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A study in AI & Environment combines policy analysis with technical benchmarking to show AI development splitting into three structurally incompatible pathways led by the US, China, and EU - each optimizing for different values and creating growing barriers to global cooperation.
Read the releaseUniversity of Pittsburgh's Fang Peng received the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering for Z-source and modular multilevel converter technologies that handle electrical faults without catastrophic arcing - with applications from power grids to hybrid electric aircraft.
Read the releaseUltrasound AI received FDA De Novo clearance for Delivery Date AI, a cloud-based tool trained on millions of ultrasound images that achieves 0.92 R-squared accuracy in predicting delivery timing from standard OB scans without requiring biometric measurements.
Read the releaseChinese Academy of Sciences researchers developed BT-YOLO, a real-time video algorithm that segments and quantifies bioluminescent 'blue tears' algal blooms at pixel level, providing a scientific basis for bloom forecasting and coastal management.
Read the releaseA DOE report from 70 researchers across academia, industry, and national labs identifies seven areas where better plasma diagnostics are needed to reach commercial fusion energy, from radiation-hardened sensors to AI-accelerated design tools.
Read the releaseVijay Anand, associate professor of information technology at Kennesaw State University, has been named a 2026 National Academy of Inventors Senior Member for contributions including over $2 million in federally funded research, a foundational patent in multi-device authentication, and establishing Missouri's first cybersecurity degree program.
Read the releaseKobe University trained an AI model on over 11,000 images of the hand back and clenched fist from 725 patients across 15 Japanese facilities. The system diagnoses acromegaly with higher accuracy than experienced endocrinologists, avoiding the privacy concerns of facial imaging.
Read the releaseResearchers at Waseda University demonstrated that heating electrons with a femtosecond laser in a degenerate indium nitride film creates transient Pauli blocking - switching optical transparency across multiple wavelengths at speeds far beyond electronic transistors.
Read the releaseAn aquatic robotic wing with embedded liquid metal sensors detects underwater current disturbances and autonomously reshapes itself, reducing unwanted uplift forces by 87% compared to rigid wings used on autonomous underwater vehicles.
Read the releaseOak Ridge National Laboratory has launched the Next Generation Data Centers Institute, combining energy systems, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, and grid science to address AI infrastructure's escalating electricity demand.
Read the releaseResearchers from Sun Yat-Sen University trained an AI model to predict daily sea level changes rather than absolute values, outperforming the state-of-the-art GLO12v4 numerical model at medium-range forecasts without increasing model complexity.
Read the releaseUniversity of Illinois researchers combined a woodchip bioreactor with a designer biochar channel to simultaneously remove nitrogen and phosphorus from farm drainage. A one-year field trial cut nitrate-nitrogen loads by 58% and phosphorus by up to 92%.
Read the releaseFlorida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute received a $900,000 four-year grant from the National Academies' Gulf Research Program to develop scenario-based sea-level projections for the Gulf of Mexico, integrating climate models, vertical land motion data, and AI-based forecasting tools for underserved coastal communities.
Read the releaseThe University of Birmingham secured 17.9 million pounds from UKRI to host the Baskerville National Compute Resource, a liquid-cooled GPU computing hub launching in April 2027 and designed to provide high-performance computing access across all UK research disciplines.
Read the releaseThe 2026 SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning conference highlighted a striking duality: AI's demand for ever-more-capable chips is straining semiconductor manufacturing, while AI-driven process control is simultaneously becoming the primary tool for managing the resulting complexity.
Read the releaseA Michigan State University study published in npj Complexity found that AI agents programmed to mimic human behavior within a Public Goods game lowered the cooperation threshold and produced more collective contribution than agents programmed to always cooperate or that were controlled by human players - but real-world applicability remains speculative.
Read the releaseWhen standard AI benchmarks became too easy, nearly 1,000 researchers built Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 questions from expert-level fields where any question AI could answer was eliminated. GPT-4o scored 2.7%; the best current models reach around 40-50%.
Read the releaseUC Santa Barbara researchers used first-principles simulations to identify the CN center - a carbon-nitrogen defect in silicon - as a structurally stable, hydrogen-free qubit that emits light in the telecom band, making it compatible with existing optical fiber infrastructure and chip manufacturing.
Read the releaseUniversity of Florida paleontologists trained AI image classifiers on thousands of shark tooth photographs from six Neogene species, finding that accuracy plateaued above 90 percent at around 250 specimens per species - far fewer than expected and enough to make AI classification practical for fossil collections.
Read the releaseUniversity of Birmingham computer scientists have developed SynapTrack, a blockchain money laundering detection system that demonstrated 98% accuracy tracing funds from the 2025 Bybit hack, addressing the 40% false positive rate that burdens conventional anti-money laundering systems.
Read the releaseKorea Research Institute of Standards and Science researchers developed a gas sensor nanostructure using indium sulfide coated on indium oxide that enables sensitive multi-gas detection under visible blue LED illumination, eliminating the need for micro-heaters that operate at 200-400 degrees Celsius in conventional sensors.
Read the releaseA research team at Tokyo University of Science has created water-based enzyme inks that allow enzymatic biofuel cells to be manufactured in a single printing step, addressing a key barrier to mass-producing self-powered wearable biosensors for sweat-based metabolic monitoring.
Read the releaseResearchers at IMDEA Networks built a network of $100 radio receivers near roads and collected over 6 million unencrypted tire pressure sensor signals from more than 20,000 vehicles over 10 weeks. The signals include unique fixed IDs enabling vehicle tracking without cameras or license plates.
Read the releaseA machine learning approach trained on published studies identified lanthanum-calcium and lanthanum-iron biochar composites that reduce lake phosphorus to trace levels while cutting remediation costs by more than half compared to standard lanthanum-modified materials.
Read the releaseChinese battery researchers used a single electrolyte additive - TMAI - whose two ions independently address slow iodine kinetics, polyiodide shuttle, and zinc dendrite growth, achieving 50,000 full-cell cycles with 99.95% average coulombic efficiency.
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