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1-Jul-2025

New search tool brings 21% better accuracy for robotics developers

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new semantic-driven search tool built on a ROS Package Knowledge Graph delivers over 21% higher accuracy than traditional methods, helping developers find compatible robotics software faster and more reliably.

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science

1-Jul-2025

Nature-friendly farming boosts biodiversity and yields but may require new subsidies

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Farming methods that support nature improve both biodiversity and crop yields but more extensive measures may require increased government subsidies to become as profitable as conventional intensive agriculture. That is the finding of the first comprehensive on-farm trials of their kind in the UK, which were led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and Rothamsted Research.

Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

1-Jul-2025

New software tool could help better understand childhood cancer

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumour in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to a new study.

Journal: Genome Biology
Funder: NHMRC Ideas Grant, Heart Foundation, 10x-Millenium Science’s Spatial Pioneer fellowship, NHMRC Independent Research Institute Infrastructure Support Scheme, Victorian Government, Australian Government, Novo Nordisk Foundation

1-Jul-2025

Illinois researchers demonstrate giant photonic isolation and gyration

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering are the first to demonstrate a simple and tunable method for realizing asymmetric couplings in integrated photonics.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

1-Jul-2025

Experts say seafood deregulation could impact sustainability and supply

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A sweeping new executive order to deregulate the U.S. seafood sector risks unraveling decades of scientific progress and environmental protections, according to aquaculture and fishery scientists writing in a new paper published in the journal Marine Policy. Rather than strengthening the industry, they argue, the policy threatens the very systems that support sustainable seafood.

Journal: Marine Policy

1-Jul-2025

Displays, imaging and sensing: New blue fluorophore breaks efficiency records in both solids and solutions

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new blue fluorescent molecule set new top emission efficiencies in both solid and liquid states, according to a University of Michigan-led study that could pave the way for applications in technology and medicine.

Journal: Nature Communications

1-Jul-2025

NASA missions help explain, predict severity of solar storms

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise.

Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar material — toward Earth. But the CME wasn’t especially fast or massive, suggesting the storm would be minor. But it became severe.

Using NASA heliophysics missions, new studies of this storm and others are helping scientists learn why some CMEs have more intense effects — and better predict the impacts of future solar eruptions on our lives.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal