Scientists have developed a new way to control light using a silicon metasurface and a genetic algorithm. This method allows real-time shaping of light patterns without needing multiple complex setups. It could improve optical technologies for imaging, computing, and more.

A new study from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that plasticine models may not capture the full ecological story of biotic interactions. The findings were recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Discover the hidden potential of medicinal plant stem cells! These powerful cells offer sustainable solutions for everything from anti-aging skincare to life-saving pharmaceuticals. Learn how cutting-edge research is unlocking their secrets and transforming industries in our latest report.

From small soft machines to muscle-powered pumps, biohybrid robots are expanding possibilities in medicine and engineering. In a review for the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Dr. Su Ryon Shin and her team at Harvard Medical School highlight advances in biofabrication, from 3D bioprinting to microfluidics that integrate living muscle cells with robotic systems. Their roadmap outlines how these technologies could move biohybrid robotics from lab concepts to real-world tools for regenerative medicine, drug testing, and disease modeling.

Looking for precision in complex manufacturing? A new hybrid measurement system for drill bits combines advanced 2D and 3D imaging techniques to deliver accurate and efficient results. Discover how this innovative approach could transform tool measurement and boost manufacturing efficiency.

Titanium (Ti) is a promising metal for biomedical implant applications owing to lightweight, superior corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. Unfortunately, Ti is besieged by poor wear resistance owing to inferior plastic shear-resistance and strain-hardening capacity, thus causing premature failure upon joint friction.

Looking for new ways to tap into cleaner energy sources? Researchers have come up with a clever method to extract natural gas from underwater hydrate reservoirs by using geothermal energy. Could this be the key to more efficient and affordable energy production? Dive into the full story to find out!

Introducing Genos, an open genomic foundation model for high-quality human genomes across global populations, built to advance understanding of the genome and its diversity. Genos achieves single-nucleotide precision over a context of 1 million bases and uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that is practical to deploy and economical to run. We provide two variants, 10B and 1.2B, so teams can match compute and latency needs. Trained on 636 high-quality assemblies representing diverse ancestries, with ~1.6T training tokens for the 1.2B model and ~2.2T for the 10B model, Genos learns the genome itself and generalizes to population-scale analyses. With efficient routing and scalable inference, Genos connects sequence to function and powers tools for discovery and diagnostics, and a complementary 4B multimodal language model pairs genomic signals with text to enable omics-aware reasoning in those tools. Explore code, weights, and docs on GitHub, Hugging Face, ModelScope, and zero2x.

Transparent solar cells can be integrated into windows, screens and other surfaces, with immense potential for them to revolutionise the renewable energy sector. However, there are challenges to overcome, one of which is balancing transparency with power conversion efficiency. Semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs) that offer the dual advantages of efficient energy generation and visually appealing design are thus attracting significant research interest.