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15-Jul-2026

KAIST develops robot that judges its surroundings and walks, runs, and jumps like an animal

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- Professor Hae-Won Park's team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering generated 15.5 hours of gait training data in just eight minutes using computer simulations, implementing walking, running, jumping, and other locomotion skills within a single controller

- Reached a peak instantaneous speed of six meters per second (22 kilometers per hour) over rugged terrain. Expected to be used in extreme environments such as disaster response, mountain terrain, and defense

- Selected as the July cover paper of Science Robotics, the world's leading academic journal in robotics

Journal: Science Robotics
Funder: Ministry of Trade Industry and Resources, Korea Planning & Evaluation of Industrial Technology, Agency for Defense Development

15-Jul-2026

UCSF Health, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital launch a new model for building healthcare AI

University of California - San Francisco
Business Announcement

San Francisco, CA (July 15, 2026) – Today, UCSF Health, Kleiner Perkins and Doerr Capital announced UCSF Health Converge, a new health AI accelerator that brings select companies together with clinicians, operators and technology leaders inside a nationally-ranked academic health systems to build, validate, and scale AI solutions in real care delivery settings.

15-Jul-2026

New technology for identifying differences and conditions in culture media to support cell-culture-based biomanufacturing

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Detecting the overall characteristics of culture medium components as fluorescence patterns and evaluating quality using machine learning

Journal: Chemical Science

15-Jul-2026

Reheating power cycles could unlock more electricity from LNG’s wasted cold energy

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Liquefied natural gas arrives at import terminals at extremely low temperatures, carrying a large reserve of cold energy that is usually released into seawater or the surrounding air during regasification. A new study shows that carefully designed power cycles could convert more of this overlooked resource into useful electricity.

Journal: Energy & Environment Nexus

15-Jul-2026

Machine learning offers a safer way to assess chemical threats to endangered fish

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rare and endangered animals are often among the species most vulnerable to chemical pollution, yet scientists face a difficult problem when trying to assess those risks. Conventional toxicity experiments may require large numbers of organisms, making them impractical and ethically inappropriate for species with limited populations.

Journal: New Contaminants

15-Jul-2026

Engineered biochar could turn biomass waste into safer, more effective tools for cleaning wastewater

Shenyang Agricultural University Collaborative Journals
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from agricultural residues, forestry waste, manure, sludge, and other biomass, has attracted growing interest as an affordable material for water purification. Its porous structure and chemically active surface can capture contaminants, while its production can transform discarded biomass into a useful environmental resource.

Journal: Sustainable Carbon Materials

15-Jul-2026

The invisible wearable: New skin sensors revolutionizing health monitoring

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed ultrathin, stretchable facial electrodes that are effectively invisible and cannot be felt when worn. The electrodes reduce the visual discomfort and psychological burden associated with conventional facial sensors, allowing eye movements, facial muscle activity, and brain activity to be measured under more natural conditions. The electrodes could allow future technology to be operated with subtle facial and eye signals.

Journal: Science Advances

15-Jul-2026

Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New study helps resolve one of South American archaeology's longest-running debates: the role of maize in precolonial societies. Evidence reveals that large villages in central Brazil were supported by polyculture maize farming while neighboring societies maintained diversified food production strategies.

Journal: Science Advances

15-Jul-2026

Braided, exotic particles could build reliable, universal quantum computers

University of Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), Harvard, Stony Brook University, and Quantinuum, built and tested a complete toolkit of operations using non-Abelian anyons, proving for the first time the broad utility of this approach. The research, published in Nature, demonstrated a so-called universal gate set—meaning that if you store information in these emergent versions of quarks, and you move them around, researchers can perform any desired quantum computation. The approach not only has the potential to lead to a general-purpose quantum computer, but also suggests a path to reliability.

Journal: Nature