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The authors enhance ferroelectricity in lead-free (K,Na)NbO3-based films via formation of Mn-atomic layered antiphase boundaries. The boundaries equilibrate interfacial charges and clamp vertical strain, contributing to the high polarization and Curie temperature of ~400 °C.

Graph-based molecular representation learning is crucial for predicting molecular properties but often struggles with capturing complex relationships and relies on limited chemical knowledge. Here, the authors introduce MMFRL, a framework that enhances embedding initialization through relational learning, significantly improving accuracy, robustness, and explainability in molecular property prediction.

Up to now, all iron-based high-T_c superconductors contain a square iron lattice. Here, Wang et al. report the observation of superconductivity in an iron honeycomb lattice accompanied with pressure-driven spin-crossover, in-plane lattice collapse and insulator-metal transition.

Controlled doping of organic semiconductors is required to enhance charge injection in organic electronics, but the lack of suitable n-dopants with small ionization energy remains elusive. Here, the authors report air-stable metals that act as strong n-dopants in molecules with chelating ligands.

A project that intertwines data on weather, water flow and energy demand to create a 3D model of the whole river basin would enable researchers and others to make water-management decisions in real time.

This study designs a new model based on medium-resolution satellite imagery to assess building damage from war, using the cases of Syria and Ukraine. It found that building damage has broader consequences for the population affected, especially when accounting for hospitals and schools.

Using two socioeconomically different neighborhoods in Seattle, this study shows that place-based peer-to-peer resource sharing can substantially improve community resilience in both types of neighborhoods. Strong ties were about 1.5–3 times as effective as weak ties, and the neighborhood with lower socioeconomic status (SES) required more ties to achieve an optimal sharing rate than the neighborhood with higher SES.

Spur-type of growth is preferred for apple production. Here, the authors employ the trio-based phasing approach to assemble a fully phased Fuji genome and reveal the association of a 167-bp deletion in the promoter region of the MdTCP11 gene with the spur-type varieties.

Subarctic Pacific Ocean sediments and modeling results provide new evidence for precession driving meridional shifts in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and modulating the efficiency of heat and water vapor transfer to the Arctic regions.

High-quality assemblies of 15 diploid and 35 allotetraploid cotton accessions are analyzed in graph-based pan-genomes, providing insights into genome dynamics and regulatory control of fiber transcriptomes under varying ploidy and selection pressures.

Genome and transcriptome analyses of 376 Gossypium hirsutum accessions uncover the regulation of gene expression during fiber development in allotetraploid cotton and highlight the potential for fiber quality improvement.

Pan-genome and pan-3D genome analyses of the Gossypium genus reveal evolutionary relationships among transposon-driven genome expansion and chromatin topology innovation and regulatory variations for cotton fiber development.

Elastomers capable of autonomous self-healing and mechanical stimulus sensing in aquatic environments are interesting for applications in underwater soft electronics. Here, the authors present a hydrophobic-hydrolytic molecularly engineered self-healing piezo-ionic elastomer with underwater self-healing properties and mechanosensitive ion channels.

Here the authors report the crystal structures of RNase J from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in apo-state and complex with single strand RNA, revealing its physiological function in RNA metabolism.

Graphene-like molecules with a zigzag periphery are synthetically challenging. Now, a programmable zigzag π-extension strategy to rapidly assemble graphene-like molecules is reported based on rhodium-catalysed sequential C2–H and C8–H activation-annulation of naphthalene ketones, using acetylenedicarboxylates as the C2 insertion unit.

Researchers exploit Rayleigh waves and associated dynamic strains to control exciton transport in the weak coupling regime at room temperature. The findings may pave the way for new types of excitonic device for applications ranging from communications to energy.

Electric contacts of semimetallic bismuth on monolayer semiconductors are shown to suppress metal-induced gap states and thus have very low contact resistance and a zero Schottky barrier height.

Dual-atom catalysts (DACs) pose several advantages such as uniformity in the active sites and high atom utilization efficiency supported by a synergy of the two catalyst metal atoms. Here, the authors use spin-polarized density functional theory with van der Waals corrections to derive surface Pourbaix diagrams of an Fe–Ni–N_x–C model, showing that the surface states of DACs generally differ from a pristine surface at electrocatalytic operating conditions due to the strong adsorption capacity of a DAC’s unique metal–metal bridge site.

Invertebrate-derived eDNA (iDNA) is an emerging tool for taxonomic and spatial biodiversity monitoring. Here, the authors use metabarcoding of leech-derived iDNA to estimate vertebrate occupancy over an entire protected area, the Ailaoshan Nature Reserve, China.

Sputtered Bi_xSe_(1–x) thin films can generate very large current-induced spin–orbit torque, capable to switch both in-plane and out-of-plane magnetized CoFeB-based structures deposited on top, at room temperature.

This study presents the results of the second round of the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation challenges (CAMI II), which is a community-driven effort for comprehensively benchmarking tools for metagenomics data analysis.

Traditional RNA sequencing data may fail to detect the exact cellular changes in tumor cells. With comprehensively single-cell and traditional RNA-seq data, these authors detected and compared differentially expressed genes in lung adenocarcinoma. These results may improve our understanding of cellular and molecular differences between cancerous and non-malignant tissue and provide tumor markers as well as potential therapeutic targets.

Spectrally resolved STORM (stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy) uses wide-field spectral measurements of sparsely activated single-molecule emitters to image cells labeled with fluorophores with highly overlapping emission spectra, opening the door to multiplexed super-resolution imaging.

We propose and demonstrate an exciton-harvesting strategy in low-dimensional halides exposed to ionizing radiation, which enhances both scintillation efficiency and charged particle discrimination capability.

Wang and colleagues use a complementary GWAS approach to identify genetic loci associated with cotton fiber quality. Using a multiparent advanced-generation inter-cross population, 26 new QTLs related to cotton fiber quality were found.

Crystal structures of M. tuberculosis elongation factors EF-Tu and EF-Ts in complex and GDP-bound Ef-Tu reveal the molecular basis of EF-Tu’s representative recycling and inactive forms in protein translation.