Cavity-driven attractive interactions in quantum materials
Lu, I.-T. et al. Cavity engineering of solid-state materials without external driving. Adv. Opt. Photonics 17, 441–525 (2025).…
Dynamical freezing for magnetometry in an interacting spin ensemble
Rigol, M., Dunjko, V. & Olshanii, M. Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems. Nature 452,…
Gene therapies to fix failing hearts gain steam after years in the doldrums
Heart-muscle cells (in close-up, artificially coloured) do not normally proliferate in adult mammals, but scientists are trying to…
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…
Quantum beats of exciton-polarons in CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals
Photon echo and long coherence of zero-phonon exciton The ensemble of CsPbI3 NCs is synthesized in a fluorophosphate…
Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work
Laboratory robots with built-in artificial-intelligence software can look after stem-cell cultures independently.Credit: Masatoshi Okauchi/Shutterstock In a biology laboratory…
Fermi-surface diagnosis for topological superconductivity with s-wave-like pairing symmetries
Fermi surface formulas In this work, we focus on s-wave-like pairing symmetries, formally defined by the symmetry properties…
The accelerating loss and shifting dynamics of US tidal wetlands
Murray, N. J. et al. High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands. Science 376, 744–749…
Ebola outbreak spirals out of control: how might it have started?
A researcher retrieves bats from a net inside a cave in central Africa.Credit: Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty The…
Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity
Grams, C. M., Beerli, R., Pfenninger, S., Staffell, I. & Wernli, H. Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial…
Accurate and fast event-based shape measurement of mixed reflectance scenes
Principles In our proposed approach, we tightly integrate event-based triangulation and deflectometry to simultaneously scan all surface types…
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Experimental details Both coherent and quantum light sources are pumped with the same femtosecond laser pulse (790 nm, 28 fs,…