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Unidirectional spin-hall magnetoresistance is a change in the conductivity of ferromagnetic/heavy metal bilayers that is sensitive to the magnetisation of the ferromagnetic layer. This sensitivity makes it a potential candidate for magnetic state readout. Here, Salikhov et al demonstrate ultrafast unidirectional spin hall magnetoresistance driven by terahertz fields

Realizing large area magnetoreceptive electronic skin with spatially continuous sensing is difficult. Here, the authors integrate the giant magnetoresistance effect and electrical resistance tomography to achieve continuous sensing of magnetic fields across an area of 120 × 120 mm2 with a resolution of 1 mm.

Local proton irradiation causes a chemical reaction that leads to nanopatterned magnetic media. The technique has strong potential for improving high-density data storage and other types of applications involving nanostructuring of materials.

Engineering of the spin–orbit interactions in a magnetic multilayered structure makes it possible to coherently generate coherent spin waves using terahertz radiation, which could benefit the development of spintronic devices.

Sub-micrometre spin waves are excited in anisotropic spin textures and they can propagate as 2D plane waves over several micrometres and as 1D waves along curved domain walls.

The magnetic field-driven dynamics of nanosized magnetic vortex cores can be used to generate propagating short-wavelength spin waves in heterostructures with antiferromagnetically coupled layers.

The elementary excitations of magnets are known as magnons. Like photons, they can carry information, but unlike photons, the interactions of magnons are intrinsically non-linear, making them particularly promising for physical reservoir computing, where the non-linear response of a dynamical system is used as a computational resource. Here, Körber et al demonstrate physical reservoir computing using the magnon eigenmodes of a permalloy disc.

Chiral interactions in magnetic systems enable topologically nontrivial magnetic textures, most notably topological solitons such as skyrmions. Here Volkov et al study the magneto-chiral interactions in a small asymmetric magnetic cap, and show how the geometric asymmetry influence the chiral spin- textures.

Flexible magnetic sensors with high sensitivity have a wide variety of medical and industrial uses, however, making such sensors robust and flexible at the same time can be challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate a high sensitivity flexible magnetic sensor that exhibits self-healing under an applied alternative magnetic field, with complete performance recovery.

Flexomagnetism refers to the modification of the magnetic properties of a material due to inhomogeneous strain, and offers a promising pathway to the control and manipulation of magnetism. Here, Makushko et al. explore flexomagnetism in antiferromagnetic thin films of Cr₂O₃, demonstrating a gradient of the Néel temperature as a result of an inhomogeneous strain.

Magnetoelectric coupling allows switching of magnetic states via gate voltage pulses. Here the authors propose and demonstrate a purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory based on Cr₂O₃, reporting 50-fold reduction of writing threshold compared to ferromagnetic counterparts.

Magnetic field sensors, which are based on the anisotropic magnetoresistance effect and arranged in a Wheatstone bridge configuration, can provide an artificial magnetoreception that allows a person to orientate in an outdoor setting and manipulate objects in virtual reality.

To realize electronic skins for emerging technologies that require multifunctional sensing capability, intelligent design strategies are needed. Here, the authors report electronic skins with a single sensory unit that simultaneously transduces both tactile and touchless stimulations.

Magnetic-memory devices rely on fast switching of the magnetization vector in a material to store data. The speed of such devices could be increased by adding a magnetic-pulse-shaping technique.

Ionic selectivity in microfluidics is challenging due to the differing length scales between ions and channels. Here, a model system emulates ionic transport at the microscale with electrokinetic spherical Janus micromotors moving over surfaces with spatially varying charge.

Robotic devices that can actuate at high speeds are challenging to achieve. Here, soft robotic devices driven by low magnetic fields show large deformations at frequencies of up to 100 Hz and are capable of a range of motions, including cross-clapping, walking, swimming and closing around a living fly.