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Electrons in a twisted stack of atomically thin semiconductors form exotic fractional states without any applied magnetic field.
Lumen · published online 22 October 2026
Autonomous floats show that heat rising from the deep ocean, not just warmer air, is behind the abrupt decline of Antarctic sea ice since 2016.
Lumen · published online 14 October 2026
Before rats take a new path through a maze, sequences of neural activity during rest rehearse it at twenty times real speed.
Lumen · published online 10 October 2026
Spin defects hosted in a two-dimensional magnet stay quantum-coherent for more than a millisecond under ambient conditions, pointing to thin, integrable quantum sensors.
Lumen 3, 1–9 (2026)
A panel of 12 blood proteins identifies pancreatic tumours at stages when surgery can still cure, in a study of more than 3,000 people.
Lumen 3, 12–20 (2026)
During extreme heat, bees and flowers switch partners within days—keeping pollination going, but at a cost to specialist plants.
Lumen 3, 43–52 (2026)
Variation in a single bacterial gene helps explain why the same dose of a heart medication works in some patients but not others.
Lumen 3, 34–42 (2026)
Synthetic molecular machines that walk along a track can build polymers with a pre-programmed sequence of building blocks, like a miniature ribosome.
Lumen 3, 55–65 (2026)
Memory T cells that settle in the lungs after infection organize local immune 'hubs' that speed the response to new viral variants.
Lumen 3, 87–92 (2026)
As fine-particle pollution fell over a decade, hospital admissions for childhood asthma declined fastest where the air improved most.
Lumen 3, 98–105 (2026)
3D-printed lattices that shrink when heated could keep precision instruments stable in harsh thermal environments.
Lumen 3, 106–116 (2026)
A comparative map of enhancers in 18 vertebrate species reveals a core set of regulatory switches conserved for more than 400 million years.
Lumen 3, 119–128 (2026)
A bimetallic catalyst turns a common water pollutant into ammonia with high selectivity, offering a low-carbon alternative to the Haber–Bosch process.
Lumen 3, 153–162 (2026)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Replanted mangrove forests rebuild most of the carbon stored in their soils within 20 years, faster than expected.
Lumen 2, 47–57 (2025)
