Polestar Sets Production Car Record For Longest Drive On a Single Charge Summary A single-motor Polestar 3 has set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance driven in a…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system captures in situ, near real-time 3D visual data of marine animals, giving researchers…
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Summary New analysis of a Nature paper by Tonnus et al. suggests that oestrogen (oestradiol) protects kidneys from acute injury…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary Researchers report a centimetre-scale, nano‑engineered perforated structure that can levitate when illuminated with light of an intensity similar to sunlight. The…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers led by Ben Schafer at Harvard have built centimetre-scale, ultralight two-layer wafers that can levitate using sunlight alone. The…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that, unlike conventional indices, explicitly accounts for lateral hydrological flows…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membranes with tailored optical coatings can generate measurable photophoretic (radiometric) lift under low-pressure conditions…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers tested a team of three autonomous robots on Lanzarote, Spain, to demonstrate how specialised rovers could explore…
Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg−1 lithium metal pouch cells Summary This Nature paper reports a new “delocalised” electrolyte concept that deliberately disrupts dominant solvation structures to create a…
n-Type thermoelectric elastomers Summary A multidisciplinary team led from Peking University reports one of the first n-type thermoelectric elastomers. By combining uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activated crosslinking and targeted…
