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23-Jul-2025

CU Denver develops quantum tool that may lead to gamma-ray lasers and access the multiverse

University of Colorado Denver
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CU Denver Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Aakash Sahai has developed a quantum breakthrough that could help turn sci-fi ideas into reality, sending a ripple of excitement through the quantum community.

23-Jul-2025

New multi-angle drone model improves accuracy of wheat nitrogen assessment

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

A research team has developed an innovative remote sensing model that significantly improves the accuracy of monitoring nitrogen accumulation in wheat crops.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

23-Jul-2025

Smarter detection for global crops: new AI framework tackles cross-domain disease challenges

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

A research team now proposes a novel Multi-Granularity Alignment (MGA) domain adaptation framework that dramatically improves cross-domain detection accuracy, enabling deep learning models to maintain high performance across datasets collected in different countries and conditions.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

23-Jul-2025

Uncovering the secrets of maize roots: High-throughput phenotyping reveals genetic drivers of growth

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team pioneers an automated, high-throughput pipeline using open-source tools to quantify over 50 root traits in diverse maize genotypes, enabling researchers to investigate how genetics, hormones, and developmental stages influence root growth.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

23-Jul-2025

Adhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto other marine animals, MIT engineers designed a mechanical adhesive device that attaches to soft, slippery surfaces and remains there for days or weeks. The device could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic environments.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

23-Jul-2025

First quantum confinement achieved without physical downsizing

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by Prof. DOU Xincun at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences synthesized a new covalent organic framework (COF)—a crystalline material made of a light element such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, or oxygen, which can be customized at the molecular level. Using the new COF—dubbed tDACH—the researchers inserted cyclohexane-based linkers as conjugation "breakpoints," thereby engineering π-conjugated domains that enable intrinsic exciton confinement at the molecular scale.

Journal: Cell Reports Physical Science

23-Jul-2025

Cellular immunotherapies carry seeds of self-destruction but can be rescued with genetic engineering

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

MSK researchers learn that immune cells are the unexpected source of a protein called FAS-ligand, which has undermined the cancer-fighting ability of engineered cell therapies. The team developed a way to re-engineer the cells to disable this natural brake.

Journal: Nature Cancer