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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2025 03:09 ET (17-Jun-2025 07:09 GMT/UTC)

Researchers control metal microstructure for better 3D printing

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cornell University researchers have uncovered a way to control transformations in metal solidification by adjusting alloy composition, ultimately leading to stronger, more reliable metal parts.

Journal: Nature Communications

Masquerading moth deploys unique optical tricks to evade predators

Murdoch University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have described a nocturnal moth’s unique evolutionary trick in replicating the appearance of 3D leaf, with potential applications for the development of advanced camouflage materials and technologies.

Journal: Current Biology

First detection of an ultra-high-energy neutrino

CNRS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The international KM3NeT collaboration, in which CNRS plays a leading role, has just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world.

Journal: Nature

Renowned computing society announces new class of Distinguished Members

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 56 Distinguished Members for their impact in the field.

NASA successfully joins sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘exoskeleton’

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Business Announcement

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperature.

UCF alum, professor team up to power next-generation AI data centers

University of Central Florida
Business Announcement

A new company is developing hollow core fiber technology to help better facilitate AI technologies and research.

Rice’s Lydia Kavraki elected to National Academy of Engineering

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine.”