The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is pleased to announce that Carolyn J. Anderson, PhD--Steve and Karen Ellebracht Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, professor of radiology, and associate director of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri in Columbia--has been selected as the recipient of a $100,000 Drs. Jane & Abass Alavi Mars Shot Research Award from the 2026 Mars Shot Fund. The Alavi Mars Shot Award is focused on advancing imaging research in infection and inflammation, and Anderson s grant was awarded based on her proposal, "Fluorine-18 LLP2A for PET imaging of vaso-occlusive crisis in sickle cell disease."

A new study  by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences now reveals that nitrogen fixation by microbes associated with mosses is a previously underestimated yet critical factor in sustaining plant growth in permafrost ecosystems under warming conditions.

In a first of its kind breakthrough, University of Utah geophysicists used electromagnetic data from airborne surveys to characterize a newly discovered freshwater reservoir under the lake’s Farmington Bay.

A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought.

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to better understand the lives of modern sea turtles. Using radiocarbon methods from archaeology, researchers show that sea turtle shell plates are biological time capsules that record signs of major environmental disturbances in the ocean.

The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) today officially inaugurated the Berlin Battery Lab (BBL). At this new research platform, BAM, HZB and HU jointly develop and test resource-efficient battery technologies with a focus on sodium-based systems. Together, they develop new materials, investigate innovative cell chemistries, and produce battery prototypes. The research infrastructure of the Berlin Battery Lab is also open to external partners from science and industry and is designed to accelerate the transfer from research to application.

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with research groups from the Łódź University of Technology, the Warsaw University of Technology, and the Polish Academy of Sciences, have developed a structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick. To achieve this, they created a structure called a subwavelength grating using a special material – molybdenum diselenide (MoSe₂). They published their results in the prestigious journal “ACS Nano”.

 

Topology, the branch of mathematics that says donuts and mugs are identical because they each have one opening, can protect light-based signals in chips. Now, engineers at Penn and the City University of New York have demonstrated that such systems can carry multiple signals, opening the door to scaling such networks for the first time.