that traps hunger neurons drives obesity Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.
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Crosstalk between the embryo and the developing placenta relies on same signal for multiple messages Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Proper communication between embryonic tissues is crucial to the production of the correct balance of cell types.
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Gut microbes fend off harmful bacteria by depriving them of nutrients Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Eric G. Pamer
Depletion of the molecule gluconate halts gut colonization by a pathogen.