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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Dec-2025 17:11 ET (20-Dec-2025 22:11 GMT/UTC)

Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Materials scientists at Rice and collaborators have developed a material that uses light to break down a range of pollutants in water, including “forever chemicals” or PFAS.

Journal: Materials Today
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, Welch Foundation

New phenotyping platform identifies key drought-tolerance genes in soybean

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has developed a low-cost, high-throughput phenotyping platform that continuously measures plant transpiration, enabling real-time monitoring of drought response.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

New AI model segments crop diseases with just a few images

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has now developed a new few-shot semantic segmentation framework, SegPPD-FS, capable of identifying infected regions from only one or a few labeled samples.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

Mayo Clinic smartwatch system helps parents shorten and defuse children's severe tantrums early

Mayo Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a smartwatch-based alert system that signals parents at the earliest signs of a tantrum in children with emotional and behavioral disorders — prompting them to intervene before it intensifies.

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: Mayo Clinic Clinical Trial Stimulus Fund, Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine

What makes a good proton conductor?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT researchers created a way to predict how efficiently materials can transfer protons in clean energy, low-power computing devices and other advanced technologies.

Journal: Matter
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Frontier Center – Hydrogen in Energy and Information Sciences, National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Buffalo's deadly blizzard revealed when travel bans lose their power over time

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When Buffalo, New York’s devastating December 2022 blizzard claimed more than 30 lives, it exposed a hard reality: even life-saving travel bans can lose their force over time, especially when residents face situations where compliance becomes difficult. Researchers at NYU Tandon and RIT have now developed a way to help authorities anticipate when these breakdowns may begin.

Journal: Transport Policy

The Lundquist Institute and its start-up company Vitalex Biosciences Announces Strategic Advancement of Second-Generation fungal Vaccine VXV-01 through Phase 1 Trials under $40 Million Competitive Contract from NIH/NIAID

The Lundquist Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

The Lundquist Institute (TLI) and its start-up company Vitalex Biosciences (Vitalex) are pleased to announce that the second-generation fungal vaccine candidate known as VXV‑01, which was developed using a proprietary TLI vaccine technology platform, is poised to move forward in development up to and including Phase 1 clinical evaluation — enabled by a major contract awarded to a collaboration consortium of Vitalex and Appili Therapeutics (TSX: APLI; OTCPink: APLIF). The contract from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is valued at up to US $40 million. It will support the development of VXV-01 from manufacturing and non-clinical studies through two Phase 1 clinical trials. This contract represents a significant milestone for The Lundquist Institute’s vaccine research program.

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