The Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle “IBUKI GW” (GOSAT-GW), developed jointly by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), was successfully launched on June 29, 2025. The satellite has been in the initial functional verification operations phase. The first observations by the Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3 (TANSO-3) onboard this satellite were conducted from July 14 to July 20, 2025, and the proper operation of TANSO-3 was confirmed.

From virtual counselors that can hear depression creeping into a person’s voice to smart watches that can detect stress, artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionize mental health care for patients with breast cancer.

Asymmetric bending is a promising way to achieve rapid and efficient crawling in soft robots. In a recent innovation, researchers from Chung-Ang University have demonstrated a soft robot that employs liquid crystal elastomers with paper-based electrodes to produce asymmetric bending. This soft robot mimics a caterpillar and demonstrates efficient crawling via regulated asymmetric heating. This technology offers a facile and scalable strategy for advancing next-generation soft robotic systems and their applications.

Researchers leveraged high-throughput computing and machine learning to systematically evaluate a large family of magnesium-based thermoelectric materials. The study pinpoints thermal expansion as a key knob: it strengthens lattice anharmonicity to reduce lattice thermal conductivity and narrows band dispersion to enhance the Seebeck coefficient, together lifting the figure of merit (ZT). Building on these insights, the team delivers a robust XGBoost predictor that accelerates the screening and optimization of Mg-based thermoelectrics.

In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an observer outside our solar system and suggest that the patterns they see could be used to guide our own search for extraterrestrial intelligence