23-Feb-2026 Q&A: What happens when the Supreme Court strikes down tariffs? Penn State The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 6-3 decision on Feb. 20 that the president could not invoke the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs against other countries. Terrence Guay, clinical professor of international business and director of Penn State’s Center for Global Business Studies, and Daniel Cahoy, department head of risk management and professor of business law, explained the ruling and what it means for the business community in the following Q&A.
23-Feb-2026 Can Taylor Swift teach botany? Music videos boost meaningful learning and help combat “plant blindness” Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche In a student-centered teaching project, undergraduates analyzed botanical elements in Taylor Swift music videos to activate prior knowledge and reinforce complex plant science concepts. The experience reports improved comprehension, high student satisfaction, and potential to counter “plant blindness” through popular culture.
23-Feb-2026 ETRI unveils “Safe LLaVA,” a vision language model with enhanced safety National Research Council of Science & Technology Korean researchers have achieved a breakthrough in the safety of generative AI. They developed a vision language model optimized for safety and released it for the first time. In this model, AI can preemptively analyze both images and text, even detecting risks. The research team is paving the way for a safe AI era. ETRI announced that it has unveiled a new type of vision language model called “Safe LLaVA,” which structurally enhances safety in generative AI models. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
23-Feb-2026 How natural language processing and AI can help policymakers address global food insecurity CGIAR Natural language processing (NLP), a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses computational techniques to interpret, analyze, and generate human language, encompasses a range of tasks and techniques. These include the large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots and other types of systems, as well as specific approaches (some employed by LLMs), including information extraction and text mining.
23-Feb-2026 The (microbe) highway to the danger zone La Jolla Institute for Immunology Kronenberg wants to know exactly how T cells do their jobs. Which molecular pathways push T cells into action when they meet an invader? He's especially interested in unusual T cell subsets—the ones that defy long-standing rules of immunology.
23-Feb-2026 The science of Ramadan fasting University of California - Riverside Dr. Sherif Hassan, an internal medicine professor at UC Riverside, explains the physiology, potential health benefits, and risks of fasting during Ramadan.
23-Feb-2026 (6,5) Carbon nanotubes: ultrahigh-purity synthesis achieved through trimetallic catalyst innovation Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University Researchers at AIMR achieved breakthrough 95.8% purity synthesis of (6,5) carbon nanotubes using a novel NiSnFe trimetallic catalyst. The discovery of Ni3Sn crystal formation within catalyst nanoparticles enabled selective chirality control. This advancement opens pathways for semiconductor device applications and establishes multi-element catalysts as a promising approach for single-chirality nanotube synthesis. Journal ACS Nano
20-Feb-2026 Popping the cork on new low-cost carbon capture method Texas A&M University A new, low-cost method for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities relies on a simple physical phenomenon — the same one that causes bubbles to fizz when popping a bottle of Champagne or cracking open a bottle of seltzer.
20-Feb-2026 Naturally fearless? A UVM neuroscientist on how elite athletes view risk University of Vermont Imagine soaring more than 400 feet in the air before landing on skis, launching off a nearly 50-foot platform strapped to a snowboard, or sledding face first over 80 miles an hour down a sheet of ice—on purpose. Spectators of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games may wonder if the brains of elite athletes are wired differently than the rest of us mere mortals. For neuroscientist Sayamwong Hammack, professor of psychological science at the University of Vermont, the answer is much more complicated.
20-Feb-2026 Researchers find satellite data can’t forecast future tremors Ohio State University Scientists have developed a method to assess whether tiny changes in Earth’s gravity can be used to predict oncoming earthquakes.
