Researchers have created an aquatic soft robot inspired by marine invertebrates called feather stars. The feather star robot is able to move through the water in all three dimensions, powered by only two actuators.

The XplaiNLP Research Group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is coordinating the new EU research project FIMI-RESIST. Over the next 30 months, ten partners from research and technology, media and civil society across nine countries will examine which existing European tools designed to counter foreign information manipulation and interference perform effectively under real-world conditions. Horizon Europe, the European Union's flagship funding program for research and innovation, is supporting the project with approximately EUR 3.5 million

Two studies on critical topology have recently been published in the internationally renowned journal Nature. These studies were led by the teams of Prof. Baile Zhang at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Prof. Jianhua Jiang at the University of Science and Technology of China, respectively. Prof. Xue-Jia Yu from the School of Physics at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT), served as a co-corresponding author on both papers and provided key theoretical guidance in the related experimental collaborations.

A new trajectory planning system developed by MIT researchers formally guarantees that an uncrewed aerial vehicle’s flight path will remain safe from collisions, even in unmapped environments with unknown moving obstacles. 

Los Angeles, CA – October 07, 2026 - The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation announced today that OnVagus, a medical device company incubating at the Institute, has received institutional and regulatory approval to begin the first human trial of its noninvasive nerve-stimulation device for patients experiencing cancer-related wasting.

Researchers at South China University of Technology, in collaboration with the Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a novel supranano multi-precipitate microstructure in amorphous soft magnetic composites using Ar/O₂ plasma treatment. By facilitating magnetic-moment reversal, this approach significantly reduced the coercivity while maintaining  excellent overall performance. The optimized material exhibits an ultralow coercivity of 0.13 Oe, an effective permeability of 37.3, a high saturation magnetization of 185 emu g^-1 and an ultralow core loss of 191.18 kW m⁻³ at 1 MHz and 20 mT. These results provide for a promising strategy for developing next-generation soft magnetic composites for miniaturized, high-frequency, and high-efficiency power electronics devices.