Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells. Its strength and function depend on exquisitely ordered myofibers, all aligned in precise directions that vary from one muscle to another. Reproducing that internal order has proved far harder than shaping muscle tissue into the right external form.

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, a research team from Xi'an Jiaotong University has now found a way to solve both problems at once. By using electric forces during the electrohydrodynamic bioprinting process, they have created living muscle tissues whose cells naturally line up just as they do in the human body, showing how electric forces can be used not just to precisely bioprint tissue, but to quietly instruct cells how to organize themselves.

The rapid rise of electric vehicles combined with breakthroughs in autonomous driving technology is reshaping the future of transportation toward greater sustainability. Intelligent electric vehicles, particularly plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hold immense potential to slash energy consumption and curb emissions through smarter, more coordinated control of motion and powertrain operations. Yet achieving this dual goal of uncompromising safety and superior energy efficiency remains challenging. Traditional approaches often treat driving safety, eco-friendly trajectory planning, and powertrain energy management as separate tasks, leading to trade-offs that limit overall performance in complex, real-world driving scenarios.

As urban centers grapple with escalating traffic congestion and the limitations of traditional two-dimensional road networks, the concept of the split flying car has emerged as a transformative solution for future intelligent transportation. These innovative vehicles, which consist of a flight module, a passenger capsule, and an intelligent chassis, offer the flexibility to switch between aerial and ground travel. However, the transition between these modes—specifically the autonomous docking of the chassis to the aircraft bracket—presents a formidable technical hurdle. Researchers at Wuhan University of Technology have recently addressed this challenge by developing a lightweight, vision-based detection model that ensures high-precision, real-time docking even in complex environments and on hardware with limited computing power.

A study from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) has uncovered a theoretical mechanism showing how the electronic band structures of strongly correlated insulators can be reshaped by spin and charge perturbations, opening up new possibilities for electronics with tunable band structures.