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Dissociation mechanism of lithium salt by BaTiO3 with spontaneous polarization Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Shaoke Guo, Shendong Tan, Jiabin Ma, Likun Chen, Ke Yang, Qiannan Zhu, Yuetao Ma, Peiran Shi, Yinping Wei, Xufei An, Qingkang Ren, Yanfei Huang, Yingman Zhu, Ye Cheng, Wei Lv, Tingzheng Hou, Ming Liu, Yanbing He, Quanhong Yang, Feiyu Kang
In composite solid-state electrolytes, the functional fillers with ferroelectric properties have demonstrated their ability to prompt the dissociation of lithium salt (LiFSI), thereby significantly enhancing ionic conductivity. However, the underlying mechanism has been challenging to fully comprehend, which hinders further improvement in electrolyte performance. Herein, we elucidate the dissociation
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Multi-Angle Tracking Synthetic Kinetics of Phase Evolution in Li-Rich Mn-Based Cathodes Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Shenyang Xu, Zhefeng Chen, Wenguang Zhao, Wenju Ren, Chenxin Hou, Jiajie Liu, Wu Wang, Chong Yin, Xinghua Tan, Xiaobing Lou, Xiangming Yao, Zhihai Gao, Hao Liu, Lu Wang, Zuwei Yin, Bao Qiu, Bingwen Hu, Tianyi Li, Cheng Dong, Feng Pan, Mingjian Zhang
As the commercial cathode with the highest practical capacity, the structural nature of Li-rich Mn-based cathodes (LMR), composite or solid solution, is still under debate. Due to the extreme structure similarity of two layered-phase components, monoclinic phase (C2/m) and rhombohedral phase (R-3m), no single tool can resolve this concern alone. Herein, we combined multiple advanced techniques to comprehensively
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Societal Co-benefits of Zero-Emission Vehicles in the Freight Industry Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Sara Torbatian, Marc Saleh, Junshi Xu, Laura Minet, Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage, Daniel Yazgi, Shoma Yamanouchi, Matthew J. Roorda, Marianne Hatzopoulou
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Missing Measurements of Sesquiterpene Ozonolysis Rates and Composition Limit Understanding of Atmospheric Reactivity Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Graham Frazier, Jeff Willison, Celia Faiola
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Semirational Design Strategy To Enhance the Thermostability and Catalytic Activity of Cytochrome P450 105D7 for the Degradation of the Pharmaceutically Active Compounds: Diclofenac Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ledong Zhu, Guochao Xu, Qingzhu Zhang, Guoqiang Wang, Wenxing Wang, Qiao Wang
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Selective Modifier-Assisted Humic Acid Extraction: Implications for Soil Quality Enhancement Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Zixin Zhang, Qi Chen, Kunyu Xu, Kexin Zhang, Min Zhang, Yingjie Qi, Wenrui Zhang, Yang Liu, Zhanbo Wei, Zhiguang Liu
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Urinary Metabolites of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons of Rural Population in Northwestern China: Oxidative Stress and Health Risk Assessment Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Liting Hua, Yafei Gao, Sai Guo, Hongkai Zhu, Yiming Yao, Beibei Wang, Jing Fang, Hongwen Sun, Fuliu Xu, Hongzhi Zhao
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Unveiling the Function of Oxygen Vacancy on Facet-Dependent CeO2 for the Catalytic Destruction of Monochloromethane: Guidance for Industrial Catalyst Design Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Yuetan Su, Bowen Han, Qingjie Meng, Xueqing Luo, Zhongbiao Wu, Xiaole Weng
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A Data-Driven Computational Framework for Assessing the Risk of Placental Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ruining Guan, Ruitong Cai, Binbin Guo, Yawei Wang, Chunyan Zhao
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Potential Strategy to Control the Organic Components of Condensable Particulate Matter: A Critical Review Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Zhengkang Peng, Hanxiao Liu, Chuxuan Zhang, Yunfei Zhai, Wei Hu, Yuyao Tan, Xiaomin Li, Zijian Zhou, Xun Gong
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Air Pollution and Cardiac Arrest: A More Significant Intermediate Role of COPD than Cardiac Events Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Huihuan Luo, Qingli Zhang, Xia Meng, Haidong Kan, Renjie Chen
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Direct Observation of Particle-To-Particle Variability in Ambient Aerosol pH Using a Novel Analytical Approach Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Hanjin Yoo, Dongkwon Seo, Dongha Shin, Chul-Un Ro
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Indoor Emissions Contributed the Majority of Ultrafine Particles in Chinese Urban Residences Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Chen Chen, Bin Zhao
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New Insights into Aggregation Behaviors of the UV-Irradiated Dissolved Biochars (DBioCs) in an Aqueous Environments: Effects of Water Chemistries and Variation in the Hamaker Constant Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Ning Tang, Yihui Guo, Ziqian Zhu, Longbo Jiang, Na Li, Tingting Hu, Lan Lu, Jingyi Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Jie Liang
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Trade-off between Endocrine-Disrupting Compound Removal and Water Permeance of the Polyamide Nanofiltration Membrane: Phenomenon and Molecular Insights Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Jiansuxuan Chen, Tianlin Wang, Ruobin Dai, Zhichao Wu, Zhiwei Wang
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Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.
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Could a rare mutation that causes dwarfism also slow ageing? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
People with Laron syndrome have a low risk of heart disease and a number of other age-related disorders, hinting at strategies for new treatments.
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Future of Humanity Institute shuts: what’s next for ‘deep future’ research? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Researchers from several disciplines hope to predict — and prevent — scenarios that pose risks to humanity.
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Garden-variety fungus is an expert at environmental clean-ups Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
The common fungus Aspergillus niger removes both heavy metals and organic pollutants from its surroundings.
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Air-travel climate-change emissions detailed for nearly 200 nations Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Carbon emissions from flights that departed from low- and middle-income countries in 2019 totalled 417 million tonnes.
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Rat neurons repair mouse brains — and restore sense of smell Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Scientists develop hybrid mice by filling in missing cells and structures in their brains with rat stem cells.
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Hello puffins, goodbye belugas: changing Arctic fjord hints at our climate future Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Stunning images show an ecosystem’s upheaval as it warms at an alarming pace.
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Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
By joining a collecting society, researchers can ensure they are paid when copyrighted book content and papers are reproduced.
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Daily briefing: How an unlikely friendship with Jung influenced Pauli’s physics Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
A patient-analyst relationship to psychoanalyst Carl Jung that evolved into a friendship deeply influenced physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s work. Plus, organoids shed light on cancer and other diseases, and medieval graves reveal secrets of a mysterious nomadic people.
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NIH pay raise for postdocs and PhD students could have US ripple effect Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Salary increases for the 17,000-plus recipients of an NIH research award could lead to increases in other academic settings.
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Bird flu in US cows: is the milk supply safe? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Pasteurized milk is probably not a threat to people, but fresh milk droplets on milking equipment could be spreading the virus in a herd.
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Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Ranga Dias sued his university, in part, for allegedly conducting a biased investigation, which found he had committed extensive scientific misconduct.
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Daily briefing: The origins of bioluminescence in animals date back over half a billion years Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Octocorals probably evolved the ability to make light when the first animals developed eyes. Plus, the WHO has redefined ‘airborne transmission’ and how artificial intelligence is changing weapons of war.
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How DNA encodes the start of transcription Science (IF 56.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jun Wang, Vikram Agarwal
The central dogma of molecular biology outlines the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to proteins. With a limited vocabulary of four nucleotides (A, C, G, and T), DNA encodes an extensive instruction set, including the chromosomal positions where RNAs begin to be transcribed and the magnitudes of their expression. This process, known as transcription initiation (1), begins at transcription
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A new mechanism for visible light photocatalysis: Generation of intraband by adsorbed organic compounds with wide-bandgap semiconductors Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Teng Wang, Jiachun Cao, Juan Li, Juntian Li, Didi Li, Shaobin Wang, Zhimin Ao
Wide-bandgap semiconductors are generally effective for photocatalytic degradation of VOCs under UV light irradiation. However, we found that various VOCs could be effectively degraded and even mineralized by a variety of wide-bandgap semiconductors under visible light irradiation. The findings of our study indicate adsorption of VOCs on catalysts generated a narrow band gap between the ground state
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Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots-Enhanced Machine Learning for Accurate Detection and Quantification of Hg2+ and Fe3+ in Real Water Samples Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Mauricio Llaver, Santiago Daniel Barrionuevo, Jorge Martín Martin Nuñez, Agostina Chapana, Rodolfo G. Wuilloud, Myriam Haydee Aguirre, Francisco Javier Ibañez
Selective, accurate, fast, and with minimal usage of instrumentation has become paramount nowadays in areas of environmental monitoring. Here, we chemically modified fluorescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and trained a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm for the selective quantification of Hg2+ and Fe3+ ions present within real water samples. The probe is obtained by an electrosynthesis of CVD graphene
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Practical considerations to optimize aquatic testing of particulate material, with focus on nanomaterials Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Simon Luederwald, Jordan Davies, Teresa F. Fernandes, Antonia Praetorius, Jacques-Aurélien Sergent, Kristi Tatsi, Joan Tell, Niels Timmer, Stephan Wagner
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Enhanced flushing mechanism of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated sandy soil by air nano bubbles Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Chunjiang Liu, Minghui Xiang, Chen Yang, Yiran Chen, Zhongyuan Li, Wu Wang, Wei Yin, Hui Li, Yuan Huang
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Soil mimetic eco-friendly fertilizer gate: Nanoclay reinforced binary carbohydrate for crop effeciency Environ. Sci.: Nano (IF 7.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Bandana Kumari Sahu, Kanchan Swami, Neelesh Kapoor, Ankit Agrawal, sarita kataria, Parul Sharma, Priya Kundu, Hema Thangavel, Anusree Vattakkuniyil, Om Prakash Chaurasia, Vijayakumar Shanmugam
Potassium play an important role in crop physiology, hence recommended as a basal macronutrient. It is highly mobile, and leaches quickly to become phyto-unavailable, hence for the first time nano material-assisted coating on muriate of potash (KCl), which serves 80 % of potassium fertilizer needs is attempted. Rotary drum coater has been used to coat binary carbohydrates viz., chitosan and lignin
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Rapid hydrolysis of NO2 at High Ionic Strengths of Deliquesced Aerosol Particles Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Masao Gen, Haotian Zheng, Yele Sun, Wanyun Xu, Nan Ma, Hang Su, Yafang Cheng, Shuxiao Wang, Jia Xing, Shuping Zhang, Likun Xue, Chaoyang Xue, Yujing Mu, Xiao Tian, Atsushi Matsuki, Shaojie Song
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Hydrothermal Destruction and Defluorination of Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA) Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Conrad Austin, Anmol L. Purohit, Cody Thomsen, Brian R. Pinkard, Timothy J. Strathmann, Igor V. Novosselov
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Mitochondrial DNA Stress-Mediated Health Risk to Dibutyl Phthalate Contamination on Zebrafish (Danio rerio) at Early Life Stage Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Xiaoteng Fan, Dingfu Zhang, Tingting Hou, Qianqing Zhang, Lu Tao, Chongqian Bian, Zaizhao Wang
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Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals? Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Daniel Zahn, Hans Peter H. Arp, Kathrin Fenner, Anett Georgi, Jasmin Hafner, Sarah E. Hale, Juliane Hollender, Thomas Letzel, Emma L. Schymanski, Gabriel Sigmund, Thorsten Reemtsma
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Using Machine Learning to Construct the Blood–Follicle Distribution Models of Various Trace Elements and Explore the Transport-Related Pathways with Multiomics Data Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Guohuan Zhang, Weinan Lin, Ning Gao, Changxin Lan, Mengyuan Ren, Lailai Yan, Bo Pan, Jia Xu, Bin Han, Ligang Hu, Yuanchen Chen, Tianxiang Wu, Lili Zhuang, Qun Lu, Bin Wang, Mingliang Fang
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Microbially Induced Soil Colloidal Phosphorus Mobilization Under Anoxic Conditions Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Kamel M. Eltohamy, Daniel Menezes-Blackburn, Erwin Klumpp, Chunlong Liu, Junwei Jin, Chaogang Xing, Yuanyuan Lu, Xinqiang Liang
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China's Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries.
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‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.
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Algorithm ranks peer reviewers by reputation — but critics warn of bias Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
There are questions about whether the tool, which could be used by editors to find and shortlist peer reviewers, would disadvantage inexperienced candidates or those in certain locations.
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NATO is boosting AI and climate research as scientific diplomacy remains on ice Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
As the military alliance created to counter the Soviet Union expands, it is prioritizing studies on how climate change affects security, cyber attacks and election interference.
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Are robots the solution to the crisis in older-person care? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Social robots that promise companionship and stimulation for older people and those with dementia are attracting investment, but some question their benefits.
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Structures of human γδ T cell receptor–CD3 complex Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Weizhi Xin, Bangdong Huang, Ximin Chi, Yuehua Liu, Mengjiao Xu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xu Li, Qiang Su, Qiang Zhou
Gamma delta (γδ) T cells, a unique T cell subgroup, are crucial in various immune responses and immunopathology1-3. The γδ T cell receptor (TCR), generated by γδ T cells, recognizes a diverse range of antigens independently of the major histocompatibility complex2. The γδ TCR associates with CD3 subunits, initiating T cell activation and holding great potential in immunotherapy4. Here, we report the
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How gliding marsupials got their ‘wings’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 24 April 2024
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Should the Maldives be creating new land? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
The Maldives are racing to reclaim vast amounts of land to combat rising sea levels. But many are concerned that these efforts risk harming the paradise they aims to protect
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This giant extinct salmon had tusks like a warthog Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
Scientists initially thought that the outsized teeth were fangs, giving rise to the ‘sabre-toothed salmon’ nickname.
