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Technology15 Oct 2025

World’s largest superconducting fusion system will use American technology to measure the plasma within

When the experimental fusion system known as JT-60SA comes online in 2026, it will be the world’s largest fusion machine: a crowning achievement for Japan and Europe, which partnered to build it. Now, the research team has turned to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for critical measurement equipment. The effort is part of a new agreement between PPPL, the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) of Japan and Europe’s Fusion for Energy (F4E), allowing for broader collaboration between the researchers. “PPPL is among the first U.S. institutions to have its equipment installed ...

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Technology15 Oct 2025

Hanyang University researchers develop novel sensor for continuous endoleak monitoring

Endovascular aneurysm repair is a minimally invasive technique for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms—life-threatening bulges in the aorta's abdominal section. However, it carries the risk of recurrence owing to endoleaks after stent graft implantation, necessitating regular follow-up especially since these leaks cannot be easily linked to specific symptoms. Unfortunately, only imaging-based monitoring such as computed tomography angiography or magnetic resonance imaging is available at the moment. This conventional follow-up protocol ...

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Technology15 Oct 2025

Unveiling the impact of compound drought and wildfire events on PM2.5 air pollution in the era of climate change

POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Professor Hyung Joo Lee’s research team, including integrated program students Min Young Shin and Na Rae Kim, has published the results of a study analyzing how the combined effects of droughts and wildfires influence fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in California, U.S., using 15 years of data. The study was published in the international environmental science journal Environment International. PM2.5 refers to fine particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 micrometers (µm) or less. Because these particles can penetrate deep into the lungs when inhaled, causing respiratory ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quickly tag promising candidates. But once a material is made, verifying its quality still involves scanning it with specialized instruments to validate its performance — an expensive and time-consuming step that can hold up the development and distribution of new technologies. Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

Multidisciplinary study finds estrogen could aid in therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis

About 100,000 of the estimated million people in the United States with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a progressive form of the disease, with symptoms that worsen continuously or after periods of remission. “Progressive MS is profoundly challenging because it is relentless and treatment options are limited,” said Francisco P. Gomez, a neurologist who specializes in MS and neuroimmunology. MS is believed to occur when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath — the protective coating of the nerve fibers that transmit ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

SNU researchers develop innovative heating and cooling technology using ‘a single material’ to stay cool in summer and warm in winter without electricity

Researchers at Seoul National University have unveiled a groundbreaking thermal management technology capable of selectively implementing cooling and heating functions using a single material and process, without requiring electricity. The technology developed by Professor Seung Hwan Ko's research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SNU is drawing attention as an innovative solution that replaces existing complex processes. It enables the same transparent silicon polymer material to be processed into either a cooling or heating surface simply by adjusting ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

SNU researchers outline a roadmap for next-generation 2D semiconductor 'gate stack' technology

Seoul National University’s College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor Chul-Ho Lee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has outlined a comprehensive roadmap for the ‘gate stack’* engineering, a core technology for two-dimensional (2D) transistors, which are attracting attention as next-generation semiconductor devices. *Gate stack: A layered structure composed of dielectric and metal materials placed above the conductive channel in a transistor, used ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

SwRI’s Dr. Chris Thomas named AIAA Associate Fellow

SAN ANTONIO — October 14, 2025 — Dr. Chris Thomas of Southwest Research Institute’s Mechanical Engineering Division has been named an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA Associate Fellows are recognized for overseeing important engineering or scientific work, outstanding contributions to their field, or original work of exceptional caliber. Associate Fellows must be recommended by at least three other associate fellows, be a senior member in good standing of the AIAA, and have a minimum of 12 years of professional experience. AIAA ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

Johri developing artificial intelligence literacy among undergraduate engineering and technology students

Aditya Johri, Professor, Information Sciences and Technology; Dr. Lawrence Cranberg Endowed Research Fellow, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “Developing Artificial Intelligence Literacy Among Undergraduate Engineering and Technology Students Through Case-Based Instruction.” This project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate education to better prepare future engineering and computing professionals to use and develop artificial intelligence (AI). The project's significance lies in its innovative use of situated case studies to help students ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

Quantum crystals offer a blueprint for the future of computing and chemistry

(Auburn, AL) Imagine industrial processes that make materials or chemical compounds faster, cheaper, and with fewer steps than ever before. Imagine processing information in your laptop in seconds instead of minutes or a supercomputer that learns and adapts as efficiently as the human brain. These possibilities all hinge on the same thing: how electrons interact in matter. A team of Auburn University scientists has now designed a new class of materials that gives scientists unprecedented control over these tiny particles. ...

