Acupuncture attenuates alcohol dependence through activation of endorphinergic input to the nucleus accumbens from the arcuate nucleus.

abstract：:Since Darwin's conception of sexual selection theory, scientists have struggled to identify the evolutionary forces underlying the pervasive differences between male and female behavior, morphology, and physiology. The Darwin-Bateman paradigm predicts that anisogamy imposes stronger sexual selection on males, which, i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Janicke T,Häderer IK,Lajeunesse MJ,Anthes N

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft robotics may enable many new technologies in which humans and robots physically interact, yet the necessary high-performance soft actuators still do not exist. The optimal soft actuators need to be fast and forceful and have programmable shape changes. Furthermore, they should be energy efficient for untethered a...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Davidson ZS,Shahsavan H,Aghakhani A,Guo Y,Hines L,Xia Y,Yang S,Sitti M

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a dual-mode organic photodetector (OPD) that has a trilayer visible light absorber/optical spacer/near-infrared (NIR) light absorber configuration. In the presence of NIR light, photocurrent is produced in the NIR light-absorbing layer due to the trap-assisted charge injection at the organic/cathode interfac...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Lan Z,Lei Y,Chan WKE,Chen S,Luo D,Zhu F

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Human settlement of the Caribbean represents the only example in the Americas of peoples colonizing islands that were not visible from surrounding mainland areas or other islands. Unfortunately, many interpretive models have relied on radiocarbon determinations that do not meet standard criteria for reporting because ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Napolitano MF,DiNapoli RJ,Stone JH,Levin MJ,Jew NP,Lane BG,O'Connor JT,Fitzpatrick SM

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineering the thermal conductivity of amorphous materials is highly essential for the thermal management of future electronic devices. Here, we demonstrate the impact of ultrafine nanostructuring on the thermal conductivity reduction of amorphous silicon nitride (a-Si3N4) thin films, in which the thermal transport i...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Tambo N,Liao Y,Zhou C,Ashley EM,Takahashi K,Nealey PF,Naito Y,Shiomi J

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Yearly, a quarter billion people are infected and a half a million killed by the mosquito-borne disease malaria. Lack of real-time observational tools for continuously assessing the unperturbed mosquito flight activity in situ limits progress toward improved vector control. We deployed a high-resolution entomological ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Brydegaard M,Jansson S,Malmqvist E,Mlacha YP,Gebru A,Okumu F,Killeen GF,Kirkeby C

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit coupling in proximity to a superconductor is predicted to display Majorana edge states emerging under a properly oriented magnetic field. The experimental investigation of these exotic states requires assessing the one-dimensional (1D) character of the nanowire and under...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Estrada Saldaña JC,Žitko R,Cleuziou JP,Lee EJH,Zannier V,Ercolani D,Sorba L,Aguado R,De Franceschi S

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin caloritronics has recently emerged from the combination of spintronics and thermoelectricity. Here, we show that flexible, macroscopic spin caloritronic devices based on large-area interconnected magnetic nanowire networks can be used to enable controlled Peltier cooling of macroscopic electronic components with ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： da Câmara Santa Clara Gomes T,Abreu Araujo F,Piraux L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insights into neutrophil heterogeneity dynamics in the context of sterile inflammation and wound healing, we performed a pseudotime analysis of single-cell flow cytometry data using the spanning-tree progression analysis of density-normalized events algorithm. This enables us to view neutrophil transitional su...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Turner TC,Sok MCP,Hymel LA,Pittman FS,York WY,Mac QD,Vyshnya S,Lim HS,Kwong GA,Qiu P,Botchwey EA

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinatively unsaturated (CUS) iron sites are highly active in catalytic oxidation reactions; however, maintaining the CUS structure of iron during heterogeneous catalytic reactions is a great challenge. Here, we report a strategy to stabilize single-atom CUS iron sites by embedding highly dispersed FeN4 centers in ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Deng D,Chen X,Yu L,Wu X,Liu Q,Liu Y,Yang H,Tian H,Hu Y,Du P,Si R,Wang J,Cui X,Li H,Xiao J,Xu T,Deng J,Yang F,Duchesne PN,Zhang P,Zhou J,Sun L,Li J,Pan X,Bao X

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid commonly flows in response to an external pressure gradient. However, when a tunnel-containing hydrogel is immersed in water, spontaneous flow occurs through the tunnel without any pressure gradient. We confirmed this flow in a wide range of plant- and animal-derived hydrogels. The flow appears to be driven by a...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Li Z,Pollack GH

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Amorphous solids, such as glasses, have complex responses to deformations, with substantial consequences in material design and applications. In this respect, two intertwined aspects are important: stability and reversibility. It is crucial to understand, on the one hand, how a glass may become unstable due to increas...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Jin Y,Urbani P,Zamponi F,Yoshino H

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Active materials are capable of converting free energy into directional motion, giving rise to notable dynamical phenomena. Developing a general understanding of their structure in relation to the underlying nonequilibrium physics would provide a route toward control of their dynamic behavior and pave the way for pote...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Kumar N,Zhang R,de Pablo JJ,Gardel ML

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrochemical analysis of sweat using soft bioelectronics on human skin provides a new route for noninvasive glucose monitoring without painful blood collection. However, sweat-based glucose sensing still faces many challenges, such as difficulty in sweat collection, activity variation of glucose oxidase due to lact...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Lee H,Song C,Hong YS,Kim MS,Cho HR,Kang T,Shin K,Choi SH,Hyeon T,Kim DH

