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Long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with Dunkelflaute events in Europe
Abstract Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to as variable renewable energy droughts or “Dunkelflaute”, emerges as a key challen...
ZO-1 shuttles between apical junctional complexes and podosomes by riding ERK activation waves
Large language models exhibit speciesist bias against animals
Abstract We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit speciesist bias—discrimination based on species membership—and how they value non-human animals. We use three par...
Anisotropic electronic correlations in the spin density wave state of La3Ni2O7
Mechanically-activated electrochemical implantable micro-supercapacitors boosting wound healing in the small intestine
Abstract Addressing the spatial constraints inherent in wound therapy within narrow living organisms (e.g., intestinal tracts), the advancement of implantable micro-energy devices sh...
Counterion-enabled divergent reactivity in dinuclear gold photoredox catalysis
Two-color harmonic spectroscopy of ultrafast Dirac electron dynamics
Ferroelectric brightening of spin‑forbidden dark excitons in a WSe2/hybrid-perovskite heterostructure
Abstract Long-lived dark excitons in monolayer WSe 2 present promising candidates for carrying spin and valley informatio...
Population-scale characterization of the oral microbiome and associations with metabolic health
Single-iron catalyst with heterogenized TEMPO for selective toluene electrooxidation to benzaldehyde at low potentials
A tissue-intrinsic mechanism sensitizes HIV-1 particles for TLR-triggered innate immune responses
Abstract In vivo, HIV-1 replicates within tissues, yet the impact of three-dimensional (3D) environments on viral spread remains unclear. Our laboratory previously showed that collag...
Oral delivery of enterocyte-mimetic butyrate-loaded nanoparticles repairs the gut barrier and inhibits growth of digestive system tumors
Emulation of coherent absorption of Fock-state quantum light in a programmable linear photonic circuit
Abstract Non-Hermitian quantum systems, governed by nonunitary evolution, offer powerful tools for manipulating quantum states through engineered loss. A prime example is coherent ab...
Tracking coherent vibronic and vibrational motions in ultrafast proton transfer
Multi-omics integration predicts the incidence of 17 diseases in the UK Biobank
A universal scaling law of intra-urban inequality
Abstract Large-scale urban agglomeration yields economic benefits but often coincides with pronounced environmental and social disparities. While aggregate urban attributes follow pr...
Molecular insight into microtubule nucleation by the XMAP215/γ-TuRC module
High-resolution multi-omics enhances prediction and detection of smORF-encoded proteins in the human gut microbiome
Abstract Small open reading frames (smORFs), which encode proteins under 100 amino acids, represent an underexplored dimension of the human gut microbiome, despite growing evidence o...
Ultrafast charge-generation dynamics through interfacial energetic modulation for high-performance single-component organic photovoltaics with 14.8% efficiency
Recyclable dual Z-scheme perovskite/g-C3N4 heterojunction enables photoredox nickel-catalyzed C(sp2)–C(sp3) cross-electrophile coupling
Proactive collaboration via autonomous interaction
Multi-focal ultrasound neuromodulation to the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex disrupts behavioural and neural pain processing
Abstract Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is a promising non-invasive neuromodulation technique for pain-related deep brain regions. This study aimed to investigate neural m...