Publications of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, which completed their transition to full open access publishing in the beginning of 2026, posted their strongest performance to date in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with over 83% of journals increasing or maintaining their impact factor versus the previous year’s results. 20 ACM publications are in the first quartile in one or more categories, with 12 in the top 10 in one or more categories.

A lesser-known chronic lung disease, bronchiectasis affects hundreds of thousands of children and adults worldwide. Individuals living with bronchiectasis experience recurring lung infections due to enlarged and scarred airways which make it difficult to clear mucus properly.

A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has won a ₹20 lakh seed grant at MATRIx 2026 (Materials Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Expo), organised by the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), the professional body for metallurgists, for developing an indigenous manufacturing technology that could help address industrial thermal management through a new generation of liquid cold plates. Their innovation, the ‘Advanced Chill Tech,’ rethinks how liquid cold plates are manufactured currently, creating an avenue for an innovation that is affordable, scalable, and sustainable. 

The University of Texas at Arlington is creating a new kind of graduate program that trains doctoral students to become experts in a single rare disease while moving their research from the lab to real-world diagnosis, clinical trials and treatment.

Behind every self-driving laboratory at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a team people most never see. Facilities and Operations workers are building and maintaining the infrastructure that makes autonomous science possible. More than a dozen self-driving labs operate at ORNL, placing the Tennessee national lab among the first research institutions in the world to create this autonomous laboratory model at scale.

Sean Brady uses computational biology and synthetic chemistry to speed up the search for new drug candidates hidden in the natural world.

What does the hantavirus do inside its rodent hosts? How does it move through animal populations? And why does it cause almost no symptoms in rodents, yet can be nearly fatal in humans?

For more than 35 years, Specially Appointed Professor Hiroaki Kariwa at Hokkaido University has explored these questions. His team has uncovered key insights into hantavirus ecology and evolution, including the discovery of the Hokkaido virus.

Movements to restrict immigration are picking up steam in the US, itself a nation of immigrants. Based on its “America First” ideology, the second Trump administration, which began in 2025, has proposed a series of hardline policies, such as limiting the acceptance of refugees and mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. As antiforeign movements continue to build strength, trends in municipalities called “sanctuary cities,” which are tolerant to undocumented immigrants, are also gathering attention. We sat down with Graduate School of Intercultural Studies Professor YASUOKA Masaharu, an expert on US immigration policy, to hear more about Trump administration policies and the current state of sanctuary cities.