Science for Serendipity Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus
    by Mohammad Yaghoubi
    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09958-0Calcium imaging of mouse hippocampal neurons while mice learn a reward-based task over several weeks provides insight into the evolution of the hippocampal reward representation during extended periods of experience.
  • Sub-zero Celsius elastocaloric cooling via low-transition-temperature alloys
    by Guoan Zhou
    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09946-4A compression-based, regenerative elastocaloric cooling device using low-transition-temperature tubular NiTi units in a cascaded configuration, which show superelasticity and substantial entropy changes, allows the construction of a sub-zero Celsius refrigeration system without refrigerant gases.
  • Biosensors characterize the routes taken by receptors to different active states
    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00011-2A panel of fluorescently labelled G-protein-coupled-receptor proteins expressed in living cells has confirmed that, when bound by an activating ligand molecule, these receptors form different complexes with their G proteins. The activation trajectories induced by different ligands explain ligand-specific efficacies of G-protein activation and preferences for G-protein subtypes.
  • CFAP20 salvages arrested RNAPII from the path of co-directional replisomes
    by Sidrit Uruci
    Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09943-7CFAP20 has a key role in rescuing RNA polymerase II complexes that have arrested during DNA transcription, limiting the accumulation of R-loops and preventing collisions between the transcription and replication machinery.