Plastic products often claim a certain recycled percentage, but how do we actually verify this? ♻️ Yaoli Zhao, Amit Goyal and colleagues demonstrate a method of determining this: http://dlvr.it/TRgjGY Read the paper here: http://dlvr.it/TRgjGZ

Curious about how we can improve underwater object detection? 🌊 Yaoming Zhuang and colleagues develop a layout-guided diffusion framework for generating high-quality underwater images: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Synapse-inspired energy networks: a neuromorphic approach to microgrid protection without communication links

Determining the percentage of recycled plastic content in a plastic product

Realization of blue-emitting CsPb(Br1-xClx)3 nanocrystals via simultaneous halide exchange and defect passivation using dopamine hydrochloride

Bridging mathematical modeling and AI for 3D coordinate recognition of moving objects without external reference and attitude measurement

Adaptive robot guidance through real-time compliance estimation and dual-modal control

📝Read 'Behind The Paper' for a recent publication at Communications Engineering 🔍 Tunable Magnetic Field Control for Next-Generation Medical Microrobotics communities.springernature.com/posts/tunabl...

Long-term on-leaf monitoring of plant electrophysiology with printed adhesive gel bioelectrodes

Laser-powder bed fusion printed CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloys engineered for acoustic insulation

Electromagnetic Sculptor: a differentiable geometric optimization framework to manipulate electromagnetic fields

SparStVR - exploring sparse 3D histology data in virtual reality

A closed-loop framework integrating robotic inspection and digital twins for fatigue prognosis of in-service steel bridges

Can we non-invasively detect neural activity from targeted brain regions? 🔍 Jean L. Rintoul, Nir Grossman and colleagues explore an acoustoelectric approach that pairs ultrasound with electrical measurements: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How does Parkinson’s Disease affect both neurons and blood vessels? 🧠 Anika Alim, Jungwook Paek and colleagues developed a microengineered platform that mimics the brain's environment, allowing for detailed study of the disease's progression www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transmissive metasurface with 3.5-μm-thick liquid crystals for subterahertz-wave dynamic beamforming

Phase-based computational adaptive optics enables artifact-free super-resolution microscopy

A concentric tube catheter for endoluminal interventions, steered and imaged via magnetic resonance imaging

Pilot and testbed facilities: when the lab scale may not be enough

Percutaneous nephrostomy guidance by a convolutional-neural-network-based optical coherence tomography endoscope

A wireless power transfer system for leadless endovascular electrocorticography

3D-printed concrete with in-process embedded fiber-reinforced polymer grid reinforcement

Non-contact electroelastic modulation of conventional media leveraging two-way electromagnetic induction

Magnetic field control with dual robotic tunable magnetic end effectors

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for rapid identification of cathode chemistry in lithium-ion battery recycling

Bridging spatial and temporal surface pressure dynamics for gust aerodynamic modeling

3D reconstruction and etching profile simulation for wiggling active area effect in dynamic random access memory manufacturing

Multichannel multicentroid motion-compensated single pixel imaging of a 2D arbitrarily moving rigid-body target

Visualization of text on bowed sheets via High-resolution 3D-Magnetic Resonance Micro-imaging for potential reading of closed books: the proof-of-concept

Realizing Shor’s algorithm with topological acoustic phase bits

Model predictive game control for personalized and targeted interactive assistance

Oxide semiconductor gain cell-embedded memory: materials and integration strategies for next generation on-chip memory

Safe focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening is driven primarily by transient reorganization of tight junctions

[email protected] talks to former professional luge athlete Julian von Schleinitz about his transition from luger to data scientist – and his role in helping to develop technology used to elevate the performance of Olympic athletes. 🧪#MilanoCortina2026

Going for gold: engineering success in elite winter sports

Enjoying the luge and skeleton at #MilanoCortina2026? ❄️ We talked to former luge athlete Julian von Schleinitz about his transition from elite sport to developing track simulations and AI tools for the German bobsleigh, luge and skeleton team at the Winter Olympics. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Bridging modalities with AI: a review of AI advances in multimodal biomedical imaging

We are happy to share our "Editors' Choice 2025" viewpoint, highlighting twenty papers from different disciplines which tell fascinating research stories, selected by our in-house editorial team and our Editorial Board Members:

A gallium arsenide hybrid-pixel counting detector for 100 keV cryo-electron microscopy

Thermal management of 3-D heterogeneously integrated microelectronics: challenges and future research directions

Nature Electronics shares a Research Highlight on a paper published late last year at Communications Engineering, looking at flexible magnet-based antennas that can see through rock 🪨 Read the highlight here:

Exoskeletons can enhance human mobility, but how can their use be optimised? 🚶 Jianyu Chen, Juanjuan Zhang and colleagues look at using human responses and interactions to improve exoskeleton-assisted walking www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Editors’ Choice 2025

In vivo acoustoelectric neural recording in mice enabled by ultrasound-induced frequency mixing

How can we design materials that mimic nature's strength and flexibility? 💪 Yuze Li, Rui Li, Yin Fan and colleagues look at inverse design of bioinspired layered composite structures www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Full-cycle prediction of crack healing in self-healing concrete using generalized polynomial chaos expansion

High-resolution, multidimensional solar radiation evaluation for the scientific protection of built heritage sites

Inverse design and 3D printing of a multiport microwave power splitter: a scalable electromagnetic design framework

Machine learning-facilitated real-time acoustic trapping in time-varying multi-medium environments toward magnetic resonance imaging-guided microbubble manipulation

Multi-channel ultrasonic Bessel vortex beams by spatial multiplexing metalens