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Tiffany O’Callaghan, U.S. editor at The New Scientist, has taken on the role of U.S. publisher. She has been working at The New Scientist for more than a…

Housekeeping  A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last week's edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasn't. It seems to be the case that Nature Publishing is passing some duff data into the publication metadata food chain, with the result that Unpaywall (we employ the Unpaywall API to identify open access) is repeating this erroneous input to us. This week's edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF links appear to be working properly.

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a first-of-its-kind, breakthrough method that makes it easier to create high-quality metal oxide thin films out of "stubborn" metals that have historically been difficult to synthesize in an atomically precise manner.

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a first-of-its-kind breakthrough method that makes it easier to create high-quality metal oxide films that are important for various next generation applications such as quantum computing and microelectronics.