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TABLE OF CONTENTS July 2018 Volume 14, Issue 7 Editorial Thesis Books & Arts Research Highlights News & Views Editorial Comment Perspectives Review Articles Letters Articles Amendments & Corrections Measure for Measure   Advertisement nature.com webcasts Nature Research Custom Media presents a webcast on: Optical Trapping of Ion Coulomb Crystals   Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2018   Join our webcast to understand the trapping of neutral and charged atoms and how to exploit optically trapped ions to investigate quantum-phase transitions.   This webcast has been produced on behalf of the sponsor who retains sole responsibility for content   Register for FREE    Sponsored by: Andor    Advertisement Publishing online monthly, Nature Astronomy aims to bring together astronomers, astrophysicists and planetary scientists. In addition to the latest advances in research, we offer Comment and Opinion pieces on topical subjects of relevance to our community, including the societal impact of astronomy and updates on telescopes and space missions. SUBMIT YOUR RESEARCH TODAY    Advertisement Do you have a career question?  The Naturejobs podcast features one-on-one Q&As, panel discussions and other exclusive content to help scientists with their careers. Hosted on the Naturejobs blog, the podcast is also available on iTunes and Soundcloud. Listen today!   Editorial   Is peer review ergodic?    p633 doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0226-5 Thesis   Organoids of intelligence    p634 Mark Buchanan doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0200-2 Advertisement Nature Spotlight on Hong Kong: Building science innovation   Hong Kong is maximising major scientific innovation and commercial benefits through its proximity to the research and development hubs in mainland China. Yet barriers to collaboration remain. Access the full supplement for more     Books & Arts   Theoretical introspection    p635 Gaia Donati doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0198-5 Research Highlights   #Change    p636 Andreas H. Trabesinger doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0219-4 Gold trappings    p636 Abigail Klopper doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0220-y Inside the cloud    p636 David Abergel doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0221-x All stitched up    p636 Jan Philip Kraack doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0222-9 Mining the laws of nature    p636 Yun Li doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0223-8 Physics JOBS of the week Postdoctoral Researcher Cavity control of rare earth ions KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Research Scientist MRC Postdoc in NanoBioPhotonics Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Postdoc in NanoBioPhotonics Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) More Science jobs from Physics EVENT The 5th International Conference on the Physics of Optical Materials and Devices 27.08.18 Igalo, Montenegro More science events from News & Views   Escape the thermal fate    pp637 - 638 Vanja Dunjko & Maxim Olshanii doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0157-1 Live streaming    pp638 - 639 Francesc Sagués doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0127-7 Cellular diversity heals    pp639 - 641 M. Shane Hutson doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0192-y Between a ripple and a dune    pp641 - 642 N. M. Vriend & P. A. Jarvis doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0113-0 Editorial   Physics of living systems    p645 Abigail Klopper doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0230-9 Comment   Biophysics across time and space    pp646 - 647 Ewa K. Paluch doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0206-9 Perspectives   In pursuit of the mechanics that shape cell surfaces    pp648 - 652 Alba Diz-Muñoz, Orion D. Weiner & Daniel A. Fletcher doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0187-8 Robust and responsive, the surface of a cell is as important as its interior when it comes to mechanically regulating form and function. New techniques are shedding light on this role, and a common language to describe its properties is now needed.   Ethology as a physical science    pp653 - 657 André E. X. Brown & Benjamin de Bivort doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0093-0 Review Articles   Physical biology of the cancer cell glycocalyx    pp658 - 669 Joe Chin-Hun Kuo, Jay G. Gandhi, Roseanna N. Zia & Matthew J. Paszek doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0186-9 It may look like little more than slime, but the glycocalyx coating our cells plays a key role in cell signalling. And changes to its physical structure have been linked to cancer, triggering emergent behaviours that form the focus of this Review.   Mesoscale physical principles of collective cell organization    pp671 - 682 Xavier Trepat & Erik Sahai doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0194-9 The behaviour of cells and tissues can be understood in terms of emergent mesoscale states that are determined by a set of physical properties. This Review surveys experimental evidence for these states and the physics underpinning them.   The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants    pp683 - 693 Ofer Feinerman, Itai Pinkoviezky, Aviram Gelblum, Ehud Fonio & Nir S. Gov doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0107-y Evidence that ants communicate mechanically to move objects several times their size has prompted a theory that places the group near a transition between uncoordinated and coordinated motion. These findings and their implications are reviewed here.   Letters   Amplification of intense light fields by nearly free electrons    pp695 - 700 Mary Matthews, Felipe Morales, Alexander Patas, Albrecht Lindinger, Julien Gateau et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0105-0 Light fields of energy comparable to the Coloumb field that binds valence electrons in atoms generate states where nearly free electrons oscillate in the laser field. These are now shown to exist in rare gases, acting as gain for laser filamentation.   