This review summarizes recent advances in wearable uric acid sensors, covering electrochemical and optical detection mechanisms, performance-enhancement strategies, device integration, and emerging applications. It highlights progress in sensitivity, selectivity, anti-fouling performance, self-calibration, and user comfort, while identifying persistent challenges in long-term stability, interference resistance, multimodal monitoring, clinical validation, data security, and commercialization. Future directions emphasize intelligent, sustainable, and personalized sensing platforms.

By sending quantum information through a storm, researchers at The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have shown that the information in light can be kept completely intact, even though the light itself was completely warped beyond recognition. 

A combination of satellite imagery, environmental data and habitat surveys carried out by citizen scientists could help transform the way endangered habitats are mapped, according to new research from the University of Surrey and Surrey Wildlife Trust. 

Published in Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, the review systematically summarizes recent advancements in multifunctional paper-based smart packaging. It highlights core modification strategies—internal additive incorporation, impregnation, coating, surface functionalization, and layer-by-layer assembly—that transform paper from passive protection into active regulation and intelligent sensing platforms. The authors discuss matrix-specific synergistic systems tailored to fresh produce and high-protein foods, while critically analyzing challenges including the recyclability paradox of high-performance coatings, unpredictable migration safety, and the scalability gap between laboratory innovation and industrial production.

A research team led by Prof. MENG Guowen and Prof. HAN Fangming from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. WEI Bingqing from the University of Delaware, has developed a highly crystalline three-dimensional graphitic carbon tube grid (3D-GCTG) that significantly improves the performance of filtering supercapacitors with thick electrodes.

Researchers from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, CAS, and Eastern Institute of Technology, have developed a low-noise magnetic sensor that retains high sensitivity, thereby enabling improved weak-field detection.

New non-invasive sensors that measure muscle forces have been developed by University of Queensland researchers, unlocking new possibilities for wearable robotic mobility devices.  

Ultra-wideband radar sensors measure the electromagnetic changes in muscles as they contract, allowing researchers to collect data in a way that’s never been done before.  

A joint research team led by Professor Daesik Kim (Department of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University), along with Professor Yong-Sub Kim (University of Ulsan College of Medicine) and Professor Jae-Hyun Park (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine), has announced the development of 'OpenABE' (Open Adenine Base Editor). By precisely engineering AI-derived next-generation base editors using structure-guided protein engineering, the team elevated gene editing efficiency by up to 36 times compared to conventional models.