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LLM treatment advice agrees with physician recommendations in early-stage HCC, but falls short in late stage

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Large language models (LLM) can generate treatment recommendations for straightforward cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that align with clinical guidelines but fall short in more complex cases, according to a new study by Ji Won Han from The Catholic University of Korea and colleagues publishing January 13^th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

World's largest physics conference to be held in Denver and online this March

American Physical Society
Meeting Announcement

More than 14,000 physicists from around the world will convene to present groundbreaking research at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit. The conference will be held in person in Denver and online everywhere March 15-20.

Meeting: Global Physics Summit 2026

Scientists create a system for tracking underwater blackouts

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Clouds, smoke and fog may darken the skies, but sediment, algae blooms and organic matter can turn day into night on the seafloor. That’s why an international team of scientists have created the first framework to identify and compare these marine blackouts. The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, introduces the concept of a marine darkwave: a short-term but intense episode of underwater darkness that can severely impact kelp forests, seagrass beds and other light-dependent marine life.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

Understanding ammonia energy’s tradeoffs around the world

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT Energy Initiative researchers calculated the economic and environmental impact of future ammonia energy production and trade pathways.

Journal: Energy & Environmental Science
Funder: MIT Energy Initiative’s Future Energy Systems Center

Wyss Institute-led collaboration awarded by ARPA-H PRINT program to engineer off-the-shelf, universal, transplant-ready graft for liver failure

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
Grant and Award Announcement

In a highly collaborative, cross-institutional ImPLANT project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program under a new contract of up to $25M over 5 years, world-leading researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, MIT, University of Colorado Boulder, and Columbia University join their expertise to create the multidisciplinary technological framework for building the first off-the-shelf engineered product that could address liver failure in many of the over 500M patients who suffer from the disease worldwide.

This crystal sings back: Illinois collaboration sheds light on magnetochiral instability

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first observation of a dynamic magnetochiral instability in a solid-state material. Their findings, published in Nature Physics, bridge ideas from nuclear and high-energy physics with materials science and condensed matter physics to explain how interplay between symmetry and magnetism can amplify electromagnetic waves.

Journal: Nature Physics

Modern calculation answers decades-old question

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Materials scientists from The Grainger College of Engineering have provided the first quantitative explanation for a phenomenon first observed in iron in the 1970s.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

The path to solar weather forecasts

University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

At times the sun ejects energetic material into space which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based electronic technology. Researchers aim to understand this phenomenon and find ways to forecast it, including how ejected material evolves as it travels through the solar system. For the first time, researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, made high-quality measurements of an evolving cloud of solar ejecta by using multiple space-based instruments which were not designed to do so, and observed the way the clouds reduce background cosmic-ray activity.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal
Funder: JST SPRING, STFC, European Space Agency, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action / DLR, CNES, and the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University

Scientists put teeth into water-driven gears

New York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The invention holds potential for a new generation of mechanical devices that offer greater flexibility and durability than do existing gears—whose origins date back to ancient China.

Journal: Physical Review Letters