University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers are using artificial intelligence to improve safety analysis for advanced nuclear reactors. The project will develop faster, more accurate methods for identifying potential operational risks, helping engineers evaluate next-generation reactor designs and support the safe expansion of nuclear energy.

ExpressPath, a new licensing model for Harvard engineering, medical device, and software technologies, is helping academic innovators turn promising ideas into real-world products faster and more efficiently.

Under a partnership, the Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources. The foundation will manage and award the funding, including through an open call for proposals, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use. Anthropic and OpenAI will also provide AI tools and computing resources to researchers supported by the Simons Foundation, extending beyond mathematics to include basic science.

Around 500 researchers, farmers, policymakers and citizens gathered in Coimbra, Portugal, from 7 to 11 September 2026 for the Soils for Europe Conference, organised by the EU-funded SOLO project with almost 40 co-organising projects. Held as the EU’s first soil health law takes effect, the conference looked back on five years of Mission Soil and explored how research can be turned into policy and practice.

A collaborative research team from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the Hangzhou Institute of Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a novel self-supervised reconstruction framework that decouples measurement sampling resolution from reconstruction grid density to address the trade-off between sampling and imaging in single-pixel imaging. The framework enables high-pixel-resolution reconstruction from the low-dimensional measurements, providing a new strategy for overcoming resolution limitations in conventional single-pixel imaging.

Heart failure (HF) alters the bone marrow (BM), reducing protective cells that regulate inflammation, reports a study conducted at Science Tokyo. According to the study, cardiac stress reduces a population of mesenchymal stromal cells that produces heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor. The resulting reduction in protective signaling alters blood-forming stem cells and promotes inflammatory macrophages. The findings identify the BM niche as an important regulator of lasting immune changes associated with HF, suggesting potential targets for future therapies.

A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging on Sept. 16, 2026, titled “Control theory of aging and longevity for gerotherapeutic drug discovery: state space, vector fields, modalities, safety, and the minimum safe cost of functional restoration.”