Neurological symptoms after brain injury can remain as lifelong detrimental sequelae because most of the spontaneous recovery response disappears within a few months after the injury1,2.…
The ability of animals to efficiently track down and digest food is crucial for their survival, and the specialization to different diets is a major driver of diversification in this group1–3.…
Wildfires are an escalating global hazard that threaten ecosystems, air quality and societies1,2. Although tall tropical mountains have generally been considered too cool and moist to burn3, the recent occurrence of high-elevation wildfires on Africa’s…
The development of large-scale, high-fidelity quantum processors is a fundamental scientific challenge, essential for exploring the boundaries of classical computation and advancing towards fault-tolerant systems.…
Controlling individual atoms using lasers1, ion traps2 and scanning probe tips3 has transformed our understanding of matter and enabled breakthroughs in quantum science4–6.…
The capacity of hippocampal circuits to transform inputs into downstream outputs is fundamental to navigation and memory, yet the circuit-level mechanisms that enable this flexibility in adapting to experience remain unclear.…
Liquid crystalline droplets with molecularly crowded interiors capable of selective biomolecular sequestration and interfacial wetting have been recently developed for the construction of artificial cells (protocells) and chain-like protocell networks1–3.…
The cerebral cortex shows species-specific variations in size and organization, which probably account for distinct behavioural abilities1. These structural differences may reflect evolutionary changes in the developmental expression of shared genes.…
Learning by imitation is the foundation for verbal and musical expression, but its neural basis remains unclear. A juvenile male zebra finch imitates the multisyllabic song of an adult tutor in a process that depends on a song-specialized cortico-basal…
There are around 100 genes or copy-number variations used in genetic testing for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)1,2. The established genes are protein coding, and the associated phenotypes usually extend beyond sociobehavioural traits seen in autism,…
Alkenes are widely used functional groups in synthetic chemistry, important for producing polymers, detergents, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. When treated with electrophiles, alkenes typically undergo addition, not substitution, reactions1.…
Non-geminate recombination in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) forms low-energy spin-triplet excitons (T1) that are known to result in irreversible, non-radiative relaxations1–5.…
Digital quantum matter—realized when discrete quantum gates approximate continuous time evolution—is susceptible to heating into chaotic, structureless states1.…
Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), occurring in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, epitomizes the interplay between magnetic order and electron orbital motions1–4.…
As a chronically replicating virus, HIV has evolved extreme sequence variability and effective shielding of functionally constrained spike protein determinants by host-derived glycans1.…
Bacteria encode diverse defence systems, including CRISPR–Cas, to recognize and cleave the DNA of bacteriophages (phages) and other mobile genetic elements1.…
Blood clots are pivotal for haemostasis and regeneration1, but they are mechanically weak and form slowly2, posing risks for life-threatening haemorrhage and limiting broader applications3–5.…
