Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable Summary Organ-on-a-chip systems use microfluidic channels to culture human cells in arrangements that better mimic organ physiology. In a short correspondence…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A nano-engineered, perforated centimetre-scale sheet can levitate when illuminated by a laser with an intensity comparable to sunlight. The effect relies…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers led by Ben Schafer have demonstrated a centimetre-scale, ultralight two-layer wafer that can levitate using sunlight alone. The device…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary A new global humidity index incorporates lateral hydrologic flows — rivers and groundwater — alongside precipitation, potential…
n-Type thermoelectric elastomers Summary This Nature article reports one of the first n-type thermoelectric elastomers. The team combined uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activable crosslinking and targeted n-doping in a…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This study demonstrates the use of seafloor fibre-optic sensing (Distributed Acoustic Sensing, DAS, and Distributed Temperature Sensing, DTS) to observe, in…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate sufficient photophoretic forces to loft and sustain motion in near-space…
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan Key insights • A chromosome-scale genome (257 Mb) and single-cell atlas were produced for the arrow worm Paraspadella gotoi. • Gnathifera…
Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg−1 lithium metal pouch cells Summary This Nature paper introduces a delocalised electrolyte design that intentionally disrupts dominant solvation structures to create a more…
Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer Summary This Nature paper introduces ALPACA, a computational method that infers allele-specific, clone-level copy-number profiles from multi-sample bulk DNA…
