Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in…
Charge transfer governed interlayer magnetic coupling and symmetry breaking in a van der Waals magnet
Magnetic hysteresis switching in trilayer CrSBr devices Figure 1a shows the structure of a 3L CrSBr back-gate device. The…
This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Attention has been focused on avian influenza virus H5N1 in the past few years, but scientists are concerned…
Signatures of quantum spin liquid state and unconventional transport in thin film TbInO3
Thin-film growth Among the group of quantum spin liquid candidate materials, TbInO3 lends itself particularly well to epitaxial…
The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna
Model scenarios To explore the impact of global change (fishing and climate change) on carbon export and sequestration…
Matrix-based imaging through dynamic scattering
Principle Here, we establish the mathematical foundation for our approach, deriving the mathematical analogy between a dynamic scattering…
The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch — from Interstellar to Spider-Man
Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics.…
Room-temperature ultrasensitive photon-level detection in the subterahertz frequency regime
Figure 1 shows the experimental setup for detecting frequency up-conversion of sub-THz waves. The pump light source was…
Climate change is predicted to reduce global belowground ecosystem multifunctionality
Ecosystem function data The following criteria were used to select ecosystem data for this study: (a) Ecosystem indicators…
A large-scale dataset for analysing remote working in urban and rural areas across Europe
The study received ethical approval from the German Association for Experimental Economic Research e.V. (No. KEF58hmh, https://gfew.de/ethik/KEF58hmh). We…
Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen
arising from: C. Gong et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07714-4 (2024). The net climate effect of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (Nr)…
Magnetic and electric polar regions in the magnetoelectric composite microstructure
CoFe\(_2\)O\(_4\)–-Pr:SrTiO\(_3\) thick film preparation Cobalt acetate (Co(CH\(_3\)CO\(_2)_2\).4H\(_2\)O, Sigma Aldrich), Iron nitrate (Fe(NO\(_3)_3\).9H\(_2\)O, Sigma Aldrich), Titanium isopropoxide (C\(_{12}\)H\(_{28}\)O\(_4\)Ti, Sigma…