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Welcome to In the Spotlight, where each month we shine a light on something exciting, timely, or simply fascinating from the world of science.

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Nov-2025 20:11 ET (22-Nov-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

Artificial intelligence enables exoskeletons to assist users more efficiently

Exoskeletons typically work by implementing motions programmed in advance and having the user call for them, making it difficult to use them for a wide range of motions in real-life environments. Now, in a notable example for wearable robotics, published in npj Robotics, researchers from the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project in Japan have used artificial intelligence to better assist users, by designing an exoskeleton that functions based on inputs regarding the user’s status as well as a view of the environment based on the user’s perspective.

Journal: npj Robotics

Study sheds light on hurdles faced in transforming NHS healthcare with AI

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into NHS hospitals is far harder than initially anticipated, with complications around governance, contracts, data collection, harmonisation with old IT systems, finding the right AI tools and staff training, finds a major new UK study led by UCL researchers.

Journal: The Lancet
Funder: National Institute for Health Research

Kennesaw State researcher aiming to move AI beyond the cloud

Kennesaw State University
Grant and Award Announcement

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often linked to supercomputers and massive data centers, but Kennesaw State University assistant professor of computer science Bobin Deng is looking at ways to reduce that reliance and make AI easier and faster to access.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

AI model helps boost pandemic preparedness

Scripps Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scripps Research breakthrough reduces antibody discovery time from weeks to hours, potentially revolutionizing pandemic response and therapeutic development.

Journal: Science Advances

Young adult intelligence and education are correlated with socioeconomic status in midlife

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Educational attainment and intelligence, and to a smaller extent parental education and father’s occupational class, are associated with midlife socioeconomic status, according to a new study published September 10, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Erik Lykke Mortensen of University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Journal: PLOS One

USF study reveals how menopause impacts women’s voices – and why it matters

University of South Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Menopause-related hormone changes can cause hoarseness and vocal fatigue, often overlooked in women who rely on their voices professionally. Greater collaboration between gynecologists and voice specialists is needed, while emerging solutions — from AI voice biomarkers to hormone therapy and vocal fold injections — show promise for detection and treatment.

Journal: Menopause

Mount Sinai receives $3.32 million grant to study new tool that predicts effectiveness of obstructive sleep apnea

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a $3.32 million, four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool that has the potential to predict cardiovascular event risk and treatment response among individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The findings from this study could help clinicians make more informed recommendations about OSA treatment for their patients.