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Bridging-driven condensation by eukaryotic SMC complexes is a conserved feature of genome organizati... Sep 4, 2026 l Hit 35

The Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) protein family plays a central role in higher-order genome organization through ATP-dependent DNA loop extrusion by cohesin and condensin and other processes. Whether these activities fully account for the complexity of chromosome architecture remains unknown. Here, we unc...

Probing Intrinsic Magnetic Phases in Low-Dimensional Nearly Twin-Free NiPS3 Single Crystals (publish... Aug 26, 2026 l Hit 46

We report the intrinsic thermal and magnetic properties of the low-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnet NiPS3 and explore its emergent magnetic phases by controlling crystallographic twinning. Using nearly twin-free crystals, we resolve intrinsic properties that are typically obscured by multidomain eff...

Microscopic Evidence for a Zhang-Rice Triplet State in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet, NiPS3 (pub... Jul 20, 2026 l Hit 95

NiPS3 is one of representative van der Waals antiferromagnets which exhibit unusual light-matter interaction coupled with the magnetic order. It exhibits a highly coherent many-body exciton peak (< 0.5 meV linewidth) around 1.478 eV under a low-temperature zigzag magnetic order, which vanishes when the magnetic...

[Kai-Xuan Zhang/Seungbok Lee/Je-Geun Park]  Interfacial chirality-induced magnetic-field-free switch... Jul 20, 2026 l Hit 114

Chirality, a central concept across many scientific disciplines, continues to inspire the discovery of novel physical phenomena. In condensed matter physics, structural chirality—defined by the absence of mirror plane symmetries—has primarily been explored in bulk materials. However, new chiral ph...

[Prof. Je-Kyung Ryu's Research Group] Thyroid cancer-associated EZH1 Q571R mutation drives chromatin... Jul 6, 2026 l Hit 183

Dysregulation of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) contributes to cancer. Of its catalytic subunits, Enhancer of Zeste (EZH) 1 and EZH2, EZH2 mutations are extensively studied, but the role of EZH1 in cancer remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate the thyroid cancer-associated EZH1Q571R mutation and un...

[Seokju Lee, Seung Hun Lee & Bohm-Jung Yang] Embedding independent length scale of flat bands (publi... Jul 2, 2026 l Hit 223

In flat-band systems with quenched kinetic energy, most of the conventional length scales related to the band dispersion become ineffectual. Although a few geometric length scales, such as the quantum metric length, can still be defined, because of their embedding dependence, i.e., the dependence on the choice of orbit...

[Young-Woo Pyo/ Prof. Hong-Gyu Park] Self-organized nanoplasmonic artificial leaf for hot-carrier bi... Jun 30, 2026 l Hit 168

Without discrete pixels or wired leads, natural plant leaves respond to light and relay electrochemical signals to surrounding tissues through nanoscale chlorophyll-containing protein complexes - an elegant capability sought in next-generation leadless optoelectronic systems. Although semiconductors and their heterojun...

[Quantum Gas Lab] Enhancement of damping in a turbulent atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (published i... Jun 24, 2026 l Hit 135

Turbulence enhances momentum transport in classical fluids, effectively increasing their viscosity. We investigate an analogous effect in a superfluid by measuring the damping of collective oscillations in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing stationary spin-superflow turbulence. Using continuous spin dr...

[Sun Han, Eunho Song & Sungchul Hohng] Human RNA polymerase III termination favors decomposition ove... Jun 22, 2026 l Hit 121

Eukaryotic transcription termination remains incompletely understood. Using single-molecule fluorescence assays, we examined intrinsic termination by human RNA polymerase III (RNAP3) and identified mechanistic trifurcation leading to readthrough and two termination pathways with distinctive dissociation kinetics. The d...

[Hangyeol Park, Junhyeok Oh,Bohm-Jung Yang and Joonho Jang] Unconventional hysteretic charge filling... Jun 15, 2026 l Hit 146

Moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures are powerful tuning knobs for engineering electronic band structures and emergent phases. Expanding this framework to multi-moiré architectures enables discovery of novel quantum states, as hierarchically superposed patterns generate a versatile and so...