TY - JOUR AB - Reducing defects boosts room-temperature performance of a thermoelectric device AU - Navita, Navita AU - Ibáñez, Maria ID - 15166 IS - 6688 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Electron highways are cooler VL - 383 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Quantum entanglement is a key resource in currently developed quantum technologies. Sharing this fragile property between superconducting microwave circuits and optical or atomic systems would enable new functionalities, but this has been hindered by an energy scale mismatch of >104 and the resulting mutually imposed loss and noise. In this work, we created and verified entanglement between microwave and optical fields in a millikelvin environment. Using an optically pulsed superconducting electro-optical device, we show entanglement between propagating microwave and optical fields in the continuous variable domain. This achievement not only paves the way for entanglement between superconducting circuits and telecom wavelength light, but also has wide-ranging implications for hybrid quantum networks in the context of modularization, scaling, sensing, and cross-platform verification. AU - Sahu, Rishabh AU - Qiu, Liu AU - Hease, William J AU - Arnold, Georg M AU - Minoguchi, Y. AU - Rabl, P. AU - Fink, Johannes M ID - 13106 IS - 6646 JF - Science KW - Multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Entangling microwaves with light VL - 380 ER - TY - JOUR AB - In nature, proteins that switch between two conformations in response to environmental stimuli structurally transduce biochemical information in a manner analogous to how transistors control information flow in computing devices. Designing proteins with two distinct but fully structured conformations is a challenge for protein design as it requires sculpting an energy landscape with two distinct minima. Here we describe the design of “hinge” proteins that populate one designed state in the absence of ligand and a second designed state in the presence of ligand. X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, double electron-electron resonance spectroscopy, and binding measurements demonstrate that despite the significant structural differences the two states are designed with atomic level accuracy and that the conformational and binding equilibria are closely coupled. AU - Praetorius, Florian M AU - Leung, Philip J. Y. AU - Tessmer, Maxx H. AU - Broerman, Adam AU - Demakis, Cullen AU - Dishman, Acacia F. AU - Pillai, Arvind AU - Idris, Abbas AU - Juergens, David AU - Dauparas, Justas AU - Li, Xinting AU - Levine, Paul M. AU - Lamb, Mila AU - Ballard, Ryanne K. AU - Gerben, Stacey R. AU - Nguyen, Hannah AU - Kang, Alex AU - Sankaran, Banumathi AU - Bera, Asim K. AU - Volkman, Brian F. AU - Nivala, Jeff AU - Stoll, Stefan AU - Baker, David ID - 14281 IS - 6659 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Design of stimulus-responsive two-state hinge proteins VL - 381 ER - TY - JOUR AB - The hydrogen-rich outer layers of massive stars can be removed by interactions with a binary companion. Theoretical models predict that this stripping produces a population of hot helium stars of ~2 to 8 solar masses (M☉), however, only one such system has been identified thus far. We used ultraviolet photometry to identify potential stripped helium stars then investigated 25 of them using optical spectroscopy. We identified stars with high temperatures (~60,000 to 100,000 kelvin), high surface gravities, and hydrogen-depleted surfaces; 16 stars also showed binary motion. These properties match expectations for stars with initial masses of 8 to 25 M☉ that were stripped by binary interaction. Their masses fall in the gap between subdwarf helium stars and Wolf-Rayet stars. We propose that these stars could be progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae. AU - Drout, M. R. AU - Götberg, Ylva Louise Linsdotter AU - Ludwig, B. A. AU - Groh, J. H. AU - de Mink, S. E. AU - O’Grady, A. J. G. AU - Smith, N. ID - 15085 IS - 6676 JF - Science KW - Stellar Astrophysics SN - 0036-8075 TI - An observed population of intermediate-mass helium stars that have been stripped in binaries VL - 382 ER - TY - JOUR AB - If you mix fruit syrups with alcohol to make a schnapps, the two liquids will remain perfectly blended forever. But if you mix oil with vinegar to make a vinaigrette, the oil and vinegar will soon separate back into their previous selves. Such liquid-liquid phase separation is a thermodynamically driven phenomenon and plays an important role in many biological processes (1). Although energy injection at the macroscale can reverse the phase separation—a strong shake is the normal response to a separated vinaigrette—little is known about the effect of energy added at the microscopic level on phase separation. This fundamental question has deep ramifications, notably