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  • News & Views |

    Early forms of life could have started by molecular compounds coming together under conditions dense enough to promote reactions. But how might these droplets have undergone what we now know as cell division? The answer may be simpler than we think.

    • Ramin Golestanian

  • News & Views |

    Cold collisions between hydrogen molecules and helium atoms reveal how the change from spherical to non-spherical symmetry creates a quantum scattering resonance.

    • Roland Wester

  • Article |

    Certain proteins are capable of self-replicating, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Simulations now pinpoint the adsorption of monomeric proteins onto protein fibril surfaces as the mechanism responsible for self-replication.

    • Anđela Šarić
    • , Alexander K. Buell
    •  & Daan Frenkel

  • Measure for Measure |

    Enrico Massa and Giovanni Mana expound on the substance of the Avogadro constant.

    • Enrico Massa
    •  & Giovanni Mana

  • News & Views |

    The concept of an evolving jamming density explains a multitude of mechanisms in granular matter. Simulations of systems with friction now consolidate this notion and highlight that the jamming point is a variable that can move in various ways whenever the system is deformed.

    • Stefan Luding

  • Research Highlights |

    • Bart Verberck

  • News & Views |

    Anharmonicity is a property of lattice vibrations governing how they interact and how well they conduct heat. Experiments on tin selenide, the most efficient thermoelectric material known, now provide a link between anharmonicity and electronic orbitals.

    • Joseph P. Heremans

  • Article |

    Heat transport is well described by the Green–Kubo formalism. Now, the formalism is combined with density-functional theory, enabling simulations of thermal conduction in systems that cannot be adequately modelled by classical interatomic potentials.

    • Aris Marcolongo
    • , Paolo Umari
    •  & Stefano Baroni

  • Article |

    Tin selenide is at present the best thermoelectric conversion material. Neutron scattering results and ab initio simulations show that the large phonon scattering is due to the development of a lattice instability driven by orbital interactions.

    • C. W. Li
    • , J. Hong
    •  & O. Delaire

  • News & Views |

    Subradiant states have remained elusive since their prediction sixty years ago, but they have now been uncovered in ultracold molecules, where they could prove useful for ultra-high precision spectroscopy.

    • Benjamin Pasquiou

  • Letter |

    An experimental study characterizes subradiance—inhibited emission due to destructive interference—in ultracold molecules close to the dissociation limit and shows that it could be used for precision molecular spectroscopy.

    • B. H. McGuyer
    • , M. McDonald
    •  & T. Zelevinsky

  • Research Highlights |

    • Bart Verberck

  • News & Views |

    For almost a century, deviations of Ohm's law have been known to occur in electrolyte solutions. Now, lattice model simulations of these systems are providing valuable insight into the microscopic mechanisms involved.

    • Erik Luijten

  • Research Highlights |

    • Abigail Klopper

  • News & Views |

    A technique for protecting out-of-equilibrium nuclear spin states from thermalization while offering a route to converting them into observable NMR signal is an important contribution to a field that welcomes every bit of extra signal.

    • Andreas Trabesinger

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