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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-May-2025 15:09 ET (3-May-2025 19:09 GMT/UTC)

For people living with HIV/AIDS, TB is still the leading cause of death

American Thoracic Society

The latest World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Report released in November 2024 painted a sobering picture; approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023, the highest number since the organization began global TB monitoring in 1995. TB is the leading cause of death among those with HIV /AIDS worldwide. According to the WHO, in 2023, 161,000 people died of HIV-associated TB.

Effects of extreme heat explored in new design brief

Chemical Insights Research Institute

The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has unveiled a design brief exposing the effects of extreme heat on the built environment and its occupants, equipping interior designers with critical knowledge to address the increasing challenges posed by extreme heat. The second design brief produced in a collaborative research partnership with the Chemical Insights Research Institute (CIRI), “ASID Impact of Design Brief: Climate Impacts on Building Resiliency & Human Health” examines the current state of the environment from a chemical landscape perspective and proposes how its three leading topics— climate, building resiliency, and human health— can be better considered in an evolving design practice.

PolyU project promotes multidimensional machine learning in geotechnical engineering supported by RGC via EU Co-funding Mechanism

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Ensuring the resilience of geo-infrastructure is a critical global task amid the challenges brought about by climate change. A project led by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to advance geotechnical engineering, positioning these technologies as next-generation tools to tackle complex challenges. The research has been supported via the European Union (EU) — Hong Kong Research Cooperation Co-funding Mechanism by the Research Grants Council (RGC) 2024/25.

Dark matter, neutrinos and drug discovery: how AI is powering SLAC science and technology

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Check out the second of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. In this part you’ll learn how AI is playing a key role in helping SLAC researchers find new galaxies and tiny neutrinos, and discover new drugs.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Breakthrough in hazardous gas detection: New technology enhances miniaturization and accuracy

National Research Council of Science & Technology

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it has created a new technology designed to make hazardous gas detectors smaller, modular, and more accurate.

Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

Taming big data and particle beams: how SLAC researchers are pushing AI to the edge

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Check out the first of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. In this part you’ll learn how SLAC researchers collaborate to develop AI tools to make molecular movies, speeding up the discovery process in the era of big data.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Reducing the environmental impact of small-scale robotics

University of Barcelona

With examples such as nanorobots that facilitate the administration of drugs against tumours, help produce sustainable energy or fight against environmental pollution, micro- and nanoscale robotic platforms have revolutionized the world of biomedicine, materials science, ecology and technology with their ability to perform tasks in a precise and minimally invasive way. These small-scale operational devices, capable of using external energy sources — magnetic fields, ultrasound, light, chemical fuels, etc. — have also opened up new possibilities to perform precise tasks collectively and behave like a swarm of miniaturized robots.

Benchmarking CEBAF

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Particle accelerator scientists have made the measurements, crunched the numbers and consolidated the data on the performance of the brightest electron accelerator for nuclear physics research. In a new study, more than 100 authors have detailed the original and current operating parameters, main systems and subsystems, and capabilities and limits of Jefferson Lab’s main particle accelerator, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF).

Journal: Physical Review
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

An event where future STEM stars are born?

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Throughout its history, the Argonne Hispanic/Latino Employee Resource Group has regularly partnered with local schools in underserved communities, inviting students to visit the lab and inspiring them to build a sustained interest in their STEM studies.

Reshaping perceptions of disability through parasports

Kyushu University

Parasports challenge societal perceptions of disability and promote inclusion, with psychological support playing a crucial role in this progress. This article features insights from Kyushu University’s Associate Professor Wakaki Uchida, who discusses the impact of sport and exercise psychology on para-athletes, and two-time Paralympian Mitsuya Tanaka, who shares his experiences navigating identity and media portrayal. They emphasize the need for understanding biases and recognizing the capabilities of individuals with disabilities beyond their physical challenges.

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