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Engineers introduce first synthetic charged domain wall in 2D material

In a first for the field, materials scientists from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have interfaced two materials to artificially generate a highly conductive ferroelectric charged domain wall. Led by associate professor of materials science and engineering Arend van der Zande and graduate student Shahriar Muhammad Nahid (now a postdoc at Stanford) and published in Advanced Materials, their approach highlights the versatility of charged domain walls in 2D materials and may be used in the future development of neuromorphic devices and reconfigurable electronics.

2D materials are valued for their utility in molecular-scale systems, which are used to create new kinds of memory and molecular electronic architectures. While most materials must be grown naturally layer by layer, 2D materials can be stacked like building blocks to create arbitrary structures.

One emerging 2D material of interest is indium selenide (α-In2Se3), a layered semiconductor that is also ferroelectric. Ferroelectric materials exhibit spontaneous and mutable electric polarization—something that piqued the interest of van der Zande and Pinshane Huang, professor of materials science and engineering.

Google now allows you to change your @gmail.com address

Google is rolling out a new feature that allows users in the U.S. to change their @gmail address or create a new alias.

This feature was first spotted in October 2025 and showed up on some Google accounts by the end of the year, but it was not available in the United States.

Starting today, Google says you can customize your @gmail address in the United States.

The Mediterranean Isn’t Safe: Scientists Warn of Inevitable Tsunami

Contrary to common belief, the Mediterranean holds a significant and underrecognized tsunami risk, with waves capable of striking coastlines in minutes. The Mediterranean Sea is often dismissed as a low-risk zone for tsunamis, but that assumption is increasingly being challenged. Historical recor

Psychopathic traits are linked to a lack of physical and emotional connection during face-to-face interactions

A new study reveals that people with psychopathic traits can accurately judge another person’s emotions. However, they show a distinct inability to physically and emotionally resonate with those feelings.

Decoding Arabidopsis growth-defense trade-offs through ADR1-associated transcriptional networks

Using DANGEROUS MIX autoimmune plants with constitutively active NLRs, Hu et al. dissect growth-defense trade-offs. Two major transcriptional modules, representing growth and defense, show a strong inverse correlation and are governed by ADR1 helper NLRs. ADR1s maintain this balance largely through effects on transcription and chromatin accessibility in both modules.

Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a ‘reverse-engineered sourceport’ that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds ‘lots of cosmetic improvements’

Dubbed Heretic2R, the sourceport introduces a bunch of new technical features to the elf wizard Corvus’ second adventure. For starters, it adds widescreen support with automatic HUD scaling, and unlocks the framerate to a theoretical maximum of 1,000 FPS.

On top of this, Heretic 2R ensures that in-game special effects update at the appropriate rendering framerate, improves map loading times, and makes “lots of cosmetic improvements” so that “the game plays as you remember it, not as it actually played”. Which sounds very remaster-y to me.

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