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Systems made of self-propelled units—from cells to robots—obey shared physical principles that are only now coming into focus.
Lumen 3, 21–30 (2026)
Cell therapies have transformed blood cancers but struggle against solid tumours. Engineering the cells—and the environment they enter—could change that.
Lumen 3, 67–78 (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)
An analysis of 9 million papers shows that progress towards equitable authorship has stalled in many fields.
Lumen 3, 172–183 (2025)
