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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Dec-2025 07:11 ET (15-Dec-2025 12:11 GMT/UTC)
Taking to the highsea with a young research spirit
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine ResearchOn board the Polarstern research vessel, an international group of young scientists will immerse in the fascinating world of marine research. They are not only learning the basic methods of oceanography, but also the difficult art of communicating science in a comprehensible and inspiring manner. For the fifth time now, the Alfred Wegener Institute is organising this extraordinary training programme with a host of partners. This year once again under the direction of Professor Karen Wiltshire (now at Trinity College in Dublin), the participants benefit from a unique opportunity to experience research, international cooperation and scientific adventure first-hand. For the first time, new dedicated training is also being provided for young up-coming ocean teachers. This means that the fascination of marine research can reach even more young people in the future.
Texas A&M research team begins search for missing crew of WWII bomber
Texas A&M UniversityLed by Texas A&M archaeologists and supported by the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the mission combines underwater technology with humanitarian effort to identify aviators lost in the Baltic Sea.
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La Jolla Institute for ImmunologyUniversity of Tennessee positioned as leader in automated manufacturing and characterization
University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleKIST's Outdoor-Friendly Modular Robotic Furniture 'OnOBOT' wins grand prize at the International Robot Design Competition
National Research Council of Science & TechnologyThe Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a research team led by Dr. Sona Kwak and Dr. Yoonseop Lim at the Center for Intelligence and Interaction Research Center won the Grand Prize in the Demonstration category for its outdoor-friendly modular robotic furniture system, OnOBOT, at the Robot Design Competition held during the International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2025 (RO-MAN 2025) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from August 25 to 29, 2025.
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Brown combines nuclear waste disposal with mobile energy generation
University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleNew Rady School report: Military spending remains cornerstone of San Diego’s economy
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Cal Poly scientists look to ancient microbes to discover the antibiotics of the future
California Polytechnic State UniversityA Cal Poly biochemistry research team is searching for clues to discover new antibiotics. Bacteria strains that are more than 25 million years old might hold the keys to what they're looking for.
Donated by a Cal Poly scientist who collaborated to inspire Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel “Jurassic Park," the student and faculty research team has a treasure trove of prehistoric biological materials to work with.