LOS ANGELES, April 23, 2025 — The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) proudly announces that its Director and CEO, Dr. Ali Khademhosseini, has received the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Mid-Career Researcher Award. This prestigious honor recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research by mid-career professionals who have demonstrated notable leadership in the field.

A new research facility at Concordia University will examine the gambling industry’s embrace of the digital revolution.

Housed on the university’s Sir George Williams Campus, the Collaboratoire pour les études des jeux de hasard et d’argent numériques connectés (CHANCE) is a space for researchers to examine the social aspects of gambling behaviour — in particular, the ways in which gamblers interact with their environment and with each other. As a collaboratory, the space is designed to serve both as a laboratory where experiments can be conducted and as a collaborative area where different partners can gather to exchange information, ideas and knowledge.

Conservators and museum technicians protect precious archaeological metal objects, such as tools and weapons, with clear coatings, leaving preserved and unobstructed views of these detailed treasures. However, researchers have reported in ACS Central Science that some of the resins used for these coatings react with iron-containing metals and can cause damage. The team developed a non-invasive fluorescence imaging strategy that reveals early signs of these damaging chemical reactions and confirmed its utility on ancient artifacts.  

Conservators and museum technicians protect precious archaeological metal objects, such as tools and weapons, with clear coatings, leaving preserved and unobstructed views of these detailed treasures. However, researchers have reported in ACS Central Science that some of the resins used for these coatings react with iron-containing metals and can cause damage. The team developed a non-invasive fluorescence imaging strategy that reveals early signs of these damaging chemical reactions and confirmed its utility on ancient artifacts.  

Kyoto, Japan -- Smartphones may often feel like a source of stress, feeding us an endless stream of bad news and social comparison. But what if they could also be the solution?

A team of researchers from Kyoto University believes they can be. The team has developed a smartphone app that delivers core techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—a proven treatment for depression and anxiety—straight into the hands of users, and tested it in the largest-ever individually randomized trial of its kind.

Their resilience training app, called RESiLIENT, was tested on nearly 4,000 adults across Japan experiencing subthreshold depression—a form of low-level but persistent depressive symptoms that doesn’t meet criteria for major depressive disorder but can still be debilitating. This condition affects an estimated 11% of people worldwide and often goes untreated.