Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary Science has removed an expression of concern from a 2020 paper that claimed evidence for Majorana quasiparticles and the…
Daily briefing: These abseiling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary This Nature Briefing (14 August 2025) highlights a team of robots that autonomously abseil into underground lava tubes, plus several…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete Summary Microsoft has published Preview 7 of .NET 10, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release. The update introduces WebSocketStream for…
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 in situ on the seafloor, enabling researchers…
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Content summary This News & Views piece discusses a new Nature paper (Tonnus et al.) that links sex differences in…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can levitate using only sunlight. The design builds on the century-old Crookes radiometer…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Content summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that explicitly includes lateral hydrological flows — the movement…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A News & Views piece by Igor Bargatin discusses a new Nature paper (Schäfer et al.) that demonstrates centimetre-scale, perforated-sheet structures…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This Nature paper demonstrates how submarine distributed fibre sensing (DAS for acoustic/strain and DTS for temperature) deployed on a 10-km seafloor…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper reports experiments, analytical models and direct-simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) calculations showing that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate…
