how researchers harness pee and poo for science
As Mathilde Poyet ushers me through the Global Microbiome Conservancy’s laboratory in Kiel, Germany, I’m met with all…
Electric field-tunable ferromagnetism in a van der Waals semiconductor up to room temperature
Our density-functional theory (DFT) suggests that BP intercalated with a few percent of Co (See schematics in Fig. 1a)…
Fermi polarons under strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields
Pseudospin in strained TMDs The spatial symmetry of TMDs dictates that a linearly polarized photon in a state…
Observation of hyperbolic intersubband polaritons in native-dielectric-doped van der Waals semiconductor quantum wells
Intersubband transition and native-dielectric-doping The intersubband transition energies in the WSe2 QWs can be approximated with an infinite…
Triplets electrically turn on insulating lanthanide-doped nanoparticles
LnNPs consist of an inorganic insulating host, typically fluorides or oxides such as NaGd/Y/LuF4 with a large energy…
How do genetic association studies rank genes?
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 19 November 2025 Genome-wide association studies and rare-variant burden tests are the two main tools for…
Faraday effects emerging from the optical magnetic field
Implications of the optical magnetic field to the IFE To show the relevance of the magnetic component to…
Topological nodal i-wave superconductivity in PtBi2
DFT calculations and BdG model We performed DFT calculations using the full-potential local orbital code FPLO38 within the…
Magnon-polaron control in a surface magnetoacoustic wave resonator
Strong magnon-phonon coupling The low magnetic damping of YIG is contingent on high-quality monocrystalline films, typically grown on…
can it produce the next big breakthrough?
No one could accuse Demis Hassabis of dreaming small. In 2016, the company he co-founded, DeepMind, shocked the…