Researchers in James Tour’s lab at Rice University showed that Thomas Edison’s original carbon-filament light bulbs could have inadvertently produced graphene more than a century ago. By recreating Edison’s 1879 design and applying modern analysis, the team demonstrated that briefly heating carbon filaments can form turbostratic graphene, linking historic experiments to cutting-edge materials science.

The systematic under-valuation of nature is creating growing risks for the global financial system, raising the prospect of a “Nature’s Minsky Moment” - a sudden repricing of assets triggered by ecosystem collapse. A new peer-reviewed study shows how recent advances in NatureFinTech now make it possible to measure ecosystem integrity at scale, enabling nature to be financed as critical infrastructure and laying the groundwork for a new asset class called Nature Equity.

A research paper by scientists at Wenzhou Medical University developes a mannose-modified pH/glutathione (GSH) dual-responsive nano-delivery system (MPP@IKE-aPD-1/diABZI) that synergistically activates ferroptosis and immune responses to achieve efficient antitumor therapy.

The accelerated evolution of space technology has elevated the importance of high power and lightweight attributes in satellite design. In response to the conflict between the demand for large-scale, high-power payloads and the need for lightweight, compact platforms, flexible space origami membrane structures have emerged as a potential solution. These structures possess the ability to overcome the limitations of traditional deployable mechanisms. Their geometric reconfiguration capabilities, characterized by high folding ratios, effectively satisfy the high-power performance demands.