With an expected resurgence in lunar missions in the coming years, Purdue University engineer Carolin Frueh is researching how to minimize the impact of space debris as it increases in the cislunar region.

Hiren Solanki, a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, is conducting research that translates complex climate research into accessible public knowledge. His work was recognised at Saransh 2025, a three-minute thesis competition conducted by the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS). He developed a machine-learning framework that reconstructs six decades of missing river flow and water-level data across India. His research highlights how reliable hydrological data can strengthen flood prediction, water security, and climate resilience.

Associate Professor Toshu An at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is exploring the fundamental nature of magnetism by developing techniques to sense and image electron spin dynamics at the nanoscale. Using atomic-scale defects in diamond as quantum sensors, his research contributes to advances in quantum sensing and opens possibilities towards nanoscale MRI and room-temperature quantum technologies.

Timo Koivisto has been appointed as Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Eastern Finland. 

A team of Korean researchers has achieved the feat of establishing a key international standard for verifying the safety and reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This achievement is the result of over five years of effort, and South Korea has come to lead not only AI technology but also AI norms and reliability verification standards.

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are mapping the genetic differences between the domestic chicken and its wild relative the junglefowl. They will now try to find out whether it is possible to use genetic engineering to “undomesticate” domesticated chickens. This could be a tool for conserving endangered species – and perhaps recreating extinct animals.

New genetic research with key contributions from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has uncovered “hidden” freshwater mussel diversity in the Tennessee River Basin—one of the most biologically diverse river systems in the world. Using DNA analysis alongside fieldwork and museum collections, researchers formally described two previously unrecognized species and found evidence of a third yet to be named. UT’s Gerald Dinkins of the McClung Museum notes the basin’s exceptional diversity is tied to its long, undisturbed geological history and its many distinct habitat types, which have allowed species to diversify over millions of years.