Electrically tunable quantum interference of atomic spins on surfaces
Electric control of energy detuning The Ti atoms were deposited on the two-monolayer MgO film grown on Ag(001),…
Global loss of mountain vegetated landscapes and its impact on biodiversity conservation
Mapping global mountain vegetated landscapes We first mapped MVL in 2000 as a base map from which to…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
First proposed blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome: what scientists think
Scientists have developed a blood test that analyses epigenetic changes in immune cells. They say it could be…
Unequal power outages induced by natural disasters
Power outage and natural disaster Mapping the power outages and natural disasters in China enables us to investigate…
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
Credit: Malik Evren/iStock via Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged…
Current and recommended diets in the USA have embedded forced labour risk
Willett, W. et al. Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.…
Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder
Sample collection Two epithelial brushes (2–3 cm2) from the bladder top (dome) and the bladder floor (trigone) were obtained…
Chaos controlled and disorder driven phase transitions induced by breaking permutation symmetry
Solvable case of \(p=0\), generic initial coherent states It is both instructive and interesting to first examine the…
Hotspots of human mutation point to clonal expansions in spermatogonia
Lawson, A. R. J. et al. Somatic mutation and selection at population scale. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09584-w (2025). Maeda, H.…
Brain area linked to chronic pain discovered — offering hope for treatments
Neurons (pictured) in a brain region called the parabrachial nucleus have been implicated in creating the sensation of…
Quantum-amplified global-phase spectroscopy on an optical clock transition
Ludlow, A. D., Boyd, M. M., Ye, J., Peik, E. & Schmidt, P. O. Optical atomic clocks. Rev.…