These laser-cut discs turn into super precise parachutes
This is a new type of parachute designed using the principles of kirigami – the art of transforming…
ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
Susan Monarez was fired from her role as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Polarons shape the interlayer exciton emission of MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers
Sio, W. H. & Giustino, F. Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals. Nat. Phys. 19, 629–636 (2023). Article CAS …
Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Xinhe Zhang, Yuanjun Gu, Sharon A. S. Neufeld, Simon Baron-Cohen & Varun Warrier Autism Research…
Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration
Zhai, Z., Wu, L. & Jiang, H. Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami. Appl. Phys. Rev. 8,…
Tracking clonal evolution during treatment in ovarian cancer using cell-free DNA
Sample collection All enrolled patients were consented to an institutional biospecimen banking protocol and MSK-IMPACT testing42, and all…
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance
This section summarizes how we select and analyse social indicators with respect to minimum social standards in the…
Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis – and so can genes
Children diagnosed with autism before the age of six tend to have different traits to those who are…
why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too
The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have…
Multimode phonon-polaritons in lead-halide perovskites in the ultrastrong coupling regime
We fabricated an array of nanoslots (w = 950 nm) on quartz substrates with seven different lengths (l = 30, 40,…
Genetic controllers for enhancing the evolutionary longevity of synthetic gene circuits in bacteria
Modelling and quantifying gene circuit evolution We develop an ordinary differential equation model of host-circuit interactions31,33 and augment…
Magnetic imaging under high pressure with a spin-based quantum sensor integrated in a van der Waals heterostructure
Principle of the experiment We start by studying how the optical and spin properties of \({{{\rm{V}}}}_{{{\rm{B}}}}^{-}\) centers in…