Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2024

Digital approaches to brain-inspired computing have advanced apace over recent years - where is the state-of-the-art and what does the future hold?

The author provides 4 design principles of how to make cortical microcircuits into neuromorphic hardwares, shedding light for the next generation neuromorphic hardware design.

This Perspective presents the Modular-Integrative Modeling approach, a novel framework in neuroscience for developing brain models that blend biological realism with functional performance to provide a holistic view on brain function in interaction with the body and environment.

This paper presents a solid framework of digital twin brain (DTB) for discovering the relationship between brain architecture and functions, and digitally trying and testing diverse cognitive and medical approaches that are infeasible to be examined in biological subjects.

Darwin3, the largest neuromorphic chip currently available, can support up to 2.35 million neurons and 100 million synapses. It presents an efficient neuromorphic instruction set, enabling flexible neuron model programming and on-chip learning.

To understand the effects of the classical serotonergic psychedelic N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), researchers have employed the novel HADES framework revealing changes to functional spacetime hierarchy under DMT.

Discover the fascinating world of hybrid neural networks revolutionizing artificial intelligence by gaining insights into their origin, construction framework, and supporting systems, along with potential future research directions.

Virtual brain twins integrate individual brain imaging data in a digital model to accurately reflect a person's brain. This review explains how to use them for various brain diseases.

NSR spoke to a leading theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging - Karl Friston. The Bayesian mechanics of brain computing gives a unique route to understanding authentic (neuromimetic) intelligence, and more importantly, pointing towards the development of brain-inspired intelligence.

The global land-monsoon system demonstrates super-cycles in both area and precipitation intensity in the Phanerozoic. The cyclicity of the global land-monsoon closely follows the supercontinent cycle, indicating the governance of continental configurations on the global land-monsoon over tectonic timescales.

This study found that temperature variability is a key indicator of urban fire activity in China, with warmer temperatures are correlated with more urban fires, and that this fire-temperature relationship is seasonally and regionally explicit. In the early twentieth century, however, the fire-temperature relationship was overruled by war-related fires in large urban areas.

The compositional differentiation and modification of continental crusts manifest the physical and chemical process reflecting the mechanism of secular evolution of continents; however, it is difficult to quantify. This work provides delicate seismic constraints to address this issue in the complex craton margin of North China.

Optically excited hot electrons modulate the plasmon resonances via ultrafast charge transfer, which is highly compatible for optoplasmonic devices and photonic chip integration.

This study used scanning SQUID susceptometry to observe oscillating paramagnetic Meissner effect in monolayer Bi2212 near its critical temperature, which served as a signature of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in this compound.

This paper presents a generic strategy to alter the Poisson's ratio of elastomer membranes, and achieve flexible sensors with zero Poisson's ratio, which have the capability of independently detecting biaxial stimuli.

Integrating anodic oxidative coupling with cathodic nitrate reduction reactions enabled efficient electrocatalytic co-oxidative coupling of ethanol and benzyl alcohol to produce cinnamaldehyde.

Infrared photo-induced dipole force enhanced by substrate surface phonon polariton has been used for high-contrast imaging of ultrathin samples.

CO₂ facilitates upcycling of polyolefins to aromatics below 300 °C in one step, with 90% CO₂ being incorporated into the products, which provides a new strategy for combined waste plastics upcycling and carbon utilization.

Effective electrical doping of perovskite caused by remote molecular dopants are precisely characterized and clarified, based on which a 3D-2D heterojunction structure is fabricated to achieve a high efficiency wide bandgap perovskite solar cell, and an all perovskite tandem solar cell with efficiency over 27%.

A century-old clay material is discovered to show ferroelectricity in its monolayer thickness limit, leading to a record high electro-optical Kerr effect and sensitive electric field responsitivity.

This work presents solution-processed perylene diimide dianion films with strong intermolecular interaction, achieving band-like transport behavior with high Hall mobility in polycrystalline organic semiconductive film.

A methodology of ultra-low frequency magnetic energy focusing is developed for wireless powering, which transmits energy through low-frequency electromagnetic waves with long-distance transmission and low energy attenuation through thick biological tissues.

This work reports a bottom-up self-assembly strategy to synthesize single-oriented ordered mesoporous nanofibers with structure mimicking vascular bundles based on electrospinning supramolecular micelle solution, showing great potential in electrochemical energy applications.

Titanium silicate catalysts with highly accessible and homogeneously distributed framework TiO₆ active single sites at the mesoporous surface were obtained by engineering electrostatic interface, exhibiting unprecedented deep oxidative desulfurization performance.

A pocket-like S-scheme CoS_x/ZnS heterojunction with purpose-designed interfacial dual active sites has been synthesized for photocatalytic N₂ fixation, achieving a high NH₃ production rate of 1175.37 μmol g⁻¹ h⁻¹.

This work reports an intelligent gold nanocluster to perform precise photothermal-chemodynamic therapy with AIE guidance and on-demand manipulation of intracellular environments for integrative inhibition of primary tumor and its metastasis.

The secrets of relaxation in liquids and amorphous materials are deciphered through a new concept of configuration pattern-matching, unveiling a universal link between global configuration and glassy relaxation dynamics.

This work develops a high-fidelity heat transfer model for predicting the key performance metrics, heat transfer coefficient and critical heat flux, of liquid film boiling on various micro-structured surfaces.

This review article delves into current powerful technologies capable of identifying single-nucleotide variants in vitro, which may contribute to the understanding of the complexities of the single-nucleotide variant-related diseases and discovering new ways to diagnose and treat diseases based on individual genetic profiles.

This review explores how ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI revolutionizes diagnostics with safer contrast options, offering a glimpse into advanced imaging techniques and promising new directions in medical research.

This review exploresthe ongoing material design procedures involving screening of disordered biological functions, artificial intelligence-aided material `elements' selection, in vitro high-throughput fabrication and evaluation, and in vivo verification for clinical translation.