A research paper by scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University presented a magnetic tensegrity-enabled robotic gripper (MTRG) with an adaptive energy barrier by leveraging nonlinear interaction forces between magnets..

The research paper, published on Mar 9, 2026 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

A review finds that antibiotic resistance genes—capable of undermining modern medicine—can travel through the air across both cities and farmland, and argues that airborne spread represents an overlooked public health risk.

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent – an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from scratch.

Measuring low-frequency electric fields remains difficult when traceability, small size, and vector resolution are all required at the same time. A team at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, proposed a sensing scheme based on a Rydberg dipolar atom chain, where the external field is reflected in angle-dependent many-body interactions. With readouts in the time, energy, and frequency domains, the work suggests a feasible way to realize compact and vector-resolved sensing of low-frequency electric fields.

A University of Manchester Professor has been appointed by  Lord Vallance, Minister of State for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear, as an Expert Reviewer for an independent assessment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA);  an executive non-departmental public body that is charged with, on behalf of government, the mission to clean-up the UK’s earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and cost effectively.