Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Summary Acute kidney injury (AKI) causes substantial illness and lacks targeted therapies. Epidemiological studies show premenopausal women are less likely…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system captures near real-time 3D visual data of marine animals in their natural deep-sea…
Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions Summary Quantum theory is immensely successful, yet it does not incorporate gravity. Physicists have long proposed mathematical quantum-gravity…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A News & Views piece discusses a new Nature paper reporting centimetre-scale, nano-engineered perforated structures that can levitate when illuminated with…
The perplexing body plan of arrow worms decoded Summary A new Nature News & Views piece discusses a study by Piovani et al. that combines a genome sequence and a…
Summary Author: Tim Palmer (World View, Nature, 13 August 2025) Predictions of future warming remain highly uncertain largely because clouds — which can either amplify or dampen warming — are…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that goes beyond conventional metrics by explicitly accounting for lateral…
Many planets might be born with orbits misaligned from the spin of their stars Summary An analysis of observations of young Sun-like stars and their planet-forming disks finds that at…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated a centimetre-scale, two-layer wafer that can momentarily levitate using sunlight alone. The device exploits a photothermal gas-flow…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers carried out a field test on Lanzarote showing how a team of three autonomous robots can work…
