This article features a candid conversation with Prof Atul Bhargav, Founder of Cellegant Energy Systems Pvt Ltd, about transforming hydrogen fuel cell research into practical products, the challenges of building a deep-tech startup in India, and why engineering innovation must move beyond the laboratory.

Researchers from the University of Osaka and collaborating institutions developed an autonomous solid-state nanopore that combines sensing, memory, and signal generation in a single device. Unlike conventional nanopores, the sensor continually reshapes itself through chemical reactions, producing unique electrical signatures as molecules pass through, providing a basis for memory. The device successfully identified a variety of nucleotides and amino acids, providing a new platform for molecular sensing and future iontronic computing.

How does the brain learn? Does it acquire new knowledge by creating new neural pathways, or by strengthening the connections that already exist? A new study from Bar-Ilan University offers evidence in favor of the latter, suggesting that learning is driven primarily by changes in the strength of existing neural connections rather than by expanding the brain's underlying architecture.

Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”, HKEX:3696), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the launch of the Drug Discovery and Development (DDD) Benchmarks as a Service (BaaS). It is a pioneering standardized evaluation framework anchored in carefully decontaminated real-world data and proprietary validated programs. for measuring how frontier AI and foundation models built on other architectures perform on real-world tasks across medicinal chemistry, chemical synthesis, disease biology, clinical development, and longevity research.