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26-Mar-2025

Encryption breakthrough lays groundwork for privacy-preserving AI models

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Reports and Proceedings

NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers have introduced Orion, a novel framework that brings fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to deep learning — allowing AI models to practically and efficiently operate directly on encrypted data without needing to decrypt it first.

26-Mar-2025

MSU engineers create “smart” system to prevent future infrastructure disasters

Michigan State University

When the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed on March 26, 2024, engineers and city managers around the U.S. and world scrambled to assess the safety of infrastructure in their communities. Michigan State University researchers have developed a “deploy-and-forget” system that combines sensors with artificial intelligence, or AI, to assess the health of infrastructure like bridges, roads and dams, before and after events that could damage them.

Journal: Nature Communications

26-Mar-2025

Developing a clearer understanding of permafrost thaw risk in Alaska

University of Connecticut
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the Arctic, permafrost plays a crucial role in building infrastructure. However, as the region warms and permafrost thaws, infrastructure is threatened as the ground shifts beneath the built environment. Unfortunately, the full extent of the risks associated with this process is not yet realized, but researchers are working to address this knowledge gap.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

26-Mar-2025

Sensor technology uses nature’s blueprint and machinery to monitor metabolism in body

California NanoSystems Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A UCLA-led team has developed an advanced sensor platform that measures metabolites — key molecules involved in sustaining life through metabolism — inside the body in real time.

By mimicking natural metabolic pathways and using biological molecular toolkits, the sensors can track thousands of metabolites, far beyond the small set detectable by traditional sensors, while simplifying the technology development process.

This advance opens up new possibilities for diagnosing and managing disease, developing new drugs and unlocking deeper insights into how biological systems function.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Louis and Harold Price Foundation, H and H Evergreen Foundation