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Optical readout of a superconducting qubit using a piezo-optomechanical transducer Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 T. C. van Thiel, M. J. Weaver, F. Berto, P. Duivestein, M. Lemang, K. L. Schuurman, M. ?emli?ka, F. Hijazi, A. C. Bernasconi, C. Ferrer, E. Cataldo, E. Lachman, M. Field, Y. Mohan, F. K. de Vries, C. C. Bultink, J. C. van Oven, J. Y. Mutus, R. Stockill, S. Gr?blacher
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All-optical superconducting qubit readout Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Georg Arnold, Thomas Werner, Rishabh Sahu, Lucky N. Kapoor, Liu Qiu, Johannes M. Fink
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Nematicity and orbital depairing in superconducting Bernal bilayer graphene Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Ludwig Holleis, Caitlin L. Patterson, Yiran Zhang, Yaar Vituri, Heun Mo Yoo, Haoxin Zhou, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Erez Berg, Stevan Nadj-Perge, Andrea F. Young
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Outdated rules on expenses prevent academics from travelling more sustainably Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Close the biodiversity funding gap by teaching conservation to financial professionals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Researchers create precise 3D patterns with water-waves.
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Nature markets are nothing new — they are widespread, regulated and instructive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
The biochemist introduced the first heel-prick tests for newborn babies in Spain, protecting infants from life-changing metabolic conditions.
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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
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‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
A range of initiatives, from financial-support schemes to awareness campaigns, is already changing the university’s environment.
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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Keisuke Goda, Tatsushi Igaki, Bernd Kuhn, Noboru Mizushima, Takeharu Nagai, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Noriko Osumi, Amy Q. Shen, Masahiro Sonoshita, Masashi Yanagisawa
The nation must lose its tight focus on individual disciplines if it is to keep pace with the evolving requirements of scientific enquiry.
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Earth’s mysterious inner core really is changing shape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Earthquakes ringing through the planet illuminate how its heart is transforming.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Holly Smith
Cracks in Greenland's glaciers deepened by climate change.
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A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s — these genes might explain his escape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Scientists identify nine genetic variants that could have helped a man to avoid dementia for at least two decades longer than expected.
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Daily briefing: How did childhood evolve? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
An AI system is crushing it at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Plus, what an iconic fossil teaches us about the evolution of childhood.
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‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
The ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency.
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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics for free-surface and multiphase flows: a review Rep. Prog. Phys. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 David Le Touzé and Andrea Colagrossi
The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is expanding and is being applied to more and more fields, particularly in engineering. The majority of current SPH developments deal with free-surface and multiphase flows, especially for situations where geometrically complex interface configurations are involved. The present review article covers the last 25 years of development of the method to simulate
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Author Correction: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo, David F. Savage
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08455-0 Published online 22 January 2025
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I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
When Ho Thi Thanh Van isn’t creating materials for fuel cells, she is cultivating traditional medicines.
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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
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How to end outrage and detoxify politics: share stories, not statistics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
A book on human morality claims that although liberals and conservatives prioritize different victims, mutual understanding is still possible.
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How and why my company pivoted from energy to agritechnology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Lambda Agri chief executive Monica Saavedra describes funding strategies and the circumstances leading to the company changing strategic direction.
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Daily briefing: People in dense crowds move in swirls Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
People begin to move in vortices in densely packed crowds. Plus, the scientists who kept research alive in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas conflict.
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Daily briefing: How mantis shrimps survive landing the world’s fastest punch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
What’s behind the mantis shrimp’s powerful punch? Plus, six ways to cultivate allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia.
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Bond dipole-based geometric theory of band alignment Appl. Phys. Rev. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Zeyu Jiang, Damien West, Shengbai Zhang
The band alignment (BA) between two materials is a fundamental property that governs the functionality and performance of electronic and electrochemical devices. However, despite decades of study, the inability to separate surface properties from those of the bulk has made a deep understanding of the physics of BAs elusive. Building on the theory of the ideal vacuum level to separate surface from bulk
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Nonlinear domain engineering for quantum technologies Appl. Phys. Rev. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Tim F. Weiss, Alberto Peruzzo
The continuously growing effort toward developing real-world quantum technological applications has come to demand an increasing amount of flexibility from its respective platforms. This review presents a highly adaptable engineering technique for photonic quantum technologies based on the artificial structuring of the material nonlinearity. This technique, while, in a simple form, already featured
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Multiscale Physics of Atomic Nuclei from First Principles Phys. Rev. X (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Z.?H. Sun, A. Ekstr?m, C. Forssén, G. Hagen, G.?R. Jansen, T. Papenbrock
Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. As the limits of nuclear binding are approached near the neutron and proton drip lines, traditional shell structure starts to melt with an onset of deformation and an emergence of coexisting shapes. It is a long-standing challenge to describe this
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Factorization Restoration through Glauber Gluons Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Thomas Becher, Patrick Hager, Sebastian Jaskiewicz, Matthias Neubert, Dominik Schwienbacher
We analyze the low-energy dynamics of gap-between-jets cross sections at hadron colliders, for which phase factors in the hard amplitudes spoil collinear cancellations and lead to double (“super-leading”) logarithmic behavior. Based on a method-of-regions analysis, we identify three-loop contributions from perturbative active-active Glauber-gluon exchanges with the right structure to render the cross
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“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.
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Have Trump’s anti-DEI orders hit private funders? HHMI halts inclusive science programme Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost diversity in science education.
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DeepMind AI crushes tough maths problems on par with top human solvers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The company’s AlphaGeometry2 reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Author Correction: Free-electron quantum optics Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Ron Ruimy, Aviv Karnieli, Ido Kaminer
Correction to: Nature Physics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02743-2, published online 22 January 2025.
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Unified percolation scenario for the α and β processes in simple glass formers Nat. Phys. (IF 17.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Liang Gao, Hai-Bin Yu, Thomas B. Schr?der, Jeppe C. Dyre
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All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet Nat. Photon. (IF 32.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Haoyi Yu, Zihao Huang, Simone Lamon, Baokai Wang, Haibo Ding, Jian Lin, Qi Wang, Haitao Luan, Min Gu, Qiming Zhang
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Poetry on Mars and robots on Earth: Books in brief Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Bonobos know when you’re in the know ― and when you’re not Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The apes can tailor their communications to account for a human partner’s level of knowledge.
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From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
In episode 2 of 'What's in a name' we look at the how names can help scientists communicate with the public.
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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
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How my research focus exposed me to threats and harassment Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Researchers who investigate highly-politicized topics can face harassment, others for their race, gender identity or disability. Two scientists share their stories.
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Granzyme K activates the entire complement cascade Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Carlos A. Donado, Erin Theisen, Fan Zhang, Aparna Nathan, Madison L. Fairfield, Karishma Vijay Rupani, Dominique Jones, Kellsey P. Johannes, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Daniel F. Dwyer, A. Helena Jonsson, Michael B. Brenner
Granzymes are a family of serine proteases mainly expressed by CD8+ T cells, natural killer cells, and innate-like lymphocytes1. Although their primary function is thought to be the induction of cell death in virally infected and tumor cells, accumulating evidence indicates certain granzymes can elicit inflammation by acting on extracellular substrates1. Recently, we found that the majority of tissue
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Mantis shrimp have the world’s fastest punch — here’s how their limbs survive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new materials.
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Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
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How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
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Daily briefing: Genetically modified pig-organ transplant trial gets green light Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The first pig-organ transplant trial in humans has been approved. Plus, the internet doesn't affect our memories, but AI might.
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How the brain suppresses fear: mouse study offers path to anxiety treatments Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.
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OpenAI’s ‘deep research’ tool: is it useful for scientists? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The model produces cited, pages-long reports that might be helpful for generating literature reviews.
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Engineered nose bacteria sneak drugs into the brain Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.
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‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.
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The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Drug companies are trialling a host of medications that they hope will offer benefits beyond weight loss.
