September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, and the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is highlighting the importance of clinical research that advances treatments, explores earlier cancer detection, and improves the lives of people living with and beyond cancer.

A research team at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) – including Principal Researchers Dr. Sang Bok Kim and Dr. Inyong Park and Senior Researcher Dr. Younghun Kim of the Department of Urban Environment Research, Eco-friendly Energy & Environment Research Division – has begun developing a compact electrostatic precipitator-based air purification module for use in Indian trains. The project is a collaborative effort with THN Co., Ltd., a KIMM Family Company (partner firm), as part of KIMM’s flagship air purification brand, Air Five.

Okayama University of Science has teamed up with the 1,100-year-old Okayama Shrine to create a unique goshuin, a traditional Japanese shrine seal, featuring Tarbosaurus, one of Asia’s largest carnivorous dinosaurs. Scientifically supervised by the university’s Department of Dinosaur Paleontology, the collaboration brings together dinosaur research and Japanese tradition while encouraging visitors to discover Okayama’s growing connection to dinosaurs.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated an innovative approach for targeted breast cancer therapy using pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs). The NUS team successfully reprogrammed tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs), a corrupted class of immune cells that typically promote cancer growth, into an active anti-tumour state that attacks and destroys cancer cells.

Prof. Chunhai Fan, who is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, has been conducting research at the University of Stuttgart since June. Fan works closely with Prof. Laura Na Liu of the 2nd Physics Institute. Both researchers are among the world's leading experts in the field of DNA nanotechnology.

The story of Prof Dan Blumstein’s decision to share videos of the marmots in the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s field study on an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms has captured the world over the last few weeks. 64 years of research into marmots can provide incredible insights into their evolution and socioecology, but the study is as expensive to run as it is valuable — and funding challenges have forced Blumstein, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Conservation Science, to innovate in new and surprising ways. In this instalment of Frontier Scientists, Blumstein explains to us why this long-running study of yellow-bellied marmots is so important for science, how funding losses are putting it at risk, and how he’s fighting back. 

Living human cells will launch aboard a European research rocket next month as South Australian researchers use space to investigate cancer in a radically different environment.

Rattlesnake newborns have recently appeared on the Project RattleCam livestream at the camera locations in California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. The babies offer glimpses into the life and behaviors of newborns and their mothers. The Pennsylvania camera, which was launched in May, is showing baby rattlesnakes on its feed for the first time this week. Project RattleCam is a community science collaboration between Cal Poly and Dickinson College.

When bacteria invade the urinary tract, the body has its own arsenal for fighting back. Among those weapons is an unlikely tool: copper.

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are investigating how the body uses the essential trace mineral to fight urinary tract infections (UTIs), how bacteria manage to survive that attack and whether those discoveries could eventually lead to new ways of treating infections that are increasingly difficult to control with antibiotics.