Pre-eclampsia is a common and dangerous pregnancy-related illness. Using tiny lipid particles to deliver messenger RNA directly to the placenta to boost blood-vessel function might prove to be an effective treatment.

Using X-ray microscopy, the properties of a new class of magnetism — altermagnetism — have been explored in prototypical crystal material, manganese telluride. A range of magnetic textures, including exotic vortices, have been imaged with nanoscale resolution, and controlled with magnetic fields in microstructures.

The JWST has captured images of the Firefly Sparkle — a galaxy that resembles an early Milky Way — in the process of being assembled from star clusters. The discovery could help to reveal how the Milky Way formed in the early Universe.

A scalable strategy for fabricating high-performance films of 2D inorganic materials called MXenes has been developed. The resulting MXene films show excellent performance in guiding bone regeneration and in other applications.