Wireless tech has improved wearables, like in health and VR, but faces new power and connectivity issues. In a special issue organized by Zhuo Li & Jae-Woong Jeong, researchers put together the most recent developments in the skin-mounted electronics🦾.

These textiles can reversibly change shape when exposed to magnetic fields. How? Through digital embroidery of magnetic yarns 🧵. This technique opens up exciting possibilities for wearable tech, soft robotics, and adaptive clothing. Learn more:

Why is the leafcutter bee a top pollinator?🐝. Its genome reveals traits for high pollination efficiency and strong immunity during dormancy, helping survival and boosting its role in agriculture🌻. Check out the study:

This soft robot climbs an overhang like a gecko 🧗‍♂️ and glides like a slug 🐌—all wirelessly, powered by electric fields. How? It's made of an electro-morphing gel (e-MG), a shape-shifting material that bends, stretches, and crawls with no tethered power.

When lasers meet microbubbles 🫧. Scientists are printing anisotropic 1D particles like imogolite clay into rings, lines, or filaments with tuneable optical properties - a fast technique that uses less material and gives high precision. 👉

AI-driven active learning approach helps discover a new cyan-light-emitting phosphor—something not practical via conventional experimentation methods. The phosphor shows stable luminescent properties with potential for LED applications.

Big celebrations happened earlier this week in Korea!🎉. In the stunning Jeju Island, our editors attended the Small Science Symposium celebrating two decades of groundbreaking work of Small brand and big impact in nanoscience and materials research. Happy 20th birthday Small!🎂

Robot fabrication without manual assembly: scientists @UofCalifornia and @BASF use 3D printing and an oscillating valve to fully automate the fabrication of a walking robot. Thanks to its electronics-free design, it moves reliably outdoors and in water.

Inspired by biological growth, scientists have developed a 3D printing method that ''grows'' objects from liquid resin using a self-propelling chemical reaction. This approach enables the creation of beautiful, complex shapes like this helical horn. 👉

This stretchable mechano-electro-optical device outputs both electrical & optical signals when stretched!. With gold films & microcrack networks, it detects strains as low as 0.05% and stretches up to 80% - great for health monitoring & smart displays. 👉

Are you at #ICRA2025?. Meet our editors Sneha and Lisa today, 3-4pm EST, Wiley booth #917 and join our raffle to win airpods, sponsored by the Advanced Portfolio

Researchers have pushed polymer networks beyond their swelling limit - something once thought thermodynamically impossible. By trapping dense linear polymers, they triggered extreme osmotic pressure, making the network overswell & burst into microgels. 👉

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By adding silver-based materials to water filter membranes, researchers found a way to boost membranes' resistance to clogging and restored 94.1% water flow, improving filtration. This method could lead to better, longer-lasting filters for clean water.

Are you coming to Atlanta for #ICRA2025? Sneha and Lisa, our editors, look forward to meeting you in the two sessions at the Wiley booth. Sneha will guide you through Wiley’s #AI #Robotics journals including the new titles from the #Advanced Portfolio ➡️

This label-free, image-guided droplet sorter separates single cells from empty/multi-cell droplets with 100% accuracy. Its ultra-high throughput enhances precision medicine and cell analysis without the need for fluorescence tags. Find out more:

This aerial robot lands and attaches to surfaces using a tunable perching mechanism. This design adapts to varying contact speeds and misalignments, expanding applications in environmental monitoring and infrastructure inspection. Find out more:

A fast, simple method uses heat and ethanol to deposit gold nanorods on plain glass in <10s, with no surface treatment needed. This technique offers strong signal enhancement and easy scalability for precise patterning for sensors, diagnostics, and more!.

A smartly designed platinum-zeolite catalyst removes 99% of hydrogen isotopes at just 40 °C, offering a highly efficient, long-lasting solution for managing tritium waste in nuclear systems. A step towards safer and effective nuclear waste management ☢️

A newly designed lithium material breaks records for ion movement (42(6) mS cm−1 at 298 K!), promising safer, faster-charging batteries. Its smart structure could reshape the future of energy storage solutions🔋. Check this out 👉