This Review provides insights into the nanoscale physicochemical and electrochemical processes in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions for lithium metal batteries and explores emerging research directions for accelerated and iterative approaches.

The authors share their perspective on tandem catalysis schemes applied in CO₂ electrolysis by defining and classifying microscopic and macroscopic site and cell tandem concepts pursued so far, providing a critical assessment and performance comparison against non-tandem systems.

This Review extends fluctuational electrodynamics, introduced originally to deal with radiation due to thermal fluctuations, to provide a unified quantitative theoretical framework that accounts for light emission processes in solids.

This Perspective underscores how ligand-installed nanoparticles can transcend their delivery role by incorporating targeted protein degradation (TPD) functionality, with nanoparticle-mediated-targeting chimeras, broadening the TPD toolkit.

Femtosecond laser pulse-induced coherent helicity switching of magnetic vortices in permalloy disks on picosecond timescales is reported.

Five nuclear spins in silicon and the [[4, 2, 2]] code are used to demonstrate a universal logical gate set and to execute a variational quantum eigensolver computation of the ground-state energy of a water molecule.

Atomic-column-resolved electron magnetic circular dichroism enables the direct imaging of G-type and C-type antiferromagnetic orders in DyFeO₃ and α-Fe₂O₃, respectively, and the identification of a one-unit-cell-thick magnetic dead layer at a buried DyScO₃–SmFeO₃ interface.

Prodrug ionizable lipid nanoparticles co-delivering an effector T cell stimulant and a T cell exhaustion inhibitor eliminate primary and distal tumours, offering a potent strategy for combination cancer immunotherapy.

A single-crystal halide perovskite integrated in an exciton–polariton nanograting supports the formation of a supersolid phase at room temperature.

An all-nickelate platform based on hydrogenated perovskite nickelates combines proton-mediated transient dynamics with multilevel resistance states; this integration yields emergent spatiotemporal processing and memory for efficient neuromorphic computing.

The peer review system, as we know it now, is a relatively recent achievement. It will still evolve to better fit the needs of science and society in the future.

Nanoscience is now redefining how light can be controlled and processed on chip.

Optical computing is emerging as a low-power alternative by processing data with light instead of electrons. Advances in metasurfaces, plasmonics, and thin-film lithium niobate enable photonic circuits now being co-integrated with CMOS chips for hybrid, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) computing.

Technological developments in reproductive medicine, driven by the convergence of micro-robotics and nanosensors, along with decision-making aided by artificial intelligence, are enabling precise manipulation, gamete selection, embryo assessment and personalized treatment. These disruptive advances could lead to fully automated in vitro fertilization workflows. However, clinical implementation will need to address various technical, biological and ethical challenges to ensure safer and more effective fertility solutions.

Companies are scaling up advanced recycling technologies that could expand capacity, but experts think policies that level the economic playing field are currently the bottleneck.

The path towards high technology readiness levels in nanotechnology research and development goes through the sustainability route.