in biology, because active processes also make the interior of a living cell different from a dead one. On page 768 of this issue, Adkins et al. (2) examine how mechanical activity at the microscopic scale affects liquid-liquid phase separation and allows liquids to climb surfaces. AU - Palacci, Jérémie A ID - 11996 IS - 6607 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - A soft active matter that can climb walls VL - 377 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Cells migrate through crowded microenvironments within tissues during normal development, immune response, and cancer metastasis. Although migration through pores and tracks in the extracellular matrix (ECM) has been well studied, little is known about cellular traversal into confining cell-dense tissues. We find that embryonic tissue invasion by Drosophila macrophages requires division of an epithelial ectodermal cell at the site of entry. Dividing ectodermal cells disassemble ECM attachment formed by integrin-mediated focal adhesions next to mesodermal cells, allowing macrophages to move their nuclei ahead and invade between two immediately adjacent tissues. Invasion efficiency depends on division frequency, but reduction of adhesion strength allows macrophage entry independently of division. This work demonstrates that tissue dynamics can regulate cellular infiltration. AU - Akhmanova, Maria AU - Emtenani, Shamsi AU - Krueger, Daniel AU - György, Attila AU - Pereira Guarda, Mariana AU - Vlasov, Mikhail AU - Vlasov, Fedor AU - Akopian, Andrei AU - Ratheesh, Aparna AU - De Renzis, Stefano AU - Siekhaus, Daria E ID - 10713 IS - 6591 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Cell division in tissues enables macrophage infiltration VL - 376 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has destroyed civilian infrastructure, including universities, research centers, and other academic infrastructure (1). Many Ukrainian scholars and researchers remain in Ukraine, and their work has suffered from major setbacks (2–4). We call on international scientists and institutions to support them. AU - Chhugani, Karishma AU - Frolova, Alina AU - Salyha, Yuriy AU - Fiscutean, Andrada AU - Zlenko, Oksana AU - Reinsone, Sanita AU - Wolfsberger, Walter W. AU - Ivashchenko, Oleksandra V. AU - Maci, Megi AU - Dziuba, Dmytro AU - Parkhomenko, Andrii AU - Bortz, Eric AU - Kondrashov, Fyodor AU - Łabaj, Paweł P. AU - Romero, Veronika AU - Hlávka, Jakub AU - Oleksyk, Taras K. AU - Mangul, Serghei ID - 12116 IS - 6626 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Remote opportunities for scholars in Ukraine VL - 378 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Asymmetric multiprotein complexes that undergo subunit exchange play central roles in biology but present a challenge for design because the components must not only contain interfaces that enable reversible association but also be stable and well behaved in isolation. We use implicit negative design to generate β sheet–mediated heterodimers that can be assembled into a wide variety of complexes. The designs are stable, folded, and soluble in isolation and rapidly assemble upon mixing, and crystal structures are close to the computational models. We construct linearly arranged hetero-oligomers with up to six different components, branched hetero-oligomers, closed C4-symmetric two-component rings, and hetero-oligomers assembled on a cyclic homo-oligomeric central hub and demonstrate that such complexes can readily reconfigure through subunit exchange. Our approach provides a general route to designing asymmetric reconfigurable protein systems. AU - Sahtoe, Danny D. AU - Praetorius, Florian M AU - Courbet, Alexis AU - Hsia, Yang AU - Wicky, Basile I. M. AU - Edman, Natasha I. AU - Miller, Lauren M. AU - Timmermans, Bart J. R. AU - Decarreau, Justin AU - Morris, Hana M. AU - Kang, Alex AU - Bera, Asim K. AU - Baker, David ID - 14282 IS - 6578 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Reconfigurable asymmetric protein assemblies through implicit negative design VL - 375 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Electrons in moiré flat band systems can spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. In this study, we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in twisted bilayer graphene aligned to hexagonal boron nitride. We find a magnetization of several Bohr magnetons per charge carrier, demonstrating that the magnetism is primarily orbital in nature. Our measurements reveal a large change in the magnetization as the chemical potential is swept across the quantum anomalous Hall gap, consistent with the expected contribution of chiral edge states to the magnetization of an orbital Chern insulator. Mapping the spatial evolution of field-driven magnetic reversal, we find a series of reproducible micrometer-scale domains pinned to