Ultrafast preparation and detection of ring currents in single atoms    pp701 - 704 Sebastian Eckart, Maksim Kunitski, Martin Richter, Alexander Hartung, Jonas Rist et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0080-5 When an electron with specific orbit — either clockwise or anticlockwise — in a rare gas atom is selectively ionized, the remaining ion will possess a stationary ring current, which can be probed in a time-delayed second ionization step.   On-demand quantum state transfer and entanglement between remote microwave cavity memories    pp705 - 710 Christopher J. Axline, Luke D. Burkhart, Wolfgang Pfaff, Mengzhen Zhang, Kevin Chou et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0115-y Sending quantum states as shaped microwave photonic wavepackets realizes on-demand, high-fidelity quantum state transfer and entanglement between two superconducting cavity quantum memories.   Experimental signatures of emergent quantum electrodynamics in Pr2Hf2O7    pp711 - 715 Romain Sibille, Nicolas Gauthier, Han Yan, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Jacques Ollivier et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0116-x A detailed and systematic neutron scattering study of rare-earth pyrochlore magnet Pr2Hf2O7 provides evidence for a quantum spin ice state, and emergent lattice quantum electrodynamics consistent with theoretical predictions.   Topological quantum phase transition in the Ising-like antiferromagnetic spin chain BaCo2V2O8    pp716 - 722 Quentin Faure, Shintaro Takayoshi, Sylvain Petit, Virginie Simonet, Stéphane Raymond et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0126-8 A neutron scattering study of an Ising-like quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet, BaCo2V2O8, reveals a topological quantum phase transition when it is subjected to a transverse magnetic field.   Classical topological order in the kinetics of artificial spin ice    pp723 - 727 Yuyang Lao, Francesco Caravelli, Mohammed Sheikh, Joseph Sklenar, Daniel Gardeazabal et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0077-0 Experiments on the Shakti geometry of artificial spin ice show that its low-energy excitations are topologically protected, and that an emergent classical topological order influences the ergodicity and equilibration of this nanomagnetic system.   Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics    pp728 - 732 G. Duclos, C. Blanch-Mercader, V. Yashunsky, G. Salbreux, J.-F. Joanny et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0099-7 Antiparallel streams of nematically oriented cells arise in both embryonic development and cancer. In vitro experiments and a hydrodynamic active gel theory suggest that these cells are subject to a transition that is driven by their activity.   Articles   Attosecond coupled electron and nuclear dynamics in dissociative ionization of H2    pp733 - 738 L. Cattaneo, J. Vos, R. Y. Bello, A. Palacios, S. Heuser et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0103-2 Attosecond XUV spectroscopy is reported, focussing on non-Born–Oppenheimer dynamics in molecular gases of light elements. It is shown that the phase of the detected photoelectrons carries information from both vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom.   Bose–Einstein condensation in a plasmonic lattice    pp739 - 744 Tommi K. Hakala, Antti J. Moilanen, Aaro I. Väkeväinen, Rui Guo, Jani-Petri Martikainen et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0109-9 Surface plasmon polaritons in an array of metallic nanoparticles evolve quickly into the band minimum by interacting with a molecule bath, forming a Bose–Einstein condensate at room temperature within picoseconds.   Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many-body scars    pp745 - 749 C. J. Turner, A. A. Michailidis, D. A. Abanin, M. Serbyn & Z. Papić doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0137-5 Ergodicity can be strongly broken by integrable or many-body localized systems. A new form of weak ergodicity breaking is shown to arise from the presence of special eigenstates in the many-body spectrum akin to quantum scars in chaotic systems.   Dynamic force patterns promote collective cell movements during embryonic wound repair    pp750 - 758 Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa & Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0111-2 The motor proteins and contractile forces involved in wound closure are both shown to be heterogeneously distributed around a wound. Theory suggests that this heterogeneity speeds up wound closure, as long as the proteins are mechanically regulated.   Aeolian sand sorting and megaripple formation    pp759 - 765 Marc Lämmel, Anne Meiwald, Hezi Yizhaq, Haim Tsoar, Itzhak Katra et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0106-z Wind-mediated ripples form on a centimetre scale in sand, and in dunes on a scale spanning tens of metres, but patterns on intermediate scales are rare. A theory now fills the gap by predicting megaripples, which resemble structures seen on Mars.   Amendments & Corrections   Publisher Correction: Topological antiferromagnetic spintronics    p766 Libor Šmejkal, Yuriy Mokrousov, Binghai Yan & Allan H. MacDonald doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0171-3 Publisher Correction: What’s in the box?    p766 David Abergel doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0185-x Publisher Correction: Synthetic antiferromagnetic spintronics    p766 R. A. Duine, Kyung-Jin Lee, Stuart S. P. Parkin & M. D. Stiles doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0195-8 Publisher Correction: Amplification of intense light fields by nearly free electrons    p767 Mary Matthews, Felipe Morales, Alexander Patas, Albrecht Lindinger, Julien Gateau et al. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0208-7 Author Correction: Quantum electrodynamics and the proton size    p767 Thomas Udem doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0211-z Measure for Measure   The language of radioactivity    p768 Hans-Georg Menzel doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0207-8 Advertisement Nature Briefing is an essential round-up of science news, opinion and analysis, free in your inbox every weekday. With Nature Briefing, we'll keep you updated on the latest research, so you can focus on yours. Click here to sign up.   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. 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