Analysis
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Persistent gaps in authorship by gender and geography across disciplines
An analysis of 9 million papers shows that progress towards equitable authorship has stalled in many fields.
Lumen 3, 172–183 (2025)
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Discovering interpretable physical laws from sparse and noisy experiments
A machine-learning framework that searches over symbolic equations recovers known physics—and proposes new models—from only a handful of measurements.
Lumen 2, 1–7 (2025)
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Self-healing perovskite solar cells retain 95% efficiency after 5,000 hours
A dynamic polymer interlayer repairs defects in halide perovskite films as they form, tackling the main obstacle to commercial perovskite photovoltaics.
Lumen 2, 8–17 (2025)
Correspondence
Field stations are vital research infrastructure
Long-term ecological monitoring depends on places that funding systems too often overlook.
Lumen 2, 18–19 (2025)
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A metal-poor stellar stream records the earliest assembly of the Galactic halo
Precise chemistry and orbits of stars in a thin stream reveal a dwarf galaxy that was torn apart more than 12 billion years ago.
Lumen 2, 20–29 (2025)
Letter
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Lipid microdomains mark mitochondrial fission sites before constriction
Mitochondria are tagged for division by patches of specialized lipids minutes before the molecular machinery that pinches them arrives.
Lumen 2, 30–39 (2025)
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Slow slip events herald large earthquakes on a subduction megathrust
A decade of seafloor geodesy reveals that slow, silent fault slip accelerated in the months before two magnitude-7 earthquakes.
Lumen 2, 40–46 (2025)
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Restored mangroves recover their carbon stocks within two decades
Replanted mangrove forests rebuild most of the carbon stored in their soils within 20 years, faster than expected.
Lumen 2, 47–57 (2025)
