‘Zombie cells’ return from the dead — after a genome transplant
These Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial cells have absorbed a genome engineered from a closely related bacterium, Mycoplasma mycoides.Credit: Thomas…
Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers
Scientists harvested eggs from 25th-generation cloned mice and fertilized the eggs, which grew into these early-stage embryos. Credit:…
Observation of self-bound droplets of ultracold dipolar molecules
Góral, K., Santos, L. & Lewenstein, M. Quantum phases of dipolar bosons in optical lattices. Phys. Rev. Lett.…
Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years
Shackleton, S. et al. Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East…
Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it
Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head,…
Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry
The importance of tides is embodied in the origins of the word ‘estuary’, which comes from the Latin…
Bistable superlattice switching in a quantum spin Hall insulator
Auciello, O., Scott, J. F. & Ramesh, R. The physics of ferroelectric memories. Phys. Today 51, 22–27 (1998).…
Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo
Kaptein, R. & Oosterhoff, J. L. Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization II: (relationwith anomalous ESR spectra). Chem. Phys.…
Urban forestry for cooler cities faces three critical hurdles
Tree canopy needs to be close to homes, workplaces and public spaces to be effective as a countermeasure…
A systematic review of sustainable food systems identifies socio-economic pathways driving food systems transformations
Herrero, M. et al. Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system. Nat. Food 1, 266–272…
Twisted atomic magnetic tunnel junctions with multiple nonvolatile states
Concept of nonvolatile twisted MTJ CrSBr is an A-type AF van der Waals (vdW) n-type semiconductor with a…
Twist-induced orbital chirality in a photonic laser
The combination of two achiral photonic membranes into a twisted bilayer breaks mirror symmetry and induces non-Hermitian coupling…