Read the full paper at the following link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Happy Friday! Today's highlight is a paper by Jaroslav Mikule and colleagues, who developed a continuous AC-electrospinning method for producing core-free, 100% nanofiber yarns - pictured in this video 🧵

🧵A high-throughput method for making strong, flexible nanofibrous yarns using AC #electrospinning is published in @commseng.nature.com. Video shows nanofibrous belt formed from a spinning electrode deposited on a drum collector, continuously twisted into a yarn. #nanofibres doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Their approach improves rock-breaking efficiency while mitigating the risks associated with traditional methods, with applications in geothermal energy development, scientific drilling and infrastructure projects like tunnels.

Happy Monday! 🪨💥🔨Here are some explosive videos to put a spark in the start of your week! Yu Zhou and colleagues harness the mechanics of rockburst; by using ultrasonic vibrations to induce ultra-high-frequency impacts on hard rock, they enabled controlled spontaneous fragmentation.

Jason Hou, Canan Dagdeviren and colleagues in the @mitmedialab.bsky.social have looked an augmented-reality system that lowers the skill barrier for medical ultrasound interpretation and training 🥽 Read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our paper of the week🚀! Sapphires are both beautiful and useful 💎💎. But they are hard and brittle and difficult to machine. A method now offers fast, precise processing, with fewer cracks. It’s done using synchronized femtosecond and microsecond laser pulses Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Second, a Viewpoint from three female researchers on different aspects of the development of photovoltaic technologies for space applications. Contributions come from Mei Gao, Narges Yaghoobi Nia and Nina Vaidya. #INWED26 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

First, a Q&A with Laura Del Río Fernández, a scientist at ArcelorMittal. Laura describes the conception and growth of ArcelorMittal's Additive Manufacturing (AM) activity over the last ten years, alongside her own career development as an industry researcher. #INWED26 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What does Next-Gen cooling for power semiconductors in EVs look like?❄️ Henry A Martin and colleagues design a direct-to-package cooling design that aims to move liquid cooling closer to the semiconductor device - no need for thermal interface materials! Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Communications Engineering has received its first Journal Impact Factor! 🏆 Thanks to all our authors who have trusted us with publishing their work, especially early in the journal's lifetime 📖

Most recently, we are joined by Prof Yang Gao at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, who will help us with manuscripts on virtual power plants, microgrids, electricity-computing-carbon synergy, and digital twins of energy systems ⚡

Next, we welcome Prof Santosh Kumar Vipparthi from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India, who will handle papers on computer vision, deep learning, image and video restoration, and underwater and adverse-condition visual intelligence 👁️

We have welcomed a few new Editorial Board Members over the last couple of months! First up, Prof Juanjuan Zhang joins us from Nankai University, China, handling manuscripts on exoskeletons, rehabilitation robots, gait analysis, musculoskeletal modelling, and more🚶‍➡️

We've updated our homepage for June, with a featured article by Yu Tokizane, Takeshi Yasui and colleagues on single-channel 112 Gbps photonic wireless transmission at 560 GHz using soliton microcombs www.nature.com/commseng/

How can truck platooning reduce greenhouse gas emissions in road transportation?🚚Jia Hu and Haoran Wang from Tongji University developed a method of allowing a human-driven lead truck to guide automated trucks: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We've updated our homepage! Our current featured article is on using microfluidics for direct-to-package cooling, bypassing the need for thermal interface materials and complex fabrication processes for power semiconductors⚡www.nature.com/articles/s44172-026-00620-9

Curious about how we can improve underwater object detection? 🌊 Yaoming Zhuang and colleagues develop a layout-guided diffusion framework for generating high-quality underwater images: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Can we non-invasively detect neural activity from targeted brain regions? 🔍 Jean L. Rintoul, Nir Grossman and colleagues explore an acoustoelectric approach that pairs ultrasound with electrical measurements: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How does Parkinson’s Disease affect both neurons and blood vessels? 🧠 Anika Alim, Jungwook Paek and colleagues developed a microengineered platform that mimics the brain's environment, allowing for detailed study of the disease's progression www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Exoskeletons can enhance human mobility, but how can their use be optimised? 🚶 Jianyu Chen, Juanjuan Zhang and colleagues look at using human responses and interactions to improve exoskeleton-assisted walking www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How can we design materials that mimic nature's strength and flexibility? 💪 Yuze Li, Rui Li, Yin Fan and colleagues look at inverse design of bioinspired layered composite structures www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How can we improve drug discovery with better early preclinical models in a scalable way? 🔬 New work by Eloisa Torchia, Francesco Pasqualini and colleagues at the University of Pavia explores this: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Welcome Yan Li, PhD to the @commseng.nature.com editorial board. Yan is an Assistant Professor at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social and will be helping us with submissions in cyber-physical energy systems, quantum computing, machine learning, data-driven modelling and control, and cybersecurity.

Welcome, Hamed Rahmani, PhD, to the @commseng.nature.com editorial board. Hamed is Assistant Professor at @nyutandon.bsky.social and will work on submissions in wireless communication devices, microwave engineering, bioelectronics, wireless power transmission and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.

We would like to welcome Christina Harvey, PhD to the @commseng.nature.com editorial board. Christina is an Assistant Professor at @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social. Christina will be supporting us with research submissions in aerodynamics, flight dynamics, UAV design and biomechanics.

🌲How do drone swarms tackle dense forest occlusions to detect hidden targets?🌲 New research by Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan, Oliver Bimber and colleagues in Communications Engineering explores this question: www.nature.com/articles/s44...