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Technology14 Oct 2025

Development of silicon ultrasound patch achieves both eco-friendliness and performance enhancement

Wearable ultrasound devices are actively used in various medical settings, including hospital diagnostics, rehabilitation monitoring, and telemedicine. However, most commercial devices currently rely on lead (Pb)-based piezoelectric ceramics, which are harmful to the human body and the environment, making it difficult to ensure both performance and safety. This has increased the demand for new ultrasound transducer technologies that can completely replace lead while achieving high performance. The research team led by Dr. Byung Chul Lee at the Bionics Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science ...

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Technology13 Oct 2025

AI models predict sepsis in children, allow preemptive care

Sepsis, or infection causing life-threatening organ dysfunction, is a leading cause of death in children worldwide. In efforts to prevent this rare but critical condition, researchers developed and validated AI models that accurately identify children at high risk for sepsis within 48 hours, so that early preemptive care can be provided. These predictive models used routine electronic health record (EHR) data from the first four hours the child spent in the Emergency Department (ED), before organ dysfunction was present. The multi-center study, led by Elizabeth Alpern, MD, MSCE, from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is the first to use ...

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Technology13 Oct 2025

New open-source software allows for efficient 3D printing with multiple materials

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, has created a design system software package that uses functions and code to map not just shapes but also where different materials belong in a 3D object. The project, called OpenVCAD, was developed in the Matter Assembly Computation Lab led by Assistant Professor Robert MacCurdy of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. A new paper, published October 13 in the journal Additive Manufacturing, highlights the design tool and its potential to ...

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Technology13 Oct 2025

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster

Most scientific data never fuel the discoveries they should. For every 100 datasets created, around 80 remain in the lab, 20 are shared but rarely reused, fewer than two meet FAIR standards, and only one typically drives new findings. The result: delayed cancer treatments, climate models short on evidence, and research that cannot be reproduced. Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, ...

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Technology11 Oct 2025

A centimeter-scale quadruped piezoelectric robot with high integration and strong robustness

Centimeter-scale robots have unique advances such as small size, light weight, and flexible motions, which exhibit great application potential in many fields. Notably, high integration and robustness are 2 key factors determining the locomotion characteristics and practical applications. “Although they have achieved certain advancements in miniaturization and motion performance, the presence of electromagnetic motors and transmission mechanisms prevents further miniaturization. There are still issues such as electromagnetic interference and wear of the transmission components.” stated ...

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Technology10 Oct 2025

Freely levitating rotor spins out ultraprecise sensors for classical and quantum physics

Levitation has long been pursued by stage magicians and physicists alike. For audiences, the sight of objects floating midair is wondrous. For scientists, it’s a powerful way of isolating objects from external disturbances. This is particularly useful in case of rotors, as their torque and angular momentum, used to measure gravity, gas pressure, momentum, among other phenomena in both classical and quantum physics, can be strongly influenced by friction. Freely suspending the rotor could drastically reduce these disturbances – and now, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have designed, created, and analyzed such a macroscopic device, bringing ...

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Technology9 Oct 2025

China’s emerging AI regulation could foster an open and safe future for AI

In a Policy Forum, Yue Zhu and colleagues provide an overview of China’s emerging regulation for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and its potential contributions to global AI governance. Open-source AI systems from China are rapidly expanding worldwide, even as the country’s regulatory framework remains in flux. In general, AI governance suffers from fragmented approaches, a lack of clarity, and difficulty reconciling innovation with risk management, making global coordination especially hard in the face of rising controversy. Although ...

