Improving living conditions for Parkinson's patients, and diagnoses for patients suffering from inflammatory processes. The medical field is the common factor in these Politecnico di Milano research projects, which have been awarded two ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grants with a funding of 1.5 million each, for a duration of five years. The prestigious awards were won by researchers Emanuele Riva from the Department of Mechanical Engineering with the LUMEN project and Claudio Conci from the Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” with the ALFRED project. A total of 55 Italian researchers are among the 478 selected by the European Research Council for 2025, with a total of 761 million EUR going to support the proposed ideas.

Researchers at Caltech and Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy teamed up with Google DeepMind to develop a new AI method–called Deep Loop Shaping–that can better hush unwanted noise in LIGO's detectors.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. Paolo Fornasiero from the University of Trieste in Italy, has developed a photochemical strategy for heterolytic hydrogen (H₂) dissociation at ambient temperature, a long-standing challenge in H₂ activation chemistry.

Harvard researchers have uncovered key fundamental chemistry of how proteins like keratin de-nature in the presence of certain salt compounds. 

Recent research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Bath, has shown that whether a droplet of liquid sticks or bounces depends on its speed and size, rather than solely on how water-repellent the surface is. Understanding the physics that govern microdroplet behaviour can help improve processes that affect our daily lives, from diseases to crop spray and from inkjet printing to pollution.

Researchers have uncovered how cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the brain play an important role in driving the spread of medulloblastoma and identified a way to target this fluid-driven process to inhibit tumour spread.