Can creativity in science be learnt? These researchers think so
Credit: Adapted from Getty One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory…
US-CoastEX: Observation-based probabilistic reanalysis of storm surge and sea level extremes for the United States
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling with BAYEX The BAYEX framework4 performs spatiotemporal Bayesian hierarchical modeling of coastal storm surge extremes…
Magneto-hydrodynamic behavior of magnetic nanofluids in mini-channel heat sinks for electronics cooling
Thermal management has become a crucial issue in system design and reliability in the age of highly efficient…
Self-sustained frictional cooling in active matter
Active granular particles governed by dry friction Active systems governed by dry friction are experimentally explored by utilizing…
Sub-nanosecond polarization switching with anomalous kinetics in vdW ferroelectric WTe2
Characterizations of ferroelectricity in WTe2 WTe2 exhibits various crystal structures, such as 2H, 1T’, and Td. In the…
Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels
Hydrogel fabrication All copolymer gels were synthesized by one-step free-radical copolymerization of monomers with a chemical crosslinker. The…
Quarter- and half-filled quantum Hall states and their topological orders revealed by daughter states in bilayer graphene
Our devices (device 1 and device 2) consist of BLG encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite…
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene
Palaeomagnetic analysis Oriented block samples of approximately 10 × 10 × 10 cm3 each were carved with a sharp non-magnetic knife from fresh…
A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees
Thompson, L. R. et al. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature 551, 457–463 (2017). ADS …
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection
The 3D helical flux ropes in VEST Two essential magnetic field components, the poloidal and toroidal fields, are…
lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice
A slice from a normal human brain (left, artificially coloured) contrasts with a slice from the brain of…
Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces
Moitra, P. et al. Programmable wavefront control in the visible spectrum using low-loss chalcogenide phase-change metasurfaces. Adv. Mater.…