HKUST researchers develop single-crystalline COF electrolyte to boost lithium battery safety and performance.
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Barry Loewer — Fallacies of Fine-Tuning
What mistakes are made in the fine-tuning debate? Whether errors of fact, opinion, logic, or extrapolation, where are the pitfalls in fine-tuning? Is there…
Revisiting the Poor Man’s Majoranas: the spin–exchange induced spillover effect
This just in: using “Poor man’s Majoranas” as quantum spin probes could open a new frontier for #
Quantumscience! By harnessing the sensitivity of these systems, scientists have taken what was once considered a defect into a promising feature that enables them to function as precise quantum spin sensors ⚛️. Explore what this means for the future of quantumphysics here.
Revisiting the Poor Man’s Majoranas: the spin–exchange induced spillover effect, Sanches, J E, Sobreira, T M, Ricco, L S, Figueira, M S, Seridonio, A C.
Oxytocin signaling in adipocytes is required for normal milk fat production
Online now: Li et al. show that sympathetic-derived oxytocin drives adipose lipolysis to supply triglycerides essential for neonatal growth during lactation. Adipocyte-specific oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) deletion impairs milk lipid content and offspring growth, revealing a new link between maternal oxytocin signaling in adipocytes, mammary metabolism, and neonatal nutrition.
Spatiotemporal molecular profiling of macrophage-fibroblast crosstalk defines checkpoints orchestrating onset and resolution of inflammation
Weishaupt, Chambers, et al. combine single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling with in vivo models to map the temporal dynamics of macrophage-fibroblast communication during inflammatory arthritis. They show that fibroblasts initiate inflammation, whereas monocyte-derived macrophages undergo transcriptional reprogramming into SPP1+ cells that actively promote resolution by restraining fibroblast pathogenicity.