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18-Jun-2025

New 3D chips could make electronics faster and more energy-efficient

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A low-cost, scalable fabrication technology developed at MIT can integrate fast, efficient gallium nitride transistors onto a standard silicon chip, which could boost the performance of electronic chips used in high-bandwidth applications like video calling and real-time deep learning.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense through the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program, CHIMES, Semiconductor Research Corporation Program by the Department of Defense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), MIT.Nano, Air Force Research Laboratory

18-Jun-2025

Tsinghua University Press and American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Press Forge Partnership to Host 12 Journals on SciOpen Platform

Tsinghua University Press
Business Announcement

Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Press (AIMS) have forged a new collaboration to bring 12 of AIMS's esteemed STM journals to SciOpen.

18-Jun-2025

Study reveals ‘switch-like’ behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease

University at Buffalo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University at Buffalo researchers have shown that a considerable portion of a human’s roughly 20,000 genes express more like a standard light switch — fully on or fully off.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

17-Jun-2025

A new horizon in data-driven materials research

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The research group at the ISM-MCC Frontier Materials Design Laboratory (a joint research division of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM)) has discovered a phenomenon known as the "scaling law^*a of Sim2Real transfer learning^*b" in the integrated analysis of large-scale computational materials property databases and experimental data, in collaboration with research groups from the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).

Journal: npj Computational Materials
Funder: High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI), Japan Science and Technology Agency

17-Jun-2025

4 ERC Advanced Grants: 10 million Euro for ISTA

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Grant and Award Announcement

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg receives over 10 million Euro by the European Research Council (ERC). Four research projects – in astrophysics, neuroscience, brain imaging, and math – were awarded around 2.5 million Euro each in the form of a competitive ERC Advanced Grant. ISTA is one of the most successful institutions at winning grants from this EU funding body.

Funder: European Research Council

17-Jun-2025

Three Hebrew University researchers win prestigious ERC Advanced Grants for pioneering work

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem proudly congratulates three of its esteemed researchers – Prof. Dorit Aharonov, Prof. Israel Nelken, and Prof. Tamar Ziegler – on being awarded the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants.

17-Jun-2025

Disconnected from math, students call for real-world relevance in RAND’s first-ever youth survey

RAND Corporation
Reports and Proceedings

According to the first-ever survey fielded to RAND’s new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high school grades reported losing interest in math about half or more of the time, and 75% of youths reported losing interest for at least some class time.