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…
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 A Harvard team has demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can lift themselves using sunlight alone. The devices exploit a century-old…
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…
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…
Acidic oxygen reduction by single-atom Fe catalysts on curved supports Summary This Nature article reports a new Fe/N–C electrocatalyst architecture made of numerous nanoprotrusions on two-dimensional carbon layers. Single iron…
Expanding the cytokine receptor alphabet reprograms T cells into diverse states Summary This Nature paper reports a synthetic cytokine–receptor engineering platform that expands the signalling repertoire of T cells by…
Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer Summary This Nature paper introduces ALPACA, a computational method that infers allele- and clone-specific copy-number profiles from multi-sample bulk…
Publisher Correction: Liquid–liquid interfacial tension stabilised Li-metal batteries Summary This is a publisher correction to the Nature article (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09293-4) on liquid–liquid interfacial tension for stabilising lithium-metal batteries. The correction…
Sun-powered flyers could explore the mysterious mesosphere Summary Researchers describe a centimetre-scale, solar-powered flyer that uses thermal transpiration across two perforated membranes to generate lift without moving parts. As a…
