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Listening through a network: A new view of how the cochlea processes sound

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice researchers developed a new way to model how the cochlea processes incoming sound using graph signal processing, which could shed light on what happens as hearing deteriorates with age and make possible better assistive technologies for people with hearing loss.

Journal: PNAS Nexus
Funder: Rice University

World Cup research reveals strategy to give teams a penalty-shootout edge

University of Queensland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One of football's most iconic moments – the penalty shootout – may be far more strategic than previously thought with new research challenging the notion that the team kicking first holds a major advantage.

Journal: Football Studies

GLP-1 prescriptions for weight loss by differences in insurance plan coverage

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This cross-sectional study found a substantial increase in glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) per-patient days supplied in employer plans over the study period (2021-2024), with higher growth in plans that covered GLP-1s for weight loss. With increases in utilization, the estimate of differential per member per month cost for GLP-1 coverage is increasing over time and could signal higher financial burden on patients and payers in the future, though some of the added drug cost (yet unquantified) is likely offset by lower medical spending.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

Scientists measure hidden quantum forces that could power a new generation of pharmaceutical drugs

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers invent a laser technique that reveals the hidden forces shaping proteins, advancing a future of precision medicine engineered with quantum precision.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Laboratory

Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

“Murakkab” is a new automated system that streamlines the design of agentic workloads for AI applications and optimizes their deployment for customers, reducing computation and cost while boosting energy efficiency.

Funder: Semiconductor Research Corporation, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Astra Awards for Graz University of Technology researchers Anna Galler and Bettina Könighofer

Graz University of Technology
Grant and Award Announcement

The researchers will use the FWF’s science awards, worth one million euros each, to identify quantum materials for future technologies and to ensure that autonomous AI systems are trustworthy.

Funder: Austrian Science Fund

Computer model could enable bridges and buildings that use less material

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MIT researchers developed a computational technique for designing buildings, bridges, and other structures that can easily be built on time and budget while also using less material.

Journal: Automation in Construction
Funder: MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Mathematicians unleash multifold speed boost for supercomputer simulations of molecules

Simons Foundation
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By leveraging a classical mathematical function, researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute developed a new method that enables molecular dynamics simulations to run 2.5 to seven times as fast — all without sacrificing accuracy. For the most popular software package for molecular dynamics simulations, GROMACS, the researchers achieved a fivefold speed increase in simulations run at high accuracy.

Journal: Nature Communications

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