structural disorder. AU - Tschirhart, C. L. AU - Serlin, M. AU - Polshyn, Hryhoriy AU - Shragai, A. AU - Xia, Z. AU - Zhu, J. AU - Zhang, Y. AU - Watanabe, K. AU - Taniguchi, T. AU - Huber, M. E. AU - Young, A. F. ID - 10616 IS - 6548 JF - Science KW - multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Imaging orbital ferromagnetism in a moiré Chern insulator VL - 372 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Genomes of germ cells present an existential vulnerability to organisms because germ cell mutations will propagate to future generations. Transposable elements are one source of such mutations. In the small flowering plant Arabidopsis, Long et al. found that genome methylation in the male germline is directed by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) imperfectly transcribed from transposons (see the Perspective by Mosher). These germline siRNAs silence germline transposons and establish inherited methylation patterns in sperm, thus maintaining the integrity of the plant genome across generations. AU - Long, Jincheng AU - Walker, James AU - She, Wenjing AU - Aldridge, Billy AU - Gao, Hongbo AU - Deans, Samuel AU - Vickers, Martin AU - Feng, Xiaoqi ID - 12187 IS - 6550 JF - Science KW - Multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Nurse cell--derived small RNAs define paternal epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis VL - 373 ER - TY - JOUR AB - The control of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is challenging because interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout Hilbert space. We investigate nonequilibrium dynamics after rapid quenches in a many-body system composed of 3 to 200 strongly interacting qubits in one and two spatial dimensions. Using a programmable quantum simulator based on Rydberg atom arrays, we show that coherent revivals associated with so-called quantum many-body scars can be stabilized by periodic driving, which generates a robust subharmonic response akin to discrete time-crystalline order. We map Hilbert space dynamics, geometry dependence, phase diagrams, and system-size dependence of this emergent phenomenon, demonstrating new ways to steer complex dynamics in many-body systems and enabling potential applications in quantum information science. AU - Bluvstein, D. AU - Omran, A. AU - Levine, H. AU - Keesling, A. AU - Semeghini, G. AU - Ebadi, S. AU - Wang, T. T. AU - Michailidis, Alexios AU - Maskara, N. AU - Ho, W. W. AU - Choi, S. AU - Serbyn, Maksym AU - Greiner, M. AU - Vuletić, V. AU - Lukin, M. D. ID - 9618 IS - 6536 JF - Science KW - Multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays VL - 371 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Thermoelectric materials are engines that convert heat into an electrical current. Intuitively, the efficiency of this process depends on how many electrons (charge carriers) can move and how easily they do so, how much energy those moving electrons transport, and how easily the temperature gradient is maintained. In terms of material properties, an excellent thermoelectric material requires a high electrical conductivity σ, a high Seebeck coefficient S (a measure of the induced thermoelectric voltage as a function of temperature gradient), and a low thermal conductivity κ. The challenge is that these three properties are strongly interrelated in a conflicting manner (1). On page 722 of this issue, Roychowdhury et al. (2) have found a way to partially break these ties in silver antimony telluride (AgSbTe2) with the addition of cadmium (Cd) cations, which increase the ordering in this inherently disordered thermoelectric material. AU - Liu, Yu AU - Ibáñez, Maria ID - 10809 IS - 6530 JF - Science KW - multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Tidying up the mess VL - 371 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is the closest experimentally tractable archaeal relative of eukaryotes and, despite lacking obvious cyclin-dependent kinase and cyclin homologs, has an ordered eukaryote-like cell cycle with distinct phases of DNA replication and division. Here, in exploring the mechanism of cell division in S. acidocaldarius, we identify a role for the archaeal proteasome in regulating the transition from the end of one cell cycle to the beginning of the next. Further, we identify the archaeal ESCRT-III homolog, CdvB, as a key target of the proteasome and show that its degradation triggers division by allowing constriction of the CdvB1:CdvB2 ESCRT-III division ring. These findings offer a minimal mechanism for ESCRT-III–mediated membrane remodeling and point to a conserved role for the proteasome in eukaryotic and archaeal cell cycle control. AU - Tarrason Risa, Gabriel AU - Hurtig, Fredrik AU - Bray, Sian AU - Hafner, Anne E. AU - Harker-Kirschneck, Lena AU - Faull, Peter AU - Davis, Colin AU - Papatziamou, Dimitra AU - Mutavchiev, Delyan R. AU - Fan, Catherine AU - Meneguello, Leticia AU - Arashiro Pulschen, Andre AU - Dey, Gautam AU - Culley, Siân AU - Kilkenny, Mairi AU - Souza, Diorge P. AU - Pellegrini, Luca AU - de Bruin, Robertus A. M. AU - Henriques, Ricardo AU - Snijders, Ambrosius P. AU - Šarić, Anđela AU - Lindås, Ann-Christin AU - Robinson, Nicholas P. AU - Baum, Buzz ID - 10349 IS - 6504 JF - Science KW - multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - The proteasome controls ESCRT-III–mediated cell division in an archaeon VL - 369 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Animal development entails the organization of specific cell types in space and time, and spatial patterns must form in a robust manner. In the zebrafish spinal cord, neural progenitors form stereotypic patterns despite noisy morphogen signaling and large-scale cellular rearrangements during morphogenesis and growth. By directly measuring adhesion forces and preferences for three types of endogenous neural progenitors, we provide evidence for the differential adhesion model in which differences in intercellular adhesion mediate cell sorting. Cell type–specific combinatorial expression of different classes of cadherins (N-cadherin, cadherin 11, and protocadherin 19) results in homotypic preference ex vivo and patterning robustness in vivo. Furthermore, the differential adhesion code is regulated by the sonic hedgehog morphogen gradient. We propose that robust patterning during tissue morphogenesis results from interplay between adhesion-based self-organization and morphogen-directed patterning. AU - Tsai, Tony Y.-C. AU - Sikora, Mateusz K AU - Xia, Peng AU - Colak-Champollion, Tugba AU - Knaut, Holger AU - Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J AU - Megason, Sean G. ID - 8680 IS - 6512 JF - Science KW - Multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - An adhesion code ensures robust pattern formation during tissue morphogenesis VL - 370 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Spontaneously arising channels that transport the phytohormone auxin provide positional cues for self-organizing aspects of plant development such as flexible vasculature regeneration or its patterning during leaf venation. The auxin canalization hypothesis proposes a feedback between auxin signaling and transport as the underlying mechanism, but molecular players await discovery. We identified part of the machinery that routes auxin transport. The auxin-regulated receptor CAMEL (Canalization-related Auxin-regulated Malectin-type RLK) together with CANAR (Canalization-related Receptor-like kinase) interact with and phosphorylate PIN auxin transporters. camel and canar mutants are impaired in PIN1 subcellular trafficking and auxin-mediated PIN polarization, which macroscopically manifests as defects in leaf venation and vasculature regeneration after wounding. The CAMEL-CANAR receptor complex is part of the auxin feedback that coordinates polarization of individual cells during auxin canalization. AU - Hajny, Jakub AU - Prat, Tomas AU - Rydza, N AU - Rodriguez Solovey, Lesia AU - Tan, Shutang AU - Verstraeten, Inge AU - Domjan, David AU - Mazur, E AU - Smakowska-Luzan, E AU - Smet, W AU - Mor, E AU - Nolf, J AU - Yang, B AU - Grunewald, W AU - Molnar, Gergely AU - Belkhadir, Y AU - De Rybel, B AU - Friml, Jiří ID - 8721 IS - 6516 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Receptor kinase module targets PIN-dependent auxin transport during canalization VL - 370 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through chromatin where nucleosomes restrict DNA access. To study how TFs bind nucleosome-occupied motifs, we focused on the reprogramming factors OCT4 and SOX2 in mouse embryonic stem cells. We determined TF engagement throughout a nucleosome at base-pair resolution in vitro, enabling structure determination by cryo–electron microscopy at two preferred positions. Depending on motif location, OCT4 and SOX2 differentially distort nucleosomal DNA. At one position, OCT4-SOX2 removes DNA from histone H2A and histone H3; however, at an inverted motif, the TFs only induce local DNA distortions. OCT4 uses one of its two DNA-binding domains to engage DNA in both structures, reading out a partial motif. These findings explain site-specific nucleosome engagement by the pluripotency factors OCT4 and SOX2, and they reveal how TFs distort nucleosomes to access chromatinized motifs. AU - Michael, Alicia Kathleen AU - Grand, Ralph S. AU - Isbel, Luke AU - Cavadini, Simone AU - Kozicka, Zuzanna AU - Kempf, Georg AU - Bunker, Richard D. AU - Schenk, Andreas D. AU - Graff-Meyer, Alexandra AU - Pathare, Ganesh R. AU - Weiss, Joscha AU - Matsumoto, Syota AU - Burger, Lukas AU - Schübeler, Dirk AU - Thomä, Nicolas H. ID - 15152 IS - 6498 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Mechanisms of OCT4-SOX2 motif readout