By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final key tests to confirm that it is fit for launch.

Skeletal muscle regeneration research is hindered by the "photodamage-imaging quality" trade-off in three-photon microscopy (3PM). A team from Zhejiang University developed the Multi-Scale Attention Denoising Network (MSAD-Net) to address this: combining MSAD-Net with 3PM reduces excitation power to 1.0–1.5 mW (1/4–1/2 of conventional levels) and scanning time to 2–3 μs/pixel (1/6–1/4 of standard), while maintaining 0.9932 SSIM and real-time denoising (80ms/frame). The system enables five-channel deep in vivo imaging of mouse muscle, uncovering key roles of macrophages and blood vessels in muscle stem cell-mediated repair.

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Hanyang Li at Harbin Engineering University has integrated functionalized liquid crystal (LC) microcavities with whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) laser technology to establish a novel real-time biosensing platform, enabling highly sensitive detection of ALT.