Mona Sloane’s debut book, “Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life,” examines how artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping society through what she calls the “prediction paradigm.” The University of Virginia sociologist argues that AI should be understood not as an inevitable technological force, but as social infrastructure that people can collectively govern and reshape. Published by University of California Press, the book explores AI’s influence on everyday social relations, policy, and public life.

The new data storage technology is up to 30 times more radiation-resilient than current data storage.

The Precourt Institute for Energy’s new Sustainable Mobility Center seeks to fundamentally rethink how people and goods move across land, sea, and air.

The inefficiency of current transportation systems underscores the urgent need for a coordinated, systems-level redesign rather than a simple fuel swap.

Research will be organized around five pillars: energy systems, infrastructure, economics and policy, safety, and interdisciplinary design.

For decades, ultrasound has been associated with diagnostics – a routine scan in a hospital room, a monitor displaying organs, tissues, or the first image of a baby. However, researchers are now looking at ultrasound from an entirely different perspective. New findings from scientists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) suggest that ultrasound waves might not only help doctors see inside the body, but low-frequency ultrasound directly influences blood flow – potentially opening new possibilities to support the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes, reducing the need for invasive procedures or medication in the future.

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder months, according to a new international study led by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the IsoTOPIK Lab at the University of Burgos (UBU), and the Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria at the University of Cantabria (UC).

Davis Joseph was awarded the 2025 Ciechanover International Biology Award at the Sustainability through Science and Technology Summit 2025 (FLOGEN SIPS 2025) in Cebu, Philippines, for a breakthrough cancer discovery proposing organ-agnostic treatment strategies. His work identifies three universal cancer types based on dysfunctions in p14ARF/p53, DINO lncRNA, and MDM2 activity, and introduces a universal apoptosis network flowsheet built from the analysis of 174 scientific publications. The discovery supports a unified therapeutic framework for treating cancers regardless of the organ in which they originate and is presented as an example of Sustainable Medicine under the FLOGEN Sustainability Framework.

 

Intensive agriculture poses a significant threat to global biodiversity. However, one aspect of biodiversity in farmland is little studied: algae. Most people have seen algae growing in streams, lakes or the sea. However, algae have also adapted to survive in dryer, harsher conditions on land. In fact, soil algae are thought to be responsible for about 6% of the vegetation production on Earth. This led a research team at the universities of Göttingen and Kassel to investigate the algae in the surface soils of farmland. Their pilot study revealed more than 100 different algae, likely to be made up of hundreds of individual species. Unlike most other microbes, these algae showed seasonal variation in their communities. These are the first steps towards understanding the factors that determine the diversity of these important microorganisms. The results were published in the Journal Frontiers in Microbiology.