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Interatomic Coulombic decay in lithium-doped large helium nanodroplets induced by photoelectron impact excitation Rep. Prog. Phys. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 L Ben Ltaief, K Sishodia, J D Asmussen, A R Abid, S R Krishnan, H B Pedersen, N Sisourat and M Mudrich
Irradiation of condensed matter with ionizing radiation generally causes direct photoionization as well as secondary processes that often dominate the ionization dynamics. Here, large helium (He) nanodroplets with radius nm doped with lithium (Li) atoms are irradiated with extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photons of energy eV and indirect ionization of the Li dopants is observed in addition to direct photoionization
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants. Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Hongbo Liu,Amin Abedini,Eunji Ha,Ziyuan Ma,Xin Sheng,Bernhard Dumoulin,Chengxiang Qiu,Tamas Aranyi,Shen Li,Nicole Dittrich,Hua-Chang Chen,Ran Tao,Der-Cherng Tarng,Feng-Jen Hsieh,Shih-Ann Chen,Shun-Fa Yang,Mei-Yueh Lee,Pui-Yan Kwok,Jer-Yuarn Wu,Chien-Hsiun Chen,Atlas Khan,Nita A Limdi,Wei-Qi Wei,Theresa L Walunas,Elizabeth W Karlson,Eimear E Kenny,Yuan Luo,Leah Kottyan,John J Connolly,Gail P Jarvik
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and identified 1026 (97 previously unknown) independent loci. Ancestry-specific analysis indicated an attenuation of newly identified signals on common variants in European ancestry populations and the power
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Corrigendum: A review of UTe2at high magnetic fields (2023Rep. Prog. Phys.86 114501). Rep. Prog. Phys. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Sylvia K Lewin,Corey E Frank,Sheng Ran,Johnpierre Paglione,Nicholas P Butch
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Gate-voltage control of anisotropic bilinear magnetoresistance at Rashba interfaces Appl. Phys. Rev. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Meng Zhao, Jine Zhang, Furong Han, Yuansha Chen, Fengxia Hu, Baogen Shen, Weisheng Zhao, Jirong Sun, Yue Zhang
Bilinear magnetoresistance (BMR), exhibiting a linear response to magnetic field or applied current, has garnered significant attention in recent research. While most previous works have focused on isotropic BMR, arising from isotropic band structure or the spin Hall effect, we report on a strongly anisotropic BMR (ABMR) observed at the KTaO3 Rashba interface, characterized by a unique low-symmetry
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Smart diapers: From wetness monitoring to early diagnosis Appl. Phys. Rev. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Min Hu, Jia Wei Lim, Philip Lin Kiat Yap, Ngoc Huong Lien Ha, Pei Shi Yeo, Guolin Xu, Rensheng Deng, Shiou Liang Wee, Jackie Y. Ying
Diaper dermatitis and associated infections are common problems that often afflict diaper wearers. These problems will become more prevalent in the future, as our population ages and more people need to wear diapers. An urgent solution is therefore needed to address these problems. Smart diapers have recently attracted much attention for their potential to significantly reduce the occurrence of diaper
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Necklacelike Pattern of Vortex Bound States Phys. Rev. X (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Zhiyong Hou, Kailun Chen, Wenshan Hong, Da Wang, Wen Duan, Huan Yang, Shiliang Li, Huiqian Luo, Qiang-Hua Wang, Tao Xiang, Hai-Hu Wen
A vortex is a topological defect in the superconducting condensate when a magnetic field is applied to a type-II superconductor, as elucidated by the Ginzburg-Landau theory. Because of the confinement of the quasiparticles by a vortex, it exhibits a circular-shaped pattern of bound states with discrete energy levels, as predicted by the Caroli–de Gennes–Matricon theory in 1964. Here, however, we report
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Observation of Pattern Stabilization in a Driven Superfluid Phys. Rev. X (IF 11.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Nikolas Liebster, Marius Sparn, Elinor Kath, Jelte Duchene, Keisuke Fujii, Sarah L. G?rlitz, Tilman Enss, Helmut Strobel, Markus K. Oberthaler
The formation of patterns in driven systems has been studied extensively, and their emergence can be connected to a fine balance of instabilities and stabilization mechanisms. While the early phase of pattern formation can be understood on the basis of linear stability analyses, the longtime dynamics can only be described by accounting for the interactions between the excitations generated by the drive
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Quantum Origin of Limit Cycles, Fixed Points, and Critical Slowing Down Phys. Rev. Lett. (IF 8.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Shovan Dutta, Shu Zhang, Masudul Haque
Among the most iconic features of classical dissipative dynamics are persistent limit-cycle oscillations and critical slowing down at the onset of such oscillations, where the system relaxes purely algebraically in time. On the other hand, quantum systems subject to generic Markovian dissipation decohere exponentially in time, approaching a unique steady state. Here we show how coherent limit-cycle
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The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-04
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.