Indonesia's coral reefs face an ecological crisis. Prof. Dr. Ir. Jamaluddin Jompa, Rector of Hasanuddin University, has spent more than three decades understanding reef decline and turning science into solutions. A marine ecologist and coral-reef restoration pioneer, he bridges fundamental science, conservation policy, and communities reliant on healthy oceans. Today, he’s scaling that work with cutting-edge technologies like AI, molecular genetics (eDNA), and precision engineering, aimed at national resilience and sustainable development. 

MDPI, the open access (OA) publisher, and Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS), a leading provider of AI-powered scientific research tools, announce a collaboration to index MDPI's journal portfolio in Scite and deliver it through the Scite MCP. The agreement makes research published by MDPI discoverable via the AI tools researchers already use, with attribution, links back to the Version of Record, and article-level usage reporting for the first time.

Deep learning overcomes the limitations of traditional methods in behavioral prediction and neural decoding—such as handcrafted features, linear models, and physical priors—and through high-dimensional nonlinear modeling, multimodal fusion, and interpretable learning, significantly improves the accuracy of action and trajectory prediction as well as the mechanistic interpretability of neuro-behavioral decoding, driving the field from black-box prediction toward a mechanism-driven scientific discovery platform.

Cybersecurity experts co-edited a technical magazine's special issue devoted to cybersecurity of the power grid. The special issue's theme: Use AI security tools against AI attack tools.

A first-of-its-kind project at UC Berkeley is using AI and data science to help untangle a national patchwork of laws by collecting every digitally accessible one into a free, open-access database. While online repositories have cataloged state and federal statutes for years, the new project is the first time such a database has existed specifically for local laws. The new resource opens the door for others to generate custom databases and local chatbots that can quickly generate comparisons of local laws on topics spanning home construction to dog leash laws. 

Plasmonics promises photonic devices far smaller than the diffraction limit, but optical losses have long limited real applications. Scientists in China and the United States now show that potassium can serve as an ultralow-loss plasmonic metal. Using an ultrafast slipping-assisted oxide-free crystallization process, they made smooth potassium films with a damping rate of 2.27 meV and demonstrated deep subwavelength light confinement, opening a path to next-generation nanophotonic devices.