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Georgia State University welcomes renowned immunologist and researcher Dr. Liang Qiao
Georgia State UniversityTRAMA research group member Vanessa Gumier from the Universitat Jaume I has created the audio description in Valencian and Spanish of the Convento de Jerusalén–Matemático Marzal Falla in Valencia
Universitat Jaume IVanessa Gumier, a researcher in the Translation for Audiovisual Media and Accessibility research group (TRAMA) at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, has created an audio description in Valencian and Spanish for the special-category Convento de Jerusalén–Matemático Marzal Falla in Valencia, enabling people with visual impairments to learn about the elements that make up the Fallas monument.
The audio guide, narrated by Francisco Campaña Romano, uses NaviLens codes, a technology that allows the code to be read without needing to focus so precisely and identifies it aloud. Over the past two Fallas campaigns (2024 and 2025), the researcher has applied a participatory action research methodology that includes observing accessibility in the monuments and conducting focus groups with blind people, accessibility specialists, Fallas artists and Fallas organisers.
Groups from ONCE have visited both the main Falla and the two 'ninots' that took part in the exhibition for the selection of the 'ninots indultats', and they evaluated the project through a survey. In addition, Vanessa Gumier is in contact with the Inclusión Fallera Association of Valencia, which last year launched a project to systematise the accessibility of Fallas monuments, involving 58 Fallas in Valencia.
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- Valencian Government
Building trust in the future of computing: How JAIST researchers are making quantum computing trustworthy
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyProfessor Kazuhiro Ogata and Senior Lecturer Canh Minh Do at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are addressing the critical need for reliable quantum computing by developing formal verification methods. By creating frameworks such as the Concurrent Dynamic Quantum Logic (CDQL) to model and verify quantum protocols, their work aims to make quantum systems dependable and ready for real-world applications.
Texas McCombs launches M.D./MBA program for Houston and Galveston medical students
University of Texas at AustinDecades of coding experience are powering the next era of fusion energy
Princeton UniversityTowards climate change mitigation: Using cow dung for sustainable carbon dioxide capture
Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarIITGN researchers have prepared low-cost, sustainable, and scalable nitrogen-doped porous carbons by mixing cow dung with melamine and potassium bicarbonate to tackle fossil fuel emissions and global warming. While melamine provides nitrogen for improved performance, potassium bicarbonate is a green, less corrosive, and effective activating agent to create a high surface area. The material’s activity in terms of trapping CO₂ molecules was 58% better than that of pristine carbon. Good adsorption capacity at low temperature and excellent regeneration stability over multiple cycles make it a suitable candidate for large-scale deployment. Minimal wastewater generation makes the process environmentally sustainable.
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- Surfaces and Interfaces
How Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream might look in 300 years’ time
Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyAn anhydrobiotic cell line expressing odorant receptors shows odorant responses after dry storage
National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationA research team led by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) in collaboration with the University of Maryland (UMD) has engineered a dry-preservable cultured cell line expressing the odorant receptor Or47a. The cell line responded specifically to its target odor molecules both before and after being stored in a dried state at room temperature for 2 weeks. This is an initial step towards the development of cell-based portable devices for odor sensing.
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- Scientific Reports
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- NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Marine conservation on the high seas
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- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung