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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: ow.ly/PTvh50WeA9o

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. 👉ow.ly/iKcB50VVMfA

Precision meets speed ⚡ Xolography, a volumetric 3D printing method, can now achieve complex nanoscale precision (<100 nm) in a one-step process - expanding the design space for functional nanomaterials. @NanoMed_UNSW Read more: ow.ly/w7TG50Wu6JR

Freezing temps? No problem for this new plastic!❄️ Not only ultra-tough and impact-resistant down to −196 °C, it is also self-healing and recyclable. The ideal sustainable, high-performance cryo-material! Read more: ow.ly/yuw250WpIHN

Small, soft, stretchable, and smart! 🤓 New multiphoton inks from @EvaBlascoPo and her team combine ultra-soft, stretchable 3D structures with high resolution printing and multi-responsive behaviour - ideal for soft robotics, and bio applications. 👉 ow.ly/APm050WpIeY

Quantum anomalies may power future tech, and signs of them are emerging in topological materials. That's one of the key messages presented in this special issue on quantum anomalies in condensed matter led by M.T. Pettes and A. Saxena. 👉ow.ly/azCe50WpIm6

Art at the microscale 🎨 With just one composite & particle size, researchers @ambercentre used photoresist & laser writing to craft 3D nanostructures. The clue: Through fine process control, they can cover the entire visible colour spectrum! 🌈 👉 ow.ly/5XJ350WnJG3

Hey there! 🤓 Check this live webinar on Bioceramics, Biomaterials, and Additive Manufacturing for Healthcare. Featuring distinguished ceramics experts and jointly presented by the Advanced Portfolio and @ACerSNews! REGISTER NOW for free ow.ly/LPbe50WkZts

Deadline Alert! Apply by July 10 for the 2025 Small Young Innovator Award – open to researchers worldwide! 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1… Award to be presented @ Small Sciences Symposium, China, 31 Aug #nanoscience #SmallJournal @WileyGlobal @wileyinresearch @WileySTEM @AdvPortfolio

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🦾 ow.ly/TGml50WkSRa

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: ow.ly/6Jcf50Wg8Fp

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. ow.ly/Ychf50W8Rqt

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. 👉ow.ly/bmsN50W7HVs

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. ow.ly/4YJS50W1vqu

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. ow.ly/1rs550W1tw1

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. 👉 ow.ly/IzkX50VXVch

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. 👉ow.ly/TXCp50VVNRq

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 ow.ly/4MkW50VWicu