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Artificial Intelligence in hives: a monitoring system remotely predicts flowering periods

University of Córdoba
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A monitoring system devised by the University of Cordoba ascertains the flowering stages of each hive, with high precision, exploiting data on bees' behavior

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Progress towards a quantum internet

Universität Paderborn
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international research team involving Paderborn University has achieved a crucial breakthrough on the road to a quantum internet: for the first time ever, the polarisation state of a single photon emitted from a quantum dot was successfully teleported to another, physically separated quantum dot. In simpler terms, this means that the properties of one photon can be transmitted to another via teleportation. This is a particularly vital step for future quantum communication networks. For example, the scientists used a 270m free-space optical link for their experiments. The results have now been published in the specialist journal ‘Nature Communications’.

Journal: Nature Communications

Challenges and future perspectives on the ecological uses of reclaimed water

KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from China examined the entire process of the ecological use of reclaimed water from water recharge to ecological buffer zones to receiving water bodies and addresses the key challenges and future perspectives on the ecological use of reclaimed water. Strategies, such as establishing a comprehensive evaluation framework, developing ecological safety thresholds of key risk factors in reclaimed water, strengthening the functions of the ecological buffer zone, and optimizing ecosystem service value and the benefit of reclaimed water, have been put forward toward future safe and sustainable ecological use.

Journal: Water & Ecology
Funder: Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Science Fund for Creative Research Groups

2025 IEEE the 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (IEEE ICCBD+AI 2025)

ELSP
Reports and Proceedings

Huaqiao university and ELSPublishing hosts 2025 IEEE the 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (IEEE ICCBD+AI 2025) in Xiamen.

KAIST suppresses side effects of mRNA therapeutics, broadly applicable platform for safer, personalized treatments

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

mRNA, widely known from the COVID-19 vaccine, is not actually a “therapeutic agent,” but a technology that delivers the blueprint for functional proteins into the body so that induces therapeutic effects. Recently, its application has expanded to cancer and genetic disease treatments, but mRNA therapeutics have caused serious side effects such as pulmonary embolism, stroke, thrombosis, and autoimmune diseases because proteins are excessively produced all at once immediately after administration. Although technology to control the endogenous protein factory has been continuously needed, there had been no suitable solution.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea

Alcohol and ultrasonic irradiation: An effective CCl₄ decomposition tag team

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have verified the decomposition and detoxification capabilities of ultrasonic irradiation on the harmful organic compound, carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄).

Journal: Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Dynamic duo of bacteria could change Mars dust into versatile building material for first human colonists

Frontiers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dr Shiva Khoshtinat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta' at Politecnico di Milano. With an interdisciplinary background spanning civil engineering, architecture, materials science, and biology, she explores how nature’s strategies can inspire sustainable construction on Earth and beyond. Her research focuses on biomineralization and microbial co-cultures as self-sustaining systems for construction. In a recent publication in Frontiers in Microbiology, Khoshtinat and co-authors present a bold approach for construction on Mars, harnessing microbial partnerships to transform Martian regolith into structural materials, laying the scientific foundations for building the first habitats on the Red Planet.

Journal: Frontiers in Microbiology
Funder: NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Fellowship, the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS)