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18-Jul-2025

Counterfeited in China: New book assesses state of industry and its future

Rutgers University Newark School of Criminal Justice
Book Announcement

In a new book, a Rutgers University professor investigates this lucrative underground industry and its emergence in China, the global capital of counterfeit manufacturing.

18-Jul-2025

Idaho National Laboratory to lead advancements in US semiconductor manufacturing

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) – The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has been chosen to serve as the chief digital officer for the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA Institute (SMART USA). This Manufacturing USA Institute, funded by the National Institute for Standards and Technology CHIPS for America program and launched in 2025, is led by Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation.

18-Jul-2025

New tool gives anyone the ability to train a robot

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new training interface allows a robot to learn a task in several different ways. This increased training flexibility could help more people interact with and teach robots — and may also enable robots to learn a wider set of skills.

Funder: MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Engineering Excellence, Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

17-Jul-2025

ARC grant supports growth of Tennessee riverline in Appalachian communities

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
Grant and Award Announcement

The Tennessee RiverLine has received a $500,000 planning grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to strengthen its regional impact and advance its mission of outdoor recreation, economic development and community vitality along the 652-mile Tennessee River.

16-Jul-2025

Innovation Crossroads welcomes six entrepreneurs for Cohort 2025

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The 2025 Innovation Crossroads cohort brings together six entrepreneurs who will collaborate with ORNL to accelerate advancements in energy and emerging technologies that strengthen U.S. competitiveness and regional economic growth.

16-Jul-2025

Private health industry lobby group uses marketing and publicity strategies similar to Big Tobacco and other unhealthy commodity industry groups

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The private health industry lobby group “Partnership for America’s Health Care Future” engages in marketing and publicity strategies similar to Big Tobacco and other unhealthy commodity industry groups to shape public perception of universal health care policies as negative in the United States, according to a study published July 16, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Kendra Chow from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health

16-Jul-2025

The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the uber rich, known as "elites," are notorious for use of offshore financial systems to conceal their assets and mask their identities. Understanding the transnational offshore finance networks that they utilize has long been a challenge given the secrecy involved. But a new Dartmouth study reveals there are distinct patterns associated with the offshore system, which are specific to where a wealthy person comes from.

Journal: PLOS One