Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide
Controversy over attendance at the 2026 NeurIPS meeting reflects a growing divide in artificial-intelligence research between the two…
Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil
Researchers at the State University of Campinas, in Brazil, noticed in February that virus samples had gone missing…
The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity
Michalet, R. et al. Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness…
Single-cell spatiotemporal dissection of the human maternal–fetal interface
Tissue acquisition and processing for joint single-nucleus multiome profiling and spatial transcriptomics Snap-frozen decidual and basal plate samples…
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
Jaksch, D., Briegel, H.-J., Cirac, J. I., Gardiner, C. W. & Zoller, P. Entanglement of atoms via cold…
Superconductivity and electronic structures of nickelate thin film superstructures
Sun, H. et al. Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure. Nature 621, 493–498…
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment
Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia V. Chekhovsky, A. Hayrapetyan, V. Makarenko, A. Tumasyan, O. Kodolova & A. Nikitenko Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria W.…
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD
At the fundamental level, the strong nuclear force between nucleons arises from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a quantum field…
Satellite imagery reveals increasing volatility in human night-time activity
Data and study area The foundational dataset for this global analysis of ALAN dynamics was the Black Marble…
Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2
Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637, 2025–838 (2025). Article Google Scholar Guo, Y.…
Entanglement and electronic coherence in attosecond molecular photoionization
Attosecond pulses produced by high-harmonic generation (HHG) consisting of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation can ionize any conceivable compound, leading…
Electric dipole moment drives the dynamics of the TNFR1 complex I signalosome
Micheau, O. & Tschopp, J. Induction of TNF receptor I-mediated apoptosis via two sequential signaling complexes. Cell 114,…