Four University of Texas at Arlington faculty members have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors for their outstanding achievements in innovation. The UT Arlington honorees are Colin Cameron, professor of research in chemistry and biochemistry; Rasika Dias, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Panos Shiakolas, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Baohong Yuan, distinguished professor of bioengineering.

Quantum Base has become the first ever Lancaster University spin out to float on the London Stock Exchange following its successful fundraising and admission to trading.

Quantum Base’s ordinary shares are now trading on the LSE AIM market under the ticker “QUBE”. https://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.html?shareprice=QUBE&share=Quantum-Base

The successful listing on AIM follows £4.8 million fundraising.

Counterfeiting is estimated to cost businesses and tax authorities $2.8 trillion in lost revenue annually. Quantum Base’s atomic-level anti-counterfeit Q-ID solution can be utilised in a vast number of end markets without requiring a change of existing consumer behaviour, or any further hardware or infrastructure.

Scientists writing a policy forum article in the CABI One Health journal say the “plant world” needs to come out and claim its place at the One Health table as part of a desire to break down barriers that currently limit true cross-domain integration.

The researchers say that while plant health is increasingly recognized as a vital part of One Health, it lacks recognition and – historically focussed on health service provision, zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance – One Health overlooks plant health in strategic plans.

According to the latest report from the IUNE Observatory of the A4U Alliance, 92% of scientific publications within the Spanish University System (SUE) originate from public universities, while only 8% are produced by private institutions. The report, developed by the INAECU Institute (a collaboration between the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM,  and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, UC3M), provides a comprehensive analysis of the performance of Spanish universities using nearly fifty indicators related to teaching, research, and knowledge transfer.

Education projects supporting marginalised girls in lower-income countries are more likely to achieve lasting transformations when they mobilise whole communities as “agents of change”. In many low and middle-income countries, girls face persistent inequalities and social norms that limit their learning and life chances; those who live in extreme poverty, rural areas, or have disabilities, are especially vulnerable. Although programmes supporting marginalised girls’ education exist, their effects often fade after the initial funding stops, and they are especially vulnerable to wider ‘shocks’ such as economic turmoil, pandemics and natural disasters. The new study evaluated 27 projects from a UK Government-backed scheme for marginalised girls’ education, including in-depth case studies from Zimbabwe and Nepal. It finds that when these projects engage entire communities – community leaders, local organisations, and young women themselves – to participate in supporting girls’ education, the effects, despite these projects’ general vulnerability, are sustained.