on nucleosomes VL - 368 ER - TY - JOUR AB - The discovery of superconductivity and exotic insulating phases in twisted bilayer graphene has established this material as a model system of strongly correlated electrons. To achieve superconductivity, the two layers of graphene need to be at a very precise angle with respect to each other. Yankowitz et al. now show that another experimental knob, hydrostatic pressure, can be used to tune the phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene (see the Perspective by Feldman). Applying pressure increased the coupling between the layers, which shifted the superconducting transition to higher angles and somewhat higher temperatures. AU - Yankowitz, Matthew AU - Chen, Shaowen AU - Polshyn, Hryhoriy AU - Zhang, Yuxuan AU - Watanabe, K. AU - Taniguchi, T. AU - Graf, David AU - Young, Andrea F. AU - Dean, Cory R. ID - 10625 IS - 6431 JF - Science KW - multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene VL - 363 ER - TY - JOUR AB - The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect combines topology and magnetism to produce precisely quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the observation of a QAH effect in twisted bilayer graphene aligned to hexagonal boron nitride. The effect is driven by intrinsic strong interactions, which polarize the electrons into a single spin- and valley-resolved moiré miniband with Chern number C = 1. In contrast to magnetically doped systems, the measured transport energy gap is larger than the Curie temperature for magnetic ordering, and quantization to within 0.1% of the von Klitzing constant persists to temperatures of several kelvin at zero magnetic field. Electrical currents as small as 1 nanoampere controllably switch the magnetic order between states of opposite polarization, forming an electrically rewritable magnetic memory. AU - Serlin, M. AU - Tschirhart, C. L. AU - Polshyn, Hryhoriy AU - Zhang, Y. AU - Zhu, J. AU - Watanabe, K. AU - Taniguchi, T. AU - Balents, L. AU - Young, A. F. ID - 10619 IS - 6480 JF - Science KW - multidisciplinary SN - 0036-8075 TI - Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure VL - 367 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Although crystals of strongly correlated metals exhibit a diverse set of electronic ground states, few approaches exist for spatially modulating their properties. In this study, we demonstrate disorder-free control, on the micrometer scale, over the superconducting state in samples of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn5. We pattern crystals by focused ion beam milling to tailor the boundary conditions for the elastic deformation upon thermal contraction during cooling. The resulting nonuniform strain fields induce complex patterns of superconductivity, owing to the strong dependence of the transition temperature on the strength and direction of strain. These results showcase a generic approach to manipulating electronic order on micrometer length scales in strongly correlated matter without compromising the cleanliness, stoichiometry, or mean free path. AU - Bachmann, Maja D. AU - Ferguson, G. M. AU - Theuss, Florian AU - Meng, Tobias AU - Putzke, Carsten AU - Helm, Toni AU - Shirer, K. R. AU - Li, You-Sheng AU - Modic, Kimberly A AU - Nicklas, Michael AU - König, Markus AU - Low, D. AU - Ghosh, Sayak AU - Mackenzie, Andrew P. AU - Arnold, Frank AU - Hassinger, Elena AU - McDonald, Ross D. AU - Winter, Laurel E. AU - Bauer, Eric D. AU - Ronning, Filip AU - Ramshaw, B. J. AU - Nowack, Katja C. AU - Moll, Philip J. W. ID - 7082 IS - 6462 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Spatial control of heavy-fermion superconductivity in CeIrIn5 VL - 366 ER - TY - JOUR AB - V (vacuolar)/A (archaeal)-type adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases), found in archaeaand eubacteria, couple ATP hydrolysis or synthesis to proton translocation across theplasma membrane using the rotary-catalysis mechanism. They belong to the V-typeATPase family, which differs from the mitochondrial/chloroplast F-type ATP synthasesin overall architecture. We solved cryo–electron microscopy structures of the intactThermus thermophilusV/A-ATPase, reconstituted into lipid nanodiscs, in three rotationalstates and two substates. These structures indicate substantial flexibility betweenV1and Voin a working enzyme, which results from mechanical competition between centralshaft rotation and resistance from the peripheral stalks. We also describedetails of adenosine diphosphate inhibition release, V1-Votorque transmission, andproton translocation, which are relevant for the entire V-type ATPase family. AU - Zhou, Long AU - Sazanov, Leonid A ID - 6859 IS - 6455 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 TI - Structure and conformational plasticity of the intact Thermus thermophilus V/A-type ATPase VL - 365 ER -