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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Dec-2025 02:11 ET (22-Dec-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

4-Nov-2025

Tiny swarms, big impact: Researchers engineering adaptive magnetic systems for medicine, energy and environment

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice University is partnering with researchers at the University of Washington, Columbia University and Louisiana State University on a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation to revolutionize how materials and microrobots can be designed, controlled and applied in real-world environments.

4-Nov-2025

Slowed by sound: A mouse model of Parkinson’s Disease shows noise affects movement

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the development of Parkinson’s disease, it may not be a good idea to turn the amp to 11. High-volume noise exposure produced motor deficits in a mouse model of early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and established a link between the auditory processing and movement areas of the brain, according to a study published November 4^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Pei Zhang from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Biology

4-Nov-2025

Study shows light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice researchers studying a class of atom-thin semiconductors known as transition metal dichalcogenides have discovered that light can trigger a physical shift in their atomic lattice, creating a tunable way to adjust the materials’ behavior and properties.

Journal: ACS Nano
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Welch Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Taiwan Ministry of Education

4-Nov-2025

Like sculpting from within: New technique builds advanced materials out of basic plastics

University of Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemists at the University of Florida have developed a technique to create highly porous materials from the ubiquitous building blocks of everyday plastics, and the end result could have applications in electronics, separations and battery manufacturing.

Journal: ACS Central Science

4-Nov-2025

Transforming cancer treatment with ultrasound

Syracuse University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Syracuse University researchers are developing a new way to guide the release of chemotherapy drugs to tumors using ultrasound, potentially reducing harmful side effects.

Journal: Chemical Science

4-Nov-2025

PKU scientists uncover climate impacts and future trends of hailstorms in China

Peking University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Peking University, November 4, 2025: A research team led by Professor Zhang Qinghong and Li Rumeng from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University (PKU) School of Physics, has found that hailstorms in China have surged since the Industrial Revolution, likely due to human-driven climate warming. The study, published in Nature Communications in September 2025, combines historical records, meteorological data, and artificial intelligence to track long-term hailstorm trends.

Journal: Nature Communications

4-Nov-2025

Lightning-prediction tool could help protect the planes of the future

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new model predicts how lightning would sweep across any airplane, including those with experimental designs. The tool generates a zoning map of the plane, showing which sections require more or less lightning protection.

Journal: IEEE Access
Funder: Boeing Company

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