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Reshoring silicon photovoltaic manufacturing back to the U.S. improves domestic competitiveness, advances decarbonization goals, and contributes to mitigating climate change.

Land surface modelling suggests that preserving woody debris in managed forests could remove 769–937 GtCO₂ from the atmosphere between 2025 and 2100.

The researchers showcase an exciting surface metallic Dirac-vortex cavity design with enhanced power capabilities for electrically pumped Topological Lasers in the THz spectral range.

A recycling strategy based predominantly on the use of water to restore and reuse valuable components from perovskite photovoltaic waste is described, with recycled devices showing similar efficiency and stability compared with fresh devices.

The ultrafast carrier dynamics across the van der Waals interface of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures govern the formation and funnelling of excitons. Here, the authors demonstrate a reversible switch from exciton dissociation to exciton funnelling in a MoSe₂/WS₂ heterostructure, which manifests itself as a photoluminescence quenching-to-enhancement transition.

NF-YA responds to TGFβ1 and IL-6 signals to regulate Klhl25 transcription, thereby controlling ACLY ubiquitination and the transition of fatty acids metabolism, which constitutes a determinant for the fate decision of iTreg/Th17 differentiation.

The inverse design of functional crystalline materials via generative models is a rapidly growing field, but one that faces challenges in representation and generation architectures. This Perspective systematically examines these limitations and explores strategies for future improvement.

The topological surface states usually appear in pairs in a topological insulator, with one on the top surface and the other on the bottom surface. Here, Zhang et al. utilize Co cluster to induce a Zeeman gap on one surface through antiferromagnetic exchange coupling, and observe a quasi-half-integer plateau, suggesting the parity anomaly of Dirac fermions.

Hsc70 (heat shock protein family A member 8) is a cytoplasmic chaperone protein involved in endosomal micro-autophagy and chaperone-mediated autophagy. Here the authors report that Hsc70 promotes lysosomal degradation of PD-L1 and that its overexpression promotes anti-tumor immune responses in preclinical cancer models.

Moving conferences from in-person to virtual and hybrid modes may have emissions reductions benefits. Here the authors find that the switch to virtual and hybrid conferencing reduces the carbon footprint by 94% when it comes to the switch to virtual conferencing, and 67% for hybrid conferences with carefully selected hubs.

Ferroptosis is regulated by amino acid metabolism. Here, authors show that the methionine-SAM-UQ axis is responsible for mtROS generation and ferroptosis induction, suggesting potential therapeutic strategies for diseases associated with ferroptosis.

Phenotypic changes in exhausted T cells are linked to chromatin remodeling. Here the authors show that pharmacological inhibition of the H3K4me1/2 demethylase LSD1 promotes the persistence and enhances the therapeutic activity of adoptively transferred T cells for cancer therapy.

This study analyzes the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirements in 48 countries. Our results show that transportation electrification may result in an upsurge in critical metal demand, and decarbonizing fuel production is critical for adequately mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from road transportation.

In this study, a novel hybrid antibacterial system (HAS) based on graphene oxide (GO) 2D materials for co-delivery of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and sulfadiazine (SD) was fabricated. The antibacterial activity of HAS was enhanced over 3 times due to triple synergy: capping effect of GO, puncture effect of Ag NPs, and inhibitory effect of SD. This study provides new insights into the design and fabrication of antibiosis systems and multifunctional materials and broadens the biomedical applications of 2D materials.

Plant–environment interactions are examined using artificial intelligence and computational modelling, allowing energy use to be optimized in plant factories with artificial lighting.

A high-brightness electrically pumped terahertz quantum cascade surface emitting laser empowered by a phase-engineered photonic crystal cavity.

Loss of the E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase ARIH1 has been associated with cancer escape from anti-tumor immunity. Here the authors show that ARIH1 mediated ubiquitination and degradation of DNA-PKcs trigger activation of STING pathway in tumor cells, sensitizing tumors to immune checkpoint blockade.

Optical control is an alternative pathway to boost nonlinear transport in noncentrosymmetric systems. Here, the authors observe a light-induced giant enhancement of nonreciprocal transport coefficient as high as 10⁵A⁻¹ T⁻¹ at KTaO₃-based Rashba interfaces.

Manipulating single-atom magnetism via an electric field promotes the downsizing of memories and transistors towards the atomic limit. Wang et al. show the electrically controlled Zeeman effect in Dy@C₈₄ single-molecule transistors with magnetoresistance from 600% to 1,100% at the resonant tunnelling point.

Defect engineering of topological materials provides an avenue for the controllable manipulation of optoelectronic properties. Here, the authors introduce a defect gradient into a Dirac semimetal to control the Berry curvature dipole-driven THz emission in the material.

Aberrant expression of Synaptonemal complex protein 2 (SYCP2) in breast and ovarian cancers is associated with resistance to drugs targeting the DNA damage response. Here the authors show that SYCP2 confers drug resistance by promoting R-loop formation during transcription-coupled homologous recombination.

A Gd@C₈₂ molecule shows electric polarization switching behaviour under a gate bias voltage, thus demonstrating a single-molecule electret device.

Available intrinsic magnetic topological insulators are rare. Here, the authors study the electronic and magnetic properties of Mn(Sb_xBi_(1-x))₂Te₄ bulks and thin flakes, revealing intrinsic magnetic topological insulator phase in the phase diagram.

A Type II Weyl fermion semimetal has been predicted in Mo_xW_1−xTe₂, but it awaits experimental evidence. Here, Belopolski et al. observe a topological Fermi arc in Mo_xW_1−xTe₂, showing it originates from a Type II Weyl fermion and offering a new platform to study novel transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals.

The molecular mechanisms of resistance to immune checkpoint therapy remain elusive. Here, the authors perform immunogenomic analysis of TCGA data and data from clinical trials for antiPD-1/PD-L1 therapy and highlight the association of 9p21 loss with a cold tumor microenvironment and resistance to therapy.

A new type of surface state has recently been reported in ZrSiSe but its physical properties remain unclear. Here, Zhu, Chang, Huang, et al. report rotational symmetry breaking, healing effect and anomalous Umklapp scattering arising from the nonsymmorphic effect of the floating band state on ZrSiSe (001) surface.

The tunability of disordered systems with a broadband response has not been explored. Here, the authors achieve the controlled manipulation of disordered plasmonic systems, realising a transition from broadband absorption to tunable reflection through control of the coupling to an external cavity.

Effective recycling of worn-out perovskite photovoltaic modules could improve their energy and environmental sustainability. The authors perform holistic life cycle assessments of selected solar cell architectures and provide guidelines for their future design.