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…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This study deploys a 10-km subsea fibre‑optic cable with simultaneous Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) at the…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate appreciable photophoretic lift in low-pressure, near-space conditions. The authors combine…
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…
Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome Summary This study uses ultra-high-resolution Micro-C (down to ~10 bp) together with complementary methods (Red-C, Hi-C, ChIP–seq, PLA, TEM, in…
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan Summary This Nature paper presents a chromosome-scale genome, regulatory maps (Hi-C, ATAC–seq, methylome) and a single-cell atlas for the arrow worm…
Summary This Nature paper presents a new “delocalised” electrolyte strategy that deliberately breaks the dominance of single solvation structures to create a more disordered solvation microenvironment. By doing so the…
n-Type thermoelectric elastomers Summary This Nature paper reports one of the first intrinsically elastic n-type thermoelectric materials. The team combined uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activable crosslinking and targeted n‑doping…
Acidic oxygen reduction by single-atom Fe catalysts on curved supports Summary A team led by Yasong Zhao et al. report a new Fe/N–C electrocatalyst architecture that embeds single iron atoms…
Expanding the cytokine receptor alphabet reprograms T cells into diverse states Summary This study uses an orthogonal IL-2–IL-2Rβ platform to swap intracellular domains (ICDs) from a broad set of cytokine…
