Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02794-z
Richard J. C. Brown
{"title":"Never judge a book by its cover","authors":"Richard J. C. Brown","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02794-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-02794-z","url":null,"abstract":"The SI brochure has described the global measurement system for more than 50 years, and yet it has kept a low profile. Richard Brown leafs through its history.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 3","pages":"487-487"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02841-9
Leonardo Benini
{"title":"The magnetic cartography of sea turtles","authors":"Leonardo Benini","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02841-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-02841-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 3","pages":"349-349"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02795-y
Sarah Bakewell
{"title":"Physics should be for everyone","authors":"Sarah Bakewell","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02795-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-02795-y","url":null,"abstract":"Physics is amazing and transformational. But for far too long the people most likely to benefit from its opportunity and wonder have been too narrowly defined.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 3","pages":"328-328"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02852-6
{"title":"Progress to parity","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02852-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-02852-6","url":null,"abstract":"Following International Women’s Day, we draw inspiration from trailblazing women physicists from history and ask how the physics community can accelerate the closing of the gender gap.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 3","pages":"327-327"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02852-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02834-8
Elizaveta Dubrovina
{"title":"The way the bubbles ride","authors":"Elizaveta Dubrovina","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02834-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-02834-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 3","pages":"348-348"},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02809-9
Timothy E. Saunders
{"title":"Topology drives cell fate","authors":"Timothy E. Saunders","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02809-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02809-9","url":null,"abstract":"Cells take on specific fates during development based on cues, which can be genetic or mechanical. Now it is shown that the decision of cell nuclei to either migrate to the outer cortex or remain internalized in fruit fly embryos depends on topology.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143608019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02802-2
Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili, Matthias Merkel, Pierre-François Lenne
{"title":"Marangoni-like tissue flows enhance symmetry breaking of embryonic organoids","authors":"Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili, Matthias Merkel, Pierre-François Lenne","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02802-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02802-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the early development of multi-cellular animals, cells self-organize to set up the body axes such as the primary head-to-tail axis. Several signalling pathways are known to control body axis formation. Here we show that tissue mechanics also plays an important role. We focus on the emergence of a primary axis in initially spherical aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells, which mirrors events in the development of the early mouse embryo. These aggregates break rotational symmetry by establishing domains of different expression profiles, for example, of the transcription factor T/Brachyury and the adhesion molecule E-cadherin. By combining quantitative microscopy and physical modelling, we identify large-scale tissue flows with a recirculating component that contribute substantially to the symmetry breaking. We show that the recirculating flows are—akin to Marangoni flows—driven by a difference in tissue surface tensions, whose existence we further confirm using aggregate fusion experiments. Our work highlights that body axis formation is not only driven by biochemical processes but can also be amplified by tissue flows. We expect that this type of amplification may operate in many other organoid and in vivo systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143589830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y
Junya Feng, Henry F. Legg, Mahasweta Bagchi, Daniel Loss, Jelena Klinovaja, Yoichi Ando
{"title":"Long-range crossed Andreev reflection in a topological insulator nanowire proximitized by a superconductor","authors":"Junya Feng, Henry F. Legg, Mahasweta Bagchi, Daniel Loss, Jelena Klinovaja, Yoichi Ando","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Crossed Andreev reflection is a non-local transport phenomenon that creates and detects Cooper pair correlations between distant locations. It is also the basis of Cooper pair splitting to generate remote entanglement. Although crossed Andreev reflection has been extensively studied in semiconductors proximity-coupled to a superconductor, observing it in a topological insulator has been very difficult. Here we report the observation of this effect in a proximitized topological insulator nanowire. We perform local and non-local conductance spectroscopy on mesoscopic devices in which superconducting niobium and metallic contacts are connected to a bulk-insulating nanowire. In our local conductance measurements we detect a hard gap and the appearance of Andreev bound states that can reach zero bias. We also occasionally observe a negative non-local conductance when sweeping the chemical potential, providing evidence of crossed Andreev reflection. This signal is detected even over length scales much longer than the expected superconducting coherence length of either niobium or the proximitized nanowire. We suggest that this long-range effect is due to the intricate role of disorder in proximitized nanowires.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143589662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-03-10DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02801-3
{"title":"Mechano-sensitive feedback leads to morphological bistability in intestinal organoids","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02801-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02801-3","url":null,"abstract":"We have tested key modelling assumptions of intestinal organoid morphogenesis via biophysical and pharmacological experiments. We have found that mechano-sensitive feedback on cytoskeletal tension gives rise to morphological bistability, and that the same mechanical perturbation can have drastically different effects on morphogenesis depending on the timing of application. This multicellular bistability can provide robustness to developmental systems.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}