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)
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)
Star-shaped glial cells keep a running tally of time awake and signal to neurons when it is time to sleep.
Lumen 3, 142–152 (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)
Mitochondria are tagged for division by patches of specialized lipids minutes before the molecular machinery that pinches them arrives.
Lumen 2, 30–39 (2025)
