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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 24-Aug-2025 23:11 ET (25-Aug-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

New research alliance to explore the sinister network of colorectal tumors

Goethe University Frankfurt

Colorectal cancer is curable – if detected early and completely removed surgically. In more complex cases, immunotherapies offer hope by mobilizing the body’s own immune system to fight the tumor. However, such treatments are promising in fewer than one in five cases. The newly established Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 417, led by Goethe University Frankfurt together with Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Freiburg, aims to change this by targeting the tumor microenvironment that influences cancer development.

How climate change is altering the Arctic Ocean

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a long-term observatory situated between Svalbard and Greenland. There they will investigate how the ecosystems of the Arctic deep sea are reacting to changing environmental conditions as a result of rapid climate change. The month-long expedition, which is scheduled to finish in Tromsø, Norway, at the end of June, will focus on benthic and plankton communities in the open water and physical changes in the ocean.

A 3D-printed part worthy of a Hollywood set stands in for NSTX-U’s central magnet

Princeton University

The bundle of magnets at the heart of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) is the star of the show. While the magnet is being assembled, the NSTX-U project team has found a clever, cost-effective way to prepare for its arrival by using an understudy for the star. It is made of red plastic and stands just 40 inches tall and 2 feet wide, but it is an exact replica of the top of the bundle.

Towards financial utopia: Perfecting stock forecasting

Singapore Management University

SMU Assistant Professor Ma Yunshan’s latest research sets out to finetune the way AI predicts stock prices.

The art and (computer) science of being a Dean

Singapore Management University

SOSS Dean Professor Kenneth Benoit is focusing on developing the School with interdisciplinary talent, rather like himself.

A singular idea for the digital business: Pairing advertisers with the right influencers

Singapore Management University

SMU Assistant Professor Yu Qi embarked on one of the world’s first research projects to study the empirical effects of increasingly ubiquitous tools that match-make businesses with influencers.

In pursuit of flow

Singapore Management University

SMU Professor Fiona Nah investigates the neural connectivity underlying the state of flow.

Came on SG tuition grant, leaving a mark on the city

Singapore Management University

Canadian Emma Grimley’s urban studies work at SMU bags an award, in her three-year post-university bond to Singapore.

Funder: Ministry of Education - Singapore

Finetuning community placement processes: The way forward through a criminal justice case study

Singapore Management University

SMU Assistant Professor Gao Xiaoquan hopes to use her research on how best to place criminal offenders, to reduce crime rate and promote a safer and healthier society.

Evaluating equity with peer information

Singapore Management University

Research co-authored by SMU Assistant Professor Bingxu Fang shows how industry peer information can enhance the accuracy of valuation estimates for firms emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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