The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30 years. The breakthrough could halve the price of the drug and make production far more sustainable.

New smart textiles developed by researchers at ETH Zurich use acoustic waves and glass fibres to help make precise measurements. They are light, breathable and inexpensive, and offer great potential for medicine, sports and everyday life.

A KAIST research team has identified, for the first time, a brain circuit specifically responsible for forming fear memories in the absence of physical pain, marking a significant advance in understanding how psychological distress is processed and drives fear memory formation in the brain.

A research group formed by the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology and the Hoshino Laboratory of the Department of Integrated Health Sciences of the Graduate School of Medicine at Nagoya University discovered that, compared to individuals without schizophrenia, individuals with schizophrenia are more susceptible to perceiving the “glare illusion”, a visual phenomenon in which the central region of an image appears to be brighter than it is, due to a gradient of brightness in the surrounding region. This discovery may provide a clue to understanding how individuals with schizophrenia process visual information. The findings of the study were published in the online version of the journal, Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, on May 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scog.2025.100366