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of cadmium sulfide (CdS)-based oil paints is a phenomenon potentially threatening the iconic painting The Scream (ca. 1910) by Edvard Munch (Munch Museum, Oslo) that is still poorly understood. Here, we provide evidence for the presence of cadmium sulfate and sulfites as alteration products of the orig...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Monico L,Cartechini L,Rosi F,Chieli A,Grazia C,De Meyer S,Nuyts G,Vanmeert F,Janssens K,Cotte M,De Nolf W,Falkenberg G,Sandu ICA,Tveit ES,Mass J,de Freitas RP,Romani A,Miliani C

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article e1602026 in vol. 3, PMID: 28246641.]. ...

journal_title：Science advances

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更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The control and use of light polarization in optical sciences and engineering are widespread. Despite remarkable developments in polarization-resolved imaging for life sciences, their transposition to strongly scattering media is currently not possible, because of the inherent depolarization effects arising from multi...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： de Aguiar HB,Gigan S,Brasselet S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the normal state in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is crucial to the ultimate understanding of the long-standing problem of the origin of the superconductivity itself. This so-called "strange metal" state is thought to be associated with a quantum critical point (QCP) hidden beneath ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Sarkar T,Mandal PR,Poniatowski NR,Chan MK,Greene RL

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Driven by advances in materials and computer science, researchers are attempting to design systems where the computer and material are one and the same entity. Using theoretical and computational modeling, we design a hybrid material system that can autonomously transduce chemical, mechanical, and electrical energy to...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Fang Y,Yashin VV,Levitan SP,Balazs AC

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) enzyme catalyzes the conversion of the modified DNA base 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. TET2 is frequently mutated or dysregulated in multiple human cancers, and loss of TET2 is associated with changes in DNA methylation patterns. Here, using newly developed TE...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wang L,Ozark PA,Smith ER,Zhao Z,Marshall SA,Rendleman EJ,Piunti A,Ryan C,Whelan AL,Helmin KA,Morgan MA,Zou L,Singer BD,Shilatifard A

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstration of ultralow energy switching mechanisms is imperative for continued improvements in computing devices. Ferroelectric (FE) and multiferroic (MF) order and their manipulation promise an ideal combination of state variables to reach attojoule range for logic and memory (i.e., ~30× lower switching energy tha...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Manipatruni S,Nikonov DE,Lin CC,Prasad B,Huang YL,Damodaran AR,Chen Z,Ramesh R,Young IA

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have extensively investigated the impact of Arctic sea ice anomalies on the midlatitude circulation and associated surface climate in winter. However, there is an ongoing scientific debate regarding whether and how sea ice retreat results in the observed cold anomaly over the adjacent continents. We p...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Zhang P,Wu Y,Simpson IR,Smith KL,Zhang X,De B,Callaghan P

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic aperture radar is a well-known technique for improving resolution in radio imaging. Extending these synthetic aperture techniques to the visible light domain is not straightforward because optical receivers cannot measure phase information. We propose to use macroscopic Fourier ptychography (FP) as a practic...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Holloway J,Wu Y,Sharma MK,Cossairt O,Veeraraghavan A

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Goat domestication was critical for agriculture and civilization, but its underlying genetic changes and selection regimes remain unclear. Here, we analyze the genomes of worldwide domestic goats, wild caprid species, and historical remains, providing evidence of an ancient introgression event from a West Caucasian tu...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Zheng Z,Wang X,Li M,Li Y,Yang Z,Wang X,Pan X,Gong M,Zhang Y,Guo Y,Wang Y,Liu J,Cai Y,Chen Q,Okpeku M,Colli L,Cai D,Wang K,Huang S,Sonstegard TS,Esmailizadeh A,Zhang W,Zhang T,Xu Y,Xu N,Yang Y,Han J,C

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, a growing number of studies have revealed that progressive changes to epigenetic information accompany aging in both dividing and nondividing cells. Functional studies in model organisms and humans indicate that epigenetic changes have a huge influence on the aging process. These epigenetic chang...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Pal S,Tyler JK

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Can mating influence cognitive functions such as learning and memory in a permanent way? We have addressed this question using a combined behavioral and in vivo imaging approach, finding that aversive long-term memory performance strongly increases in Drosophila females in response to sperm transfer following mating. ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Scheunemann L,Lampin-Saint-Amaux A,Schor J,Preat T

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in van der Waals heterostructures to demonstrate the emergence of a strong proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene. By performing spin transport and pr...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Khokhriakov D,Cummings AW,Song K,Vila M,Karpiak B,Dankert A,Roche S,Dash SP

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mott metal-insulator transition, a paradigm of strong electron-electron correlations, has been considered as a source of intriguing phenomena. Despite its importance for a wide range of materials, fundamental aspects of the transition, such as its universal properties, are still under debate. We report detailed me...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Gati E,Garst M,Manna RS,Tutsch U,Wolf B,Bartosch L,Schubert H,Sasaki T,Schlueter JA,Lang M

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum phenomena have the potential to speed up the solution of hard optimization problems. For example, quantum annealing, based on the quantum tunneling effect, has recently been shown to scale exponentially better with system size than classical simulated annealing. However, current realizations of quantum anneale...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Nigg SE,Lörch N,Tiwari RP

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy band engineering is of fundamental importance in nanoelectronics. Compared to chemical approaches such as doping and surface functionalization, electrical and optical methods provide greater flexibility that enables continuous, reversible, and in situ band tuning on electronic devices of various kinds. In this ...

journal_title：Science advances

authors： Wu E,Xie Y,Zhang J,Zhang H,Hu X,Liu J,Zhou C,Zhang D

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00