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A push for planetary defence

A push for planetary defence

Nature Physics, Published online: 29 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02685-9Nuclear explosives are the most promising method for steering a large asteroid away from Earth and mitigating an impact. Laboratory experiments with X-ray…

The cost of cellular patterns

The cost of cellular patterns

Nature Physics, Published online: 28 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02687-7The cell cortex consists of a chemical and a mechanical subsystem, but how energy is allocated between them is unknown. Now, measurements of the entropy p…