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24-Feb-2025

Decoding doubly periodic weaves: A new era in topological classification

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University

Researchers developed crossing matrices to classify doubly periodic weaves, addressing challenges in mathematical modeling of woven structures. This breakthrough enables systematic analysis of periodic entanglements, with applications in materials science, fabric design, and nanostructure development.

Journal: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications

24-Feb-2025

Award-winning research may unlock universe’s origins

University of Texas at Arlington
Business Announcement

University of Texas at Arlington physicist Ben Jones has received an international honor for his contributions to developing advanced instruments used in particle physics research. Dr. Jones, an associate professor of physics, was awarded the 2025 International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Early Career Researcher Instrumentation Award. Presented by the ICFA Instrumentation Innovation and Development Panel, the award recognizes significant advancements in the innovation and development of new instrumentation for future accelerator experiments.

24-Feb-2025

Beehive sensors offer hope in saving honeybee colonies

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A UC Riverside computer science team has developed a sensor-based technology that could revolutionize commercial beekeeping by reducing colony losses and lowering labor costs.

Called the Electronic Bee-Veterinarian, or EBV, the technology uses low-cost heat sensors and forecasting models to predict when hive temperatures may reach dangerous levels. The system provides remote beekeepers with early warnings, allowing them to take preventive action before their colonies collapse during extreme hot or cold weather or when the bees cannot regulate their hive temperature because of disease, pesticide exposure, food shortages, or other stressors.

Funder: USDA NIFA, USDA NIFA

24-Feb-2025

DNA origami suggests route to reusable, multifunctional biosensors

California Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Caltech-led team has used a process known as DNA origami to make electrochemical sensors that can quickly detect and measure biomarkers.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

24-Feb-2025

Researchers advance RNA medical discovery decades ahead of schedule

Purdue University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

esearchers at Purdue University have developed a computational solution to this problem named NuFold, which will model 3D RNA structures that could expedite medical discovery decades ahead of schedule. The research team, led by Daisuke Kihara, professor of biological sciences and computer science in the Purdue College of Science, published their findings in Nature Communications.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

24-Feb-2025

This new treatment can adjust to Parkinson's symptoms in real time

University of California - San Francisco
Business Announcement

Starting today, people with Parkinson’s disease will have a new treatment option, thanks to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of groundbreaking new technology.

24-Feb-2025

New AI model measures how fast the brain ages

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient’s brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia, according to USC researchers.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute on Aging, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Army Research Office