Acidic oxygen reduction by single-atom Fe catalysts on curved supports Summary A team led by Dan Wang and colleagues report a new Fe/N–C electrocatalyst architecture for the oxygen reduction reaction…
Accuracy of rubber-related deforestation maps Summary This is a comment by Hoang et al. challenging the accuracy of the 10-metre-resolution rubber plantation maps produced by Wang et al. (2023). The…
Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere Summary Researchers have demonstrated a one-centimetre-wide, solar-powered device that can levitate using thermal transpiration across perforated membranes. The proof-of-concept design generates lift from…
Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change Summary This Matters Arising (Christof Schötz) responds to Kotz, Levermann and Wenz (KLW, 2024), arguing that their high-profile analysis of climate-driven economic…
Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary This Nature Briefing (14 August 2025) collects short, timely reports across robotics, ecology, materials science, climate impacts and physics. The…
Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don’t have to dash to the printer to grab the ‘Fire everyone’ memo Summary Microsoft has made “Pull Print” (also called Universal Print Anywhere)…
CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months Summary GPU-cloud provider CoreWeave reported rapid revenue growth but continued heavy losses as it ploughs cash into datacentre expansion.…
Summary Security researchers at SANS Internet Storm Centre have observed active malware campaigns exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a remote code execution vulnerability in the old Microsoft Office Equation Editor. Although Microsoft…
GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there’s now a ‘show additional models’ switch Summary OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch aimed to make a single model route requests intelligently, but user…
No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritise El Reg, others in search results Summary Google has started rolling out a “preferred sources” feature (US and India) that lets…
