Professor Max Shen, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been elected as an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of his remarkable contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and supply chain optimisation.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and smart gadgets become more common, our need for reliable power sources grows. Renewable energy options like solar and wind are great, but they depend on specific conditions. A research team led by Professor Dong-Myeong Shin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a novel moisture-activated electricity generator (MEG) that offers a fresh, eco-friendly way to generate electricity — just from moisture in the air.

A global collaboration including Sunwoda, Chery, Nobel laureate M. Stanley Whittingham, Semitronix, the University of Delaware, and Advance Power, has proposed the "Integrated Battery Large Model," the first AI-driven paradigm covering the entire lithium-ion battery lifecycle. Published in National Science Open, the work outlines a new paradigm for intelligent battery design, manufacturing optimization, defect diagnosis, and lifecycle management through multi-modal AI and simulation synergy.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping brain modeling. This review introduces a unified framework where AI functions as a surrogate brain by integrating dynamical modeling, inverse problem solving, and model evaluation. Trained on neural data, surrogate brains can accurately predict large-scale brain activity and support system analysis, virtual experiments, and model-guided neurostimulation.

EMBARGOED: A new study to be presented Dec. 6 at the 2025 American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting reveals that even subtle disruptions in genome architecture can predispose individuals to lymphoma. This finding offers a new perspective on understanding and eventually treating blood cancers.

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers show that AI can rapidly and accurately georeference plant specimens, transforming the digitization of global biodiversity collections.

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat. Scientists are learning the ways viruses mingle inside the cells they infect, as well as the consequences of their socializing. Although it is debatable whether viruses are living things, they do compete, cooperate and share genome materials that can sometimes alter their responses to antiviral drugs, result in new variants or play a role in virus evolution. A paper today in Nature Ecology & Evolution by UW Medicine scientists looks at the evolution of poliovirus resistance to a promising experimental antiviral drug, pocapavir. While it seemed counterintuitive, the researchers demonstrated that lowering the potency of pocapavir could improve the situation by enhancing the survival of enough susceptible viruses to continue sensitizing the resistant ones.