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High-performance fibre battery with polymer gel electrolyte Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Chenhao Lu, Haibo Jiang, Xiangran Cheng, Jiqing He, Yao Long, Yingfan Chang, Xiaocheng Gong, Kun Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Zhengfeng Zhu, Jingxia Wu, Jiajia Wang, Yuanyuan Zheng, Xiang Shi, Lei Ye, Meng Liao, Xuemei Sun, Bingjie Wang, Peining Chen, Yonggang Wang, Huisheng Peng
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Discovery of WRN inhibitor HRO761 with synthetic lethality in MSI cancers Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Stephane Ferretti, Jacques Hamon, Ruben de Kanter, Clemens Scheufler, Rita Andraos-Rey, Stephanie Barbe, Elisabeth Bechter, Jutta Blank, Vincent Bordas, Ernesta Dammassa, Andrea Decker, Noemi Di Nanni, Marion Dourdoigne, Elena Gavioli, Marc Hattenberger, Alisa Heuser, Christelle Hemmerlin, Jürgen Hinrichs, Grainne Kerr, Laurent Laborde, Isabel Jaco, Eloísa Jiménez Núñez, Hans-Joerg Martus, Cornelia
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Antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic approach for Timothy syndrome Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiaoyu Chen, Fikri Birey, Min-Yin Li, Omer Revah, Rebecca Levy, Mayuri Vijay Thete, Noah Reis, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Massimo Onesto, Noriaki Sakai, Zuzana Hudacova, Jin Hao, Xiangling Meng, Seiji Nishino, John Huguenard, Sergiu P. Pașca
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Multi-project wafers for flexible thin-film electronics by independent foundries Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Hikmet Çeliker, Wim Dehaene, Kris Myny
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Growth of diamond in liquid metal at 1 atm pressure Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Yan Gong, Da Luo, Myeonggi Choe, Yongchul Kim, Babu Ram, Mohammad Zafari, Won Kyung Seong, Pavel Bakharev, Meihui Wang, In Kee Park, Seulyi Lee, Tae Joo Shin, Zonghoon Lee, Geunsik Lee, Rodney S. Ruoff
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PGE2 limits effector expansion of tumour-infiltrating stem-like CD8+ T cells Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Sebastian B. Lacher, Janina Dörr, Gustavo P. de Almeida, Julian Hönninger, Felix Bayerl, Anna Hirschberger, Anna-Marie Pedde, Philippa Meiser, Lukas Ramsauer, Thomas J. Rudolph, Nadine Spranger, Matteo Morotti, Alizee J. Grimm, Sebastian Jarosch, Arman Oner, Lisa Gregor, Stefanie Lesch, Stefanos Michaelides, Luisa Fertig, Daria Briukhovetska, Lina Majed, Sophia Stock, Dirk H. Busch, Veit R. Buchholz
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A high-density and high-confinement tokamak plasma regime for fusion energy Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 S. Ding, A. M. Garofalo, H. Q. Wang, D. B. Weisberg, Z. Y. Li, X. Jian, D. Eldon, B. S. Victor, A. Marinoni, Q. M. Hu, I. S. Carvalho, T. Odstrčil, L. Wang, A. W. Hyatt, T. H. Osborne, X. Z. Gong, J. P. Qian, J. Huang, J. McClenaghan, C. T. Holcomb, J. M. Hanson
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Single-cell analysis reveals context-dependent, cell-level selection of mtDNA Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Anna V. Kotrys, Timothy J. Durham, Xiaoyan A. Guo, Venkata R. Vantaku, Sareh Parangi, Vamsi K. Mootha
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Chemoproteomic discovery of a covalent allosteric inhibitor of WRN helicase Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Kristen A. Baltgalvis, Kelsey N. Lamb, Kent T. Symons, Chu-Chiao Wu, Melissa A. Hoffman, Aaron N. Snead, Xiaodan Song, Thomas Glaza, Shota Kikuchi, Jason C. Green, Donald C. Rogness, Betty Lam, Maria E. Rodriguez-Aguirre, David R. Woody, Christie L. Eissler, Socorro Rodiles, Seth M. Negron, Steffen M. Bernard, Eileen Tran, Jonathan Pollock, Ali Tabatabaei, Victor Contreras, Heather N. Williams, Martha
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A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Sandro Mereghetti, Michela Rigoselli, Ruben Salvaterra, Dominik Patryk Pacholski, James Craig Rodi, Diego Gotz, Edoardo Arrigoni, Paolo D’Avanzo, Christophe Adami, Angela Bazzano, Enrico Bozzo, Riccardo Brivio, Sergio Campana, Enrico Cappellaro, Jerome Chenevez, Fiore De Luise, Lorenzo Ducci, Paolo Esposito, Carlo Ferrigno, Matteo Ferro, Gian Luca Israel, Emeric Le Floc’h, Antonio Martin-Carrillo,
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Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Xiaoyin Chen, Stephan Fischer, Mara C. P. Rue, Aixin Zhang, Didhiti Mukherjee, Patrick O. Kanold, Jesse Gillis, Anthony M. Zador