‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell
Hot springs at at Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, where the heat-tolerant amoeba was discovered.Credit: Kelly Vandellen/iStock…
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
Last April, neuroscientist Sue Grigson received an e-mail from a man detailing his years-long struggle to kick addiction…
Ultrafast Coulomb blockade in an atomic-scale quantum dot
Sample preparation Our WSe2 samples are grown via metal organic chemical vapor deposition on few-layer epitaxial graphene supported…
virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS
Credit: Christopher Michel (CC-BY-SA-4.0) The world has lost a giant of virology, molecular biology and science advocacy with…
Observation of space-time surface plasmon polaritons
Theoretical formulation The conceptual formulation of ST-SPPs is best understood by visualizing their spectral representation on the surface…
Experimentally achieving minimal dissipation via thermodynamically optimal transport
We begin by implementing a translation and compression protocol—a simple yet highly controllable process — to experimentally characterize…
Chemically tunable quantum magnetism on the anisotropic triangular lattice in rhenium oxyhalides
Balents, L. Spin liquids in frustrated magnets. Nature 464, 199 (2010). Article CAS PubMed ADS Google Scholar Kohno,…
Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation
Fabrication of the slipknot All experiments were conducted at room temperature (21 °C). The loading rate was set at…
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda
Haile-Selassie, Y. et al. New species from Ethiopia further expands middle Pliocene hominin diversity. Nature 521, 483–488 (2015).…
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
Participants and stimuli fMRI data were taken from 174 participants of the HCP movie-watching dataset51. The sample consisted…