Communications Engineering

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...

Transmissive metasurface with 3.5-μm-thick liquid crystals for subterahertz-wave dynamic beamforming

Phase-based computational adaptive optics enables artifact-free super-resolution microscopy

A concentric tube catheter for endoluminal interventions, steered and imaged via magnetic resonance imaging

Pilot and testbed facilities: when the lab scale may not be enough Communications Engineering, Published online: 07 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00596-6Testbed and pilot facilities allow studies in real-world conditions—especially when scale matters. They often bring together universities and industry partners across borders, creating a space where collaboration thrives.

Pilot and testbed facilities: when the lab scale may not be enough

Percutaneous nephrostomy guidance by a convolutional-neural-network-based optical coherence tomography endoscope

A wireless power transfer system for leadless endovascular electrocorticography

3D-printed concrete with in-process embedded fiber-reinforced polymer grid reinforcement

Non-contact electroelastic modulation of conventional media leveraging two-way electromagnetic induction

Magnetic field control with dual robotic tunable magnetic end effectors

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy for rapid identification of cathode chemistry in lithium-ion battery recycling

Bridging spatial and temporal surface pressure dynamics for gust aerodynamic modeling Communications Engineering, Published online: 02 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00612-9Dashuai Chen and colleagues propose a graph-transformer framework that predicts gust-induced aerodynamic loads from sparse pressure measurements. The approach improves understanding of unsteady gust effects relevant to low-altitude flight.

Bridging spatial and temporal surface pressure dynamics for gust aerodynamic modeling

3D reconstruction and etching profile simulation for wiggling active area effect in dynamic random access memory manufacturing

Multichannel multicentroid motion-compensated single pixel imaging of a 2D arbitrarily moving rigid-body target

Visualization of text on bowed sheets via High-resolution 3D-Magnetic Resonance Micro-imaging for potential reading of closed books: the proof-of-concept

Realizing Shor’s algorithm with topological acoustic phase bits

Model predictive game control for personalized and targeted interactive assistance

Oxide semiconductor gain cell-embedded memory: materials and integration strategies for next generation on-chip memory Communications Engineering, Published online: 23 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00616-5The growing data demands of the digital era reveal the limits of embedded memory. Sang Won Chung and colleagues advance in oxide semiconductor gain cell embedded dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), outlining materials and integration toward power efficient, back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible memories for AI and edge computing.

Oxide semiconductor gain cell-embedded memory: materials and integration strategies for next generation on-chip memory

Safe focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening is driven primarily by transient reorganization of tight junctions

Going for gold: engineering success in elite winter sports - Communications Engineering Dr. Julian von Schleinitz is a former professional luge athlete and is currently the Head of Tech Excellence and AI Solutions in Financial Services at BMW Group. He also helps develop technology used to elevate the performance of Olympic athletes as part of BMW’s partnership with the German Luge, Skeleton and Bobsleigh Federation. Here, we talk to Dr. von Schleinitz about his transition from elite athlete to data scientist, the unique engineering and regulatory challenges he’s faced, and the future of artificial intelligence in ice track sports.

.@commseng.nature.com talks to former professional luge athlete Julian von Schleinitz about his transition from luger to data scientist – and his role in helping to develop technology used to elevate the performance of Olympic athletes. 🧪#MilanoCortina2026

Going for gold: engineering success in elite winter sports Communications Engineering, Published online: 16 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00609-4Dr. Julian von Schleinitz is a former professional luge athlete and is currently the Head of Tech Excellence and AI Solutions in Financial Services at BMW Group. He also helps develop technology used to elevate the performance of Olympic athletes as part of BMW’s partnership with the German Luge, Skeleton and Bobsleigh Federation. Here, we talk to Dr. von Schleinitz about his transition from elite athlete to data scientist, the unique engineering and regulatory challenges he’s faced, and the future of artificial intelligence in ice track sports.

Going for gold: engineering success in elite winter sports

Going for gold: engineering success in elite winter sports - Communications Engineering Dr. Julian von Schleinitz is a former professional luge athlete and is currently the Head of Tech Excellence and AI Solutions in Financial Services at BMW Group. He also helps develop technology used ...

Enjoying the luge and skeleton at #MilanoCortina2026? ❄️ We talked to former luge athlete Julian von Schleinitz about his transition from elite sport to developing track simulations and AI tools for the German bobsleigh, luge and skeleton team at the Winter Olympics. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Bridging modalities with AI: a review of AI advances in multimodal biomedical imaging Communications Engineering, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00602-xThe rapid evolution of AI has facilitated innovative solutions in analysing different biomedical imaging modalities. This review outlines state-of-the-art methods, key challenges, and future directions for using AI in multimodal biomedical imaging.

Bridging modalities with AI: a review of AI advances in multimodal biomedical imaging

We are happy to share our "Editors' Choice 2025" viewpoint, highlighting twenty papers from different disciplines which tell fascinating research stories, selected by our in-house editorial team and our Editorial Board Members:

A gallium arsenide hybrid-pixel counting detector for 100 keV cryo-electron microscopy

Thermal management of 3-D heterogeneously integrated microelectronics: challenges and future research directions Communications Engineering, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00590-yThermal management is becoming increasingly important as microelectronic devices grow smaller and more powerful. Manoj Kumar Sharma and Bladimir Ramos Alvarado review key challenges and design considerations for effective heat control in advanced microelectronics.

Thermal management of 3-D heterogeneously integrated microelectronics: challenges and future research directions

Flexible magnet-based antennas that can see through rock - Nature Electronics

Nature Electronics shares a Research Highlight on a paper published late last year at Communications Engineering, looking at flexible magnet-based antennas that can see through rock 🪨 Read the highlight here:

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...

Editors’ Choice 2025 Communications Engineering, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44172-026-00594-8The editorial team present a selection of highlights of research published in Communications Engineering in 2025

Editors’ Choice 2025

In vivo acoustoelectric neural recording in mice enabled by ultrasound-induced frequency mixing