Cond-mat Update

Tue, 04 February 2025 from Nature (15 papers)
Signatures of longitudinal spin pumping in a magnetic phase transition
Why even physicists still don’t understand quantum theory 100 years on
How a wobbly arrow can achieve superpropulsion
The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
How China created AI model DeepSeek and shocked the world
Dipoles disordered by design to increase capacity of energy-storage devices
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
A shout-out for AI studies that don’t make the headlines
Enhanced energy storage in antiferroelectrics via antipolar frustration
Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer
An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples
C-terminal amides mark proteins for degradation via SCF–FBXO31
Humanity needs to diversify its lithium sources
James Fraser Stoddart obituary: chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines