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    A modular quantum system-on-chip architecture integrates thousands of individually addressable spin qubits in two-dimensional quantum microchiplet arrays into an integrated circuit designed for cryogenic control, supporting full connectivity for quantum memory arrays across spin–photon channels.

    • Linsen Li
    • , Lorenzo De Santis
    •  & Dirk Englund

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    Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust and high-dynamic-range sensing efficiently in the open world.

    • Zheyu Yang
    • , Taoyi Wang
    •  & Luping Shi

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Use of a 20 frames per second (fps) RGB camera plus an event camera can achieve the same latency as a 5,000-fps camera with the bandwidth of a 45-fps camera without compromising accuracy.

    • Daniel Gehrig
    •  & Davide Scaramuzza

  • Comment |

    Hundreds of millions of people cross deficient bridges each day. With damage to these structures likely to intensify because of climate change and ageing, technicians and policymakers must act to make them safer.

    • Jose M. Adam
    • , Nirvan Makoond
    •  & Manuel Buitrago

  • News & Views |

    Cement can be reused by including it as a component of steel recycling. This opens the way to an industrial partnership that improves the use of materials and lowers carbon emissions — but only if waste resources are well managed.

    • Sabbie A. Miller

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A study shows that implants with an adhesive implant–tissue interface mitigate the formation of a fibrous capsule when attached to various organs in mice, rats and pigs.

    • Jingjing Wu
    • , Jue Deng
    •  & Xuanhe Zhao

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Recovered cement paste can be reclinkered if used as a partial substitute for the lime–dolomite flux used in steel recycling, which can reduce waste and carbon emissions.

    • Cyrille F. Dunant
    • , Shiju Joseph
    •  & Julian M. Allwood

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    Stretchable radio-frequency electronics based on a dielectro-elastic elastomer is demonstrated to be capable of completely maintaining operating frequencies unaffected by strain and shows superior electrical, mechanical and thermal properties compared with conventional stretchable substrate materials.

    • Sun Hong Kim
    • , Abdul Basir
    •  & Yei Hwan Jung

  • News & Views |

    A design principle for buildings incorporates components that can control the propagation of failure by isolating parts of the structure as they fail — offering a way to prevent a partial collapse snowballing into complete destruction.

    • Sarah L. Orton

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    | Open Access

    A design approach arrests collapse propagation in buildings after major initial failures by ensuring that specific elements fail before the failure of the most important components for global stability.

    • Nirvan Makoond
    • , Andri Setiawan
    •  & Jose M. Adam

  • Perspective |

    Efforts to find renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that might enable a carbon-neutral society by 2050 are described, as well as outlining a possible roadmap towards a refinery of the future and evaluating its requirements.

    • Eelco T. C. Vogt
    •  & Bert M. Weckhuysen

  • News & Views |

    Cardiovascular disease claims more lives each year than do the two next-deadliest diseases combined. An ultrasound technique that tracks tiny gas-filled bubbles could pave the way towards improved early detection.

    • Elisa E. Konofagou

  • Article
    | Open Access

    A pioneering design strategy for amorphous p-type semiconductors can be used in high-performance, stable p-channel TFTs and complementary circuits, which may establish viable amorphous p-channel TFT technology and large-area complementary electronics in a low-cost manner.

    • Ao Liu
    • , Yong-Sung Kim
    •  & Yong-Young Noh

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    Using a three-pronged approach — spanning field-driven negative capacitance stabilization to increase intrinsic energy storage, antiferroelectric superlattice engineering to increase total energy storage, and conformal three-dimensional deposition to increase areal energy storage density — very high electrostatic energy storage density and power density are reported in HfO2–ZrO2-based thin film microcapacitors integrated into silicon.

    • Suraj S. Cheema
    • , Nirmaan Shanker
    •  & Sayeef Salahuddin

  • News & Views |

    Scientists have designed a liquid that behaves as both a solid and a fluid owing to the presence of tiny gas-filled capsules. An unusual relationship between pressure and volume enables this material to grasp fragile objects.

    • P.-T. Brun

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    A metafluid with programmable compressibility, optical behaviour and viscosity is realized by mixing deformable spherical shells that undergo buckling within an incompressible fluid; the versatility of these metafluids opens up numerous opportunities for functionality.

    • Adel Djellouli
    • , Bert Van Raemdonck
    •  & Katia Bertoldi

  • News & Views |

    A smart adhesive patch that wicks sweat away from electronics embedded in its centre offers comfortable and reliable sensing of the wearer’s biometrics or environment without the risk of perspiration damaging the devices.

    • Yifan Rao
    •  & Nanshu Lu

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    Increased melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica, measured by satellite gravity, has decreased the angular velocity of Earth more rapidly than before and has already affected global timekeeping.

    • Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Research Briefing |

    Cutting-edge communication (6G and beyond) will rely on precise time control of large amounts of wirelessly transferred information. To achieve this precision, a ‘quasi-true time delay’ chip has been designed that packs as much time delay as possible into a tiny area using 3D waveguides whose length can be varied as required.

  • News & Views |

    An array of robots has been set up so that pushes between them produce movements that do not conform to the usual laws of motion. Fascinating behaviour emerges from these interactions: wave phenomena known as solitons.

    • Sebastian D. Huber
    •  & Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen

  • Nature Podcast |

    Machine learning detects song differences too subtle for humans to hear, and physicists harness the computing power of the strange skyrmion.

    • Nick Petrić Howe
    •  & Benjamin Thompson

  • Article |

    A local driving mechanism for solitons that accelerates both solitons and antisolitons in the same direction, called non-reciprocal driving, is introduced, showing a subtle interplay between non-reciprocity and topological solitons and providing waveguiding and wave-processing possibilities for other fields.

    • Jonas Veenstra
    • , Oleksandr Gamayun
    •  & Corentin Coulais

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    Use of a chain-ether-based solvent instead of tetrahydrofuran for lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction enables long-term continuous ammonia electrosynthesis with high efficiency and improved gas-phase ammonia distribution.

    • Shaofeng Li
    • , Yuanyuan Zhou
    •  & Ib Chorkendorff

  • News & Views |

    Combining a high-throughput technique with 3D printing offers a way of fabricating micrometre-sized particles for use in electronics and biotechnology. The versatile method can produce one million intricate shapes in a single day.

    • Christoph A. Spiegel
    •  & Eva Blasco

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    High-density, intrinsically stretchable transistors with high driving ability and integrated circuits with high operation speed and large-scale integration were enabled by a combination of innovations in materials, fabrication process design, device engineering and circuit design.

    • Donglai Zhong
    • , Can Wu
    •  & Zhenan Bao

  • Article
    | Open Access

    We introduce a scalable, high-resolution, 3D printing technique for the fabrication of shape-specific particles based on roll-to-roll continuous liquid interface production, enabling direct integration within biomedical, analytical and advanced materials applications.

    • Jason M. Kronenfeld
    • , Lukas Rother
    •  & Joseph M. DeSimone

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