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As fine-particle pollution fell over a decade, hospital admissions for childhood asthma declined fastest where the air improved most.
Lumen 3, 98–105 (2026)
3D-printed lattices that shrink when heated could keep precision instruments stable in harsh thermal environments.
Lumen 3, 106–116 (2026)
Twenty-one agencies sign up to a single policy on data management plans, repositories and timelines.
Lumen 3, 117–118 (2026)
A comparative map of enhancers in 18 vertebrate species reveals a core set of regulatory switches conserved for more than 400 million years.
Lumen 3, 119–128 (2026)
Soils hold more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, yet we lack the means to measure how that store is changing. It is time to build them.
Lumen 3, 129–138 (2026)
Experiments that do not work out are as informative as those that do. The literature should reflect that.
Lumen 3, 139–141 (2026)
Star-shaped glial cells keep a running tally of time awake and signal to neurons when it is time to sleep.
Lumen 3, 142–152 (2026)
A bimetallic catalyst turns a common water pollutant into ammonia with high selectivity, offering a low-carbon alternative to the Haber–Bosch process.
Lumen 3, 153–162 (2026)
Restrictions on the movement of researchers harm discovery everywhere. Governments should resist them.
Lumen 3, 163 (2026)
Swirling ocean eddies tens of kilometres across carry organic carbon into the deep sea at rates comparable to sinking particles.
Lumen 3, 164–171 (2026)
An analysis of 9 million papers shows that progress towards equitable authorship has stalled in many fields.
Lumen 3, 172–183 (2025)
A machine-learning framework that searches over symbolic equations recovers known physics—and proposes new models—from only a handful of measurements.
Lumen 2, 1–7 (2025)
A dynamic polymer interlayer repairs defects in halide perovskite films as they form, tackling the main obstacle to commercial perovskite photovoltaics.
Lumen 2, 8–17 (2025)
Long-term ecological monitoring depends on places that funding systems too often overlook.
Lumen 2, 18–19 (2025)
Precise chemistry and orbits of stars in a thin stream reveal a dwarf galaxy that was torn apart more than 12 billion years ago.
Lumen 2, 20–29 (2025)
Mitochondria are tagged for division by patches of specialized lipids minutes before the molecular machinery that pinches them arrives.
Lumen 2, 30–39 (2025)
A decade of seafloor geodesy reveals that slow, silent fault slip accelerated in the months before two magnitude-7 earthquakes.
Lumen 2, 40–46 (2025)
Replanted mangrove forests rebuild most of the carbon stored in their soils within 20 years, faster than expected.
Lumen 2, 47–57 (2025)
