The use of technology to improve quality of life and education is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. In this context, the project led by Rafael Berlanga, professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems, and Lledó Museros Cabedo, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Universitat Jaume I, investigates how to apply explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to promote healthy habits, enhance cognitive abilities and foster social inclusion.

This research, included in the XAI4SOC-UJI project and funded by the 2021 State Scientific Research Plan, responds to the call of the United Nations General Assembly's Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), which promotes the empowerment of older people to remain active citizens, while educating young people in values and habits that improve well-being. In this context, XAI4SOC-UJI combines advanced technologies, such as cognitive video games and conversational systems, to help adolescents in particular to develop spatial reasoning skills and to recognise and manage emotions.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have uncovered how to manipulate electrical flow through crystalline silicon, a material at the heart of modern technology. The discovery could lead to smaller, faster, and more efficient devices by harnessing quantum electron behavior.

Physicists from Aalto University in Finland published a transmon qubit coherence dramatically surpassing previous scientifically published records. The millisecond coherence measurement marks a quantum leap in computational technology, with the previous maximum echo coherence measurements approaching 0.6 milliseconds.

Osaka Bay had much higher CB-153 concentrations than other areas of the Seto Inland Sea. The atmosphere was the largest source, while river discharges served as a secondary source for the CB-153 in the Seto Inland Sea. With the decline of CB-153 input from the atmosphere, the concentration decreases significantly over the Seto Inland Sea except for Osaka Bay. On the other hand, Osaka Bay responds to the decline of CB-153 input from rivers.

POSTECH Achieves First-Ever Ribosomal Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides : Opening New Avenues for Next-Generation Drug Design

Dr. Michael C. Oldham's innovative gene coexpression analysis methods have transformed our understanding of brain cell diversity. His work spans from mapping cellular signatures in healthy brains to identifying therapeutic targets in gliomas, while addressing critical challenges in research reproducibility.

Dr. Xuyu Qian, newly appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has published groundbreaking research in Nature (2025) mapping human brain development at unprecedented single-cell resolution. His innovative use of spatial transcriptomics to analyze over 18 million cells reveals how the human cerebral cortex forms during fetal development. Combined with his widely-adopted brain organoid protocols (cited over 2,000 times), which helped establish the link between Zika virus and brain malformations, Dr. Qian's human-centric approach promises new therapeutic strategies for neurodevelopmental disorders including autism spectrum disorder and malformations of cortical development.