1. Rational Design for Monodisperse Gallium Nanoparticles by In Situ Monitoring with Small-Angle X-ray Scattering 

   Schenk, Florian M.; Wintersteller, Simon; Clarysse, Jasper; et al. (2025)

   Journal of the American Chemical Society

   Colloidal chemistry is a well-known synthetic platform for producing size-uniform nanoparticles. However, the optimization of each material system still relies on a tedious trial-and-error approach in a multiparametric space, commonly referred to as design-of-experiments. This process is particularly laborious for emerging material classes for which only a handful of syntheses have been reported. Alternative approaches for the rational ...

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2. Switching Off: Energy Saving Goals Outshine Incentives-Evidence from a Field Experiment 

   Borzino, Natalia; Hiepler, Benjamin; Schmitt, Kathrin; et al. (2025)

   Environmental and Resource Economics

   Feedback interventions are a promising tool for promoting household energy conservation and addressing climate change. This study examines whether their effectiveness improves with incentivized energy saving goals through a field experiment involving 422 Singaporean households over eight months. All treatment groups received tailored feedback reports, energy saving goals, and tips. Two groups also received additional incentives: monetary ...

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3. Assessing the impacts of climate change on snow avalanche-induced risk in alpine regions 

   Ortner, Gregor; Michel, Adrien; Kropf, Chahan M.; et al. (2025)

   Natural Hazards

   Climate change is a global challenge with serious impacts on human populations. Numerous studies have highlighted the impacts of climate change on natural hazard processes and associated risks for communities. Understanding future hazard and risks is crucial for effective risk management. This study focuses on assessing snow avalanche risks for inhabited areas in the context of climate-induced changes. By using hazard scenarios based on ...

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4. Exploring the acceptability, feasibility and utility of a digital tool for self-reporting perinatal anxiety and depression in urban obstetric and paediatric clinics in India 

   Lotlikar, Shraddha; Chandra, Prabha; Desai, Geetha; et al. (2025)

   Digital Health

   Background Common mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression, affect 13% to 55% of women during the perinatal period in India. However, high-volume obstetric clinics often lack resources for routine mental health assessment. Digital tools could address this gap by facilitating maternal mental health screening.Aim This study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability and utilization of digital self-reporting for perinatal anxiety and ...

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5. Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee 

   Huang T.; Radley A.; Yanagida A.; et al. (2025)

   Cell Stem Cell

   Naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are counterparts of early epiblast in the mammalian embryo. Mouse and human naive PSCs differ in self-renewal requirements and extraembryonic lineage potency. Here, we investigated the generation of chimpanzee naive PSCs. Colonies generated by resetting or reprogramming failed to propagate. We discovered that self-renewal is enabled by inhibition of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). Expanded cells ...

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