A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary A new global humidity index incorporates lateral hydrologic flows — rivers and groundwater — alongside precipitation, potential…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary A Harvard team has demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can lift themselves using sunlight alone. The devices exploit a century-old…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers tested a team of three autonomous robots in a lava tube on Lanzarote, Spain, to demonstrate a…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultra-light, perforated membrane structures can generate photophoretic forces large enough to loft and propel themselves in…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This study deployed a 10-km subsea fibre-optic cable and co-located interrogators to record Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Distributed Temperature Sensing…
n-Type thermoelectric elastomers Summary This Nature article reports the development of one of the first intrinsically elastic n-type thermoelectric materials. The team combined uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activable crosslinking…
Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg−1 lithium metal pouch cells Summary This Nature paper reports a new “delocalized” electrolyte design that intentionally creates a more disordered solvation microenvironment around…
Summary This Nature paper presents a chromosome-scale genome, regulatory data (Hi-C, ATAC–seq, methylome) and a single-cell atlas for the arrow worm Paraspadella gotoi to explain the genomic origins of the…
Summary This Nature paper reports ultra-high-resolution Micro-C maps of the Escherichia coli chromosome (down to ~10 bp resolution) and reveals previously unseen elementary 3D features of the bacterial genome. The…
Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury Summary This Nature paper reports that female mammals are intrinsically more resistant to acute kidney injury (AKI) because oestradiol (and its…
