27-Oct-2025 New AI tool fights back against speech eavesdropping University of Maryland University of Maryland computer scientists developed an AI-enhanced system that protects personal voice data from automated surveillance.
27-Oct-2025 Can artificial intelligence have morality? Philosophy weighs in Texas A&M University A philosopher who studies technology is keeping a scorecard on AI and cautions that machines are not capable of truly moral choices.
27-Oct-2025 Tackling children's health University of Cincinnati Randi Bates, assistant professor in the UC College of Nursing, focuses on advancing childhood health and wellbeing in her research. This month she was honored with a Crane Excellence in Early Childhood Award from The Ohio State University. Bates is also the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award from Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. Journal Early Childhood Education Journal
27-Oct-2025 The 1887 law that powers modern agricultural science University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Agricultural innovation requires more than ideas — it demands acres of land, barns full of livestock, fleets of equipment, and teams of specialists who keep it all running. Few research enterprises are as complex or costly as agriculture. For nearly 140 years, the Hatch Act of 1887 has helped shoulder that burden, providing stable federal funding that fuels discovery across the land-grant system. Funder National Institute of Food and Agriculture
27-Oct-2025 University of Cincinnati's Blood Cancer Healing Center a national model for collaborative design and construction University of Cincinnati Representatives from the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, UC Health, Champlin | EOP and Skanska are sharing lessons learned and best practices for designing and constructing comprehensive health care facilities following the opening of the Cancer Center’s Blood Cancer Healing Center.
27-Oct-2025 Quantum metric: Flexible control of electronic-state geometry in real materials Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University Researchers at AIMR demonstrated that the quantum metric, a hidden property of electronic states, can be measured and controlled under ambient conditions. Using a Mn3Sn/Pt heterostructure with engineered interfacial spin textures, they revealed a robust second-order Hall effect, opening new pathways for topological electronics and quantum-geometry–based devices. Journal Nature Physics
27-Oct-2025 Fern scientist uncovers how limits fuel evolution University of Tennessee at Knoxville Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Journal Current Biology
27-Oct-2025 First steps in home and building flood prevention University of Texas at Austin A new dataset of pre- and post-hurricane first-floor elevation for homes and buildings in a Southwest Florida city was awarded a 2025 DesignSafe Dataset Award, which recognized the dataset's diverse contributions to natural hazards research. Journal Natural Hazards Review Funder U.S. National Science Foundation
27-Oct-2025 Pressing need for ethical and regulatory oversight of therapeutic voice AI, SFU expert urges Simon Fraser University As voice artificial intelligence (AI) speeds toward use in clinical settings, a researcher from Simon Fraser University is highlighting the urgent need for ethical, legal, and social oversight—especially in therapeutic care. Voice AI analyzes vocal patterns to detect signs of physical, cognitive, and mental health conditions based on vocal qualities like pitch and jitter or fluency and specific words people use. Some tech companies have even dubbed it “the new blood” of healthcare because of its potential to act as a biomarker, but SFU health sciences researcher Zoha Khawaja urges caution.
27-Oct-2025 Georgia Tech’s soft robotics flips the script on ‘The Terminator’ Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech researchers are rewriting robotics — swapping steel for soft, intelligent materials that move like muscle. In Materials Horizons, Hong Yeo reveals how AI-driven “smart muscles” can respond and adapt in real time. The discovery opens new doors for prosthetics, therapy devices, and human-machine collaboration. Funder U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health
