Hundreds of Norwegian hydropower plants threaten fish and bottom-dwelling animals by exposing them to water that is oversaturated with air. The danger increases with wilder, wetter weather and more flooding. The solution may be to use sound in a new way.

On November 8, 2025, the Faculty of Education at East China Normal University hosted a grand ceremony to present the second Global Award for Innovation in Education Research Methods. Five distinguished scholars—Ruth Hayhoe, Stephen Raudenbush, Manabu Sato, Shanmai Wang, and Rupert Wegerif—from Canada, the United States, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom were honored with this year’s award.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the University of Tennessee to develop a secure, affordable sensing device that delivers unprecedented real-time insight into electric grid behavior. The innovation, called a Universal GridEdge Analyzer, recently won an R&D 100 Award as one of the world’s top inventions.

Some of the greatest natural treasures at NTNU University Museum are never put on display. Many of these objects were collected on famous expeditions or obtained in other ways. One such treasure is Charles Darwin’s coralline algae.

Beds, sofas and armchairs are everywhere – but what happens to their mattresses and upholstery at the end of their life is usually problematic. Recycling is often uneconomical or technically impossible, so most foams are incinerated. Researchers at Bielefeld University led by chemist Dr Kubilay Ceyhan want to change that. They have developed recyclable foams and are now preparing to bring the technology from the lab to the market with the support of a 1.5-million-euro grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s EXIST Research Transfer programme.

Since the early days of January through December, the research scientists, faculty, staff and leadership of Pennington Biomedical Research Center helped make this year one of the most impactful in the Center’s near 40-year history. From its 222-acre campus in Baton Rouge, Pennington Biomedical is working on cutting-edge research to fight chronic disease, along with sharing its insights and influence on a global stage and fostering new collaborations to advance both the Center and the field of metabolic health.

A research team led by Senior Researcher Chanyong Park, Principal Researcher Dongkyu Lee, and Postdoctoral Researcher Changha Woo at the Department of Diagnostic Sensors, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu)—under the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST, Chairman Young-Shik Kim)—has developed a rapid, fully automated, field-deployable integrated system for foodborne pathogen diagnostics. The system integrates food matrix dissociation, nucleic acid pre-treatment, and molecular diagnostics into a single platform, automatically performing the entire workflow—from pathogen separation and nucleic acid purification to amplification and detection—within one device.