Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A nano‑engineered, perforated centimetre‑scale platform can levitate under illumination at intensities comparable to sunlight by exploiting photophoretic forces. The device, reported…
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 from the deep sea, recording both structure…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper demonstrates that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate sufficient photophoretic lift to levitate and fly in near-space (low-pressure)…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers tested a team of three autonomous robots in a lava tube on Lanzarote to demonstrate how specialised…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated a centimetre-scale, ultralight two-layer wafer that can levitate using sunlight alone. The design exploits thermal forces (a…
Delocalized electrolyte design enables 600 Wh kg−1 lithium metal pouch cells Summary The authors introduce a “delocalized” electrolyte concept that creates a more disordered Li+ solvation microenvironment to reduce kinetic…
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…
Summary This Nature paper demonstrates how submarine distributed fibre sensing (DAS for acoustic/strain and DTS for temperature) deployed on a 10-km seafloor cable adjacent to the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat (EKaS)…
Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer Summary This Nature paper introduces ALPACA, a computational method that infers allele- and clone-specific copy-number profiles from multi-sample bulk…
Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury Summary This Nature study shows that female kidneys are intrinsically resistant to ferroptosis-driven acute tubular necrosis (ATN) and acute kidney injury…
