Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions
Second osmotic virial coefficient A common way to evaluate the stability of a compound in a dispersion is…
The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies
Quantitative data Our main data source for numerical sustainability data is the CDP (formerly known as Carbon Disclosure…
The maximum Tc of conventional superconductors at ambient pressure
Based on the observation that the coupling constant depends mainly on the phonon frequencies, McMillan in 196836 already…
Probing non-equilibrium topological order on a quantum processor
Floquet Kitaev model The Floquet Kitaev model is well understood because of a Majorana representation of the spins,…
The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations
Uetz, P. et al. The Reptile Database (accessed 29 January 2024); http://www.reptile-database.org. Evans, S. E. & Borsuk-Białynicka, M.…
Clearest gravitational wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black hole theory
The merger of one black hole (artist’s illustration) with another created gravitational waves detected in January by the…
Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale
Assembly and quality control of DNA methylation data We assembled and processed with a harmonized pipeline14 (v4.1; see…
Food impacts on species extinction risks can vary by three orders of magnitude
Variation in the opportunity cost of food production Animal products generally have substantially greater impacts on species extinction…
different people’s brains process colours in the same way
Our brains seem to respond to specific colours in a similar way. Credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Is the colour you…
Development and extensive sequencing of a broadly-consented Genome in a Bottle matched tumor-normal pair
PacBio Revio HiFiPCR-free Revio HiFi Sequencing (Dataset ID: PB-HiFi-1) Library Preparation Library preparation was performed using previously isolated…
Friedel oscillations and chiral superconductivity in monolayer NbSe2
We consider the low-energy Hamiltonian for the metallic bands of monolayer NbSe2 $$\hat{H}={\sum} _{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\xi }_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\hat{c}}_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }^{{\dagger}…
Transient domain boundary drives ultrafast magnetisation reversal
Time-resolved magnetic soft-X-ray spectroscopy We investigate a typical nanometre-scale heterostructure consisting of an amorphous ferrimagnetic Gd25Co75 alloy with…