Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 March 2026 Particles entangled over long distances can, in theory, improve the sensitivity of long-baseline…
B cell imprinting in children impairs antibodies to the haemagglutinin stalk
Human samples Serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples were obtained from participants enrolled in two prospective…
Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova
Gal-Yam, A. in Handbook of Supernovae (eds Alsabti, A. W. & Murdin, P.) 195–237 (Springer, 2017). Moriya, T.…
A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor
Design and fabrication Photonic device and circuit-level simulations were performed using ANSYS Lumerical tools, whereas the integrated electronics…
A framework for estimating manure nitrogen balance and recycling potential for current and future conditions in the USA
Data sources We collected national-, state- and county-level animal inventories from the US Department of Agriculture-National Agricultural Statistics…
Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
Ethics statement The YA, HA, PCI and AD samples were obtained from the University of Washington repository bank.…
Homologous recombination deficiency and hemizygosity drive resistance in breast cancer
Study cohort and prospective sequencing The study cohort comprised 6,927 tumour samples from 5,881 patients with breast cancer.…
these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or…
Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics
Preliminaries We consider a quantum system in contact with a thermal bath of inverse temperature β associated with…
World-first stem-cell therapy shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb
An in utero treatment using placenta-derived stem cells could treat infants with a neural-tube condition called spina bifida.…
Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces
Branch, J. Why are basketball games so squeaky? Consider the spiny lobster. The New York Times (17 March…
Entanglement-assisted non-local optical interferometry in a quantum network
Experimental setup The experiment encompasses two labs, each containing one station with an SiV inside a dilution refrigerator…