It's almost certainly not junk when it makes it to Nature Photonics. This is the top journal in the field along with Science. The usability might not be there,

It's almost certainly not junk when it makes it to Nature Photonics. This is the top journal in the field along with Science. The usability might not be there, but the science is almost guaranteed to be interesting. The news release spins are what they always are, and unrelated to the actual merits of the paper.