Vanderbilt University and EPB launch innovation institute to accelerate quantum science and technology breakthroughs
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Dec-2025 14:11 ET (16-Dec-2025 19:11 GMT/UTC)
Vanderbilt University and EPB of Chattanooga, home of America’s most comprehensive quantum commercialization infrastructure, today announced plans to establish the Institute for Quantum Innovation, further positioning Chattanooga—and Tennessee—as a national hub for advancing quantum science and technology.
A research paper by scientists at Chinese Academy of Sciences presented a magnetically actuated soft electrode (MSE) with precise navigation, adaptive attachment, and high-fidelity signal acquisition.
The research paper, published on Oct. 24, 2025 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic plant imagery in prehistoric art, flowers, shrubs, branches, and trees painted on fine pottery, arranged with precise symmetry and numerical sequences, especially petal and flower counts of 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64. This suggests that early farming villages in the Near East already possessed sophisticated, practical mathematical thinking about dividing space and quantities, likely tied to everyday needs such as fairly sharing crops from collectively worked fields, long before writing or formal number systems existed.
Researchers from BI Norwegian Business School and NHH Norwegian School of Economics have developed a new behavioral credit-risk model that integrates credit and debit transactions. The model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art machine learning methods in predicting credit card delinquency and offers clearer insight into the behavioral drivers behind repayment problems.
In Chaos, researchers establish a theory for how microplastic particles may accumulate in a circular current. They began by modeling how fluid moves in a rotating cylinder and accounted for the complication of microplastics having inertia and disrupting the fluid around them, which causes them to slowly stray from the fluid’s usual path. Exploiting the mathematics behind this allowed them to develop a theory for how and where particles accumulate, and applying the theory to ocean flows can help determine subsurface areas with high concentrations of microplastics.