Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A nano‑engineered, centimetre‑scale perforated platform has been demonstrated to levitate when illuminated with light intensities comparable to sunlight. The device, reported…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system collects near real-time 3D visual data from the deep sea to capture the…
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…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers led by Ben Schafer at Harvard demonstrated centimetre-square, ultralight wafers that can levitate using sunlight alone. The design exploits…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that explicitly includes lateral hydrologic flows — the movement of…
n-Type thermoelectric elastomers Summary Researchers report one of the first intrinsically elastic n-type thermoelectric materials by combining uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activated crosslinking and targeted n-doping in a single…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This Nature paper demonstrates the first deliberate use of seafloor distributed fibre sensing (DAS for acoustic/seismic, DTS for temperature) to monitor…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate sustained lift in near-space pressures via photophoresis — a radiometric…
Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome Summary This Nature paper presents ultra-high-resolution Micro-C maps of the Escherichia coli chromosome (down to ~10 bp resolution) and reveals…
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan Summary This study presents a chromosome-scale genome and multi-omics atlas for the arrow worm Paraspadella gotoi (Chaetognatha) together with Hi-C, ATAC–seq,…
