Following a $13.48 million dollar award from the defense department, a team of engineers and surgeons from Johns Hopkins Medicine have published the first proof-of-concept study that found temporarily implanting an ultrasonic neural interface device into the location of a spinal cord injury is feasible, safe and potentially useful. These findings, which mark an early midpoint in a multitiered research journey to develop and study how the device could be used in clinical care, published today in Science Advances.

New 3D printing method combines speed, precision and the ability to print a wide range of functional materials. Thick, paste-like inks support delicate features during printing, eliminating the need for separate scaffolds. In one test, the method printed a complex structure more than four times faster than conventional extrusion printing.

Eric Horstick, a West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences neurobiologist, will use a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how brief changes in temperature early in life can shape the brain and behavior with zebrafish.

Stars are so bright that their glare overwhelms faint nearby planets. Scientists combined detailed physics from telescope observations with modern computational techniques to precisely remove this glare. After applying the tool to existing JWST images, they found a previously hidden giant exoplanet. Technique could improve planet-detection sensitivity without requiring changes to telescope hardware.

New Macquarie University-led research has used genomic evidence to uncover how the parasitic avian vampire fly spreads between islands in the Galápagos archipelago, providing vital information for efforts to control its impact on Darwin's finches and other endemic species

An interdisciplinary team of researchers traveled to the Southern Ocean to investigate how two major water masses recycle and transport nutrients through the global ocean, with implications for phytoplankton communities worldwide.