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Smartphone-powered AI predicts avocado ripeness

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a smartphone-based artificial intelligence system that accurately predicts the ripeness and internal quality of avocados.

Journal: Current Research in Food Science

Terahertz endoscopy of hard-to-access objects in the context of neoplasms diagnosis

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The translation of terahertz (THz) technology into clinical practice is hampered by the lack of endoscopic systems capable of THz-wave delivering to hard-to-access bio-tissues. Addressing this challenge, the authors begin with a brief overview of THz-based diagnosis of neoplasms. The article then reviews the two existing principles of THz endoscopy: the use of fiber-coupled photoconductive antennas and THz optical fibers. Finally, notable examples of THz endoscopic systems with different guiding mechanisms, material platforms, and manufacturing strategies are discussed.

Journal: Light: Advanced Manufacturing
Funder: Russian Science Foundation

Key ExoMars Rover part ships from Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth
Business Announcement

The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing.

Battery-free, wireless multi-sensing platform revolutionizes pressure injury detection!

National Research Council of Science & Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

KERI, in collaboration with KRICT and CWNU, has developed a copper sulfide–based Wireless Multi-Sensing Platform for affordable, convenient early detection of pressure injuries and infection prevention, featured on an international journal cover!

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

New scientific breakthrough: Nanoscale visualization reveals mechanism regulating tumor serine metabolism

Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Wuhan University of Science and Technology and the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences have jointly published a paper in Research entitled “Mechanistic Insight into Serine Flux Regulation through Nanoscale Organization of Glucose and Serine Transporters by Substrate Probe-based dSTORM Imaging.” The study developed a small-molecule substrate-based fluorescent probe (Ser-probe) derived from the structure of serine.

Journal: Research
Funder: Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research and Development Program of Scientific Instruments and Equipment of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, Provincial College Student’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

Global lead exposure still costs trillions and endangers children, NUS study finds

National University of Singapore
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline in road vehicles in 2021. But has global lead pollution truly been resolved?A new study led by Dr Chen Mengli, a Research Fellow from the Tropical Marine Science Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London, University of Warwick, University of Oxford, Jadavpur University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Bristol, showed the answer is not yet: lead exposure remains a pressing public health and economic challenge in the 21st century.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster

Frontiers
Business Announcement

Most scientific data never fuel the discoveries they should.

For every 100 datasets created, around 80 remain in the lab, 20 are shared but rarely reused, fewer than two meet FAIR standards, and only one typically drives new findings.

The result: delayed cancer treatments, climate models short on evidence, and research that cannot be reproduced.

Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data. Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, it brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow — ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow.