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A read-out scheme inspired by dynamic random access memory could help deliver scalable quantum computers.

With the help of algorithms for target tracking and removal of random body-movement noise, a radio-frequency sensor can track multiple people and monitor their individual vital signs in a real-world setting.

Ultrathin calcium fluoride layers can provide an effective gate dielectric for two-dimensional transistors.

Surface plasmons propagating on conductive fabrics can be used to connect wearable sensors around the body, creating a secure and versatile body area network.

Clean and damage-free 2D transistors can be created with the help of transferred contacts made from hexagonal boron nitride with embedded metal.

Interface-induced asymmetric exchange coupling can create a chiral magnetic phase in a magnetic insulator at above room temperature.

A flexible phased array that has an areal mass density of only 0.1 g cm^–2 could help deliver a new era of lightweight, portable and reconfigurable communication systems.

Electronic components and interconnects can be simultaneously synthesized and integrated through the phase-patterned growth of two-dimensional molybdenum ditelluride.

Error rates in silicon qubits can be improved by benchmarking and optimizing pulse engineering techniques.

A hybrid analogue–digital computing system based on memristive devices is capable of solving classic control problems with potentially a lower energy consumption and higher speed than fully digital systems.

Electron spins can travel long distances in heavily doped organic materials.

Electronic skins that are able to restore their function when damaged in aquatic conditions could be used to create durable underwater soft robots.

Reliable memristive devices in which switching is based solely on electronic effects can be created from amorphous silicon by doping with oxygen and nitrogen.

A lateral heterojunction diode can be formed in a homogeneous monolayer of MoS₂ by using a substrate with different dielectric properties.

A nanolithography technique that uses a heated scanning probe tip can precisely pattern metal electrodes on two-dimensional semiconductors, creating field-effect transistors with exceptional performance.

The compressive buckling of lithographically defined, two-dimensional patterns can create three-dimensional piezoelectric microsystems with a range of potential applications.

A wireless, low-power optoelectronic platform, which is based on micro-LEDs, can provide multimodal programmable control over optogenetic stimulation parameters.

Integrating magnetoresistive random access memory with advanced fin field-effect transistor technology provides a route towards energy-efficient computing.

Body biasing and self-assembled molecular coatings enable 50-mV operation of ultra-small mechanical relays for low-power digital computing.

Magnetic-field sensors integrated on electronic skins can provide an artificial magnetoreception that relies only on geomagnetic fields.