Faced with more regular and intense droughts, Europe is finding ways to restore wetlands to naturally supply water and capture and store carbon. The WET HORIZONS project has developed tools to help landowners and policymakers to make the right decisions for rewetting these wetlands.  

What happens when researchers from engineering, entomology, geology, economics and other fields tackle water problems together? Kansas State University's CoSearch workshop is turning unexpected collaborations into new approaches to groundwater quality, water reuse and agricultural sustainability.

Can 3D-printed concrete make storm shelters safer and more accessible? A K-State researcher is partnering with researchers across the Midwest to test modular 3D-printed concrete designs engineered to withstand extreme winds and flying debris.

Thirty years ago, an insight from a rare brain disease took Robert Darnell's career in an unexpected direction. He’s still surprised by what he’s learning.

HHMI Investigator Janelle Ayres studies how the body can survive infections by cooperating with pathogens rather than killing them — findings that could transform development of new infectious disease treatments.

Researchers from IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) and IIT Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU) proposed the GenR framework, which efficiently recovers lost or damaged details in photographs. Another study by IITGN in collaboration with Adobe Research (India) discussed a new approach that can turn text descriptions into videos while keeping objects, their relationships, and actions consistent across frames. These studies highlight AI’s potential to both improve images we already have and create visual representations from information that may only be a memory. 

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is dedicated to advancing academic excellence and fostering high-impact research to address evolving societal needs. Prof. Renia LOPEZ, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Associate Professor of the Department of English and Communication, has been awarded the Research Grants Council’s (RGC) Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS). This fellowship recognises her outstanding academic contributions and will support her cutting-edge project, titled “The Impact of Video-Mediated Communication on Multimodal Disfluency and Interactional Management in Second Language English Speakers”, with funding of HK$602,600 for 12 months.

In recent years, numerous breakthroughs have been made in the generation and manipulation of structured light fields. For instance, Poincaré beams (PBs), which possess both inhomogeneous polarization distributions and helical wavefronts, allow for independent manipulation of their polarization and phase. These beams exhibit broad application prospects in fields such as laser processing, high-resolution imaging, and optical communications.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville researcher Dacheng Ren is developing dynamic, bacteria-resistant surfaces that prevent and remove biofilms without antibiotics. Inspired by natural defenses, his team’s “active topography” can dislodge more than 99.9% of attached bacteria and could lead to longer-lasting, self-cleaning medical devices, including urinary catheters.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville students are collaborating with researchers in New Zealand to develop safer, more sustainable food technologies. The NSF-funded program explores heat-free processing methods that preserve food quality and nutrients while developing rapid sensors for foodborne pathogens, giving students international research experience addressing global food security challenges.