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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 9-Jul-2025 03:11 ET (9-Jul-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

8-Apr-2025

Urinals without splashback

A urinal designed to avoid urine splashback on the user and the floor will improve sanitation, bathroom cleanliness, and user experience. If the 56 million urinals in public restrooms in the US were replaced with the new design, it would prevent one million liters of urine from splashing onto the floor each day.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

8-Apr-2025

Stripe charge order and its interaction with Majorana bound states in 2M-WS2 topological superconductors

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A striped charge order has been discovered in the Fu-Kane topological superconductor 2M-WS₂, and its interaction with Majorana bound states (MBS) demonstrates a potential way to manipulate the spatial positions of MBSs.

Journal: National Science Review

8-Apr-2025

FAST detected 90% circular polarization in a repeating fast radio burst

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The largest radio telescope FAST detects 90% circular polarization and rapidly changing linear polarization in the bursts of a fast radio burst (FRB) repeater, imposing new constraint on radiative mechanism of FRBs.

Journal: National Science Review

8-Apr-2025

OIST professor Kae Nemoto wins MEXT Minister Award in Science and Technology

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Business Announcement

On April 8th, 2025, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced the recipients of the “Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT” for 2025.

7-Apr-2025

Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network

University of Cambridge
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK’s first long-distance quantum-secured video call.

Meeting: 2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)

7-Apr-2025

Frustration incorporated: Revealing a natural strategy for making 'superior' materials

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mathematical models developed at the University of Michigan show how mismatched geometries can lead to fascinating complexity and enhance material properties like strength and toughness.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

7-Apr-2025

CAS and Cleveland Clinic collaborate to accelerate research through advanced AI and quantum computing

Cleveland Clinic
Business Announcement

Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH, April 7, 2025 – CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific content and knowledge management, and Cleveland Clinic, an academic health system with a global footprint, announced plans for a strategic collaboration that will unite the organizations’ unique expertise, technology, and data capabilities to fuel clinical research.

During the Cleveland Discovery & Innovation Forum, an event highlighting cutting-edge healthcare and life sciences research, the two global organizations announced that their collaboration’s first strategic focus area will be aiming to advance research on health, wellness, and healthy aging.