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Technology9 Oct 2025

SeoulTech scientists develop AI-based patent abstract generator to discover and detail technology opportunities

Patents are valuable for the generation of novel ideas through technology opportunity discovery. In recent years, scientists have made several attempts to identify technology opportunities by determining vacancies in patent maps—visual representations of patent distribution in particular technological fields created using dimensionality reduction techniques. However, there is a major bottleneck in this approach: it is challenging to precisely define and interpret the technological content of these patent vacancies. In a breakthrough study, researchers from the Republic of Korea and the United States, led by Professor Hakyeon Lee of the Department ...

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Technology8 Oct 2025

China, the world's largest tea producer, is predicted to experience increases in land suitable for tea-growing under climate change, with the overall range shifting northwards, per AI modeling study

China, the world's largest tea producer, is predicted to experience increases in land suitable for tea-growing under climate change, with the overall range shifting northwards, per AI modeling study Article URL: http://plos.io/4murlYk Article title: Prediction of changes in suitable habitats for tea plants in China’s four major tea-producing regions based on machine learning models Author countries: China Funding: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42061004), the Yunnan Agricultural Infrastructure ...

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Technology8 Oct 2025

Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias

U.S. Census data shows no systematic age differences between men and women in the workforce over the past decade. And globally, women on average live about five years longer than men. But that’s not what you’ll see if you search Google or YouTube or query an AI like ChatGPT. A study published today in the journal Nature analyzed 1.4 million online images and videos plus nine large language models trained on billions of words and found that women are systematically presented as younger than men. The researchers looked at content from Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr, and YouTube, and major large language models including GPT2, and concluded ...

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Technology8 Oct 2025

AI breakthrough helps astronomers spot cosmic events with just a handful of examples

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky — such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, a fast-moving asteroid, or a brief stellar flare from a compact star system — and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training. Published today (8 October) in Nature Astronomy, the study by researchers from the University of Oxford, Google Cloud, and Radboud University demonstrates that a general-purpose ...

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Technology7 Oct 2025

FIU cybersecurity researchers develop midflight defense against drone hijacking

MIAMI (Oct. 7, 2025) – As drones become increasingly common in U.S. skies – delivering packages, inspecting bridges, even monitoring crops – the danger of cyberattacks has grown too. A drone hijacked by hackers could suddenly veer off course, speed up, stall in midair, or crash. Once compromised, the machine is useless, often left as little more than expensive junk. Florida International University researchers have found a way to fight back. At the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, FIU computer scientists unveiled SHIELD, a defensive system that can detect and neutralize ...

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Technology7 Oct 2025

Kennesaw State researcher aims to discover how ideas spread in the digital age

From viral videos to debates over new products, ideas move faster than ever in today’s digital age. Mehmet Aktas, an associate professor of data science and analytics, is leading National Science Foundation-funded research that looks into how those ideas spread, evolve, and shape communities. Funded through a collaborative NSF grant, Aktas is working with colleagues from Georgia State University and Georgia Gwinnett College to explore new ways of modeling information diffusion. Aktas’s project studies how information flows within networks of people. Traditional approaches treat communication like a chain of one-to-one interactions, ...

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Technology7 Oct 2025

Sanders receives funding for project aimed at enabling prostheses for children with lower extremity amputation

Quentin Sanders, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for: “Fused Filament Fabrication of Customized Continuous Fiber Physical Activity Enabling Prostheses for Children with Lower Extremity Amputation.” The long-term goal of the work is to make high-performance prosthetic limbs more affordable, accessible, and tailored to the needs of active children. To make progress towards this goal Dr. Sanders and his collaborators have three objectives ...

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Technology7 Oct 2025

Johns Hopkins researchers develop AI to predict risk of US car crashes

In a significant step towards improving road safety, Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed an A.I.-based based tool that can identify the risk factors contributing to car crashes across the United States and to accurately predict future incidents. The tool, called SafeTraffic Copilot, aims to provide experts with both crash analyses and crash predictions to reduce the rising number of fatalities and injuries that happen on U.S. roads each year. The work, led by Johns Hopkins ...

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