In a current strategy paper, an international team with the participation of Graz University of Technology calls for the search for room-temperature superconductors to be pursued in a coordinated manner and with combined forces – and presents a programmatic approach for its success.

An international research team led by the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has achieved advances in ion beam manipulation technology, overcoming a long-standing obstacle in the development of a self-adaptive, self-powered ion beam guide.

Gabe Schwartzman, assistant professor of human geography in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a co-principal investigator of a project funded through a $1 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. The three-year collaborative research project will track and monitor the development of data centers in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia and their impact on rural communities. 

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living. It has been labeled a “threat multiplier” for its potential to complicate geopolitical relationships. And our efforts to adapt as a global society face obstacles brought on by inequality.

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed LIBRIS, an automated microfluidic platform that dramatically accelerates the formulation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the delivery vehicles behind mRNA vaccines and gene therapies. By generating on the order of 1,000 distinct formulations per hour — 100 times faster than manual methods — the system could enable the large, systematic datasets needed to train predictive AI models.

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes of life.