MD4SB will establish an infrastructure for the dynamic description of biological macromolecules, connecting three major European Research Infrastructures (Instruct-ERIC, ELIXIR, and EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC) with three of Europe's largest supercomputing centres (BSC-CNS, CINECA, and JSC).

The project will facilitate the use of molecular simulations to understand how biomacromolecules function, advance the molecular description of diseases, and accelerate drug discovery.

Coordinated by IRB Barcelona, the project brings together 25 partners across 8 countries and incorporates Almirall, Sanofi, and other pharmaceutical companies to provide feedback and evaluate the practical usefulness of the platform in industrial settings. The IRB Barcelona spin-off company Nostrum Biodiscovery will bridge the gap between academic groups and pharmaceutical companies.

MDPI, the open access publisher, has today announced the full deployment of its in-house AI-powered research integrity system, Ethicality. The tool is now being used to automatically screen all manuscripts submitted to the publisher—in the region of 2,000 submissions from authors worldwide per day. 

Prof. GAN Jianping, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Ocean Science at HKUST and Director of the Centre for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macao, Dr. LAI Wenfeng, HKUST Postdoctoral Fellow and the paper’s first author, and other HKUST research team members find that urbanization has significantly increased both regional temperature and rainfall.

Researchers from NUS CDE and Applied Materials develop a tungsten disulfide film less than a nanometre thick that can replace the bulky coatings inside computer chips, enabling chipmakers to keep shrinking circuits without sacrificing speed or reliability.

Researchers developed a simpler and more cost-effective method to measure DNA-bound phosphorus, a biologically active form of phosphorus linked to soil microbes. The study found that this hidden nutrient pool is closely associated with microbial activity and soil fertility. The findings could support more sustainable phosphorus management and agricultural production.

Published on June 12 in the Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology (JM³), Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), has proposed a radical redesign to the illumination systems and projectors used in high numerical aperture (high-NA) EUV lithography. Simulations suggest that his design could eliminate troublesome optical (so-called ‘mask 3D’) effects, enhance resolution and enable the manufacture of smaller computer chips at lower cost than current EUV methods. 

Terraxy, a KAUST spinout specializing in soil‑regeneration and carbon‑capture technologies for desert environments, has raised $3 million in a Seed‑2 round led by Wa’ed Ventures with participation from KAUST. The funding accelerates Terraxy’s shift from pilot operations to full industrial production, including a 30,000 m² commercial facility in Al Zulfi. Terraxy’s Carbosoil technology enhances plant growth in sandy soils by up to 70% while enabling long‑term CO₂ storage. Supported by MEWA’s Regulatory Sandbox and KAUST’s innovation ecosystem, Terraxy is emerging as a key enabler of Saudi Arabia’s sustainability, land‑rehabilitation, and carbon‑management goals under Vision 2030.

Every time an autonomous drone dives to explore the ocean floor, the very armor designed to protect it simultaneously blinds its sonar. In International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Chinese researchers have solved this long-standing engineering paradox by inventing a soft, custom-molded acoustic "contact lens" that actively corrects outgoing sound waves before they pass through the drone's protective shell.