18-May-2026 Why students ignore feedback – and the free tool helping them to use it constructively University of Surrey A new free online platform is tackling one of higher education’s most persistent problems – how students engage with and constructively use feedback they receive from academics.
18-May-2026 ETRI breaks the “memory wall” in large-scale AI training National Research Council of Science & Technology South Korean researchers have successfully developed a core technology that can fundamentally resolve “memory shortages,” a chronic bottleneck in large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) training. This technology is a next-generation memory expansion technology based on Ethernet, which is expected to drive infrastructural innovation across the entire AI and big data industries in the future. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has developed “OmniXtend,” a new memory technology that overcomes GPU memory capacity limits and data movement overheads, which are regarded as the biggest problems in large-scale AI training. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
18-May-2026 Proliferation of low-cost infrasound sensor used for monitoring volcanoes, earthquakes, fires, and mudflows Boise State University Infrasound sensors can collect data around dangerous geophysical phenomen, like volcanos, earthquakes and wildfires. Boise State researchers have developed and deployed a low-cost sensing technology in sites of hazardous geophysical activity all over the world.
18-May-2026 Indian and Tibetan wolves found to have important, ancient genetics Rice University Lauren Hennelly and team discovered that the DNA of wolves in southern regions of Asia contained an unexpectedly large amount of unique genetic variation, making them an important reservoir of global wolf genetic diversity. This work, published in Communications Biology, establishes southern Asia as a hotbed for grey wolf diversity –— an evolutionarily important location that contains information about wolves’ past and hope for their future. Journal Communications Biology
18-May-2026 Q&A: The new Ebola outbreak University of California - Riverside Scott Pegan, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, answers questions on the Ebola outbreak in a Q&A.
15-May-2026 Helping more patients through a new production process for specific PET Scan tracers Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen New production method reduces wait times and speeds up diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and detection of neuroendocrine tumors
15-May-2026 From bottleneck to breakthrough: Student engineers unlock fully autonomous electroporation at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute UCLA students developed new software and hardware tools that streamline a traditionally time-consuming step in synthetic biology research - helping scientists deliver genetic material into cells more quickly, efficiently, and with far less manual work. This innovation will help accelerate research workflows for scientists in both academia and industry, while also expanding the potential for more autonomous biotech labs in the future.
15-May-2026 New research offers practical biosecurity tools to limit poultry disease spread Texas A&M AgriLife Communications New research from a Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences doctoral graduate could help producers better protect poultry flocks from disease outbreaks while reducing costs. Lindsey Wythe’26, Ph.D., who recently defended her doctoral thesis in the Texas A&M Department of Poultry Science, published three studies this year examining how biosecurity practices perform under real-world farm conditions. The work was conducted in the laboratory of Morgan Farnell, Ph.D., professor, associate department head and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program leader for avian microbiology and immunology.
15-May-2026 Why is universal healthcare so elusive in the Philippines? Ateneo de Manila University For millions of Filipinos, healthcare is not an abstract system; it’s a daily risk, a financial burden—and, far too often, an unanswered question.
14-May-2026 2,000 top K-12 students to compete in 42nd Science Olympiad National Tournament at USC University of Southern California On May 22-23, more than 2,000 K-12 students from 120 teams from across the United States will arrive at USC to participate in the 42nd Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament, a competition that includes rigorous knowledge-based, lab and engineering events in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Among them will be students from Okayama Asahi Senior High School, a Global Ambassador Team from Japan.
