- Scanning wave photopolymerization enables dye-free alignment patterning of liquid crystals
Liquid crystals are 2D patterned with nonpolarized light by a new dye-free photoalignment method.
- Foot force models of crowd dynamics on a wobbly bridge
This study develops “crash test dummies” to help designers avoid their footbridges oscillating or bouncing alarmingly.
- A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling
Dual-mode textiles made of nanoPE provide both cooling and heating, which helps humans adapt to larger temperature changes.
- Authorship and contribution disclosures
What do contribution statements on articles tell us that author order does not—and how can they be improved?
- Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions: The rod-like cone retina of the deep-sea pearlsides
Deep-sea fishes evolved an unconventional visual system to optimize vision in twilight conditions.
- Intraoceanic subduction spanned the Pacific in the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene
Intraoceanic subduction drove both the Pacific plate’s ~80- to 47-Ma northward motion and its redirection at ~47 Ma.
- Rapid, directed transport of DC-SIGN clusters in the plasma membrane
Very rapid, directed movement of pathogen receptors in the plasma membrane is associated with MT close to the inner leaflet.
- ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids direct differentiation of the membrane phenotype in mesenchymal stem cells to potentiate osteogenesis
Dietary lipids change membrane phenotypes, which can be used to affect lineage specification in stem cells.
- Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to blood-brain barrier endothelial cells
We report a defined method for differentiating human pluripotent stem cells to brain endothelial cells.
- Environmental controls on modern scleractinian coral and reef-scale calcification
In situ coral calcification was primarily controlled by temperature and relatively insensitive to seawater CO2 chemistry.
- Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests
Natural forest recovery is an effective ecological alternative to tree planting in tropical forests under certain conditions.
- Biodiversity recovery following delta-wide measures for flood risk reduction
We show that biodiversity recovery was successfully combined with flood risk reduction interventions at the river delta scale.
- Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology
We review recent observations and models concerning the dynamics of Cryogenian global glaciation and their biological consequences.
- The spin Nernst effect in tungsten
The spin Nernst effect, direct conversion of heat current to spin current, is observed in W/CoFeB/MgO heterostructures.
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ONLINE COVER Comparisons of bone strength demonstrate that prehistoric women performed rigorous manual labor for thousands of years in Central Europe at levels exceeding those of modern women, Macintosh et al. report. CREDIT: DIDIER DESCOUENS/CREATIVE COMMONS