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Staying the course with lockdowns could end future pandemics in months

Artist’s impression of Sars-CoV-2 virions

Microbubbles power soft, programmable artificial muscles

Ultrasound-activated microbubble arrays create flexible actuators for applications ranging from soft robotics to minimally invasive surgery

Fluid-based laser scanning technique could improve brain imaging

Laser scanning microscopy using a fluid-based prism to steer the light could help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease

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Spiral catheter optimizes drug delivery to the brain

Eye implant restores vision to patients with incurable sight loss

Study participant training with the PRIMA device

Wearable UVA sensor warns about overexposure to sunlight

Illustration showing the operation of the UVA detector

Machine learning optimizes nanoparticle design for drug delivery to the brain

Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative diseases

Gyroscopic backpack improves balance for people with movement disorder

A backpack equipped with gyroscopes shows promise as a balance aid for people with the movement disorder ataxia and could one day remove the need for cumbersome mobility aids

Compact diamond magnetometer detects metastatic tumours

Diamond-based magnetic sensor is small enough for use in endoscopy and keyhole surgery

Protein qubit can be used as a quantum biosensor

A qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could act as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems

High-speed 3D microscope improves live imaging of fast biological processes

Multifocus microscope uses 25 tiny cameras to image rapid biological processes over the entire volume of small living organisms

Researchers perform first real-time visualization of human embryo implantation

Imaging platform visualizes the mechanical forces exerted by embryos implanting in the uterus

Reports on biofabrication

3D printing creates strong, stretchy hydrogels that stick to tissue

A new 3D printing method fabricates entangled hydrogels for medical applications

Matt Davidson with a 3D printed material for medical applications

Ultrasound-activated sono-inks could print 3D structures inside the human body

A novel technique that uses ultrasound to create objects from sonically cured inks could enable 3D printing at deep penetration depths, potentially including inside the body

Paintable bioactive ink heals wounds of any shape or size

A wound-healing ink that can be 3D printed directly into injuries aims to accelerate the body’s natural healing process

A wound-healing ink can be 3D printed directly into injuries

Vascular grafts created by weaving threads of amniotic membrane

Researchers fabricate small-diameter vascular grafts by weaving threads of human amniotic membrane into tubes

Engineered spinal cord implants restore movement to paralysed mice

Functional human spinal cord implants produced from belly fat could help those with spinal injuries walk again

Cryobioprinting could make off-the-shelf tissue-engineered structures a reality

Cryogenic 3D bioprinting of artificial muscle fibres reaches sub-zero temperatures

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The Human Organ Atlas: a ‘Google Earth’ for our bodies

Dr Claire Walsh, Dr Paul Tafforeau at ESRF on beamline BM05 with two samples prepared for HiP-CT imaging

Quantum effects in biological systems

Female with photonics effects on her head

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Spooky physics: from glowing green bats to vibrating spider webs

For Halloween, a couple of spooky stories from the world of physics

This jumping roundworm uses static electricity to attach to flying insects

The parasitic roundworm Steinernema carpocapsae can leap some 25 times its body length into the air

roundworm beginning to jump onto an insect

Astronauts could soon benefit from dissolvable eye insert

A solution to microgravity-related vision problems is the topic of this week's podcast

Photographs of Diána Balogh-Weiser and Zoltan Nagy

Researchers create glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge with sunlight

Succulent plants have been infused with afterglow phosphor particles to make them glow in shades of red, green, blue and other colours

Equations, quarks and a few feathers: more physics than birds

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben

a kingfisher under water with a small fish in its beak

Squid use Bragg reflectors in their skin to change colour

New holotomography measurements reveal that the tuneable optical properties of these cephalopods come from winding columns of platelets in iridescent cells

Images showing the blue, green, yellow, orange and red iridscent colours of squid splotches

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