Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Summary Acute kidney injury (AKI) causes substantial illness and there are few targeted treatments. Epidemiological data show premenopausal women are…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can briefly levitate using only sunlight. Inspired by the Crookes radiometer, the devices…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that, unlike conventional measures, explicitly includes lateral hydrologic flows —…
Summary Researchers report one of the first n-type thermoelectric elastomers, produced by combining uniform bulk nanophase separation, thermally activated crosslinking and targeted n-doping in a single material. The resulting material…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This study deployed a 10 km subsea fibre-optic cable across the fjord in front of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat (EKaS) tidewater…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate sufficient photophoretic (radiometric) forces to loft and sustain flight under…
Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg−1 lithium metal pouch cells Summary This Nature paper introduces a “delocalised” electrolyte concept that deliberately breaks the dominance of single solvation structures to…
Elementary 3D organization of active and silenced E. coli genome Summary Using ultra-high-resolution Micro‑C (up to 10 bp) the authors mapped the 3D organisation of the E. coli chromosome and…
Expanding the cytokine receptor alphabet reprograms T cells into diverse states Key insights • An orthogonal IL-2/IL-2Rβ platform was repurposed to swap intracellular domains (ICDs) from other cytokine receptors onto…
NASP modulates histone turnover to drive PARP inhibitor resistance Summary This Nature paper identifies the histone chaperone NASP as a key regulator of resistance to PARP inhibitors (PARPi). Using haploid…
