Somatic mutation and selection at population scale
Cohort selection The TwinsUK study contains around 16,000 participants. From a preselection of 4,800 donors, we invited 1,796…
Real-time molecular recorders expose the inner lives of cells
Illustration: The Project Twins Cells are poor storytellers. They live complex, eventful lives — dividing, migrating, responding to…
what her genes and lifestyle tell us about longevity
Maria Branyas Morera had been verified as the oldest living person when she died last year at age…
Polarons shape the interlayer exciton emission of MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers
Sio, W. H. & Giustino, F. Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals. Nat. Phys. 19, 629–636 (2023). Article CAS …
Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate
Preservation and taphonomy of NMS G.2023.7.1 Disarticulated bones of NMS G.2023.7.1 are spread over a diameter of approximately…
Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration
Zhai, Z., Wu, L. & Jiang, H. Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami. Appl. Phys. Rev. 8,…
Multimode phonon-polaritons in lead-halide perovskites in the ultrastrong coupling regime
We fabricated an array of nanoslots (w = 950 nm) on quartz substrates with seven different lengths (l = 30, 40,…
Magnetic imaging under high pressure with a spin-based quantum sensor integrated in a van der Waals heterostructure
Principle of the experiment We start by studying how the optical and spin properties of \({{{\rm{V}}}}_{{{\rm{B}}}}^{-}\) centers in…
The effect of non-stoichiometry in Sb2Se3 films on their phonon and electronic properties in the infrared range
First principle calculations of electron and phonon properties of SbxSey films The calculated dielectric permittivities ε∞ (electronic contribution)…
Designing nonlinearity in a current-starved ring oscillator for reservoir computing hardware
Jaeger, H. & Haas, H. Harnessing nonlinearity: predicting chaotic systems and saving energy in wireless communication. Science 304…
Increasing the clock speed of a thermodynamic computer by adding noise
We consider a thermodynamic computer composed of N units with real-valued scalar amplitudes Si. Amplitudes could represent physical…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Microscopic model We study the spatiotemporal moiré exciton dynamics in a twisted TMD heterostructure in the low excitation…