Identification and characterization of a skin microbiome on suggests environmental microbes confer cuticle protection.

Unlabelled: In the wild, are emersed in environments teeming with a veritable menagerie of microorganisms. The cuticular surface serves as a barrier and first point of contact with their microbial environments. In this study, we identify microbes from natural habitats that associate with its cuticle, constituting a simple "skin microbiome.

Melting of generalized Wigner crystals in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer Moiré systems.

Moiré superlattice systems such as transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have garnered significant recent interest due to their promising utility as tunable solid state simulators. Recent experiments on a WSe/WS heterobilayer detected incompressible charge ordered states that one can view as generalized Wigner crystals. The tunability of the transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer Moiré system presents an opportunity to study the rich set of possible phases upon melting these charge-ordered states.

Harnessing interpretable and unsupervised machine learning to address big data from modern X-ray diffraction.

The information content of crystalline materials becomes astronomical when collective electronic behavior and their fluctuations are taken into account. In the past decade, improvements in source brightness and detector technology at modern X-ray facilities have allowed a dramatically increased fraction of this information to be captured. Now, the primary challenge is to understand and discover scientific principles from big datasets when a comprehensive analysis is beyond human reach.

Intestine-to-neuronal signaling alters risk-taking behaviors in food-deprived Caenorhabditis elegans.

Animals integrate changes in external and internal environments to generate behavior. While neural circuits detecting external cues have been mapped, less is known about how internal states like hunger are integrated into behavioral outputs. Here, we use the nematode C.