21-May-2026 Health on the esports circuit: Competitive video game players can face a range of injuries Mayo Clinic Competing in esports, also known as electronic sports, can mean training for several hours a day in front of a screen. Whether people participate in video game competitions at the professional or amateur level, they face physical and cognitive demands. Jane Konidis, M.D., a physiatrist and director of Gaming and Esports Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, shares tips to protect your health, whether you're using a video game console, computer or smartphone for esports activities.
21-May-2026 Student engineers to present tool-cart redesign to NASA University of Texas at Dallas A University of Texas at Dallas student team was selected to advance and present its prototype at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on June 1-3 as part of the space agency’s Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams project.
21-May-2026 Error correction tech boosts the 3D printing of big composite parts DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a new tool that can catch and correct potential mistakes in real time while 3D printing large plastic parts. The automated system could help U.S. manufacturers produce large, custom parts with fewer defects, potentially reducing waste, lowering costs, and strengthening domestic competitiveness in additive manufacturing.
21-May-2026 Megastructures give clues on how prehistoric settlements were organized Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have found new indications of how large prehistoric settlements were organized. Their research focused on a special type of building known as a megastructure. Excavations in Romania have now shown that this type of building was also found in smaller settlements. Megastructures give new insights into how communities with thousands of members were able to function without any recognizable hierarchies.
21-May-2026 ETRI Special Fellow Seokho Son becomes the first Korean to win the CNCF Community Award National Research Council of Science & Technology Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that Dr. Seokho Son, Principal Researcher (Special Fellow) at its Artificial Intelligence Computing Research Laboratory, has received the CNCF Community Award 2025 from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a global open-source foundation. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
21-May-2026 AI camera platform to help monitor zoo animals' welfare in new Surrey-Marwell Wildlife partnership University of Surrey An AI-powered camera platform could soon help monitor the health and behaviour of zoo animals overnight, thanks to a new partnership between the University of Surrey and Marwell Wildlife.
20-May-2026 Were the deceased cremated already in the Stone Age? The first signs of human cremation date back 100,000 years University of Oulu, Finland Researchers have possibly discovered the earliest evidence of human cremation. The findings were made in the Afar Rift in Ethiopia, one of the best‑preserved open‑air archaeological concentrations of early Homo sapiens communities. Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
20-May-2026 UCF researcher develops “smart, tiny bubbles” to treat cancer and heart disease UCF College of Medicine Dinender Singla, professor and head of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine’s Division of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Sciences, developed a system that turns exosomes — vesicles that cells secrete to communicate with one another — into delivery vehicles for medical treatments. He has partnered with industry to advance this technology toward patient treatment.
20-May-2026 New semiconductor building blocks make power converters smaller, more affordable DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory incorporated gallium nitride semiconductors to create a high-efficiency power converter that is more compact, affordable and efficient.
20-May-2026 UMass Amherst food scientists invent fast, reliable technology for bacteria detection University of Massachusetts Amherst A smartphone-based technology to detect bacteria contamination, developed by food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sets a new benchmark in efforts to quickly and reliably understand how clean a surface is in places such as food processing plants, hospitals, gyms and other public environments.
